Exploring the lackluster performance of summer movies post-pandemic, with films like Furiosa and Garfield falling short of expectations. The chapter analyzes box office numbers, disappointments in movie releases, and the struggle to create new successful franchises.
A frighteningly lackluster summer box office, human ScarJo dukes it out with OpenAI’s ‘definitely-not-supposed-to-sound-like-ScarJo’ ScarJo, and the movies making noise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival–not necessarily in a good way. Kim Masters and Matt Belloni break down this week’s news in a special Spring Megabanter episode of The Business.