Inflation-adjusted, this was the worst summer for movies at the box office since 1981. It is in no small part due to studio tentpoles, which cinemas typically rely on for their largest revenue streams, failing to make the kind of impact that they have in recent years. Only two weeks of this summer saw box office grosses north of $300 million — the premieres of Lilo & Stitch and Superman — a feat that theaters accomplished for nine weekends in the summer of 2019. Of the 26 movies that made more than $20 million this summer, 20 of them were franchise movies. However, some of those movies still significantly underperformed their predecessors or failed to build a bigger audience.
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