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Summer Box Office Magic August 08, 2024
An exhausted Ryan Reynolds was overwhelmed when the opening-day grosses started pouring in on July 26 for Deadpool & Wolverine, the third entry in his audacious superhero series. By July 27, the impossible was within reach: The Marvel Studios pic was...
Can Hollywood Sequel Its Way to Success? July 04, 2024
Is the box office busted, or back? It depends on which week you ask. As the movie theater industry reels from the double body blows of the COVID-19 pandemic and last year’s writers and actors strikes, forecasts for the future of cinema fluctuate wild...
The Summer Box Office Crisis June 06, 2024
Within minutes of the actors strike ending on Nov. 9, Ryan Reynolds was making plans to get back to London and the set of Deadpool & Wolverine, one of the many movies shut down in mid-July when the walkout commenced. He and director Shawn Levy were d...
The Opportunity in Macrocultural Failure June 05, 2024
It was the worst Memorial Day box office in almost thirty years. Furiosa narrowly topped The Garfield Movie with an estimated $32 million for the four-day weekend, barely edging out Casper’s $22.5 million in 1995—not adjusted for inflation. The hope,...
Netflix’s New No. 1 Movie May Be the Future June 04, 2024
Over the long weekend, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos got a bit of a roasting for telling the New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro that Barbie and Oppenheimer, whose combined global box office was $2.4 billion, “would have enjoyed just as big an audience...
Is 2024 the Year of the Box-Office Megaflop? May 20, 2024
In Hollywood, the first weekend of May is traditionally seen as the official kick-off of the summer movie season: an auspicious blockbuster date that has, of late, become rather a boring one.Since 2007, when Spider-Man 3 (three full cycles ago in tha...
Disney’s ‘Mufasa’ and the Back Story on Hollywood Back Stories May 03, 2024
“This story begins far beyond the mountains and the shadows, on the other side of the light.” So goes the voice-over for a newly released trailer to “Mufasa: The Lion King,” the follow-up to Disney’s 2019 movie “The Lion King,” itself a remake that e...
2023 Box Office Numbers January 03, 2024
Universal‘s film empire is taking a major bow after placing No. 1 in marketshare at the 2023 global box office, a feat no studio has been able to pull off since Disney rose to dominance in 2016.The 24 movies released by Universal generated an estimat...
