It's a triumphant weekend at the Box Office as Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings OBLITERATES the Labor Day Weekend record set 14 years ago by Rob Zombie's Halloween. What does this mean for Marvel, theaters and big movies opening on Labor Day Weekend going forward? The Boys unpack it all! Then, we take Sony to task AGAIN for moving Venom: Let There Be Carnage all over the release calendar, agree with Paramount moving Top Gun: Maverick and MI:7 and puzzle at Jackass Forever getting equal treatment. Finally, we give our predictions for Malignant and Queenpins.   Packed show!   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

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Shang-Chi DESTROYS the Labor Day Weekend Record, Venom 2 moves up 2 weeks and Top Gun: Maverick jets to 2022. Plus, we make our predictions for James Wan‘s Malignant and Queenpins.

This week, we unwrap Candyman's sweet $22M #1 bow, Divvy Up The Millions for Jungle Cruise's $100M Domestic haul and discuss whether Shang-Chi and the Legend Of The Ten Rings will energize the historically sleepy Labor Day weekend Box Office.   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

Candyman makes the Box Office taste good at #1, Jungle Cruise motors to $100 Million domestic and we give our predictions for Shang-Chi

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Paw Patrol sniffs its way to #2 while The Protégé, The Night House and Reminiscence BOMB! Plus, Free Guy holds strong and we make our predictions for Candyman

This week we're joined by Brandon Gray creator of Box Office Mojo and founder of the new Clubhouse group Box Office Revival to talk about Free Guy powering up at #1, Don't Breathe 2 gasping for air at #2 and Respect making a respectable debut at #4. What does Free Guy's success mean for it's star Ryan Reynolds?   Plus, Venom: Let There Be Carnage moves to October 15th to go head to head with Halloween Kills. WHY?!? We breakdown Sony's dunderheaded move.    Finally, we look forward to next weekend and FOUR new late August releases (DUMPS): The Night House, Paw Patrol: The Movie, The Protege and Reminiscence. Which will bomb and which will make Baffa Bobo? We make our predix   Join Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

Free Guy levels up to #1, Venom: Let There Be Carnage moves and we make our predictions for Paw Patrol: The Movie (w/ Brandon Gray of Box Office Revival)

This week we welcome a very special guest, legendary Box Office analyst Scott Mendelson of Forbes!   https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/   Twitter: @ScottMendelson   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

Scott Mendelson from Forbes joins us to talk about the failure of The Suicide Squad and the future of movies

Jungle Cruise motors to #1, The Green Knight gallops to #3, Stillwater settles at #5, ScarJo sues Marvel and we make our predictions for The Suicide Squad!

This week we plow through the Top 5 (0:49), talk about what Old's modest showing at #1 means for M. Night's career (2:48) and bury G.I. Joe as an IP with the massive failure of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (14:00).  Then, The Boys calm the waters by explaining why this crop of Summer movies have disappointed and why theatrical SHOULDN'T FREAK OUT! (27:36) Finally, we look forward to next weekend with predictions for Disney's Jungle Cruise, A24's The Green Knight and Matt Damon's Knoxploitation film Stillwater (40:51)   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

Old is the new #1, audiences say "G.I. NO" to Snake Eyes, and we make our predictions for Jungle Cruise, The Green Knight and Stillwater!

Space Jam: A New Legacy SHOCKS the world as Black Widow plummets, plus opening weekend predictions for M. Night's Old and Snake Eyes!

Black Widow makes $80 Million at the B.O. plus $20M on Disney +, what does this mean for B.O. reporting? Plus, Space Jam: A New Legacy is primed to BOMB next weekend!

This week, we plow through the Top 5 (3:00), talk about The F&F franchise's history of + 60% 2nd weekend drops (7:08) strategize how The Boss Baby: Family Business could have better utilized it's Peacock connection (14:01) and (possibly) dig a grave for the Purge Franchise (25:19).   Then we look forward to the biggest opening of the post (ish) pandemic Box Office: Black Widow on July 7th. Does it open to $100 Million Domestic? The Boys weigh in (37:41)!   Weekend Top 5 (July 2 - 4) 1. F9: The Fast Saga $22.8M (-67%) / Wk 2 2. The Boss Baby: Family Business $16M NEW 3. The Forever Purge $12.4 NEW 4. A Quiet Place Part II $4M ( -34%) / Wk 6 5. Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard $3M ( -38%) / Wk 3 9. Zola $1.2M NEW   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

Will Black Widow open to $100 Million next weekend? The Boys give their predictions, plus The Boss Baby: Family Business and The Forever Purge debut at #2 and #3! And F9's second weekend drop!

