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Chris Hemsworth. Mark Ruffalo. Halle Berry. Barry Keoghan. A $90 million budget. And a box office run that didn't come close to covering it. In this episode of So Many Sequels , Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock kick off a streaming catch-up series with Crime 101 — the heist thriller that bombed in theaters and found new life on Prime Video. They break down the movie's tangle of…
Josh, Garrett, and David close out Mythology Month with Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — five stars across the board, a case for practical effects over CGI, and a theory about the Trojan horse that reframes the whole movie. In this episode: Why The Odyssey landed five stars from all three hosts How Nolan shot giants, a Cyclops, and a full ship's crew almost entirely practically Matt Damon's…
In this episode of So Many Sequels, Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock dig into Disney's 1997 Hercules for week three of Mythology Month — the extremely American, gospel-choir version of the Greek myth that somehow still works.In this episode:-The wild casting history behind Hades-Why the Muses might be the best storytelling device in any Disney movie-Disney's Americanization of Greek…
Troy made nearly $500 million worldwide, cast half of Lord of the Rings as extras, and turned Brad Pitt into a Greek demigod for two hours and forty-three minutes. It also cut every god out of Homer's Iliad and left Achilles as a straight-up atheist. Josh, Garrett, and David dig into what David Benioff's screenplay kept, what it invented, and why removing the mythology from a mythology movie might…
O Brother, Where Art Thou? opened in five theaters on December 22, 2000, went on to make $71.9 million worldwide on a $26 million budget, and somehow got outdone by its own soundtrack — which sold over 8 million copies and beat out Bob Dylan and U2 for the Grammy for Album of the Year, only the third movie soundtrack ever to do it. Josh, Garrett, and David kick off Mythology Month with the Coens'…
Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg's first alien movie in over two decades, and he's calling it the conclusion to a spiritual trilogy that started with Close Encounters and E.T. That's a big swing. We went to see if he pulled it off. Josh, Garrett, and David caught the film together at Circle Cinema in Tulsa — packed house, no assigned seats, the whole thing — and then recorded this. They talk…
Josh, Garrett, and David close out Spielberg in Space month with War of the Worlds — the one where the aliens finally turn hostile, Tom Cruise plays peak divorce-dad energy, and the hosts argue about whether the most unlikable protagonist in the Spielberg canon actually makes the movie work. Follow So Many Sequels at somanysequels.com and @somanysequelspod on Instagram.
Part two of our Spielberg in Space series leading up to Disclosure Day — this week it's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial . We dig into E.T.'s insane box office run (28 straight weeks in the top 5, nearly a year in theaters, $2.2 billion worldwide adjusted for inflation — second only to Jaws in Spielberg's career), then connect it back to Close Encounters of the Third Kind as a kind of spiritual sequel.…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out in December 1977, made $116 million in the US alone, and lost the box office crown for that year to exactly one movie: Star Wars . Not a bad second place. Josh, Garrett, and David kick off Spielberg in Space Month with Spielberg's pre- E.T. love letter to alien optimism. They get into why Richard Dreyfus was the right guy for a role Steve McQueen, Al…
Summer movie season is officially kicking off, and the box office is already throwing curveballs. This week, we dive into the numbers for The Mandalorian & Grogu , which defied early tracking worries to pull in a solid $81.9 million over the weekend. But the real story might be the horror-thriller Obsession , which pulled off a rare 30% weekend-to-weekend jump thanks to an intense viral billboard…
The guys wrap up their Golden Oldies theme with a divisive debate over Alfred Hitchcock’s voyeuristic classic, Rear Window . -Listen to more episodes: somanysequels.com-Follow on Instagram: @somanysequelspod So Many Sequels is a movie podcast where Josh Gammon, Garrett Powders, and David Prock talk about new releases, old favorites, and everything in between like a book club for movies.
