It’s May, which means it is officially summer blockbuster season. Matt welcomes back The Wrap’s Scott Mendelson to run through each of the most highly anticipated blockbusters of the summer and assign their confidence level in each movie’s likelihood of exceeding expectations at the box office.
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Yesterday
Why Spider-Man Broke Records, and Why Peacock Partnered With YouTube
Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to catch up with the biggest news around town, including a record-breaking opening weekend for 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' WarnerMount trial-date jockeying, and YouTube’s new deal with Peacock (02:24). Matt finishes the show with a predic ... Show More
37m 41s
Jul 28
The Future Blockbusters Draft, Part 2
Matt and Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw finish The Town’s first Future Blockbusters Draft by filling the remaining five slots on their teams (01:12). Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Jessie Lopez, and Stefano Sanchez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo This episode i ... Show More
32m 14s
Jul 27
The Future Blockbusters Draft: The Directors, Actors, and IP That Will Define the Next Decade
Matt and Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw put on their studio chief hats and conduct the first Future Blockbusters Draft. In Part 1, they draft five elements (director, actor, or IP) they believe will define the box office for the next 10 years (00:34). Matt finishes the show with a predic ... Show More
34m 9s
May 2023
The 10 Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2023, and the Most Surprising Film of the Year So Far
Amanda and Sean discuss ‘BlackBerry’ before sharing their five most eagerly awaited movies of the summer season (1:00). Then, Sean is joined by Matt Johnson, the filmmaker behind ‘BlackBerry’ (55:00).
Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins
Guest: Matt Johnson
Producer: Bobby W ... Show More
1h 38m
May 2023
Summer Movies 2023 - Part 2
The summer blockbusters just keep on coming this week as we discuss the newest and SEVENTH Transformers movie, Wes Anderson’s latest, a problematic Flash and some extremely old man named Indiana Jones.For weekly episodes of Books: The Podcast and much, much more check out the TCG ... Show More
1h 10m
May 2024
Weekend Watchlist: Summer 2024 Preview Extravaganza
The podcast hosts of summer a back! This time around Slim, Mia, and Mitchell discuss the upcoming SUMMER slate of movies and why you might need to add them to your own watchlists including MaXXXine, Kinds of Kindness, Furiousa: A Mad Max Saga, and Longlegs just to name a ... Show More
57m 8s
Jul 2019
Boffo Box Office Summer Movie Preview with Nikki Novak
The Summer blockbuster movie season is well underway, and resident movie expert, Nikki Novak of Fandango fame, has the see it or skip it reviews for a bunch of highly-anticipated films like “Spider-man: Far From Home,” “The Joker,” “Rambo: Last Blood,” “Terminator: Dark Fate,” an ... Show More
1h 19m
Apr 2025
The Summer Movie Star Preview, Plus Celebrity News | Jam Session
This week, we have a packed episode. Amanda is joined by Ringer colleague Charles Holmes to discuss the biggest movie stars of the summer, but first, they discuss some celebrity news. They talk about Gigi Hadid's and Al Pacino’s birthdays and all the celebrities that attended (2: ... Show More
1h 14m