In this week’s episode of the Boxoffice Podcast, co-hosts Russ Fischer, Shawn Robbins, and Chad Kennerk discuss the release of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the first place holdover of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, the current state of the SAG/AFTRA strike, and review box office numbers: including the “What’s This?” surprise of 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas rounding out the top five. In the feature segment, Daniel Loria speaks with Comscore’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian

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Episode Resources:

• ShowEast 2023: Comscore’s Paul Dergarabedian Receives Al Shapiro Distinguished Service Award
• Weekend Box Office: TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR First Concert Film to Lead Twice, Fending Off KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:57 Boxoffice Podcast’s 200th episode
• 03:35 SAG-AFTRA update
• 05:42 Taylor Swift Eras Tour Concert Film leads box office
• 07:28 Weekend top 5 box office films
• 10:45 Effect of limited-time only films
• 13:17 Killers of the Flower Moon
• 20:40 Five Nights at Freddy’s
• 27:45 Start in cinema space
• 33:57 People are invested in box office movies
• 36:51 What makes the movie business exciting
• 42:11 Joining the industry for a living
• 48:22 Franchise trap
• 56:21 The halo effect of movie theaters on other business
• 59:30 Weekend wrap up podcast