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Box Office Studio Report Card: Disney’s Billion-Dollar Rebound, Apple and Lionsgate Flop Hard and More
Variety took a look at how the major studios fared at the global box office in 2024.
And “Wicked,” the only non-franchise film to crack that elite group, couldn’t have been more familiar; the musical serves as an unofficial prequel to “The Wizard of Oz” and was adapted from a massively popular Broadway show that’s been consistently drawing crowds for two decades. Yet followups to more recent hits like “Joker” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” resulted in costly flops, with “Folie a Deux” suffering scathing reviews in addition to anemic ticket sales and “Furiosa” demonstrating that it probably wasn’t a good idea to revisit the Wasteland without Charlize Theron. The tech giant spent lavishly on starry projects like “Argylle” (featuring Henry Cavill, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cena and a lot of A-listers looking to have their backend bought out) and “Fly Me to the Moon” (where Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum met cute at NASA but would have fared better attracting audiences on Mars).
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