Monday Morning QBs
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‘Spider-Man’ Proves Superheroes Have an A-List (Sorry, Aquaman)
Not all capes & costumes are created equal as Sony’s movie tops ‘Avengers’ for the biggest opening ever
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Sean Fennessey: Christopher Nolan is Hollywood’s ‘Alpha’ Now
The Ringer’s ‘Big Picture’ host on ‘Odyssey’ box office and why the director could be the next Spielberg
Latest Monday Morning QBs stories
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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
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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
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.