it’s a blockbuster summer

One of my assignments is to report on the financial results of the global entertainment giant. Last week, I reported Cineworld Cinema Group’s 2021 results, which operates 9,189 screens under the Regal brand in the US and elsewhere as Cineworld. Despite their screens being closed from January to May 2021 due to the pandemic, the group recovered from a $3 billion loss in 2020 to $70 million. Revenue increased to $1.8 billion.

It was largely due to blockbusters like no time to die And Spider-Man: No Way Home in the last quarter of the year. Following the announcement of the results, Mookie Greidinger, CEO of Cineworld, made a presentation to all the top international financial institutions. One thing he said stuck with me. “We must say that it is very rare to have a quarter with mega blockbusters, which are Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in early May, Top Gun: Maverick end of May, and Jurassic World Dominion mid-June,” Greidinger said. “So, really, a great quarter is ahead of us.”

I hadn’t even started to think about a summer blockbuster release until Gridinger put it so bluntly. I remember putting together a list of movies to look forward to at the end of 2021, then Omicron hit. When I went to see I realized the money coming Batman in IMAX on its opening weekend. Every seat was occupied and, apart from myself and my comrades, and very few others, were brilliantly immaculate and pretending, like all world governments, that COVID-19 is over.

trailer for Top Gun: Maverick And Jurassic World Dominion as a slide caused much excitement RRR, which is going on around the world as you read this. Unless another serious wave of the latest edition hits, it seems people will flock to the theaters to watch the movies again. That said, people flocked to theaters at the height of Omicron Spider-Man: No Way Home,

Continuing his presentation, Gridinger pointed to blockbuster delights for the second half of the year, including Minion 2: The Rise of Gru, Thor: Love and Thunder, bullet train, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, strange world, Puss in Boots 2: The Last WishAnd Shazam! wrath of the gods, And of course the long-awaited Avatar 2, The industry wants this and really every theatrical release to be a hit everywhere.

The world wants to leave the last two pandemic-hit years behind and return to what is normal these days. And except for a few autocrats who seem hell-bent on WWIII, everyone wants peace. Shall we get it? Do the great and the good people of the film world settle into their luxurious seats for the world premiere at Cannes Palace? Top Gun: Maverick And will the later Tom Cruise retrospective be able to return to the world of film commerce as the war broke out in his answer? As Jeff Goldblum says Jurassic Park, “Life finds a way.”

Naman Ramachandran is journalist and author of Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography, and tweets @namanrs