NEW YORK — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and"Avatar: The Way of Water," are poised for big box office.
But"Glass Onion," with Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc in a new mystery, is also a reminder of how much has changed. After"Knives Out" was a box-office hit for Lionsgate, grossing $311 million worldwide for Lionsgate, Netflix shelled out $450 million to snap up the rights to two sequels.
That will be less of an issue as the fall season ramps up."Wakanda Forever" and"The Way of the Water" may each vie with the summer smash"Top Gun: Maverick" for the year's top film. Less clear, though, is if the fall's robust slate of adult-driven films and Oscar contenders can once again drive moviegoing. Last year's best-picture winner,"CODA," from Apple TV+, ran the awards gauntlet without a cent of box office.
"Bros" , too, is something different. The film, starring and co-written by"Billy on the Street" comedian Billy Eichner, is the first gay rom-com by a major studio . All of its principal cast members are LGBTQ. Comedies have struggled in theaters in recent years but"Bros," produced by Judd Apatow, hopes a new perspective will enliven a familiar genre.
Olivia Wilde's buzzed-about"Don't Worry Darling," starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as a married couple living in a 1950s-style suburban nightmare-slash-male fantasy, approaches some similar themes through a science-fiction lens. Speaking from the New Zealand where"The Way of the Water" was being mixed and scored, producer Jon Landau promised the wait is, in fact, nearly over.
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