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A box office columnist for Puck News, but also head over to The Outside Scoop at Substack for everything else worth reading (box office, reviews, analysis, think pieces, etc.) scottmendelson.substack.com/
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Review: Transformers One (2024) avoids the pitfalls that ensnared Solo & Furiosa - free Box Office: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice again shows that a hit for Warner Bros. Discovery is a hit no matter when it opens - free News: Disney seemingly takes the wrong lessons from Lightyear and Inside Out 2 - paid

Can Pixar Recover From Disney Learning the Wrong Lessons From 'Lightyear's Failure *and* 'Inside Out 2's Success'?
Can Pixar Recover From Disney Learning the Wrong Lessons From 'Lightyear's Failure *and* 'Inside Out 2's Success'?

'Transformers One' is a gratuitous origin story prequel done right, while 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' shows that theatrical > streaming and that a hit for Warner Bros. Discovery is a hit no matter when ...

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$2.2 billion can buy many "better movie experience" upgrades. Mufasa and Moana go to Imax. Beetlejuice 2 passes $200m (amid a thus-far "spread the box office wealth" year). 'Nosferatu' hopes to buck the trend of failed vampire flicks. Lionsgate bets on AI being a partner rather than a foe.

Cinemas Bet on Themselves, Lionsgate Teams With AI and More
Cinemas Bet on Themselves, Lionsgate Teams With AI and More

'Moana 2' and 'Mufasa' get those Imax screens, 'Beetlejuice 2' becomes 2024's sixth $200 million grosser and 'Nosferatu' hopes to buck a trend of failed vampire flicks.

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Lower budget and overseas potential aside, it's infuriating how Hollywood watched Solo become one of the most infamous bombs of the last 20 years and said, "Let's try that again (Lightyear) and again (Furiosa) and again (TransformersOne)."

Box Office: 'Transformers One' Disappoints With $9.6M Friday
Box Office: 'Transformers One' Disappoints With $9.6M Friday

With overseas grosses still to come, Paramount and Hasbro's shockingly good origin story toon might be another 'Solo,' 'Lightyear' and 'Furiosa'-type miscalculation.

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It’s really not great that the upper echelons of media are a handful of people concentrated in DC and New York who are drawn from only a few schools and select families, and above all utterly obsessed with themselves and their class.

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I saw #Batman in a theater today for the first time since 06/24/89. The mother of all modern IP-specific blockbusters showed its age even while aging with grace. Hollywood has spent the last 35 years chasing that initial "Wow, this (insert IP) is now a big-deal, big-budget live-action film!" high.

a man in a batman costume stands in the dark
a man in a batman costume stands in the dark

ALT: a man in a batman costume stands in the dark

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Surprisingly good movie, but when your starting point for general audiences is "I'm not interested and nothing you're selling is changing my mind," it's a near-insurmountable uphill battle.

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Lower budget and overseas potential aside, it's infuriating how Hollywood watched Solo become one of the most infamous bombs of the last 20 years and said, "Let's try that again (Lightyear) and again (Furiosa) and again (TransformersOne)."

Box Office: 'Transformers One' Disappoints With $9.6M Friday
Box Office: 'Transformers One' Disappoints With $9.6M Friday

With overseas grosses still to come, Paramount and Hasbro's shockingly good origin story toon might be another 'Solo,' 'Lightyear' and 'Furiosa'-type miscalculation.

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Scott Mendelson
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A box office columnist for Puck News, but also head over to The Outside Scoop at Substack for everything else worth reading (box office, reviews, analysis, think pieces, etc.) scottmendelson.substack.com/
985 followers371 following563 posts