If there’s one movie in Quentin Tarantino ‘s career that messed with his mojo, well, then that would be his Monte Hellman homage, Death Proof , which was the second title in the filmmaker’s 2007 double feature, Grindhouse, with Robert Rodriguez.

With a running time of 191 minutes, Grindhouse, was meant to be a celebration of the exploitation cinema the two renegade directors grew up on. Rodriguez’s Planet Terror ran first in Grindhouse , followed by a series of faux trailers (one of them, Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving actually got made in 2023), before Death Proof played. The $67 million Weinstein Co. cinematic stunt didn’t work, opening to No. 4 at the Easter weekend box office to $11.5 million.

In a sit down tonight with Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg at the Burbank I

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