The Summer Blockbuster Confidence Scale

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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It’s Memorial Day weekend, which means it is officially summer blockbuster season. Matt is joined by Forbes’ Scott Mendelson to run through each of the most highly anticipated blockbusters of the summer and assign their confidence in the movie exceeding expectations at the box office. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Scott Mendelson Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Bill Simmons.
0:01.6	We're not just reacting to the NBA playoffs on my podcast.
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0:19.4	All right, it is May 26th, Thursday, and it's right before the holiday weekend.
0:25.4	Traditionally, the start of the summer movie season.
0:27.8	Obviously, these days, the summer movie season starts at the beginning of May.
0:31.5	We've already had Dr. Strange to about 800 million worldwide.
0:34.8	It's on its pace to probably not a billion, but getting close.
0:38.2	But because this is the traditional start of the blockbuster season, I wanted to get a
0:43.4	blockbuster expert in here, Scott Mendelsohn of Forbes.com, to give us some predictions about
0:48.6	the summer. He and I are going to go back and forth on what we call the confidence scale.
0:52.8	How confident we are that each of
0:55.0	these movies is going to deliver what it's supposed to this summer movie season. From Jurassic World
1:00.3	to Elvis to a new minions movie and more, we are going to go back and forth on the summer
1:06.4	blockbuster season. I'm Matt Bellany and this is the town.
1:19.4	All right, we are here with Scott Mendelsohn. Scott is the staff writer at Forbes.com who covers box office and he is a take no prisoners box office reporter, not afraid to call out the flops.
1:26.7	I enjoy your coverage. And when we decided to do the box office reporter, not afraid to call out the flops. I enjoy your coverage.
1:28.2	And when we decided to do the summer box office confidence scale, there was only one person
1:34.2	to call, had to be you, because you will tell us exactly what's going to flop, what's
1:38.3	going to do well, and everything in between.
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