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.
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
What is Boxoffice Podcast?
The Boxoffice Podcast is your weekly resource for the latest results, trends, news, and topics in the cinema industry. Each week we feature insights and analysis from leading experts in theatrical exhibition, along with interviews with the most influential executives in the movie theater business.