Mark Interviews Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411.
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. New York, Marks Amoff. |
| 0:03.6 | 710 W.O.R. |
| 0:06.2 | Well, Roger Friedman runs this great website, showbiz 411.com. |
| 0:11.5 | And they've got new stories all the time. |
| 0:13.3 | Showbiz 411.com. |
| 0:16.1 | Roger Friedman, how you doing? |
| 0:18.3 | I'm great. How are you? |
| 0:19.7 | Good. |
| 0:21.6 | Oscars, ratings. Down a little? |
| 0:22.6 | Do we know? |
| 0:23.6 | Down a little? |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, they're down. |
| 0:25.6 | They were 18 million and last year it was 19.5. |
| 0:28.6 | Last year we had Barbenheimer. |
| 0:31.6 | We had, you know, Oppenheimer and Barbie. |
| 0:36.6 | We had a lot of people going to the theater, and it was a big year. This year sort of reflects all the strikes that went on two years ago, and the movies were mostly independent. They were small. Outside of Wicked, there really wasn't a big box office draw or they were Deadpool, but that's not an Oscar movie. |
| 0:58.4 | And the movie that won the Oscar, Anora, is a great film, but it's made about, I don't know, $12 or $13 million at the box office. |
| 1:06.5 | Really? |
| 1:07.0 | Not a lot. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.9 | It's the lowest box office. |
| 1:10.6 | It's the lowest Oscar winner from the box office since the Hurt Locker, which is quite a long |
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