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Michael Cieply: For Hollywood, Q1 Was A Bust; Will CinemaCon Bring Some Q2 Hope?
With Disney under siege, Paramount slipping, AMC scratching, and the box office down, Hollywood's Q1 was rough. Will CinemaCon help with Q2?
At the box office, Q1’s big hit was Part Two of a re-imagining of a science fiction novel that ran hot when I was in the eighth grade—in other words, a long time ago. Through the weekend, Dune: Part Two had about $252 million in domestic ticket sales, which helped drag the overall box-office total to around $1.6 billion, with a boost from the strong last-minute performance by Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. That certainly beats counting on Hollywood’s corporate types, who have bigger problems than the movies right now, or looking toward the stars, many of whom would rather talk politics than promote films, or waiting for Despicable Me 4, which might or might not jump-start things come the middle of Q2.
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