Published: July 13, 2023, 7 a.m.
This week on The Boxoffice Podcast: Daniel Loria and Shawn Robbins provide an update on the box office forecast for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part I’s opening weekend and go over the mid-year report on the domestic market. In the feature segment, Rebecca Pahle interviews Insidious: The Red Door star/director Patrick Wilson on the latest entry of the horror franchise—and his career as an exhibitor through Cinema Lab.
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Episode Resources:
What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:21 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One debuts
- 06:27 What worked in the first half of the year?
- 12:36 Movies that performed but were never expected to hit $200M plus
- 18:15 What hasn’t worked in the first half of the year?
- 22:48 End of the year forecast
- 26:07 Transitioning into film directing
- 30:15 What was your hometown theater growing up?
- 32:00 Seeing the film as the actor and as the director
- 34:05 Reframing the film for the big screen release
- 36:03 What other genres would you direct?
- 37:55 Joining the exhibition industry