Monday Morning QBs
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‘Michael’ Is Huge. Everything Else Isn’t
Five of the top 10 films barely crack $2M as warning signs mount
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Zendaya Makes Her Case as A24’s Box Office Queen
A24’s ‘The Drama’ opens strong but ‘Super Mario Galaxy’ steamrolls the weekend with a $190M launch
Latest Monday Morning QBs stories
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After Burning Cash, Amazon Finally Scores With ‘Project Hail Mary’
The marketing gambit that paid off
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Warners’ 9-Film No. 1 Streak Left at ‘The Bride!’ Altar
Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy’s big swing strategy means an inevitable miss
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Glen Powell & A24 Fail to Make a ‘Killing’
The hottest star and beloved distributor combined for a whiff
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Only Two Sequels in the Top 10 — And That’s the Story
‘Wuthering Heights,’ ‘GOAT’ and ‘Crime 101’ powered a rare genre revival
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Curious Case of Kevin James; Charli XCX’s ‘Moment’ Missed
Plus: All those awful, awful Super Bowl ads
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The ‘Melania’ Mirage: A $7M ‘Hit’ That Isn’t
The uncomfortable math behind Brett Ratner’s doc, minus the spin
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Amazon MGM’s First Swing of ’26: Hit, Miss or TBD?
Plus: ‘Hamnet’ plays this year’s ‘Anora’ at the box office
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Was the ‘28 Years Later’ Sequel Netflix’d?
Matt & Ben’s ‘The Rip’ reopens the debate over streaming as box office gravity
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Sequel Math Comes for ‘Avatar’
James Cameron’s Disney blockbuster lags behind its predecessors as the studio’s ‘Zootopia 2’ is poised to wear the year-end crown
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📹 ‘The Housemaid’ Proves Hollywood’s ‘Dead’ Genres Still Have Life
Counter-programming strikes back amid ‘Avatar’ and ‘Zootopia 2’
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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Opens Huge — So Why Does It Feel So Off?
‘We were expecting a little bit more’: Richard & Sean look back on a rotten year and signs of optimism for 2026
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‘Freddy’s 2’ Leads Box Office to Record Heights — Hollywood is Fine!
Special guest Roy Price joins to talk the good (‘Freddy’s,’ ‘Zootopia 2’) and bad (everything else) as WBD hangs in the balance
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Richard & Sean: ‘Zootopia 2’ Shocks the World
Goosed by huge China numbers, the Disney animated sequel hit $556 million worldwide over Thanksgiving weekend
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Richard & Sean: ‘Wicked’ Win Masks the ‘Scary’ Decline of Big Screen Drama
As ‘For Good’ expectedly soars, especially with women (70 percent of ticket buyers), some troubling numbers lie underneath
Start each week with Monday Morning Quarterbacks as Sean McNulty unpacks the weekend’s box office performance and biggest stories — what worked, what didn’t and what it means for the industry.