{"id":28876,"date":"2020-07-16T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/we-may-not-see-any-summer-blockbusters-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:45:00","slug":"we-may-not-see-any-summer-blockbusters-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/we-may-not-see-any-summer-blockbusters-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"#We may not see any summer blockbusters in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#We may not see any summer blockbusters in 2020<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s the middle of summer, and despite the world being in a pandemic, plenty of warm-weather activities have returned: picnics, Frisbee and even swimming are allowed in many states.<\/p>\n

But what of the summer blockbuster? Our cinematic escape in which supercharged air conditioning, a spaceship and Will Smith save us from the scorching heat? The big-budget tradition that gave us \u201cJaws,\u201d \u201cJurassic Park\u201d and \u201cStar Wars\u201d?<\/p>\n

Yes, some theaters and drive-ins have opened in the US, but they are all showing old, pre-coronavirus films. No brand-new releases will be screened until the major markets, New York and California, get the go-ahead from local governments to allow large indoor gatherings at entertainment venues.<\/p>\n

Just one month ago, beleaguered theater chains were readying for a highly anticipated July return. Now, however, with a resurgence of virus cases, it\u2019s becoming more likely that we won\u2019t see a single big movie this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be surprising to see theaters able to re-open nationwide before September, at the earliest,\u201d veteran Wall Street analyst Eric Handler of MKM Partners wrote in a dreary note to his clients this week.<\/p>\n

Granted, the summer blockbuster has been on death\u2019s door for several years, thanks to lackluster titles, the rise of streaming giants such as Netflix and Hulu, the fall of MoviePass and a year-round high-quality TV season. In 1980, a person couldn\u2019t stay in bed on July 4 weekend and binge-watch Season 3 of \u201cStranger Things.\u201d The cinema was their only choice.<\/p>\n

But 2020 1.0 actually looked pretty good. We would\u2019ve been treated to an unusually strong crop of summer flicks, all of which have now shuffled off to fall, winter or as far away as late 2021: \u201cWonder Woman 1984,\u201d Pixar\u2019s \u201cSoul,\u201d \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d \u201cMinions: The Rise of Gru,\u201d \u201cJungle Cruise\u201d starring Dwayne Johnson and Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s \u201cIn The Heights,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

Christopher Nolan\u2019s mysterious \u201cTenet,\u201d which has a pipe dream of being the film to cut movie theaters\u2019 red ribbon, has been pushed back on an almost weekly basis since June 12, with a current, increasingly unlikely release date of August 12.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven if the theaters say, \u2018We\u2019re going to reopen at a quarter capacity\u2019 or something, I don\u2019t know that the big studios are going to want to put their movies<\/a> into that kind of market,\u201d Hollywood analyst Doug Creutz tells The Post. \u201cAnd without the movies, the theaters can say they\u2019re open, but they\u2019ll have nothing to show.\u201d<\/p>\n

You probably have watched some new movies this summer \u2014 on your home TV. This month, Disney released the Broadway musical \u201cHamilton\u201d on Disney , which according to Apptopia, led to 752,451 downloads of the app.<\/p>\n

Universal has led the pack in dropping its big titles on digital for $20, such as Pete Davidson\u2019s \u201cThe King of Staten Island\u201d and \u201cTrolls World Tour.\u201d The animated family film with new songs from Justin Timberlake made $100 million, leading NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell to embrace the format going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a replacement,\u201d he said on a Quarter 1 earnings call reassuring stockholders that the more profitable theater business is here to stay. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a complementary element. We\u2019re just going to have to see how long that takes and where it takes us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, that remark led the struggling theater chain AMC to ban Universal films.<\/p>\n

Creutz says that when the time comes, thrill-seeking audiences won\u2019t want to experience \u201cSpider-Man\u201d on a tiny screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people will want to go back [to theaters],\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily think that the decision to release some movies direct-to-home is a permanent decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, for the time being, the American box office is so fragile that a couple of punks managed to get their quickly made independent film to the No. 1 spot in the country in June, just by renting out a single Westhampton Beach movie theater.<\/p>\n

For actor Eric Tabach and New York filmmaker Christian Nilsson, their quest began with a question: \u201c\u2009\u2019Is it possible to get one of my YouTube<\/a> videos to be the No. 1 movie in America?\u2019\u2009\u201d Nilsson tells The Post.<\/p>\n

The answer is yes, thanks to a strategy called four-walling, in which someone buys out a theater and keeps all the revenue from ticket sales. Tabach and Nilsson wrote and shot their 29-minute film, \u201cUnsubscribe,\u201d\u00a0 starring Charlie Tahan of \u201cOzark,\u201d within days, screened it in an otherwise-shuttered indie theater with an audience of two (them) and officially took in $25,488 \u2014 the money they spent buying every seat \u2014 topping the US box office that week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s surreal, and ridiculous,\u201d Nilsson says. \u201cTo see my name in the Washington Post compared to filmmakers like Spielberg and Christopher Nolan is stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Nilsson\u2019s movie, which cost $0 to film on Zoom, was at least released, while Nolan\u2019s \u201cTenet,\u201d reportedly made on a budget of $225 million, is stuck in limbo. And there\u2019s no telling how long the \u201cDunkirk\u201d director will be reel-ing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNolan may want to release \u2018Tenet\u2019 in the theaters, but Warner is gonna say, \u2018If people aren\u2019t gonna show up, if the footprint isn\u2019t there, we\u2019ll just wait till it is\u2019,\u201d Creutz says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a pretty significant chicken and the egg problem. How are you gonna know if the demand is there if there\u2019s no movies in the theaters?\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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