Scott Mendelson
Columnist at Puck
Writer| Substack: The Outside Scoop at Scott Mendelson | Substack: The Outside Scoop
Box office columnist at Puck News and otherwise doing the news analysis/film criticism/box office punditry thing at The Outside Scoop via Substack.
Articles
-
1 day ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
125 minutes/Rated R for strong/bloody violence throughout, and languageDirected by Len Wiseman, Written by Shay Hatten, Based on characters by Derek KolstadProduced by Basil Iwanky, Erica Lee and Chad StahelskiStarring: Ana de Armas, Gabriel Byrne, Ian McShane, Anjelica Houston, Norman Reedus, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lance Reddick and, yeah, Keanu ReevesMusic by Tyler Bates and Joel J.
-
2 days ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
Sony’s Karate Kid: Legends continues to make Jumanji the exception to the rule. At the same time, Bring Her Back shows that, in ways mostly positive but slightly negative, moviegoers might be clued in to A24’s fright flight shenanigans. Could the Karate Kid flick have performed better if it were more closely tied to Cobra Kai?
-
6 days ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
When considering the post-Memorial Day weekend, an estimated total of $152 million is arguably better than satisfactory for such a “weekend 22 or weekend 23” on which Hollywood didn’t at least try to offer up a big deal tentpole. Yes, it’s below the $166 million achieved in 2014, which also featured the $67 million debut of Maleficent.
-
1 week ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
The Friday box office news, including…Karate Kid: Legends kicks below its weight class for a likely $20 million launch. Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible 8 both hold fine in their post-holiday frames. The Phoenician Scheme will — of course —nab the year’s top per-theater average. Bring Her Back is expected to struggle to reach $7 million in its domestic debut. Final Destination 6, Sinners and Friendship continue to pull aspirational grosses.
-
1 week ago |
scottmendelson.substack.com | Scott Mendelson
Lilo & Stitch earned another $10 million on its sixth day of domestic release, bringing its North American total to $207 million as its global total reached $421 million. With a likely end-of-Sunday cume over $570 million worldwide, it is currently the third-biggest global grosser of the year, behind China’s animated Ne Zha 2 ($2.2 billion, most of that of course from China) and WBD and Legendary’s A Minecraft Movie($941 million).
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 43K
- Tweets
- 119K
- DMs Open
- No
The latest #Superman trailer arrives with, thanks to #AMinecraftMovie, #SinnersMovie, and (presumably) #FinalDestinationBloodlines , far less pressure for itself and @warnerbros than would have existed even six ago at CinemaCon https://t.co/z7TEMfhW1W https://t.co/JWVRaCUNY2
RT @loudmouthjulia: Max is HBO Max again, CNN is launching a streamer...if the spirit of 2020 is raging in 2025...somewhere Jeffrey Katzenb…
RT @TheEricGoldman: Max changing its name back to HBO Max is an acknowledgement of a mistake, which is good… but we all said it was a mista…
