From Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks to Tomorrowland and Will Smith, here are the actors, filmmakers, and studios with reason to celebrate for the first half of the year — and others who may wish it was over already.
Pratt/Universal; Clooney/Disney; Smith/Warner Bros.; Piven/Warner Bros.; Johnson/Universal; Walker and Diesel/Universal; "Inside Out"/Disney-Pixar; "Pitch Perfect 2"/Universal; Theron/Warner Bros.
In 2014, movie ticket sales dropped to a 25-year low, but in the first half of 2015, Hollywood has rebounded with a vengeance.
The year began with American Sniper and Fifty Shades of Grey setting all-time domestic box office records for January and February respectively. By May, two more movies — Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron — became the fourth- and fifth-highest-grossing films ever in the world. And in June, Jurassic World broke the all-time domestic opening weekend record, cracked the global box office all-time top 10, and became one of just five films ever to make over $500 million domestically.
With such a deep bench of massive hits, it is no surprise that overall, domestic box office grosses are up a robust 6.3% from the first half of 2014. Total domestic ticket sales are at their highest since 2009, and second highest since 2004. With several highly anticipated films still to come this year — including Minions, Spectre, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens — 2015 has the potential to be Hollywood's biggest year in a decade.
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But even with so much good news thus far in 2015, the movie industry still endured some slips, flops, and worrisome chronic problems endemic to feature filmmaking in the 2010s. Here is a midyear look at who has good reason to be celebrating this year in movies, and who has good reason to wish it was already over.
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