Footage of Steven Spielberg hugging Tom Cruise and congratulating him for saving the movie theater during a recent Oscar nominees lunch. The spectacular success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ (2022), one of the highest-grossing movies in history. He told her, “You saved Hollywood’s ass!” Cruise’s film can be seen as the starting point of the blockbuster renaissance. The success of the long overdue sequel to ‘Top Gun’. Ídolos del aire’ (1989) could have remained an isolated phenomenon, but fortunately it did not.
since its premiere ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ in May of last year (raised over $1,493 million worldwide)There have been several entertainment movies, many (not all) of them real blockbusters with generous budgets. Some, like “Avatar: The Sense of Water” (2022), were more or less anticipated successes. But others were not like that.
Leaving aside the big and unexpected horror hits of last year and so far (like ‘Smile’ or ‘Barbarian’), we want to focus on the less specific cinematic films to which many articles have already been dedicated and the films with the highest audiences, but also in America. They were huge box office successes in the United States (and internationally, the rest of the world). “M3GAN” (2022), “Creed III” (2023), “Scream VI” (2023), and “Vicious Bear” (2023). The Last of Us (opening March 31) is an action black comedy about a bear who goes crazy after ingesting a shipment of cocaine.
“Well Done” Movies
Why is this happening? Have you ever wanted to go to the movies again? Perhaps the key is the desire to return to the past. cinema somehow to see movies that have the “mood” of blockbuster movies of another time. It’s not just a matter of nostalgia that only works in some specified situations, in the sense of being grateful for having the option of going to the movie theater once again. watch “well done” entertainment movies (that’s key, not silly), packaging and adventure and/or emotion are in the foreground.
The reasons can be many and none in particular. Audiences may have a certain fatigue before certain universes and series of heroes and superheroes: The box office hit of ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ (2023) was a failure for Marvel (regarding the numbers they’ve handled). Or, more specifically, the blatant exhaustion of certain privileges and universes in themselves.
On the one hand, the public needs to discover new stories, hence the success of “M3GAN”, “Vicious Bear” or “Knock on the door” (2023). Also less lazy approaches to what you already know (“Top Gun: Maverick”, “Creed III” or “Scream VI”). On the other hand, you want to see well-made and finished movies on autopilot that don’t seem like they’ve been resolved or directly finished., series that look different from the television series of the same universes, where the surprise of the actors is not perceived when they find themselves lost in an endless chroma and somehow demand to be watched on the big screen. The blockbuster movies mentioned in this article meet minimums that are no longer so low today. Moreover, most of them were magnificently executed.
Room as playground
Even so, we should not rule out another possible reason for the success of these films. It’s about the spectators’ desire to reclaim their room as a fun entertainment space.. In reality, the latter is not so different from the fever of attending big concerts (at all costs) to reclaim the collective and celebratory experience that the pandemic and quarantine have deprived us of.
When it comes to cinema, the offering on the platforms is so plentiful and rich that many viewers are likely to choose to leave the small offerings at home and watch these huge, festive and celebratory ones in theaters. Hence the success (packaged entertainment, diverse audience, head-to-head) that any of the titles or other films mentioned would definitely be in the series, including “John Wick” (2023), “Dungeons and Dragons”. ‘ (2023) and ‘Super Mario Bros.: The Movie’ (2023), the last two with the added appeal of being aimed primarily at children and teenagers. These movies will arrive in the next few weeks.
In this period, which is predicted to be a year full of blockbuster movies, it will be his turn. (among others) titles such as ‘Infernal Possession: The Awakening’ (April); “The Little Mermaid”, “Fast X” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3” (May); “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” (June); “Oppenheimer” and “Mission Impossible: The Deadly Judgment, Part 1” (July); “Dune: Part 2” (November) and even “Barbie” (this summer).