5th April
The Super Mario Bros Movie
Air
7th April
Godland
The Pope’s Exorcist
Ride On
14th April
Renfield
Cairo Conspiracy
One Fine Morning
Suzume
Loving Highsmith
21st April
Evil Dead Rise
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Missing
Pacifiction
The Three Musketeers
28th April
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Polite Society
Rodeo
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Suzume, How To Blow Up A Pipeline + Polite Society for me.
Evil Dead Rise got some decent buzz at SXSW…saw the trailer before JW 4 and looked fairly generic.
Godland was showing in Iceland when I was there last week and would’ve been the perfect place to watch, but just didn’t have time.
This is Paddington 4, by my reckoning. Paddington 3 was the Queen’s death.
Looking at the ostendible ‘big-hitters’ from May-August this year
Should do well: Mission Impossible 7, GOTG3, Fast X, Barbie
Genuinely no idea: Oppenheimer, Across the Spider-Verse, The Flash, The Little Mermaid
Probably doing badly: Indiana Jones 5, Elemental, Transformers
May as well have set fire to a pile of money: Blue Beetle, Haunted Mansion
Spider-verse is going to make a shit tonne of money. It’s properly the only super hero film that people are hyped for.
Online hype doesn’t count for a whole lot. Into the Spider-Verse did well, but it didn’t make anything like as much as other Spider-Man films (the Amazing Spider-Man films which nobody likes made twice as much) or other animated films. Hopefully this one will do as well or almost as well as Into the Spider-Verse but it’s hard to know given the crowded schedule and no idea how much of the audience has been conditioned to just watch stuff at home now
