Summer Box Office Recovers Back To Pre-Pandemic Numbers
John Campea Show
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, greetings and salutations, everybody. It's me, Jonathan Voico, your technical producer for the day on the wonderful John Campia show, this lovely Tuesday afternoon evening for some of you. |
| 0:23.0 | And I'm not alone here, of course. I've got Robert Meyer Burnett in the studio. |
| 0:28.0 | Well, not in the studio, in his studio, in his studio. |
| 0:33.7 | That's right. Also flying in remotely and driving in remotely is our, our fearless leader, our host, Mr. John Campia. |
| 0:45.6 | City. I think it's called Garden City or Garden something or other. Anyway, I'm the uh movie meetup tonight uh at the amc |
| 0:56.4 | roosevelt eight roosevelt eight and uh long driving today it was uh i don't know how |
| 1:03.3 | any of you live in new york i really don't uh driving through new york was like the hunger games |
| 1:08.0 | like every everybody was trying to kill you and every move you could be your last. But we made it and we are here now and we are alive. And it's good to have you guys here. Thank you for joining us. As Jonathan mentioned, I'm currently in the midst of the newest leg of the movie Meetup Tour. We were in Columbus, Ohio the other night. We are now in New York. Tomorrow we're're going to be in Boston looking forward to that. And on Sunday, we're going to be in Toronto. And it's good to have all you guys here. Thank you so much for joining us here today. And we do have a bunch of stuff that we're going to talk about here today. And we're going to start off with this. Now, the Mandalorian and Grogo is now out in theaters. And while it is now the lowest opening |
| 1:47.3 | weekend for any Star Wars movie in the Disney era, I mean, the fact the matter is, it's still |
| 1:52.6 | made over $164 million worldwide just in its opening weekend, which pretty much covers its |
| 1:58.6 | production costs. And listen, most directors would kill to have any movie in their career open to $80-plus |
| 2:05.7 | million on opening weekend. |
| 2:07.4 | So not great for a Star Wars movie, but still pretty big. |
| 2:10.4 | Anyway, it's out in theaters now. |
| 2:12.4 | And, you know, it got a very mixed response from critics. |
| 2:17.4 | And it got a slightly more positive from the audience, |
| 2:21.0 | stuff like that. |
| 2:21.6 | I don't mind the film. |
| 2:23.5 | I thought it should have been better. |
| 2:24.9 | I think it's a shame that this is our first Star Wars movie on the big screen in seven years. |
| 2:32.9 | I mean, that just, and the fact that we're just taking a TV show and put it on there, but |
| 2:36.4 | hey, listen, it had some big highlights in it, has some very enjoyable moments, and |
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