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Scott Mendelson
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Box office columnist at Puck News and otherwise doing the news analysis/film criticism/box office punditry thing at The Outside Scoop via Substack.
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Born April 2
Joined December 2008
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Nov 15, 2024
    If you feel like finding me at the new (for now) "good place"... And if you want to subscribe to my S*bst*ck and/or listen to my weekly podcast, please do that, too. (The extra screenshots are mainly for the clean four photos cropped 16x9 appearance.)
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Dec 21, 2021
    If you wanted AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3, you should have shown up for AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2.
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Oct 10, 2017
    If you wanted Hillary Clinton to comment sooner on the Harvey Weinstein allegations, you should have elected her president.
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Jan 12, 2019
    If I were her, I would have kept flubbing my lines over and over again so I could have just one more take...
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Jun 17, 2023
    We're seeing the (relative) failure of franchise installments (Flash, Transformers 7, Fast X, etc.) driven by studio/shareholder demand vs audience interest. Meanwhile, "because folks loved the last one" sequels like Creed 3, John Wick 4, GotG3 and Spider-Verse 2 are flourishing.
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Oct 6, 2025
    I, for one, am shocked... *shocked* that the young woman plucked from obscurity by... uh, (checks notes) Steven Spielberg to star in... um, (checks notes again) his essentially decades-in-the-making passion project turned out to be a relatively singular talent.
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    Rachel Zegler Source
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    Oct 5, 2025
    Rachel sang ‘Wishing You Were Here Somehow Here Again’ from ‘Phantom of The Opera’ accompanied by Andrew Lloyd Webber at her second concert at the Palladium tonight:
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    Scott Mendelson
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    May 17, 2018
    Dear filmmakers: Either admit that you won't put LGBTQ characters into major franchise titles for fear of losing overseas box office or bite the bullet, do it anyway and hope for the best. Enough with this "He's gay or bi when you're not looking" garbage.
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Nov 8, 2019
    Box Office: #JokerMovie Tops $955 Million Worldwide (On A $62.5 Million Budget) And Becomes The Most Profitable Comic Book Movie Ever via @Forbes by @ScottMendelson forbes.com/sites/scottmen…
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Apr 1, 2024
    To be fair, Legendary generously worked around Godzilla's schedule so he could fly to Japan and make that "prestige picture" for Toho.
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    🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤
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    Mar 30, 2024
    Godzilla’s screen time in the MonsterVerse Godzilla (2014) = 10 minutes King of the Monsters = 11 Minutes Godzilla vs Kong = 11 Minutes Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire = 8 Minutes
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Dec 31, 2017
    Just imagine how much fun Mark Hamill would be having right now if he didn't have to deal with the clickbait troll posse trying to twist his words to sell a false narrative about one of his very best performances.
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Jan 19, 2024
    But Ethan, what if removing the Part I from the title of 'Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning' is just what Gabriel wanted, and exactly what the Entity expected?
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    Scott Mendelson
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    May 5, 2023
    Also, not the first person to say this, but Karen Gillan has been stealthily giving one the very best performances of the entire MCU across the three GUARDIANS and the last two AVENGERS movies.
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Aug 2, 2024
    20 years later, 'The Village' contains what is still by far M. Night Shyamalan's least believable plot twist. There's a key sequence in the first act where... (spoiler) a character declines to marry Judy Greer.
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    Scott Mendelson
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    Jan 1, 2023
    Tom Cruise and James Cameron saving movie theaters like it's the mid-1990s.
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