It was a ho-hum weekend at the box office for new wide openers. But it was a busy frame for industry insiders who can’t stop talking about the impasse between Jimmy Kimmel and ABC after last week’s political firestorm.

Those are the topics tackled in today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast. Rebecca Rubin, Variety’ s box office chief, details the lackluster openings for Universal’s sports drama “Him” and Sony Pictures’ “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.” Neither film seemed to have that key ingredient of offering something extra-special to get audiences out of the house and into a theater.

“Sony positioned [‘Big Bold] as a female event picture in the vein of ‘It Ends With Us,’ which was the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni movie that, despite all the controversy, was a huge box office s

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