July is at a close, and a look back on the month and a look forward at the months ahead gives a mixed portrait of the box office.
The total box office for July came to roughly 1.13 billion, making it the first month to gross over 1 billion since December 2019 and not far behind a typical summer month from before the pandemic.
This should be seen as a positive sign for the box office as a whole, even though the summer came down from its peak much faster than usual, with the last major blockbuster being Thor: Love and Thunder which opened three weekends ago.
While a solid slate continued with Nope last weekend, DC League of Super-Pets this weekend, and Bullet Train next weekend, after that we may not see a film with real hit potential until October.
Following next weekend, we’re looking at perhaps the lowest grossing two
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