HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (TEGNA) — Hollywood's summer movie season is all but finished. “Top Gun Maverick” is the latest would-be blockbuster to be rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Paramount Pictures on Thursday announced that “Top Gun Maverick" will now open Dec. 23 instead of June 24.
“Top Gun Maverick" follows an exodus of the big-budget spectacles that annually land in theaters in summertime. Most of the season's top movies have in the last week have departed the summer, including “Wonder Woman 1984," “Black Widow" and “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.”
Last year, summer ticket sales accounted for $4.3 billion in U.S. and Canadian theaters.
