Monday Morning QBs
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How to Say ‘Box Office Bummer’ in Minionese
The latest sequel underwhelmed over July 4, but Universal’s low-budget franchise math still adds up
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‘Supergirl’ Is ‘Cooked’: Sean McNulty & Ben Fritz on DC’s Flop
An autopsy on what went wrong with Warner Bros.’ superhero flop: ‘It didn’t have stars. It didn’t have big IP’
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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
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Richard & Sean: ‘Avatar’ vs. ‘Wicked’ Showdown Coming — And Why ‘Running Man’ Stumbled
Breaking down Glen Powell’s disappointing opening
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Richard & Sean: ‘Predator’ Kills It as Starry Indies Flop
A bad weekend for Sydney Sweeney & Jennifer Lawrence, but Colleen Hoover’s ‘Regretting You’ shows legs
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Richard & Sean: A New Bottom at the Box Office
With studios MIA against Halloween and the World Series, domestic revenue in October hit a 27-year low
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Richard & Sean: Where ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Went Wrong
The Bruce biopic stumbles as ‘an indie masquerading as a studio movie’
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Richard & Sean: ‘After the Hunt’ Flop Has a Silver Lining (Really!)
Plus: Why volume can solve all the theatrical ills
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Richard & Sean: The Rock & A24 Panic?; Taylor Swift’s Theatrical Love Story
Plus: Why are the legacy studios MIA?
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Richard & Sean: Leo, PTA & $22M — Smash, Flop or Oscar Gold?
Plus: Why Trump’s latest movie tariff threat rings hollow
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Richard & Sean: A ‘Big Bold Beautiful’ Flop; Swifties to the Rescue
Plus: The 30-year-old re-release and religious movie in the top 10
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.