OMHP on What This Summer Has in Store for Us, Movie Edition

Welcome to One Moore Hollywood Podcast! In this episode, our hosts, Chris Moore, Katie Marpe, and Dennis De Nobile, discuss what summer movies they’re most excited about, what we learned from last summer, and why this will be a defining summer for the industry. 

Let’s dive in. 

Reboots, Sequels, and Prequels

De Nobile hopes people are excited about reboots, sequels, and prequels because that’s the majority of what we’re getting this summer. The good news is that you’ll likely already have an emotional connection to the story or the characters; the bad news is that they probably won’t surprise you with much original storytelling. 

What We’ve Learned

Last summer taught us that people will go to the theater if they want to. Barbenheimer was by far the biggest summer success (and a surprise), raking in a couple of hundred million dollars that first weekend alone. No one thought those two movies, particularly Barbie, would explode like they did. 

As Moore puts it, this summer will define the film and television business in the future, especially for the streamers and theaters. With no pandemic and no strikes, will people go to the theaters this summer, or will they watch movies at home instead? Will there be another surprise hit like Barbie? 

Only time will tell, but if you ask Moore, no movie will have the same crossover demographic as Barbie did. Despite believing that, Moore still harbors a little hope that people will frequent the theaters over the next three months. “Maybe this summer we can remind people that they love going to see movies,” Moore says. 

Marpe and De Nobile are waiting to see what happens, cautiously optimistic and excited about the bigger prequels, sequels, and some of the smaller, more unique films coming down the pike.  As De Nobile suggests, perhaps we will see more movies doing well instead of one big hit this summer. Maybe this summer will be more of a collective success for the industry. 

Movies Out This Summer

While May might not officially be considered summer, we’ll count it and say The Fall Guy kicked off this action-packed summer. Moore is excited for Mad Max prequel Furiosa and Deadpool & Wolverine, which he can’t wait to see in theaters with an audience. 

Hit Man, the straight-to-Netflix action movie De Nobile and Marpe loved so much at Sundance, is out in June. Our hosts are pretty disappointed that one isn’t getting a wide theater run. De Nobile is also excited about The Watchers, one of 14 (!) horror movies out this summer. While Marpe is not generally the biggest horror fan (unlike De Nobile), she is stoked to see A Quiet Place: Day One in theaters. Yorgos Lanthimos’s somewhat mysterious Kinds of Kindness (with much of the Poor Things cast) also comes out in June.

July brings us a rom-com, Fly Me To the Moon, which Marpe greatly anticipates. De Nobile is curious about Twisters, an action/thriller with Glen Powell, also dropping in July. 

Other drops our hosts look forward to include A24’s horror movie MaXXXine and the video-game-based film Borderlands with Cate Blanchett.

Our hosts are also excited about several other Sundance films finally making it to theaters: Dìdi, Thelma, Ghostlight, and Another Kind of Man.

Many exciting releases are coming up, and Moore, De Nobile, and Marpe are all curious to see what direction this summer takes the industry. “So go watch movies…because what you do this summer is going to matter for the future of Hollywood,” Moore says.

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