Scott Mendelson
Columnist at Puck
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Box office columnist at Puck News and otherwise doing the news analysis/film criticism/box office punditry thing at The Outside Scoop via Substack.
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3 days ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
As noted yesterday, this weekend’s total of around $87 million will be nearly 40% below the same weekend in 2017, which was the last pre-COVID such “second weekend of May” that wasn’t complicated by an Avengers mega-movie opening in late April. On one hand, Hollywood needs to start making more of the kind of films (namely female-skewing dramas, rom-coms and thrillers) that could serve as so-called counterprogramming to the summer’s first tentpole.
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5 days ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
At a glance, this weekend’s overall domestic box office should total around $91 million, which would be a 6% dip from this weekend last year, which had both the $58 million launch of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the $14 million second weekend of The Fall Guy and a $4 million third-weekend gross for Challengers.Thunderbolts* will gross around $36 million (-52%) in weekend two, while Sinners will earn around $24 million (-29%) in weekend four, as A Minecraft Movie earns $8.5 million...
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5 days ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
In tonight’s no-frills newsletter…Suits: LA gets canceled after a single season, because, of course, it does. The Conjuring: Last Rites gets a teaser trailer, which sadly does not feature Christopher Plummer inviting us to join the Warrens for one last adventure. The Search For Gollum becomes the latest example of a December tentpole declaring that a Star Wars movie ain’t going to make a release date.
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1 week ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
Sinners earned another $4.15 million on Tuesday, up 34% from yesterday but down 40% from last Tuesday. That brings its total to $187 million in North America, meaning it will pass John Wick: Chapter 4 ($187.1 million from a $73 million debut in 2023) by the end of this sentence, vaulting into the top 25 among all R-rated films in unadjusted domestic earnings.
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1 week ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
Thunderbolts* scored among the lowest global debuts ($160 million) for an MCU movie since 2011, while pulling grosses that would be aspirational to almost any other franchise flick. If, for example, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning were to earn $74 million over the Fri-Sun portion of its Memorial Day weekend launch, that would be a franchise record.
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