Summer 2023 box office: “Barbenheimer” brought back the public, but the uncertainty around the strikes could capsize 2024

This summer's box office is expected to reach $4 billion for the 13th time, up from 16% compared to last year. summer. Barbie and Oppenheimer, who together make up 22% of that figure, created an explosion ray, ultimately bringing infrequent moviegoers back to the cinema after Covid put audiences on the key.

However, with ongoing strikes expected to disrupt both the production and post-production pipeline production, next summer may not be so rich.

"Spring movies will eventually become summer movies next year", predicts a box office insider with doom and gloom.

How big was the demand this summer? It was the season that made movies a special crowdsourced activity to invite your friends to get excited about, something even a little lacking in the industry despite the 2022 rally of Top Gun: Maverick and the previous 2021 delayed success of Spider-Man: No Way Home. That's when the 6am Imax times for Oppenheimer were added at the last minute and sold out at TCL Chinese in Hollywood. Theater. It was the summer when the girls dressed...