What the Success of the Barbenheimer Weekend Tells Us About the Movie Industry. Plus, ‘Special Ops: Lioness.’
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The History of Hollywood
I think that these two movies are about things that really matter and that are really like present in our lives. And I think when you go and see a lot of superhero movies, they make gestures towards like how family is important or this is about how like you have to heal trauma by doing this. But they're not. They're about the fucking multiverse and they're about like the infinity stones. The secret to last summer's box office success wasn't Tom Cruise in a movie. It was that movie and everything that went into it that made it special and the moment.
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