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“They continually roll out films that are not only multilayered but connected to each other in ways that fascinate audiences – the same way comic books have been doing for ages. You can watch the movie online on Hotstar, as long as you are a subscriber to the video streaming OTT platform. “Everything they touch turns to genuine gold,” Bock says. Six of the top seven grossing films in the US so far this year are from Disney, which owns the Marvel universe from Iron Man to Avengers, Pixar and the Star Wars maker, Lucasfilm.ĭisney’s $2.7bn US box office tally to date is more than 2.5 times its closest rival, Universal, the maker of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the third biggest global film this year, and the Fast and the Furious franchise.ĭisney has already “won” the winter box office with Black Panther in February April’s Avengers: Infinity War topped spring – and with a $2bn-plus global total will be the biggest movie of the year by some distance and Incredibles 2 comes out on top for the summer. This summer has underlined the widening gulf between the Disney machine and the fortunes of most of the other major Hollywood studios. In such a competitive market the only one of the Hollywood majors not feeling the pinch is, arguably, Disney. While US ticket sales grew about 9% year on year, to $450m, summer attendance figures are still the second worst since 1992, when Batman Returns ruled the box office. However, behind the healthy glow of a $4.4bn box office take, the fifth biggest in US history, the movie industry is still facing a host of problems. One estimate puts the number of sequels and reboots in the works at 139. Released August 4th, 2011, 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' stars James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 45 min, and received a user. “Whereas in 2017 sequels underperformed, this year they saved the day.” “It’s been the summer of the safety net,” Jeff Bock, a senior box office analyst at the US firm Exhibitor Relations, says. The US top 10 is made up entirely of sequels or spin-offs.
Of the top 10 summer films in the UK, only one, Jason Statham’s Jaws-on-steroids action flick The Meg, is not a sequel or a spin-off. Richards may be right but to pull in ticket sales Hollywood has opted for a safety-first strategy, with sequels a major feature of the box office this year. If it was, you wouldn’t get years like we are having right now.” It is a cyclical business this is not an industry in decline. “When great movies are out there, audiences come out. “2018 has demonstrated we are not dead, this summer has been phenomenal and one of the biggest of all time,” says Tim Richards, the chief executive of Vue, the world’s largest cinema operator outside the US.