Now, here was our chance to tell our story in this genre.” “`Braveheart,’ `Gladiator,’ `Last of the Mohicans.’ I love those movies. So much of our history has been hidden or ignored or erased,” says Blythewood.
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“I don’t think we have ever seen a movie like this before. To Prince-Blythewood, the filmmaker of “Love & Basketball” and “The Old Guard,” “Woman King” represents “the chance to reframe what it means to be female and feminine.” 16), directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood and starring Viola Davis, is muscular fact-based epic about a West African army of female warriors. 9).īut if much of the fall season is about restoring what was lost the last few years, for some upcoming movies, change is the point. 25) by Noah Baumbach and Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” (streaming Dec. 4), by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu “White Noise” (in theaters Nov. 21), with Harry Styles and Netflix releases “Bardo” (in theaters Nov. Those include Amazon’s “My Policeman” (Oct. 23) will also mix in, as will prominent titles from streamers. 21, with Julia Roberts and George Clooney) and more high-flying adventures (“Devotion,” Nov. 7), horror flicks (“Halloween Ends,” Oct. 21, starring Dwayne Johnson), kids movies (“Lyle Lyle Crocodile,” Oct. 28) and the Cannes Palme d’Or winner “The Triangle of Sadness” (Oct. 14) Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Oct. 11), Florian Zeller’s follow-up to “The Father” Chinonye Chukwu’s Emmett Till saga “Till” (Oct. 7), with Cate Blanchett Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” (Dec. 23), starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe Todd Fields’ “TAR” (Oct. Last year’s best-picture winner, “CODA,” from Apple TV+, ran the awards gauntlet without a cent of box office.Īmong the most anticipated films hitting the fall festival circuit and theaters are Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” (Nov. Less clear, though, is if the fall’s robust slate of adult-driven films and Oscar contenders can once again drive moviegoing. 16) may each vie with the summer smash “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.36 billion worldwide and still counting) for the year’s top film. That will be less of an issue as the fall season ramps up. Moviegoers are back in pre-pandemic numbers, it’s just we still need more movies.” “We had 70% of the supply of wide-release movies in the first seven months and we did 71% of the business we did in the same period in 2019.
“If you look at how many movies we had compared to what business we did, we were operating at 2019 levels,” says John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners. Or at least it did until an especially slow August sapped momentum due largely to a dearth of new wide releases. For the first time in years, moviegoing has a strong wind at its back.
But after a summer box-office revival and an evolving outlook for streaming by Wall Street, theatrical moviegoing – with its billions in annual ticket sales and cultural footprint – is looking pretty good. The balance between theatrical and streaming remains unsettled. I’m really hoping that at least the illusion of normalcy holds. “As with everything, you kind of just have to dive into the pool and see what the water’s like. “We’re all, I think, just trying to will it into existence as at least some version of what we knew before,” says Johnson. “OK, a few things have happened.”Īfter an all-but-wiped-out 2020 autumn and a 2021 season hobbled by the delta and omicron COVID-19 variants, this fall could, maybe, just maybe be something more like the normal annual cultural revival that happens every fall, when most of the year’s best movies arrive.
“Seems like yesterday,” Johnson says, laughing. At the Toronto Film Festival in September, Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” has booked the same theater “Knives Out” premiered to a packed house almost exactly three years ago. Some movies, too, are trying to recapture a before-times spirit. After two springtime editions, the Academy Awards have returned to a more traditional early March date_ The Golden Globes, after near-cancellation, are plotting a comeback. Long-awaited blockbusters, like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” are poised for big box office.īut after the tumult of the pandemic, can the fall movie season just go back to the way it was? Many are hoping it can. For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear.
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