Superman He already has a lot on his shoulders. It seems unfair to add the destiny of the Summer films season to your list. But he is not alone: Marvel Studios also returns to cinemas big with two cinema This summer, “Thunderbolts” and “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”.
Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic brought the cinema business stopAnd two years after the strikes, the industry has not yet recovered completely. Critics may have complained about the fatigue of the superheroes, but after several summers of exhausted offers, it is clear that they are a vital part of the mixture.
However, superheroes do not make a healthy market, and this year studies have Establish a complete board For each type of spectator, with more than 40 broad pitches that cover genres.
“This is the summer in which all this product in which we have all been working in recent years is finally reaching the market, so I am very optimistic,” says Joseph Kosinski, who directed “F1” with Brad Pitt.
Summer begins early in Hollywood, the first weekend of May and that start can make or break that fundamental 123 -day corridor that has historically represented about 40% of the annual box office.
After The strikes He sold the 2024 summer calendar, this year, Disney is back in that first place of family weekend with “Thunderbolts”. The weekend of the Fallen Day could also be a giant with live action “Lilo AND Stitch “and” Mission: Impossible-The Final Reckoning “. With a new” Jurassic world “, a live action” how to train its dragon “and the film of Formula one also at the schedule until June and July, the summer season has the potential to be the largest in the era after the Covid.
There are also family photos (“Smurfs”, “Elio”); Action and adventures (“Ballerina”, “The Karate Kid: Legends”); Horrors, Thrillers and Slashers (“28 years later”, “I know what you did last summer”, “M3Gan 2.0”); Romances (“materialistic”, “Jane Austen destroyed my life”); dramas (“I’m sorry, baby”, “Chuck’s life”); a new Wes Anderson movie (“The Phonecian Scheme”); and comedies (“Freakier Friday”, “Bride Hard”, “The Naked Gun”).
“Drawing a plan for a perfect summer alignment: 2025, is it,” says Paul Dergarabedian, Senior Media analyst?
“It is a fun turn of what could be a film like this,” says the director of “Thunderbolts”, Jake Schreier.
“It is a personal trip for Superman that is completely new,” says the director of “Superman” James Gunn. “But it is also about robots and flying dogs and all that. A very real person is taking and putting them in the midst of this scandalous situation and a scandalous world and playing with that. I think it’s a lot of fun for that.”
“He is working on an incredibly large scale in terms of construction of the world, but it is not different from all the great comedies and dramas that I have done,” says the director of “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”, Matt Shakman. “In the end, it is the character, it is reduced to relationships, it is about heart and humor.”
“People say, as, do you feel pressure and the greatest pressure I feel is of myself as a fan and for Steven Spielberg, not to disappoint it,” says “Jurassic World Rebirth,” Gareth Edwards. “Strangely, the good thing about making a Jurassic film is that everyone knows in the background that half of the reason they are in this business is due to that film and Steven’s work.”
Before the pandemic, all but a summer since 2007 broke the $ 4 billion brand. Since 2020, only one has: 2023, directed by “Barbie”.
The unstable economy could work in favor of the industry, at least when it comes to films. Even with the increase in ticket prices, theatrical films remain the most affordable entertainment outside the house and assistance tends to increase during the years of recession. The annual national box office crossed $ 10 billion for the first time in 2009.
“At the end of this summer, I hope people are no longer talking about being in a funk and it seems that we recover our mojo and go to the races,” says Kosinski, who directed the success of the era of the pandemic “Top Gun: Maverick.”
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