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Michael Cieply: Increasingly Top-Heavy, The Movie Box Office Needs A Very Careful Trim
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deadline.comAs my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro has noted, the domestic movie box office, starved of product by overlapping strikes, will likely be trimmed by a billion dollars in 2024.
So here’s question worth pondering: Would the film industry be healthier if most of that pruning occurred at the very top? There’s a case to be made.
One of the more noticeable distortions to accompany the simultaneous arrival of Covid lockdowns and a streaming revolution in the last few years was the acceleration of a trend toward extreme top-loading at the box-office.
In 2023, the three top-grossing films were Barbie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, with about $1.6 billion in ticket sales among them.
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