The 2026 Summer Movie Preview "Boom or Bust" Game
About this episode
Sean and Amanda preview the summer movie releases and discuss Daniel Goldhaber's new film while exploring the impact of the attention economy and politics in filmmaking.
On today’s show, Sean and Amanda bring back the Summer Movie Preview game—with some additional clarity around scoring—where they preview every major release slated across the summer and predict its box office and Metacritic score (4:47). Then, Sean is joined by Daniel Goldhaber to discuss his new film, ‘Faces of Death,’ starring Barbie Ferreira. He cites how the attention economy has drastically impacted young people’s lives, why he’s pushing the envelope of including radical leftist politics into his work, and breaks down his personal experience with the studio system (1:28:52). Have a question for our 900th episode mailbag? Email us at bigpicmailbag@gmail.com or call us at 323-488-3241 and leave a message! Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Daniel Goldhaber Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
People in this episode
Hosts: Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins
Guest: Daniel Goldhaber
Topics covered
- summer movie preview
- box office predictions
- Metacritic scores
- film industry
- attention economy
- politics in film
Keywords
- summer movie preview
- box office
- Metacritic
- Daniel Goldhaber
- Faces of Death
- Barbie Ferreira
- attention economy
- film politics
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Faces of Death
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