Mid-Year Recap and an Interview with Insidious: The Red Door Star/Director Patrick Wilson

This week on The Boxoffice Podcast: Daniel Loria and Shawn Robbins provide an update on the box office forecast for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part I’s opening weekend and go over the mid-year report on the domestic market. In the feature segment, Rebecca Pahle interviews Insidious: The Red Door star/director Patrick Wilson on the latest entry of the horror franchise—and his career as an exhibitor through Cinema Lab.  

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Episode Resources:

• Cinema Lab
• Weekend Box Office: INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR Surprises at #1, Beating INDIANA JONES
• Boxoffice Rewind: The Box Office History of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Franchise

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:21 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One debuts
• 06:27 What worked in the first half of the year?
• 12:36 Movies that performed but were never expected to hit $200M plus
• 18:15 What hasn’t worked in the first half of the year?
• 22:48 End of the year forecast
• 26:07 Transitioning into film directing
• 30:15 What was your hometown theater growing up?
• 32:00 Seeing the film as the actor and as the director
• 34:05 Reframing the film for the big screen release
• 36:03 What other genres would you direct?
• 37:55 Joining the exhibition industry