Is Hollywood in For a Bummer Summer?
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Despite strong reviews and a lack of competition in theaters, The Fall Guy fell flat at the box office last weekend, an ominous kickoff to the summer season. VF's Hollywood editor Hillary Busis joins Richard and David to discuss other early May disappointments, including Chris Pine's Poolman and Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted—and search for some potential bright spots in the months ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner. |
| 0:11.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:12.0 | And the Oscar goes to the winner. |
| 0:15.0 | It's a tie. |
| 0:18.0 | And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the teller you never know. |
| 0:25.0 | Ma, I just want an Oscar. I'm David Canfield and I'm here this week with Richard Lawson. Hello and back with |
| 0:40.9 | Hillary Bussis. |
| 0:42.8 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:43.8 | Hi Hillary, thanks for coming again. |
| 0:46.2 | So this week we are taking a little bit of a mood shift, |
| 0:50.3 | talking about the potential of a bummer summer, I think is the best way to put it. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, so we're going to start by just talking a little bit about the fall guy doing a bit of a |
| 1:00.4 | post-mortem on that box office and how it is setting up a potentially |
| 1:04.6 | grim few months commercially for movies and theatrical. |
| 1:09.4 | From there we're going to talk about a few recent releases that also I would argue or not great and come from |
| 1:16.0 | actors turn directors. It's the directorial debuts of Jerry Seinfeld, the film Unfrosted, which is streaming on |
| 1:22.2 | Netflix, and Chris Pine, the film Poolman, |
| 1:25.2 | which is hitting Select Theaters on Friday. |
| 1:28.6 | And then things kind of stay bad. |
| 1:30.9 | It's been a rough month so far for TV as well, so lots of things to get really excited about. |
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