Box Office: Godzilla x Kong, Dune: Part Two, and a Listener Recommendation

On the April 1, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office expert Ryan Scott to talk about the box office numbers from this past weekend.

In The News:

• Godzilla X Kong Stomps Ghostbusters And Scores $75 Million Opening Weekend At The Box Office
• 5 Reasons Godzilla X Kong Obliterated The Box Office
• Godzilla X Kong Pushes The MonsterVerse Past $2 Billion At The Box Office
• Dune: Part Two Crossed Yet Another Major Box Office Milestone
• Madame Web Is Hilariously Short Of A Box Office Milestone, Adding Insult To Injury
• Clear rundown of the box office top 10
• Look ahead to The First Omen and Monkey Man

Listener email: Hey Ben! I was listening to you and Ryan on the podcast talking about disc media rot and just wanted to share with the class that there is a good computer program for taking a DVD or Blu-Ray and creating a copy of the contents on your computer. You can transfer all the properties of the movie, including subtitles, etc. The application is called HandBrake. Computer files are infinitely duplicatable, so you could put as many copies of the same movie on as many hard drives as your heart desires.

Obviously, this program could be abused and used for pirating movies (don’t use it for that!), but as long as you are only creating digital copies of movies that you bought and paid for and only for personal use, everything is kosher. Thanks! - Alec

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