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, moviegoing has not fully rebounded.
The film industry was disrupted again in 2023 when Hollywood writers and actors went on strike.
Top names in the movie business will gather at the annual CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas early next month to talk about the state of the industry.
At the Academy Awards this month, “Anora” filmmaker and best director winner Sean Baker delivered a “battle cry” for filmmakers, distributors and audiences to support theaters.
“If we don’t reverse this trend, we’ll be losing a vital part of our culture,“ Baker added.
“Event movies are increasingly drivers of the business,“ Robbins said. “There’s even more weight on their shoulders in terms of box office dollars.”
“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.
Among the big hitters coming to theaters this year are “Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning,“ a movie that may be Cruise's last appearance in the long-running action franchise. “One last time,“ he says in the trailer. The film will debut over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend in May, along with Walt Disney’s live-action version of animated classic “Lilo & Stitch.”
From Marvel, the anti-hero team “Thunderbolts” will kick off the summer moviegoing season in early May, followed by “The Fantastic Four” in late July.
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.
“We’re going to see (Avatar) as the tipping point,“ Richards said. “2026 has got an extraordinary number of great films.”
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