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Hollywood’s Lost Summer Is Beginning to Look Like a Lost Year
- Delays of ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Mulan’ deepen woes
- Movie business’s economics are incompatible with pandemic
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Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season is a bust. And the rest of the year isn’t looking much better.
After months of incrementally delaying the release of big-budget movies, studios are now pulling them off the schedule altogether -- or pushing them well into 2021. That’s put the already-shaky reopening plans of U.S. cinema chains in doubt.