This summer’s movie season started with a bang, but ended with a whimper, running out of hit movies well before Labor Day. There are only four potential blockbusters left on the schedule for the remainder of 2022, according to box office tracker Comscore.
Note: Includes U.S. and Canada. Summer period covers the first Friday in May through Labor Day Monday of each year.“If anyone was expecting it to match against 2019—that’s not realistic,” said Jim Orr, president of domestic theatrical distribution for Universal Pictures. “Like any business, any industry, supply chain issues are real and they affect businesses in a variety of ways…We made a conscious decision to lean into the theatrical model.
Mr. Orr said the next few months should see a “lull” in major theatrical releases, but “it doesn’t mean people aren’t going to come back.” Universal Pictures has seven more titles to be released this year, including “Halloween Ends,” the conclusion of the Jamie Lee Curtis-led horror franchise, which will bring the studio’s 2022 total to 24 pictures, making it the most prolific in Hollywood this year.
Bob Bagby, chief executive of B&B Theatres in Kansas City, the fifth-largest theater chain in the U.S. by number of screens, said 2022 was a major turning point for the company. In late 2020, the company said that if the pandemic lockdowns lasted much longer, it might have to seek bankruptcy protection. Fast-forward to this summer, when June ended up being the best-attended June in the chain’s nearly 100-year history, led by “Top Gun.
in the “Transformers,” “Mission: Impossible,” and “Dungeons & Dragons,” franchises, movies featuring Marvel superheroes Ant-Man and the Wasp, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Blade, and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Aquaman, plus big-event films from Universal including the World War II drama “Oppenheimer,” and a movie based on the “Super Mario Bros.” videogame franchise.
“We’ve just got to get more movies into the pipeline,” Mr. Bagby said. “I was so encouraged by the summer.”
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