The Hollywood Outsider

The Hollywood Outsider is the award-winning film and television podcast with news, reviews, interviews, and relevant weekly topics. In a world stuffed to the brim with narrow-sighted critics and judgmental film enthusiasts, we offer content for film lovers of ALL genres. From Steven Spielberg to Michael Bay to Wes Anderson to the independent filmmaker you have yet to know by name, The Hollywood Outsider is determined to give them all their fair shake. We hope you enjoy our podcasts and reviews as much as we enjoy creating them.

Episode 98 Trailers

Well here they are, the trailers we’re talking about for this week’s show.  Don’t worry, we will discuss that Anchorman 2 teaser at some point too, but these are the main ones.  300: Rise of an Empire and The Wolf of Wall Street.  Two flicks could not be more different. 300: Rise of an Empire

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Weekend Box Office – ‘Man’ Flies

            Contrary to all the people proclaiming Superman KIA in theaters, the Kryptonian immigrant managed to swoop back into theaters with a vengeance this weekend to the tune of $116 million and $128m since its Thursday opening, according to studio estimates.  Man of Steel is officially the largest June opening ever (slightly ahead of Toy …

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Episode 97 Trailers

Here are the trailers we’re talking about on this week’s all-new HO!  Runner Runner is essentially a Rounders style film with Justin Timberlake trying to make funny off of online poker.  While our other film is the 2nd in the Hobbit trilogy: The Desolation of Smaug.

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Weekend Box Office – The Surge

          Shocking audience members as well as every Box Office analyst yuppie across America was The Purge, which stole #1 with a whopping $36 million, according to studio estimates, this past weekend, doubling even the boldest predictions.  People apparently love the idea of getting to torture for 12 hours straight.  Maybe we’ll see a new Amendment soon. Slowing …

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Episode 96 Trailers

Here are the trailers for the next all-new HO! First up, Prisoners.  Hugh Jackman stars as one of a pair of fathers who believes the man who took their girls is walking free…so he kidnaps and tortures him for the truck. The other is Blackfish.  A documentary on a killer whale attack at Sea World in 2010.  The film looks …

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Weekend Box Office – Earth Disappears

            Well, Fast & Furious 6 continued to zip past everyone else, even as it dropped 64% to $34.5 million for $170m total so far.  By next week, Diesel and his crew should easily pass the $215m of Fast Five for the biggest film yet in the long running franchise.  Worldwide, it’s already past $400m …

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