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By George Robbins

There are plenty of reasons this year alone as to why things just haven’t managed to go well for the film industry. In all honesty, things have been pretty bleak for just about every business venture out there since the pandemic began. There have been nothing but cautious people leaving their homes every day since the pandemic began and it has greatly affected businesses everywhere. What we have established by now is the fact that people are most definitely wary of public places and most definitely they are wary of places like movie theaters. There has been no way for theaters to make money since the pandemic began and some are now closing again for the foreseeable future.

Movie theaters spent a lot of their time and money trying to get people to come back to them, but unfortunately this plan just didn’t end up working out for them. In fact, when the movie ‘Tenet’ ended up releasing back at the end of August/beginning of September, the movie started off pretty well all things considered. Very quickly though, this all started going downhill and the movie was bringing in less and less money to the box office every single week. By the third weekend alone, the movie only brought in a total of $4.7 million for the domestic box office and this trend only continued to the point that theaters made their decision to shut down. Before this decision came something else entirely which was the fact that most movies were pushed out of this year’s line-up.

Unfortunately, with things the way that they are with movie theaters in general at the moment, many studios have pulled their upcoming films from the rest of this year’s line-up. This is why there are almost no films left for us to really see released this year which doesn’t really matter all that much anyway. Nobody is actually taking the initiative to go out and go to the movies during this time-frame and that is why things are the way they are. With theaters essentially closed, or closing, there is no telling what will happen with movie releases. There may still be a massive window of time that has to pass before theaters decide to once again open their doors. One company that has been doing their best to adjust to all of this has been Disney.

Disney is now very much recognized as one of the biggest all-encompassing companies that exists in the media world. While much of this comes from their own merits as an entertainment company, the remainder of it all comes from the fact that they now own both Marvel and the Star Wars franchise. The Marvel franchise has easily grown to become this massive worldwide phenomenon where just about every title they put out takes the box office for the year or, at the very least, gets very close to doing so. Unfortunately, they have had to push their Marvel releases for this year and it has been a huge impact; so much so that none of their films will hold a place near the top of the box office. At least this is not the case when it comes to superhero films.

When it comes to the top superhero box office film for the year, no one would have ever expected the movie ‘Sonic the Hedgehog‘ to take that spot. While the movie was overall not too bad, the general consensus was that it still wasn’t that great of a movie. That being said the movie managed to gross a couple hundred million dollars, so it definitely had something going for it. Unfortunately, with Marvel having all of its hero films moved out of this year, Sonic will be the first superhero film to dominate a yearly box office. This is obviously not a trend we would be seeing without the help of the pandemic, but it is interesting nonetheless. This will probably be the one and only time that the people responsible for the Sonic movie will be able to say that they beat Marvel Studios.