Episode 20: Summer Movie Season 2016: A Post-Mortem

This week, Gavia and Morgan look back on the summer's movies and wonder what went wrong—possible answers include Hollywood's superhero problem and its remake obsession—and look forward to some of the more dire upcoming big-budget releases. They also recommend some of the best films of the year so far.

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I'm interested in the ways a category that was once a studio mainstay--a live-action film generated from nothing--has become marginal. 1/3

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) August 20, 2016

Links

"Could Ben-Hur Be the Biggest Flop in a Summer of Flops?," Kevin Lincoln, Vulture

"The Birdcage: How Hollywood’s toxic (and worsening) addiction to franchises changed movies forever in 2014," Mark Harris, Grantland