Remember When Hollywood’s Big Comeback Hinged on Russell Crowe and ‘New Mutants’?

Remember When Hollywood’s Big Comeback Hinged on Russell Crowe and ‘New Mutants’?

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In March 2020, the movie theaters stopped. For the first time in decades, American movie theaters were shut down. Only the COVID-19 pandemic could grind everything to a halt and turn the cinematic world upside down. Throughout summer 2020, whispers kept emerging over when and what new theatrical releases would relaunch the moviegoing landscape. Surely these titles would soon arrive and ensure Bloodshot wasn’t the very last new movie to grace multiplexes. As a COVID vaccine was still months away and the two biggest moviegoing markets (New York City and Los Angeles) were keeping theaters closed, plans to “resume” “normal” moviegoing with a mid-July 2020 launch of