Their workforce is on strike, linear TV is in dire trouble and their streaming operations have ground to an absolute halt in regard to customer and revenue growth. But get ready for the major media conglomerates to blather on about the health and vitality of theatrical movie distribution during their upcoming quarterly earnings reports.
In what was, programming-wise, as perfectly planned an execution as you could ask of Hollywood, two very complimentary titles, Warner Bros. Pictures’ Barbie and Universal Pictures’ Oppenheimer, are being projected to have combined for nearly $230 million at theaters in the U.S. and Canada over the weekend.
