Weekend Box Office and Mini-Water Cooler: TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Gran Turismo, and More

On the August 22, 2023 episode of The /Film Show, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Ryan Scott to talk about the weekend’s box office numbers. Later, he’s joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to gather around the virtual water cooler to talk about what they’ve been up to.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• Amazon Prime Video Cancels A League Of Their Own And The Peripheral After Previously Renewing Them
• Blue Beetle Dethrones Barbie At The Box Office With $25 Million Opening Weekend
• Blue Beetle's Brutal Opening Weekend Is Very Bad News For DC
• Strays Gets Abandoned At The Box Office With $8.5 Million Opening Weekend
• Meg 2 Swims Past $300 Million At The Global Box Office, But Is That Enough?
• Pixar's Elemental Overtakes Across The Spider-Verse At The International Box Office
• Prey Is Finally Getting A Physical Media Release Following Hulu Debut
• The Mandalorian, Loki, And WandaVision Are Getting Limited Edition 4K And Blu-Ray Releases

At The Water Cooler:

• What we’ve been Doing: 
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• What we’ve been Reading:
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• What we’ve been Watching:
• Ben and Brad watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• Ben watched Untold: Swamp Kings.
• Brad watched Muscles & Mayhem: The Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators, Gran Turismo, Blue Beetle, and The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
• What we’ve been Eating:
• Brad tried Late Night Loaded Taco Doritos, Butterscotch Scoop Snickers, Little Debbie Swiss Rolls Cereal, Carmella Creeper Monster Cereal.
• What we’ve been Playing:
• Brad has been getting into pinball.

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