There’s been a great deal of talk about the box office over the last handful of years, essentially since the Covid-19 pandemic upended the industry in 2020. No year in the history of the box office will ever be worse than 2020, when the pandemic shut down theaters all over the world for months on end, but in terms of bad years when things were operating under “business as usual” rules? It’s difficult to find a worse year for blockbuster cinema than 2017.
In the 2000s, and specifically the 2010s, Hollywood studios became franchise and big-budget, tentpole-obsessed. That made the industry a little more top-heavy than usual, with the biggest movies accounting for…
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