{"id":1499,"date":"2025-03-23T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2025-03-23T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T21:31:57","slug":"box-office-promises-big-hits-in-the-year-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"Box office promises big hits in the year ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tom Cruise takes on what may be his final Mission: Impossible, a new Superman will wear the red cape, and the record-setting Avatar sci-fi series will return to theaters this year.<\/p>\n

Those films and more are giving cinema operators hope that the long recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will continue in 2025. Five years after the start of the health crisis, filmgoing has not fully rebounded.<\/p>\n

Box office receipts totaled $8.6 billion last year in the United States and Canada, 25 per cent below the pre-pandemic heights of $11.4 billion in 2019. The film industry was disrupted again in 2023 when Hollywood writers and actors went on strike.<\/p>\n

“That complex matrix of filmmaking, where everyone wants the best talent and the best actors and the best sets, it takes a long time to get that running again,” said Tim Richards, founder and CEO of Europe’s Vue Cinemas. “2025 is going to feel the tail end of that.”<\/p>\n

Shawn Robbins, Director of Movie Analytics at Fandango and founder and owner of Box Office Theory, said the film business was adjusting to “a new normal.”<\/p>\n

“Event movies are increasingly drivers of the business,” Robbins said. “There’s even more weight on their shoulders in terms of box office dollars.”<\/p>\n

Filmgoers still turn out for big-budget films, Robbins said, but have shown they are happy to wait to watch others at home.<\/p>\n

“It is very common knowledge that a lot of movies will be available to stream within three to eight weeks, whereas it used to be a minimum of three months,” he said.<\/p>\n

Amongst the big hitters, Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning, will debut over the US Memorial Day weekend in May, along with Walt Disney’s live-action version of animated classic Lilo & Stitch.<\/p>\n

Brad Pitt plays a Formula 1 driver in the June release F1, and in July, Warner Bros will release its new Superman film starring David Corenswet.<\/p>\n

From Marvel, the anti-hero team Thunderbolts will kick off the summer filmgoing season in early May, followed by The Fantastic Four in late July.<\/p>\n

Around the November and December holidays, offerings include the second part of musical box office phenomenon Wicked, animated sequel Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in James Cameron’s Avatar series. The first Avatar is the highest-grossing film of all time, and the second film ranks third.<\/p>\n

Robbins projected 2025 would end with a slight increase in domestic box office receipts compared with last year, “maybe flirting with $9 billion.” He said it is unclear when ticket sales will return to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to see (Avatar) as the tipping point,” Richards said. “2026 has got an extraordinary number of great films.” Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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