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Coulrophobia Strikes the Movies League
A dud-coded box office weekend and a conversation with the Podcaster Division’s reigning champ, Katey Rich.
Meanwhile, Saturday Night expanded into wide release but only pulled in $3.4 million on 2,300 screens, which is bad news for everything from Gen-X nostalgia to my hope that Gabriel LaBelle and Cooper Hoffman will get cast in a series of buddy comedies where they take turns being the stressed pragmatist and the idealistic genius. In a new MFL tradition I just invented, akin to the Super Bowl champion kicking off the new football season at home on Thursday Night Football, I got last year’s Podcasters Division champion Katey Rich — awards editor for The Ankler and co-host of the long-running Fighting in the War Room podcast — on the line to talk about how she selected her team this year, what regrets she already has, and how she plans to defeat her own Fighting in the War Room co-hosts for MFL supremacy. You, on the other hand, have gone heavy on Best Actress contenders (Marianne Jean Baptiste for Hard Truths, Karla Sofia Gascon for Emilia Pérez, Saoirse Ronan for The Outrun, even maybe a late charge to the net for Zendaya).
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