Conservative/tech bro grifters telling their followers this is a better Odyssey adaptation than Nolan’s version:

If you're looking for a Sam Neill watch you might not have seen before, might I recommend Gillian Armstrong's lovely My Brilliant Career (now streaming on HBO Max and The Criterion Channel)

I love how ruthless Christopher Nolan's own kids are with him

All of the people going all in on loving Minions after the new movie have very “Joe Pera discovering ‘Baba O’Reilly’” vibes

Now seated for:

Now seated for:

I spoke to Mitch McConnell at a grocery store in Los Angeles today. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kep

All The Odyssey needs to lock in one billion worldwide is Trump to publicly complain about in the next ten days.

A 5-day opening down almost exactly 50% from what Despicable Me 4 opened to only two years ago is crazy. That 5-day is even less than what the first Despicable Me made in its first four days in 2010 dollars as a completely original film.

Nice to see this getting a little “audiences still somewhat associate 4th of July with PG-13 alien movies” bump this weekend.

Incredible tidbit hidden in the middle of the bio of the guy playing George Washington in Young Washington

The carseat selfie video while decked out in sunglasses and a baseball cap, he really knows his audience

Getting a landline again just so I can use the Kermit phone

Beyond parody; hope no one was hurt

Spielberg would have been a YouTuber if he was born in 2000, and I like to think this is his way of acknowledging that kinship with that group.

Over halfway through this decade, the highest-grossing non-sequel/reboot superhero movie is still Shang-Chi with $432M worldwide. Even if you generously say just “non-sequel,” the only other films above it are The Batman, Superman, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

Took a glance at the verified audience reviews for the new Minions movie, learning that it has some controversially salty language.

The vibe of that Empire State Building stunt

One of the realest ever to come through Hollywood

A really good example of how a half-measured homage to something iconic just highlights all the shortcomings of said homage.

Robert Eggers is Nolan-esque in how their films are a lot less complex than their esoteric surfaces let on, which has lead some people to dismiss them as dumb frauds. Personally, I think it's fun to have mainstream directors doing their own thing that trust audiences to get on their wavelength.

Was in the grocery store for 8 minutes and when I walked back outside my glasses fogged up immediately

Feels closer to tone, scope, and style to Eggers' first two movies while working with the budget of his last two movies. I'm hyped.

Happy birthday Mel!!! (And also to me, but my birthday is 64% less impressive than his)

My very slow Simpsons season 13 rewatch just became very timely

Conservatives drumming up support for a Uwe Bill movie:

Obsession has overtaken The Devil Wears Prada 2 as the #1 summer release domestically - a title it should hold for about two days before Toy Story 5 zooms past it.

Obsession has surpassed Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted ($216.4M) to become Andy Richter's biggest film ever domestically.

Down -60% after losing 30% of its theaters from last weekend. I know everyone hates platform releases now, but I do think this is a movie that would have benefited a lot from a slower rollout that allowed WOM to go crazy in bigger markets before expanding to smaller markets.

The latest Star Wars movie has officially been outgrossed at the domestic box office by a horror movie whose director was not even alive for the premiere of the first six Star Wars movies.

Realized during Toy Story 5 that, barring a surprise Animated Feature snub, Conan O'Brien will have two Oscar ceremonies in a row of hosting and appearing in a nominated film. The last host to achieve that was Billy Crystal when he hosted in 1997 (Hamlet) and 1998 (Deconstructing Harry)

I mean we knew Amazon sucks but jesus

FINALLY

Ron Howard trying to top Hillbilly Elegy as the greatest stain on his career

Part of why I prefer Toy Story 4 over 2 and 3 is how Gabby Gabby looks like a Prospector/Lotso antagonist redux only for her to get, for me, the most moving moment in any of the sequels.

People are feeling let down by the presence of crass, modern jokes in a Shrek film.

Ready Player One kinda goes up half a star post-Rewatchables appearance when Spielberg said he made it largely so he could end it with telling the audience to go touch grass.

I remember seeing A.I. in theaters opening weekend for my 11th birthday and having very frustrated feelings about it but also being inspired to hold onto hair clippings from my next haircut in a bag in my closet for the next year, so.

Unadjusted, Disclosure Day scored the fifth biggest opening weekend of Spielberg career, and his biggest since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Adjusted, it ranks ~13th, in between E.T. and The Terminal (those numbers are approximate b/c getting them has been a pain as of late).

We've had three nostalgic IP action movies so far this summer (Mortal Kombat II, Mandalorian, this) and they've all followed similar patterns: OK reviews, alright audience reactions, openings in line with the low-end tracking, and harsh drop-offs indicating a lack of appeal outside their fanbases.

This will be the 4th weekend in a row with a movie opening above $40M domestically, only the second such streak this decade after May-June 2023. With Toy Story 5, Supergirl, Minions 3, Moana, and Odyssey all ahead, we should end up with nine weekends of $40M openers in a row - a new record streak.

Obsession has now made more 10 times its $17.2M opening weekend. The last time a wide release outside of December achieved that was The Sixth Sense in 1999.

It's also the second-lowest CinemaScore ever for Spielberg, tying Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and ahead of only A.I. (C+), and a smidge behind the B+ his other divisive releases of the '00s received. His complete CinemaScore history:

Pixar Screenwriters: In our movie we invented the Lilypad as a cautionary tale Disney Company: At long last, we have created the Lilypad from upcoming Pixar movie Don’t Play with the Lilypad

Listening to John Williams’s Disclosure Day score

[in the Cinemark Parking Lot] Random Dude: you see Disclosure Day? Me: yeah. Random Dude: what’d you think? Me: I liked it! Random Dude: stupidest movie I’ve ever seen, [30 seconds complaining about the ending]

Sorkin directing the Social Network sequel while Fincher directs the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel while Tarantino keeps putting off making his Final Film to make inflammatory statements about actors from Tel Aviv is such a sad game of Directing Musical Chairs.