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Scott Mendelson
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A box office columnist for Puck News, but also head over to The Outside Scoop at Substack for everything else worth reading (box office, reviews, analysis, think pieces, etc.)
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That entire final mass battle scene... also 5 stars.
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Mmmm Hmmm... (and even she liked had to wait years after EASY A before being treated like an A-lister).
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
For what it's worth, most of those came right at the “end” of his current career (JACK REACHER 2 was 2016, MUMMY was 2017... and still topped $400M global) and even KNIGHT AND DAY pulled $261M on a $117M budget, disappointing in 2010 but aspirational now.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
ANYONE BUT YOU opened with $6 million, and had it opened at any other time outside of Christmas, it would have been DOA with under $20 million domestic. TWISTERS outright tanked overseas, which is ironic since overseas box office was always the excuse Hollywood used for not diversifying its leads.
November 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This was his big movie, alas.
November 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I love this very much...
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Short version - The original third act very much dealt with the allegations (in a “totally innocent” fashion) and apparently had sequences that would have violated an NDA related to a court settlement for one of the alleged victims.
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM