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As CinemaCon Fires Up, Here Are The Biggest Mistakes Studios & Exhibitors Are Making Right Now
As movie exhibitors gather for CinemaCon, here are some cardinal sins the Hollywood studios and cinema companies are committing in a lackluster 2025.
The $100M-plus production cost auteur streak of Warner Bros with Bong Joon Ho bomb Mickey 17($43.5M domestic to date), Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another(September 26), Ryan Coogler’s period genre movie Sinners(April 18) and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride(March 6, 2026) is concerning. Sure, it’s easy to drop a trailer for a Marvel movie and make a big splash in the ocean with a boulder, but how are indie distributors like Neon with Longlegs($22.4M opening) and Cineverse with Terrifier 3($18.9M) dynamiting their core audiences in ways the majors aren’t? Another movie hoping to steal comedy away from streaming, which has owned it in the post- Hangover era, is Paramount’s Naked Gun revival from Akiva Schaffer, with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson starring.
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