Box office smashes The Dark Knight, Iron Man, the fourth Indiana Jones and Sex and the City fueled this summer’s record-breaking $9.7 billion in ticket sales, according to Entertainment Weekly magazine, but can next summer’s movies live up to this summer’s success?
Not quite, according to the mag. First, highly expected movies like Da Vinci Code prequel Angels & Demons, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek and Night at the Museum sequel open before or on Memorial Day weekend.
Nary a superhero is in sight except for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and a lack of girl’s night movies will leave women at home watching Sex reruns and listening to the Mamma Mia! soundtrack.
Whether or not pushing back movie releases is a bad sign, Variety reports that studios are shuffling around the 2009 schedule.
Star Trek got pushed from this Christmas to May 9, and Jerry Bruckheimer’s action fantasy Prince of Persia moved from June 19 to Memorial Day 2010. Meanwhile a Sandra Bullock rom-com, Dwayne Johnson’s The Tooth Fairy and a Judd Apatow-produced comedy swooped into its place.
Only when next summer rolls around and The Dark Knight relinquishes its reign will we find out how hot the box office will get.
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