Scott Mendelson

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Box office columnist at Puck News and otherwise doing the news analysis/film criticism/box office punditry thing at The Outside Scoop via Substack.

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Scott Mendelson @ScottMendelson Nov 15, 2024

If you feel like finding me at the new (for now) "good place"...
And if you want to subscribe to my S*bst*ck and/or listen to my weekly podcast, please do that, too. (The extra screenshots are mainly for the clean four photos cropped 16x9 appearance.)

Scott Mendelson @ScottMendelson 3h

‘Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass’ is the funniest movie of 2026 and made me nearly embarrass myself with loud, unruly laughter—the kind I haven’t experienced in a theater in a long time. It’s also an ideal companion to ‘Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar'.

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She must have sex with Jon Hamm.

Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, from the minds behind Wet Hot American Summer, is now on Netflix.

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Scott Mendelson @ScottMendelson 3h

Once again, as I’ve been saying since (offhand) April 2014, audiences didn’t care about—and don’t want—an interconnected DC Comics cinematic universe. The repeated “This time we’ll get it right” attempts, amid constant corporate turnover, have become the definition of insanity.

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In Dormamnu's defense, he had been holding his bladder since halfway through year 4,716.

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Think about the logic: Strange withstands 6,000 years of relentless execution without breaking. Meanwhile, Dormammu, an ancient cosmic entity millions of years old cracks under the weight of a mere 6,000 years of being the executioner.

This is just terrible writing, fr!
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Scott Mendelson @ScottMendelson 1d

Toho’s ‘Godzilla: Minus Zero’ topped the weekend box office with $32 million, marking the fourth time since March 2021 that an overperforming Godzilla flick has given multiplexes an essential shot in the arm amid an otherwise soft(er) marketplace...