Blast Zone: Movies That Bombed Jon Drake and Ian Dukes

We’re back! And we’re doing a highly requested one this week with 2016’s Civil War drama FREE STATE OF JONES

0:00 Intro
1:48 Show & tell
7:20 This week's movie

FREE STATE OF JONES 
RELEASED: June 24, 2016
DIRECTED BY: Gary Ross 
STARRING: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell
BUDGET: $50M 
BOX OFFICE: $25M 
ESTIMATED LOSS: $40M 

NEXT EPISODE: We’re doing a cult classic Tarantino ripoff with 2000’s THE WAY OF THE GUN

We're joined by the homie Nash Flynn (@ItsNashFlynn) of Death & Friends to talk about an extremely historically accurate movie: 2017's THE MUMMY. 

0:00 Intro
3:47 Show & tell
9:25 This week's movie

THE MUMMY 
RELEASED:  June 9, 2017 
DIRECTED BY: Alex Kurtzman 
STARRING: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Sofia Boutella, Russell Crowe, Courtney B. Vance
BUDGET: $195M
BOX OFFICE: $410M 
ESTIMATED LOSS: $90M 

NEXT EPISODE: We're going way back to the civil war to check out the FREE STATE OF JONES. 

We’re joined by “friend” of the show Ron Iver (@ronnui_) to talk about the first video game movie. Ever! It’s Super Mario Bros. (1993)

0:00 Intro
5:11 Show & tell
11:27 This week's movie

SUPER MARIO BROS 
RELEASED: May 28, 1993 
DIRECTED BY: Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel
STARRING: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Dennis Hopper, Fiona Shaw
BUDGET: $48M 
BOX OFFICE: $38.9M 
ESTIMATED LOSS: $20M 

NEXT EPISODE: We’re talking about the 3rd failed attempt to start a Universal Pictures “Dark Universe” with 2017’s THE MUMMY 

We went all the way back to 1995 for this week's movie, with one of Russell Crowe's first American movies and maybe Denzel's silliest movie ever, VIRTUOSITY. 

0:00 Intro
2:08 Show & tell
7:16 This week's movie

VIRTUOSITY 
DIRECTED BY: Brett Leonard 
RELEASED: August 4, 1995
STARRING: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch, Stephen Spinella, William Forsythe
BUDGET: $30M
BOX OFFICE: $37M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $20M

NEXT EPISODE: Grab your mushrooms and head for the sewers, we're doing the 1993 SUPER MARIO BROS. 

Another movie where the film itself wasn’t the story, it's the creepy musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN.

0:00 Intro
2:33 Show & tell
7:32 This week's movie

DEAR EVAN HANSEN
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Chbosky,
RELEASED: September 24, 2021
STARRING: Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore
BUDGET: $28M
BOX OFFICE: $19.1M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $20M

NEXT EPISODE: We’re going back to the 90s for a movie that definitely understands what computers are, VIRTUOSITY.

SHOW NOTES
Blast Zone Movie List on Letterboxd
https://letterboxd.com/jdrake602/list/blast-zone-episode-list/

Fiddler, Please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb9m7HdBCW0

THE HUNT controversy was probably the biggest news story of 2020. Can’t think of anything else that happened that was quite as important. 
0:00 Intro
2:59 Show & tell
7:19 This week's movie

THE HUNT
DIRECTED BY: Craig Zobel 
RELEASED: March 13, 2020 
STARRING: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Wayne Duvall, Ethan Suplee, Ike Barinholtz
BUDGET: $14M
BOX OFFICE: $12.4M 
ESTIMATED LOSS: $8M
NEXT EPISODE: We’re doing our first musical since CATS as we dive in to DEAR EVAN HANSEN.