By Variety VIP+ staff
Do movie theaters care if you sneak candy?
A roughly 10% drop from last summer at the box office might not seem like much cause for celebration in Hollywood right now. But in context, even a drop can be a good thing.
Consider the state of the domestic box office in the first four months of the year, when few titles managed to become hits. It confirmed the growing chorus of pessimists pointing to signs everywhere from stock market prices to theater closures that movies would never recover from the one-two punch of the pandemic and Hollywood strikes.
Then think back to how bad this summer started, when blockbuster films like “Furiosa” and “The Fall Guy” underperformed in May, sending revenue down nearly 30% year-over-year.
