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🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On the August 19, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about the biggest box office stories from this past weekend.
Listener emails: Ross W. from Ontario, California writes in: “Hey Ben, While I enjoyed you and Ryan talking about video game movies last Thursday, the one movie that I was shouting at my car speakers (not really) that you missed was Tron! I saw it in the theaters when it first came out (I’m old), and have loved it ever since. Jeff Bridges and David Warner are great in it, and those very early computer graphics still look amazing. Other than that, you guys did a great job (King of Kong is fantastic). Love the podcast, keep up the great work.
Brandon from Knoxville, TN writes: Ben and Ryan, I’m a film buyer at Regal who also oversees Indian and South Asian releases for our theatre network. Pleased to hear you acknowledge Indian films occasionally sneaking into the box office top 10 over the past handful of weeks on your July 29 episode. For the past few years, especially since the smash success of RRR in early 2022, interest from North American audiences in Indian and South Asian titles has steadily grown. Over 4 million people of South Asian descent call the United States home, and they have established a large and dedicated audience for Indian releases.
India produces more films by volume than Hollywood, with the main four languages of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Punjabi featuring in the majority of releases. The most highly anticipated movies also come to American theatres around major Indian holidays and festivals. Several titles are coming to theaters to mark India Independence Day on August 15, and multiple films could land in the domestic box office top 10. Dasara on October 12, Diwali on November 1, and Christmas should also see plenty of Indian movies at American cinemas with films featuring the most popular South Asian actors in some of 2024’s most notable releases. Looking forward to hearing more of your commentary on the Indian film industry in future podcasts!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Monday August 19th |
| 0:03.6 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the biggest |
| 0:07.2 | box office stories from this past weekend my name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at |
| 0:11.5 | slash film dot com and I'm joined on today's episode by |
| 0:13.9 | slash film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott. Hey hey everyone |
| 0:17.6 | how's it going? All right Ryan I actually would kick things off with a couple of |
| 0:21.0 | listener emails so Ross W from Ontario, California, |
| 0:25.4 | wrote in last week and he said, hey Ben, while I enjoyed you and Ryan talking |
| 0:29.1 | about the video game movies last Thursday, the one movie that I was shouting at my car speakers, not really, that you missed, was Tron. I saw it in the theaters when it first came out. I'm old and I've loved it ever since. Jeff Bridges and David Warner are great in it and those very early computer graphics still look amazing. |
| 0:46.0 | Other than that you guys did a great job. King of Kong is fantastic. Love the podcast, keep up the great work. |
| 0:50.9 | So thank you to Ross for writing that in. |
| 0:52.9 | That was in response to the video game episode |
| 0:56.5 | that we did right before Borderlands came out. |
| 0:59.0 | I think that was two Thursdays ago by now. |
| 1:01.1 | So you can go back and listen to that episode if you haven't yet. Ryan I wanted to ask you, I think we've talked a little bit about |
| 1:06.1 | Tron on this podcast when we talked about some casting news and stuff like that, but remind me what your thoughts are on the original Tron. |
| 1:14.0 | I definitely respect the original Tron more than I do like it. |
| 1:19.4 | I think it's one of those movies that you probably would have had to see when it came out to really |
| 1:24.2 | have any sort of meaningful connection with because I do think it's one of those |
| 1:30.4 | things where there are plenty of older movies that hold up incredibly well and I say that as someone who watches something like you know double indemnity that you know was decades before my time you know and can totally and I know that's not like an effects driven movie or whatever or like even the original |
| 1:44.8 | Godzilla for me may be a better example of an effects driven movie that I think still holds up. |
| 1:50.6 | But yeah I think Tron by my, doesn't necessarily hold up to modern scrutiny super well, |
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