The Summer Box Office Report Card: Surprise Hits, Big Flops, and Key Takeaways

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Matt is joined by Puck’s box office expert, Scott Mendelson, to judge their early summer box office predictions by looking at the biggest hits, misses, and questions from the 2025 summer slate (02:09). For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Email us your thoughts! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thetown@spotify.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Scott Mendelson Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Bill Simmons, and I want to tell you about my movie podcast, The Rewatchables.
0:03.7	We're each week, I'm joined by Ringer movie lovers, Chris Ryan, Sean Van Van Lathen, Kyle Brandt, Matley Rubin, we have a whole bunch of people on. We talk about movies. We can't stop rewatching. And now you can watch us cover these movies on video in the Spotify app. We have covered over 350 movies,
0:21.5	including Keat, Goodfellas,
0:22.7	Boogie Nights, Pulp Fiction.
0:24.3	We have some real heavy hitters
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0:33.3	Just head to the rewatchables on Spotify,
0:35.7	now on video.
0:39.3	It is Thursday, August 28th.
0:41.6	Happy Labor Day weekend, which, of course, marks the end of the summer movie season.
0:46.4	Not a great one for Hollywood.
0:48.0	Hits, of course, some pretty meaningful ones.
0:50.5	Superman cracked the 600 million line worldwide, which means Warner Brothers can keep making
0:55.2	DC movies with this universe of actors. F1 did better than 600, which means that Apple may keep
1:01.7	releasing some movies in theaters. Not sure about that yet. But overall box office is going to
1:06.7	stay below $4 billion, and that's down from23. Maybe it gets to more than last year.
1:12.7	We're still not sure about that internationally.
1:14.9	Only one movie got to a billion, Lilo and Stitch.
1:17.9	Congrats to Lucas.
1:18.8	He's got that one in our box office draft.
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