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.

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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Episode 95 Trailers

Here are the trailers we’re talking about on this week’s all-new HO! 1st up – We’re the Millers: Jason Sudeikis stars as a drug dealer who pairs up with a stripper (Jennifer Anniston) and two lost teens to pose as a family and smuggle a LOT of drugs across the border. 2nd – Don Jon: Joseph Gordon-Levitt writes, directs and stars as a …

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Episode 94 Trailers

Here are the trailers for this week’s all-new HO – Episode 94.  Europa Report, a sci-fi flick about surviving in space, and VHS 2…a sequel to the found footage flick from last year.  Check them out… Europa Report VHS 2 Red Band Trailer

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Weekend Box Office – Darkness Wins

                    Star Trek Into Darkness took #1 at the weekend box office, as expected.  Unfortunately, its estimated $70 million opening was smaller than the previous film’s $79m opening in 2009.  As the film officially opened on Thursday, some of that number was offset and in total, Trek 2 took in $84m since its Thursday …

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