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The panel touches upon recent box office trends, highlighting how Superman Rebirth continues to bleed money, with insiders reporting billion-dollar figures as if to convince themselves of its success. They sarcastically comment on the desperation of reporting incremental gains when the product clearly underperforms.
Star Wars also features prominently, with the group reminiscing about the original trilogy’s prestige and how the prequel era tarnished the franchise’s legacy. Comments about the Acolyte and the potential for Star Wars’s renaissance—if it ever comes—are tempered with skepticism, given the franchise’s troubled recent history.