The box office is also back, baby - #3020-1
The Tom Barnard Podcast
Complete Disaster Network
4.1 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Hollywood might be on the downswing. But that doesn't mean movies are making no money - far from it. It's just that half the ones making money are low budget indie horror movies. Is that a good thing? It is if you're sick of endless sequels and derivative works. Not so much if big budget spectacles are more your speed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tom Bernard podcast, brought to you by Bradshaw and Bryant with |
| 0:10.9 | Co-host Catherine Brand-Razerson. |
| 0:15.3 | I guess myself. |
| 0:18.0 | Who says Christian Burton, London. |
| 0:19.8 | Yes, and Chris and Bernard, and London, the kitty cat. |
| 0:22.4 | Kitty Kitty. |
| 0:24.1 | Kitty is on the screen. |
| 0:26.0 | Kristen Bert and London, entertainment news, is brought to you by North American Bank and Company. |
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| 0:32.3 | Member FDIC equal housing lender. |
| 0:35.7 | So, Kristen, I saw you sent me a few things, but I didn't have time to print any of them out or look into them. So this will be a surprise to me as well. Surprise. Okay. I know you had wanted to pull photos and things possible, but we can just get in one. Yeah, today is, yeah, you were there. It was a bit of a mess before the show, |
| 0:54.5 | but hey, we're here now. We're a complete disaster. Yeah, exactly. That's why the network is called |
| 1:00.0 | that. Exactly. I love it. Well, we can talk about, you know, this is so interesting because |
| 1:06.9 | we've been together long enough where movies were the hottest thing, streaming was coming around, broadcast was dying. |
| 1:14.5 | We're now at a place where like broadcast TV's having a comeback and so is the box office. |
| 1:20.1 | So we are here for all of the cycles. |
| 1:23.2 | And it's super interesting because we've had a lot of, you know, mainstream movies making it big. |
| 1:28.7 | You know, Michael, we've talked a lot about over the past few weeks in Project Hail Mary. |
| 1:33.7 | But the last couple of weeks, we've had two movies shoot up straight to the top of the box office and they come from YouTube creators. |
| 1:42.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:42.9 | Backroom's an obsession, right? |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah. Yes. I don't know if Tim had mentioned a little bit about it on Friday. I missed his |
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