Franchisography

Dueling Genre Productions

It’s Franchisography! The weekly podcast that digs deep into the entire filmographies of Hollywood’s biggest film franchises. Hosted by Scott Carelli & Nick Jimenez.

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Friday · 1 hr 22 min
EVIL DEAD BURN (2026)
We continue to interrupt your regularly scheduled mini-series with the second of 3 BONUS FEATURE episodes focused on new release films that part of past franchises! The deadites return and they’re meaner than ever in the latest installment of the Evil Dead franchise, but how do you make an Evil Dead movie without the Book of the Dead? Join Nick and Scott as they discuss EVIL DEAD BURN, a film they each have WILDLY different opinions of. NEXT WEEK: Spider-Man: Brand New Day Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
July 24 · 1 hr 28 min
THE ODYSSEY (2026)
We interrupt your regularly scheduled mini-series with the first of 3 BONUS FEATURE episodes focused on new release films that part of past franchises! First up, Christopher Nolan returns with his follow-up to 2023’s Oppenheimer, an epic film that spans two decades in the life of the ill-fated Odysseus as he attempts to get home after a war has ended, but perhaps the Gods have other plans. This is THE ODYSSEY. NEXT WEEK: Evil Dead Burn Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
July 17 · 2 hr 14 min
MOCKINGJAY: PART 2 (2015)
The decision to divide Suzanne Collins’s third Hunger Games novel into two movies is largely remembered as a cash grab by fans of the series, but nevertheless, Francis Lawrence and company were determined to bring the epic finale of Katniss Everdeen’s trial by fire to life in explosive fashion. This fourth film would be a war epic about shifting allegiances, dubious moralities and tragic consequences. This is THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PT 2. Join Nick and Scott as they discuss and debate the creative missteps and merits of this divisive and derided chapter of a beloved YA series in another exciting episode of FRANCHISOGRAPHY NEXT WEEK: The Odyssey Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
July 10 · 2 hr 9 min
MOCKINGJAY: PART 1 (2014)
The spark has been lit and revolution is coming in this third film of the Hunger Games franchise! Author Suzanne Collins managed to conclude the tale of Katniss Everdeen in a single book, but Lionsgate would decide to follow in the footsteps of Harry Potter and Twilight by splitting the novel into two films, giving the filmmakers the challenge of turning half a story into a satisfying cinematic experience. Would they be able to pull it off? This is THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PT. 1 Join Nick and Scott through the dystopian nightmare of Panem in this epic installment of FRANCHISOGRAPHY! NEXT WEEK: Mockingjay Part 2 Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
July 3 · 2 hr 27 min
CATCHING FIRE (2013)
When The Hunger Games hit theaters in 2012, it proved to be an even bigger hit than Lionsgate anticipated, meaning a sequel couldn’t come soon enough. Unfortunately, director and co-writer Gary Ross found the tight turn around between films to simply be unworkable and made the decision to leave the franchise. His replacement, Francis Lawrence, would soon find himself in the driver’s seat of Hollywood’s newest blockbuster franchise with an army of ravenous fans of Suzanne Collin’s novels carefully watching his every move. Would he and his team be up for the challenge? This is CATCHING FIRE Nick and Scott deliver another epic deep dive into this modern YA masterpiece on an explosive episode of FRANCHISOGRAPHY! NEXT WEEK: Mockingjay Part 1 Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
June 26 · 3 hr 4 min
THE HUNGER GAMES (2012)
FRANCHISOGRAPHY takes a look back at the generation-defining series that made Jennifer Lawrence a superstar and young adult dystopias big at the box office. Author Suzanne Collins was already a success in the world of children’s literature when the first Hunger Games novel was published in 2008, but when the book became a bestseller, Collins found herself being courted by the entertainment capitol of Hollywood. Hungry for the next Twilight and Harry Potter, struggling studio Lionsgate was ready to bet it all on this dark and intelligent series about a society where brutal violence and garish entertainment have become tools of a totalitarian government and one teenaged girl finds herself trapped in the middle of the spectacle and at the dawn of a revolution. This is Gary Ross’s THE HUNGER GAMES (2012) The odds are in YOUR favor as Nick and Scott do a deep dive into this celebrated series NEXT WEEK: Catching Fire Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
June 19 · 58 min
BETWEENISODE 28
It’s a Betweenisode! Join Nick & Scott as they rank the Nolan’s original films, discuss what genres we’d love to see him take on in the future (and which ones we absolutely do not), and announced our next franchise! FRANCHISE POTENTIAL: Reminiscence (2021) episode now available on PATREON! NEXT WEEK: A new franchise begins! Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
June 12 · 2 hr 49 min
OPPENHEIMER (2023)
