8/3/2023 0 Comments Watch movies in theaters now![]() ![]() And even with its R rating, the Harley Quinn film will ironically remain the highest grossing superhero movie of the year. ![]() Margot Robbie launched her passion project, Birds of Prey (and the rest of its title). Jason Blum’s horror factory of Blumhouse Productions released a Universal Monsters reboot that was better than likely anyone could anticipate in The Invisible Man, with Elisabeth Moss delivering a brutal performance that felt rooted in our post-#MeToo world. Indeed, early months saw several blockbusters, as well as excellent smaller films, that are now ending up on end of year lists at an unusually high volume. The New Year’s moviegoing season had only begun in earnest a few months earlier, with the surprise haul of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s Bad Boys for Life in January exceeding all expectations. With these events occurring nine months and a lifetime ago, it’s easy to forget how different the motion picture landscape was at the time. Within 24 hours, AMC Theatres and most competitors joined them, with AMC having a particularly rosy outlook when it announced it would only be a 12-week “pause.” Regal Cinemas, the second largest movie theater chain in the U.S., and which is owned by the world’s biggest, Cineworld, was the first to announce it would close all North American locations until further notice. That was the day movie theaters across the U.S., like European markets before them, began shutting their doors. One that perhaps has changed this relationship forever. What occurred between marks a significant sea change for movies and the audiences who adore them. As 2020 ends, many of those same people are resigned to watch Wonder Woman on HBO Max. When the year began, moviegoers were still going to the last Star Wars movie in theaters to the tune of a billion dollars and looking forward to summer spectacle like Wonder Woman 1984. There hasn’t been one facet of our culture that wasn’t dramatically altered by the effects of COVID-19 and the world it wrought. 2020 was not a normal year.Īfter nearly 12 months of pandemic and shutdown, social unrest and political upheaval, we are only beginning to understand the ramifications from the year that was. Under normal circumstances, one can be too busy to notice that history is occurring all around them. Under normal circumstances, it’s easy to get lost in the grind of daily living, missing the forest for the trees. ![]()
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