But the thing is, for this specific franchise, these are almost about as good as they could've expected pre-pandemic. One could even make the case that GvK did better opening now than if it had opened in a healthy time last year, as it would've been more easily forgotten.Its a wierd time. Bad Boys for life was the #1 movie last year domestically. Yeah people are hungry for the movie experience but until we get back to pre-pandemic numbers there is nothing but reading the tea leaves.
GvK was truly the first big blockbuster to be released in the "vaccine rollout phase" of the pandemic and it has done pretty decently. I think by Summer, movie theaters will be at much increased capacity than for GvK and we'll be able to see where the box office stands once movies like F9, Black Widow, Jurassic World 3, etc come out.