From Disney’s box-office dominance to Fox's flops and more, 10 things we learned from the summer movie season
A franchise that started in 2014.A franchise that started in 1997.A 1994 film, remade.If you felt déjà vu at the multiplex recently, you’re not imagining things: Above is a description of almost every single movie that landed at No. 1 on the weekend box office charts this summer. It’s not surprising — we’ve resided in a land of sequels and remakes for a while.
But for these movies, that’s a depressingly low bar by which to be measured. They were each hoping to hit the “refresh” button on moribund franchises, enticing new generations with old intellectual property. And you can tell because each of these three underperformers have endings that open the door to possible sequels which, at least for the foreseeable future, will only exist in their creators’ heads.
Was there anything that connected these films’ failure beyond their rating? They were based on original screenplays, a rarity in a franchise-driven industry. Only, which hit theaters in mid-August, outperformed expectations to land at No. 1 on its opening weekend and gross $21.4 million. That was the first time an R-rated comedy had topped the box office since 2016’s
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