Hollywood has positioned 2025 as a rebound year for theaters, but will upcoming blockbusters deliver as promised?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25792467

Hollywood has positioned 2025 as a rebound year for theaters, but will upcoming blockbusters deliver as promised?

  • @jordanlundEnglish
    3•3 days ago

    Save it from what? I thought 2024 was supposed to have been a good year?

    Looking at the numbers from boxofficemojo it looks like things still haven’t recovered from the Pandemic:

    https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/?ref_=bo_nb_hm_secondarytab

    Year Box Office vs. Prev Year
    2024 $8,569,972,229 -3.8%
    2023 $8,908,478,987 +20.9%
    2022 $7,369,914,732 +64.4%
    2021 $4,483,016,589 +112.1%
    2020 $2,113,386,800 -81.4%
    2019 $11,363,363,945 -4.4%

    Prior to 2020 it was a pretty consistent 10-11B a year going back to 2009.

    Edit: In case the table doesn’t render properly for everyone:

    • Flying SquidEnglish
      2•3 days ago

      The end of the film industry has been right around the corner since at least the invention of television.

      • @jordanlundEnglish
        2•3 days ago

        That was the entire reason for widescreen/cinemascope.

        Though I do love the (possibly apocryphal) story of why we were stuck with 4:3 for so long.

        Someone apparently asked Edison how big to make the cells on a film strip and he answered “I don’t know, an inch by 3/4ers?”