![]() ![]() It’s the first big-deal theatrical release of summer 2022 that’s unquestionably aimed at women, which makes it a demographically specific event film. Nonetheless, Where the Crawdads Sing (barely) works and will presumably play well to those who have enjoyed the novel. I may have to eat my words tomorrow morning. ![]() ![]() Turning Red couldn’t have performed much worse than Lightyear. Everything Everywhere All at Once was a sleeper smash ($67 million domestic) both because of Asian audiences and because of audiences of all demos who relished a high-quality mother/daughter fantasy melodrama that happened to star Michelle Yeoh. However, The Lost City has earned $190 million worldwide, while Lady Gaga’s House of Gucci earned $155 million global as every other studio programmer was dying in late 2021. The “next” Lucy” or the “next Trainwreck” would likely end up on Netflix or Peacock. It doesn’t help that many of the bigger female-led hits (like almost anything that isn’t a YA fantasy flick, horror movie or a DC/Marvel superhero film) is now considered “not worthy of theatrical” in the eyes of both the studios and the audiences. G_00924_RC Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani in Ridley Scott’s HOUSE OF GUCCI A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film Photo credit: Fabio Lovino © 2021 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. Since then, partially because studios saw the value of diversifying blockbusters, we have the semi-regular likes of (among others) The Fault in Our Stars in 2014, Pitch Perfect 2 in 2015, Ghostbusters in 2016, Wonder Woman in 2017, Mamma Mia 2 in 2018 and so forth. Even the toons were Monsters University and Despicable Me 2 (a rom-com that damseled its female co-star), while The Mortal Instruments crawled into theaters in mid-August. It hasn’t been this bad since the summer of 2013 when Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy’s The Heat was the only game in town alongside Iron Man 3, Star Trek into Darkness, Fast and Furious 6, Man of Steel, The Lone Ranger and White House Down. Where the Crawdads Sing is "it” for big female-fronted flicks. ![]() Moreover, it’s shocking just how male-driven the cinemas became this summer. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic) FilmMagic NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 23: (L-R) Actresses Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy attend "The Heat" premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Jin New York City. ![]()
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