* It’s basically the “all Kraven and all The War of the Ro…hru…ru… how the f**k do I pronounce that again?” as the Box Office Podcast podcasts about the box office of this weekend’s epic commercial losers.

* Lisa lays out just how awful the opening weekend for Kraven really was.

* Jeremy rages at the absurdity of offering an anime film with subpar animation to an audience that expects visual panache.

* Scott appreciates Sony finally seeing the “It Ends with Us > Kraven” light, even while still decrying why the powers that be didn’t embrace the obvious years earlier. 

* Among other tidbits and digressions (including the now standard give-and-take concerning Warner Bros. Discovery)…

* Lisa drops the most plausible reason yet offered for why James Gunn’s Superman could be a commercial success.

* Jeremy offers a way for Sony to stop making ill-advised comic book movies while still placating the “franchises are all that matters” investor class.

* Scott continues to be horrified by the sheer amount of ridiculous lore present in the now 30-year-old Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

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