Ep 286 | America Has Spent the Last Year in A QUIET PLACE | Guest: Dan Andros
Predictable with Stu Burguiere
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🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Studio's America, former president Barack Obama is back in the news for... |
| 0:06.0 | I mean, you know why. He called America racist again. That's just what he does. |
| 0:10.0 | We'll get into that. Den Andrews from Faith Wire is back on the program to cover the latest |
| 0:15.0 | in idiotic sports nonsense and the country continues to return to normal post-pandemic life |
| 0:21.0 | with the opening of movie theaters nationwide. I'll say about a great movie I saw |
| 0:25.0 | and the extremely cool incidental comparisons it had with COVID as well. |
| 0:29.0 | Let's do a quiet place. |
| 0:39.0 | On March 8th, 2020, John Krasinski attended a red carpet movie premiere with his wife Emily |
| 0:45.1 | Blunt in New York City. No masks, no social distancing. I mean, they were watching a movie |
| 0:52.0 | theater on March 8th, 2020, in New York City. The premiere was for their new movie, a quiet place, |
| 1:00.0 | Part 2. The sequel to the 2018 original that brought in $188 million in the US and $340 million |
| 1:08.0 | worldwide on only a $17 million budget. The movie was a hit. |
| 1:13.0 | The sequel was due to hit theaters on March 20th, 2020. But as you may have heard, |
| 1:19.0 | some news events kind of got in the way. Three days after that New York premiere, the NBA would cancel its season. |
| 1:27.0 | A week later, would be the beginnings of Donald Trump's 15 days to stop the spread and the movie industry |
| 1:33.0 | entered what could be described as a moderate downturn. The weekend of Krasinski's big premiere |
| 1:39.0 | was just over $100 million in the US. The next weekend, there would be a drop off of almost half, down to $53.7 million. |
| 1:49.0 | And for the weekend of March 20th, the weekend a quiet place Part 2 was supposed to come out. |
| 1:55.0 | The total nationwide box office for all movies combined was $4,160. From $100 million to $4,000 in two weeks, |
| 2:08.0 | a drop off of $99.996%. Basically, no one was going to the movies as we all know. I mean, sure. |
| 2:19.0 | In May of 2020, a couple of truly heroic figures managed to brave the pandemic and take in a terrible |
| 2:27.0 | then diesel movie. I think maybe Pat, if you want to sit down there. Yeah, up there. Yeah, this way we're all right. Now, this isn't my, |
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