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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The LANTERNS season finale was solid, but I have to admit, the final shot threw me for a loop...

Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With Avengers Endgame Encore "opening" with around $25 million for the weekend and around $85 million globally, and thus ending Sunday just $40 million away from Avatar's $2.924 billion global total...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is what we deserve for letting 'End of Oak Street' flop

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

‘The End of Oak Street’ is shockingly good. It’s stupendously well-constructed and staged, with terrific performances (Anne Hathaway is 4/4 this year, with ‘Verity’ still on deck), a macabre sense of humor, unapologetically raw melodrama and genuinely scary set pieces. It rocks.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Don’t forget the big one - I now realize what I must become to stop... *cats* like this. Dogs are dying, Ryder. What should I do? (No more dead pups!) Endure, Chase. They’ll hate you for it, but isn’t that the point of PAW Patrol? Today, we find what the PAW Patrol can’t do. We can’t endure... this.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Marvel’s superhero sequel (starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jon Bernthal) and Universal’s R-rated action epic (starring, uh, Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jon Bernthal) are essentially benefiting each other and providing a kind of two-stop shop for everything moviegoers might want...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (a $655 million domestic and $1.67 billion worldwide cume) and The Odyssey (now at $461 million/$1.105 billion) are posting weekend drops and box office grosses that would be aspirational even if they weren’t playing concurrently...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I look forward to Ryan Gosling’s 'The Place Behind The Place Beyond The Pines’

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When you’re strutting onto the stage to accept your PhD diploma after finishing your doctoral dissertation roughly 30 years behind schedule...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“You ready to follow Black Panther 3 into theaters?” “Hell no. But a Ryan Coogler tentpole, starring David Jonsson, who deserved an Oscar nom for The Long Walk and tricked us into thinking Alien Romulus was good...?"

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

'The Adventures of Milo and Otis' Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not a war crime, but a key difference between the SOCIAL NETWORK “character posters” and the new ones for SOCIAL RECKONING is that the former buried Jesse Eisenberg’s face amid text, while the new posters frame the text around the actors’ faces (thus centering their noses).

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So, #TheFurious should earn ≈ $3 million over the weekend after a ≈ $1.4 million Friday. On a curve, that’s pretty good. To wit: 2023’s KILL earned $1.7M in total 2014’s THE RAID 2 finished with $2.6M 2012’s THE RAID legged out to $4.1M The last three ROUNDUP flicks totaled $2.875M

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“Ben Stone once asked me if I was a detective who was a sheep, or a sheep who was a detective. All those years, I thought I was the former. All those years I was wrong.”

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Didn’t love DEVIL WEARS PRADA and didn’t hate DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2. But it’s another weird recent example of a sequel to a small-scale, adult-skewing character study that puts the characters in a glorified “We gotta save the world!” plot with a tone akin to a G-rated kids’ flick.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

And the comments are also delightful...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Should I quickly read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ‘Gods of Mars’ so as to prepare myself for ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’?

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I can only hope this is a bot, because the film got a 95% fresh rating and (more importantly) an 8.3/10 average critic score from nearly 300 critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Hell, I'm one of the least favorable critics and even I think it's pretty good and worth seeing in theaters.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Bad-faith misreading of the film’s finale notwithstanding, I for one look forward to LILO & STITCH 2: BRING HER BACK.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

While #TheSheepDetectives looks pretty delightful, I’m pretty sure I’ve already solved this mystery...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Uh oh, Marvel really is getting desperate...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I am currently on jury duty for the day. So... if I run into any gaslighting, self-pitying, "Boo hoo, you'll never hear my song again!" drama queens, they are going straight to whale jail!

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Okay, but... does *she* have a harem...?

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

When Universal trumpets the (terrific) $109 million worldwide debut of FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 as the studio’s second-biggest horror opening ever behind the first FNAF…

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Am I the author of all of this pain? Or did I accidentally create #Avatar’s biggest pop culture “footprint” by writing 11 years ago (on its 5th anniversary, as a note of post-theatrical curiosity, not a criticism of the film) that it left no pop culture footprint? Did I incept all of this?!

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It may not be a career defining turn, but I loved Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's delightful spoof of his own onscreen villainy in BALLS OF FURY.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It's harder to find, surely intentional, but it's not "dead."

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Have fun losing a shit-ton of money on #RushHour4. I hope Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, both knowing the circumstances of this “green-light,” each ask for $50 million and 10% first-dollar gross.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Spoilers for #WutheringHeights -- Heathcliff just won’t be undone and keeps playing pranks on everyone. However, as he mixes with the ladies fair while being charming debonoir, he eventually learns that no one should terrorize their neighborhood.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

When the conservative outrage machine *finally* starts complaining about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER two weeks after it opens in theaters...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My deep thoughts on the news that Universal has moved SHREK 5 from Christmas 2026 to Independence Day 2027, thus avoiding a showdown against Disney’s AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I have major “issues” with the second season of WEDNESDAY (among them, that the show seems to think we want more members of the Addams Family, namely the grown-ups, hogging the spotlight), but I must also report that my ideal “ship” has yet to become canon.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Subscribe to The Outside Scoop (link in bio, obviously), because it’s the only place you can find box office analysis and punditry so hard-hitting and takes so hot and scathing that your eyeballs will melt into your stomach and (eventually) come out your butthole.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I am shocked to see that Marvel Studios’ new FANTASTIC FOUR is already on Disney+!!

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Universal distracting everyone from a miserable opening weekend for Blumhouse’s MEGAN 2.0... achieved!

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

If you’re not a paid subscriber to The Outside Scoop, this is the kind of “can’t find it anywhere else” box office analysis you’ve been missing!

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In a time just before online media allowed all of us to read about actors leaving a show or contracts not being renewed, I had no idea that Geoffrey Nauffts' Stan Kelly was going to get blown up in the pentultimate episode of season three of 'The Commish.' It shocked the hell out of me.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

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