Scott Mendelson

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Uh, Scott Mendelson being like, "Oh yeah, you know, I deadlifted 900 for five at my best." Motherfucker, uh, bare hand? You're the best deadlifter ever?

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And it's like, you know, standard west side guy, no, not west, but, like, mo- the conjugate guy, like, rotating ex...

[dramatic music] Hello, and welcome back to another thrilling episode of The Box Office Podcast.

I'm your host, Scott Mendelson, semi-regular contributor to Puck News.

I also write, run, and maintain The Outside Scoop for Substack.

This is a weekly conversation between myself and usually two or three, sometimes four other younger, cooler, and/or more culturally relevant box office pundits or film scholars as we discuss what happened last weekend at a theater near you.

Okie dokie.

With all of that out of the way, I'm Scott Mendelson, semi-regular for Puck News.

I write, run, and maintain The Outside Scoop over at Substack.

The other one, two, three of you, who are you, and what is your pick for [sighs] mourner's Kaddish, blah, blah, blah, yikanov and yiknadash, your pick for the most underrated Warner Brothers movie?

The box office legend, the box office daddy.

The reason that the BO boys exist at all is of course, because of this man, the one, the only Scott Mendelson.

Thank you for co-hosting the BO boys this weekend.

It's a pleasure.

And yes, all of those phony clauses are, I mean, they are phony.

They're all meaningless.

There was It's not like they hired Scott Mendelson and the BO boys to write this up because we would have, of course, put in there the best and last clause, which means one of these 30 releases cannot just be a clip show with only one new stunt.

We would make sure that is spelled out.

This is a weekly conversation between myself and usually two or three, sometimes four other younger, cooler, and or more culturally relevant Box Office pundits or film scholars as we discuss what happened last weekend at a theater near you.

Okie dokie, with that out of the way, it's just Scott Mendelson, Lisa Lehman, and Jeremy Fuster, as we discussed, what turned out to be a weirdly crowded good news, bad news weekend.

But we'll get to the nitty gritty later.

I would say this is one of those weekends where it was great for the theaters and less so for the studios.

Yes, absolutely agreed.

Yeah.

I'm Scott Mendelson, semi-regular contributor to Buck News.

I write, write, and maintain The Outside Scoop.

Hello, and welcome back to another thrilling episode of the Box Office Podcast.

I'm your host, Scott Mendelsohn, semi-regular contributor to Book News.

I also write, run, and maintain the outside scoop for Substack.

This is a weekly conversation between myself and usually two or three, sometimes four other younger, cooler, and or more culturally relevant Box Office pundits or film scholars as we discuss what happened last weekend at a theater near you.

So alas, it looks like Skydance in less than two years is going to own two of the five major legacy movie studios.

Ah, a moment of silence.

I'm Scott Mendelsohn.

The other two of you, who are you and...

more than america which i found that to be very interesting but there are so many elements that i i didn't really like at all especially i'm a big sandra bullock fan and just remember that she just wasn't even herself that she was in the first movie yeah she

was basically the scold the entire time yeah that being said i like hoop floats i really like the bob seeker song that went with oak floats so it was a necessary evil Really quick, my name is Scott Mendelson, blah, blah, blah.

My pick for the most ill-advised sequel, Species 2.

And the reason I'm picking that one is, first Species comes out in, what, 1995.