‘Booksmart’ Bombed. Why Couldn't the Internet Save It? Plus, the Oscar Favorites at the Cannes Film Festival | The Big Picture

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The discourse around ‘Booksmart’ blew up on Twitter over the long weekend, but the film still disappointed at the box office. What, if anything, is there to make of the reaction (1:15)? Then we discuss the breakout movies from the Cannes Film Festival, the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' and early Oscar favorites (25:41). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Liz Kelly.
0:04.3	Fresh off of Talk The Thrones, the Ringer is introducing a new live Twitter after show
0:08.3	covering season 2 of HBO's Big Little Lies.
0:11.9	Immediately after each episode, the Ringer's Amanda Dobbins and ESPN's Mina Kimes will
0:16.3	be going live to give their initial reactions and break down everything we saw in the episode.
0:21.1	And to kick us off, there will be a special season 2 preview airing on Friday, June 7th
0:25.1	at 12 p.m. Pacific, so join Amanda and Mina for Big Little Live every Sunday on Twitter.
0:31.2	I'm Sean Fennesee.
0:40.8	And I'm Amanda Dobbins.
0:41.8	And this is the big picture, a conversation show about movies.
0:45.7	There's so much happening in movies and yet nothing at all happening in movies.
0:49.1	Today will be a bit of a hodgepodge episode.
0:51.1	We've got a lot of topics on deck.
0:53.1	Among them, the results of the Cannes Film Festival, which I think gave us a little bit of
0:56.9	a preview into the Oscars 2019-2020 race.
1:01.3	We'll talk a little bit about the newly arriving running with better documentary on HBO,
1:05.9	along with a bunch of other political documentaries that debuted earlier this year at Sundance.
1:09.7	We'll talk about one of our favorite movies of the year, which also premiered at Sundance,
1:13.0	the Souvenir.
1:14.0	But we're going to start with Box Office and the Good and the Bad of the Box Office.
1:20.5	Next week on the show, Amanda, you and I talked at great length about two movies.
1:24.7	On Tuesday, we talked about Booksmart and then on Friday, we talked about Aladdin.
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