With the US box office currently dominated by micro-budgeted indie horror films like Backrooms and Obsession, Hollywood executives are increasingly anxious about the viability of mass-appeal, âfour-quadrantâ tentpoles in bloated, long-running franchises.
This summer will certainly prove telling, as a familiar line-up of superheroes, sequels and reboots jostles for attention amid a slate of wildly unpredictable smaller fare.
While audiences will not be underserved in the coming months, the performance of these expensive event pictures is more uncertain than ever.
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