This week we plow through the Top 5 (1:23), discuss F9’s amazing $70 Million opening (4:35) and explain Nobody’s huge 3,390% jump this weekend (32:30) Then we talk about films missing out on run-off business (40:19) and give our over-under on F9s 2nd weekend and predictions for The Forever Purge and The Boss Baby: Family Business (43:27).   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

F9 races to #1 with a stellar $70 Million 3-Day! Plus, we look ahead to 4th of July weekend and make predictions for The Boss Baby: Family Business and The Forever Purge

This week we plow through the Top 5 (1:01), talk about In The Heights dropping a whopping 63% to land at #6 (2:52), discuss Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’s soft #1 opening (11:58), and celebrate Godzilla vs. Kong finally getting over the $100 Million Dollar hump at the Domestic Box Office (28:18) Then, in our most contentious segment EVER, The Boys clash as they attempt to divvy up A Quiet Place Part II’s $125 Million haul. Who gets more, Blunt or Krasinski? Do the Sound Ghouls get the bulk? Will Cillian Murphy see a red (eye) cent? (32:27) Switching gears, we ponder Disney’s reasoning for keeping Pixar’s Luca completely out of theaters during a wide open Father’s Day Weekend (48:16) and Pat has an exciting theory about why Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is moving to October (59:33) Finally, we make our predictions for one of the latest film in The Fast And The Furious franchise, F9! (1:08:14)   The-Numbers Weekend Top 5 (June 19 - 21) 1. Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard $11.3M NEW 2. A Quiet Place Part II $9M (-24%)/ Wk 4 3. Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway $6M (-40%)/ Wk 2 4. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It $5M (-52%)/ Wk 3 5. Cruella $4.8M (-28%)/ Wk 4 6. In The Heights $4.2M (-63%)/ Wk 2   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard limps to #1, In The Heights hits a new low and we make our predictions for F9!

This week, The Boys plow through the Top 5 and do a postmortem on In The Heights' disappointing #2 finish at the Box Office. We cover every base to figure out how this film's prospects went from Baffa to nada over the weekend (10:52) Then we look at Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway underperforming and how its meta movie poster backfired (54:40) We venture outside the Top 5 to discuss The House Next Door: Meet The Blacks 2's strong debut in 420 theaters and Quiet Place Part II beating out Godzilla vs Kong to be the first post-pandemic movie to reach $100 Million Dollars domestic (1:02:58) Finally, we give our predictions for Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, opening June 16th (1:13:37)   The-Numbers Weekend Top 5 (June 11 - 13) 1. A Quiet Place Part II $12M (-38%)/ Wk 3 2. In The Heights $11.5M NEW 3. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It $10.3M (-57%)/ Wk 2 4. Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway $10.1M NEW 5. Cruella $6.7M (-39%)/ Wk 3   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

In The Heights MASSIVELY underperforms, opening at #2! Quiet Place Part II becomes the first post-pandemic film to go over $100 Million, and we make our predictions for Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

This week, The Boys plow through the Top 5 and discuss how The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It was able to dethrone A Quiet Place Part II at the top of the Box Office, whether or not Godzilla vs Kong will beat AQPPII to $100 Million, and why Cruella’s B.O. is not indicative of its overall success (2:00).  Then we come to grips with the Federal Trade Commission’s reports of fraudulent behavior committed by MoviePass and its onetime CEO Mitch Lowe’s. This one is personal, so The Boys make a call to action: https://mashable.com/article/moviepass-scam-ftc-complaint/ (34:20). We switch gears to tackle The New York Times BELATED attempts to get into the Box Office reporting game: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/movie-theaters-box-office.html (52:13). And finally, we make our predictions for In The Heights and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, both opening June 11th (1:06:24)   The-Numbers Weekend Top 5 (June 4 - 6) 1. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It $24M NEW 2. A Quiet Place Part II $19.5 (-59%)/ Wk 2 3. Cruella $11M (-49%)/ Wk 2 4. Spirit Untamed $6.2M NEW 5. Raya and the Last Dragon $1.2M (-45%)/ Wk 14   Subscribe: https://theboboys.substack.com E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It horns its way into the #1 spot, MoviePass's fraudulent behavior was worse than we thought, and our predictions for In The Heights and Peter Rabbit 2!

This week, we plow through the Top 5 and celebrate Quiet Place Part II opening at #1 with a $57 Million 4-Day and Cruella strutting its way to #2 with a $27 Million 4-day. We evaluate the numbers from every angle and discuss what this massive success means for John Krasinski, Emily Blunt and Emma Stone (3:47). Then, we look ahead to next weekend and ponder whether The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It will scare up enough business to halt the franchises' sliding numbers at the Box Office and will Spirit Untamed soar or be broken (51:10). Finally, we pry open the mailbag to investigate the curious case of the Sylvester Stallone superhero flick Samaritan's June 4th release date.(1:14:44).   E-mail us: theboboyspodcast@gmail.com

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