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Hollywood in 2023: Tom Cruise and Timothée Chalamet; Barbie and Ken film; Indiana Jones and Fast & Furious end; more horror movies

  • After the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic and the growth of streaming services, the cinema business is still struggling to regain audiences
  • 2023 will see famous franchises finish, more horror films, celebrity documentaries, and Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken

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Hollywood’s output in 2023 includes the Barbie movie, with Margot Robbie (above) in the title role, as well as more from Tom Cruise and Timothée Chalamet. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures/TNS
James Mottram

As 2023 gets under way, it’s time to dust off the crystal ball and consider what will happen in the film business. After a strange couple of pandemic-hit years, audiences have gradually started to come back to cinemas.

All eyes will be on how Hollywood copes in this unique time. What’s in store for audiences in the months ahead? Here are what we think will be the trends and talking points in cinema for the coming year.

1. Box office struggles continue

Can cinema be saved? It’s been the perennial question since the pandemic, and while films like Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick have done serious business, admissions are still down.

Aside from a smattering of coming Marvel movies, the next Mission Impossible and Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer, 2023 doesn’t even have an obvious box office champ in waiting.

Perhaps more worrying, though, are the recent returns on prestige productions such as Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans and Harvey Weinstein drama She Said – both esteemed projects that flopped over the winter.

Getting audiences back into seeing upscale, award-worthy fare – rather than simply surfing through streaming sites from the comfort of their sofas – looks to be an uphill battle.

2. Celebrity docs tell all

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