‘We finally have an entire film dedicated to her’
Scarlett Johansson-led film arrives more than a year later than planned in an evolving cinematic market
Is it safe? Are we back to normal yet? Can we take down the sandbags and discontinue the nightly blackout?
It is nearly a year since blockbuster cinema made its first nervous steps back into the enormoplex. Remember when Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was set to save the medium? That didn’t quite happen. Wonder Woman 1984 later failed to restart the machine at Christmas.
Cinemas were open and thriving in China, but Europe and America was still coughing through a second or third wave. Bad Boys For Life, the highest-grossing film in the US last year, was released before the pandemic set in. No title that premiered after March 6th secured a top-10 spot in the US chart for takings in 2020.
The current reopening feels different. Fast and Furious 9 has already made back