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By George Robbins

The movie industry is abuzz these days, though this is mainly due to studios and theaters trying to survive at the moment. Studios have every possible chance to make it through what is going on right now because they have long term investments in their films. Theaters on the other hand have a little less help being thrown their way because they need income on hand if they are going to stay in business. If they did not have any money saved up for some reason, theaters are going to have an extremely hard time ahead of them in the coming months. This is mainly due to the fact that theaters, at least in the United States, will probably have to shut down again in the near future.

This possible upcoming shut down stems from the fact that this past weekend was a terrible weekend for the movie theater industry. Despite having a strong opening weekend, Christopher Nolan’s newest blockbuster, ‘Tenet,’ had a pitiful second weekend with only $6.7 million. With such a huge film bringing in such a small amount to the box office on only the second weekend, it is no surprise that theaters are becoming nervous. This has shown them that people are still very wary of going out and staying in a public space with a lot of other people for hours at a time. This actually isn’t much of a surprise though, and it was really even expected given the state of the nation at the moment.

Needless to say things aren’t going so well with the movie theater industry as a whole and they are now rethinking their current strategies. Essentially, theaters are now thinking that they may need to hold off on having full reopenings for awhile until people are more comfortable being back out in public. At the very least, if they want their reopenings to be successful, they need to wait until there is a rhythm in place that people are comfortable with. So, in the near future, there is a good chance that theaters in the US will once again shut down for the foreseeable future. In the meantime, studios are trying to keep work moving along as they wait for the moment when they can have theatrical releases for their films again.

This is why studios are getting back to having their productions worked on to the best of their crews’ abilities. Hence we have been receiving plenty of news as of late about movies that have been going hard at getting their work done. Although production crews are trying their best to finish movies quickly, they are not rushing themselves the way they normally would. It is now less about getting the film done on time for release purposes and more about getting it done quickly so that so many people aren’t working on the same project for such a long time. Despite this change in view, plenty of work is being done efficiently as well as quickly.

Of course, there have still been plenty of setbacks, but now that a rhythm has been set, movies are getting worked on in record pace with a lot of them still holding scheduled release dates. Unfortunately, these dates are essentially tentative because there is no telling what will happen in the near future. The situation with movie theaters possibly closing up shop in the near future is further pushing back projects and could even result in release dates changing once again. This isn’t completely terrible with productions going back to work because it allows studios to start building up a back catalog. One studio that has been doing this for years at this point and is taking all of this in stride at the moment is Marvel Studios.

Marvel Studios is now a world renowned movie production studio for their production of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU. They have been making multiple films at a time for years, building up a back catalog in which they can keep films until their proper release dates. They usually don’t hold on to their films for a really long period of time, nor do they ever really have more than a couple of films stored up at a time. Unfortunately, they now have to hold on to every film they make until the proper time comes for them to release it. With theaters possibly closing up for awhile, this could be a long time, but it won’t stop them from making new films like they originally planned.

One of their upcoming films that will be worked on in the near future is James Gunn’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.’ This film is one that fans have been looking forward to for a long time now and it will begin production in the not too distant future. According to Gunn, it will completely change what we know about the superhero group and things will never be the same afterwards. Despite this, we know that we are sure to get an excellent movie out of the whole process. We almost weren’t going to see Gunn return for the final film and it would not have been the same. Due to a controversy based upon old jokes which didn’t age well online, Gunn was temporarily fired as the director for the film.

Although Gunn was hired back not too long after he was fired, he was picked up to direct DC’s upcoming spiritual sequel ‘The Suicide Squad.’ This upcoming movie is one that has received a lot of hype already because of what was revealed for it at DC FanDome. Fans and members of the film industry alike have already made it clear that the movie is what they were hoping for from the first ‘Suicide Squad‘ movie. Many fans were worried that Gunn going to work on a DCEU project would mean that he was not really going to be involved with the MCU any longer. Fans also believed that his going to work on one of their projects would create bad blood between Gunn and the people at Marvel Studios. This turns out not to have even been close to the case.

As it turns out, it is only really the fans who have contempt for one another when it comes to the whole Marvel vs. DC debate. Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, even went and paid Gunn a visit on the set of ‘The Suicide Squad’ to see how things were going and the two were noted as being very friendly with one another on set. In a further show of support between content creators, and to show that there is really no bad blood at all between the two groups, Gunn has even recently invited DC filmmakers to visit the set for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ when they start filming. This just goes to show that a lot of what fans believe about the industry at this point is just all in their heads. There is no real reason for anyone to think that the two shared universes are at war with one another or anything like that.