Three Cheers for Diversity at the Multiplex
Bulwark Goes to HollywoodThree Cheers for Diversity at the MultiplexPlus: A big assignment!Sonny BunchJun 26, 202611Share(Photo by Kate Augustine for The Bulwark)I WAS HAPPY TO JOIN the Ankler’s Sean McNulty this week for his Monday Morning Quarterbacking of the weekend box office. Because this is an exceptionally exciting time at our nation’s movie theaters.It’s not just that the box office is tracking for its best year since the one-two punch of the pandemic’s theater closures and the strikes that shut down Hollywood. It’s that it has been years—maybe a decade or more—since it felt like we had such a diversity of films racking up huge numbers at the box office.
- ▪Bulwark Goes to HollywoodThree Cheers for Diversity at the MultiplexPlus: A big assignment!Sonny BunchJun 26, 202611Share(Photo by Kate Augustine for The Bulwark)I WAS HAPPY TO JOIN the Ankler’s Sean McNulty this week for his Monday Morning
- ▪Because this is an exceptionally exciting time at our nation’s movie theaters.It’s not just that the box office is tracking for its best year since the one-two punch of the pandemic’s theater closures and the strikes that shut down Hollywoo
- ▪It’s that it has been years—maybe a decade or more—since it felt like we had such a diversity of films racking up huge numbers at the box office.
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Bulwark Goes to HollywoodThree Cheers for Diversity at the MultiplexPlus: A big assignment!Sonny BunchJun 26, 202611Share(Photo by Kate Augustine for The Bulwark)I WAS HAPPY TO JOIN the Ankler’s Sean McNulty this week for his Monday Morning Quarterbacking of the weekend box office. Actually, I wasn’t happy: I was thrilled. Because this is an exceptionally exciting time at our nation’s movie theaters.It’s not just that the box office is tracking for its best year since the one-two punch of the pandemic’s theater closures and the strikes that shut down Hollywood. It’s that it has been years—maybe a decade or more—since it felt like we had such a diversity of films racking up huge numbers at the box office.
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