After the disastrous mishandling of Tenet’s release and the announcement of WB’s “project popcorn”, Nolan left behind the hollowed halls of Warner Brothers for a new studio partnership. After a bidding war between multiple studios, Nolan’s next project landed across the street at Universal Pictures, with a deal that included a guaranteed 100 day exclusive theatrical run. And the movie he wanted to make? A three hour long talky drama about the father of the nuclear bomb that would go on to make nearly a billion dollars. This is 2023’s OPPENHEIMER. Join Nick and Scott as they discuss the biopic that finally won Nolan an Oscar. NEXT WEEK: Nolan Betweenisode Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
June 5 · 2 hr 9 min
TENET (2020)
The image of a bullet hole in concrete being reassembled as the bullet pulls itself from a wall and back into the barrel of a gun has been a cinematic itch that Nolan has had since university, and it was time for the itch to get scratched. With a script that no one fully understood and the second largest budget of his career, Nolan would create a film so difficult to understand (both audibly and plotwise) that audiences would be completely divided. Those who even saw it, anyway…. This is 2020’s TENET. Join Nick and Scott as they test the logic behind Nolan’s Bond inspired spy thriller and decide once and for all… is this movie any good? NEXT WEEK: Oppenheimer Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
May 29 · 1 hr 26 min
DUNKIRK (2017)
A sailing trip through the path of a historical event in his youth lead Nolan to proposing a “Fury Road”-ified war movie that would depict the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II. To keep up a relentless pace while making the story more rich and complex, Nolan would choose to focus on three storylines: the land, the sea, and the air; tracked across three timelines: a week, a day, and an hour, all simultaneously. This is 2017’s DUNKIRK. Join Nick and Scott as they discuss the ins and outs of this historical event and how successfully they believe Nolan manages to pull it off. NEXT WEEK: Tenet Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
May 22 · 2 hr 45 min
INTERSTELLAR (2014)
With a story that began with a blind date between a producer and a physicist, then evolved into a Steven Spielberg movie written by Jonathan Nolan, and eventually became a Christopher Nolan film about missing his kids that spanned the cosmos. This is 2014’s INTERSTELLAR Join Nick and Scott as they discuss revisiting Nolan’s polarizing film twelve years later, alternate casting ideas, robot enemies to robot ride or dies, and rude nurses. NEXT WEEK: Dunkirk Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
May 15 · 1 hr 59 min
INCEPTION (2010)
Starting it’s inception as a horror film about “dream thieves”, Nolan would write and rewrite the screenplay for his dream heist film dozens of times over the course of a decade until a vacation with his family would inspire the final piece of the puzzle needed to complete the story. And while he would need 4 times the budget of The Prestige to fully realize the concept, The Dark Knight had proven that Christopher Nolan was a franchise in and of himself, so WB had no issues signing the check. This is 2010’s INCEPTION. Join Nick and Scott as they discuss why and how the rules behind the dream logic of Inception’s reverse brain heist work within its very Bond inspired set-pieces. NEXT WEEK: Interstellar Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
May 8 · 2 hr 12 min
THE PRESTIGE (2006)
After taking on a studio film (2002’s Insomnia) and reinventing the superhero film (2005’s Batman Begins), Christopher Nolan finally had enough clout to fund the adaptation of a Christopher Priest novel that he had PLEDGED to be his next project when he pitched it to his brother Jonathan five years earlier. But the story of two rival magicians at the TURN of the century was more complicated to adapt than either of them initially believed and the screenplay would not be finished until mere days before the start of production. This is 2006’s THE PRESTIGE. Join Nick and Scott as they discuss a film they both believe is a masterpiece of cinematic narrative and the backlash it received at the time for “cheating” the ending. NEXT WEEK: Inception Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
May 1 · 1 hr 53 min
MEMENTO (2000)
Season 4 of FRANCHISOGRAPHY begins with a look at the original feature films of Christopher Nolan, the filmmaker who became a franchise. And it all started with the breakout success of his second feature, 2000’s MEMENTO. Originally pitched to him on a long cross country road trip by his brother Jonathan “Jonah” Nolan who was working on a short story about a man with a particularly rare form of amnesia. Working on the story and the screenplay together in tandem, Nolan cracked the film when he realized he would have to put the audience into the experience of the protagonist by structuring the film in reverse. A bold storytelling choice that would get him the film turned down for being “too complex” by every studio in town… except one. Join Nick and Scott as they traverse backward through the plot of Nolan’s twisty thriller and discuss how Sir Chris went from making a nothing budget black and white feature on Saturdays with his friends, to a favorite film of college aged cinema bros everywhere. NEXT WEEK: The Prestige Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
April 24 · 1 hr 49 min
LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY (2026)
In 2024, two of the biggest production companies in modern horror, James Wan’s Atomic Monster and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, would successfully merge with the goal of increasing their output of horror hits. Their first major production would be an untitled film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin, hot off the success of 2023’s Evil Dead Rise. The untitled film would later be revealed as a reimagining of The Mummy. And that’s where things get interesting. This is LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY. After much speculation and uncertainty, here now at last is the final word on this mysterious film. Strap in and hold on tight as FRANCHISOGRAPHY returns to the world of ancient Egyptians curses, hidden tombs and massive mummy mayhem! NEXT WEEK: Franchisography Season 4 begins! Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
March 18 · 56 min
BONUS: 2026 LISTENER PICK TOURNAMENT UPDATE
Round 1 of this year’s Listener Pick Tournament is over and Nick & Scott are here to discuss where the choices made by our listeners on Discord and Patreon have led us. There were surprising victories and devastating losses, but no obvious frontrunners. Let’s break it down. Daily match-ups end March 31st! Vote in our March Madness Listener Pick Tournament by Joining the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Get a second vote in every daily match-up by supporting us on PATREON! Patreon Associate Producer: Matt Bennett, Mark Ybarra & Harley Winfrey
March 7 · 1 hr 38 min
SCREAM 7 (2026)
Well… that happened. Originally conceived for Happy Death Day and Freaky director Christopher Landon, Scream 7 was going to feature new franchise stars Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega as the returning Carpenter Sisters… until all of that was thrown out the window. Now, Scream 7 has been reconceived by original franchise writer Kevin Williamson in the vacated director’s chair and original franchise star Neve Campbell back as Sydney Prescott. The result is a film that has the worst reviews in the franchise’s history, while having its biggest opening weekend box office ever. A mixed bag? Or something worse? Find out on FRANCHISOGRAPHY. Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey
February 22 · 2 hr 42 min
BONUS: 2026 LISTENER PICK TOURNAMENT SPECIAL
It’s a Listener Pick Tournament Bonus-ode! With March barely a week away, Nick & Scott are joined by Patreon Producer Mark Ybarra to reveal the 32 franchises that were chosen for this year’s Listener Pick Tournament and discuss their potential as future Franchisography mini-series. Daily match-ups begin March 1st! Vote in our March Madness Listener Pick Tournament by Joining the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Get a second vote in every daily match-up by supporting us on PATREON! Patreon Associate Producer: Mark Ybarra, Matt Bennett & Harley WInfrey
January 30 · 26 min
BONUS: 2026 LISTENER PICK ANNOUNCEMENT
February is almost here and March is right around the corner… …which means it’s almost time for this year’s Listener Pick Tournament! Join Nick and Scott as they discuss this year’s Tournament rules and regulations! What’s off limits? What’s back IN limits? Find out all of the details and get your picks ready as nominations are officially open on the Dueling Genre Discord Feb. 1 thru Feb. 7! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server to nominate franchises and vote on which ones make into the tournament: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Become a Premier Tier PATREON to suggest MORE franchises and get DOUBLE VOTES** in this year’s listener pick tournament! (**the opportunity to vote twice if you’re on Patreon AND Discord) Patreon Associate Producer: Mark Ybarra, Harley Winfrey, & Matt Bennett
Nov 28, 2025 · 1 hr 52 min
WICKED FOR GOOD (2025)
The second act of Wicked lives in infamy for many Broadway fans. When the filmmakers behind the big screen adaptation made the decision to split their saga into two movies, they were left with an interesting challenge: an entire film made up of the most divisive, polarizing aspects of the musical. Did John M. Chu and company find a way to fix Act Two’s problems and deliver a sequel that lives up to Part 1’s promise? This is 2025’s WICKED: FOR GOOD! Nick and Scott return to Oz in this uproarious episode of FRANCHISOGRAPHY Become a Premier Tier PATREON supporter to hear our “Franchise Potential” companion podcast, plus bonus podcasts each week including Dueling Genre Tonight hosted by Nick & Scott! Join the Dueling Genre Discord Server: https://discord.gg/rngwTkz8yw Dueling Genre Associate Producer: Matt Bennett Mark Ybarra Harley Winfrey

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EVIL DEAD BURN (2026)

THE ODYSSEY (2026)

MOCKINGJAY: PART 2 (2015)

MOCKINGJAY: PART 1 (2014)

CATCHING FIRE (2013)

THE HUNGER GAMES (2012)

BETWEENISODE 28

OPPENHEIMER (2023)

TENET (2020)

DUNKIRK (2017)

INTERSTELLAR (2014)

INCEPTION (2010)

THE PRESTIGE (2006)

MEMENTO (2000)

LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY (2026)

BONUS: 2026 LISTENER PICK TOURNAMENT UPDATE

SCREAM 7 (2026)

BONUS: 2026 LISTENER PICK TOURNAMENT SPECIAL

BONUS: 2026 LISTENER PICK ANNOUNCEMENT

WICKED FOR GOOD (2025)