Indiana Jones says goodbye to all of you

On April 19 of last year, a spectacular earthquake hit the film industry.

The shock was of such a caliber that its echoes will mark the sector in 2023 and 2024. That day Netflix announced that for the first time in its history not only was it not gaining subscribers, but it had also lost 200,000 and that in the second half of 2022 they would abandon his service, in total, two million customers (finally, only one million left).

That day, the platform sank on the stock market.

And despite a good end to the year, its shares are still at half the price they were at the end of 2022. But, above all, that day the dreams of hundreds of directors who had bet on this platform, and in general the other

they would produce their films.

The cuts came, the cancellation of projects and, abruptly, the much-vaunted paradigm shift.

There will no longer be a radical mutation, but rather a difficult fit between event films for movie theaters and titles that are popular on the Internet.

In the middle, and more in Spain, auteur cinema will suffer, abandoned to its fate by all.

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As much as in 2023 we will witness Harrison Ford's farewell to the Indiana Jones character (and it does not seem easy for him to return to the big screen with another face), Víctor Erice's return to commercial cinema with

Already in a Cannes brimming with big names, uncertainty about the future of platforms, some of which will eat others or merge with each other, has sickened the industry.

And although the world box office grew 12% last year (still far from the pre-pandemic figures, which could finally be equaled this season), in Spain the 40% lower collections than in 2019 indicate that there will be fewer movie purchases author (because his public has not returned to the theaters) and less risky financial bets for artistic works.

The exceptional Spanish harvest of 2022 will not have an easy extension this year, although there will always be interesting films.

Here are a good handful.

blockbusters

Ethan Hunt's team, in 'Mission Impossible: Death Sentence, Part 1'

DC and Marvel continue to pull world cinema, but while the second maintains its rate of releases (and thus

or

, the first still has to put order James Gunn, the new creative head of the studio, which in 2023 will finally release, after years of delay,

(with Maribel Verdú as mother of the superhero), in addition to

and

with its first Latino protagonist.

Halle Bailey in 'The Little Mermaid'.

In animation, Pixar will try to raise its head with

and one of the great surprises of recent years will have a continuation:

Other films called to attract a large audience will be

(in the flesh, and with Javier Bardem as King Triton),

(the sun never sets on the empire Cruise).

And, of course, at the end of June, Harrison Ford, at the age of 80, says goodbye to the most famous archaeologist with

by James Mangold.

There are more doubts about the tour of the musical

with Timothée Chalamet giving life to Willy Wonka as a young man, when he meets the Oompa-Loompas, and with songs from The Divine Comedy.

Timothée Chalamet in 'Wonka'

Spain

After the exceptional 2022, a stream of champagne that cheered the entire industry after the stopper that was holding it back, the covid, blew up, a more measured 2023 arrives.

Although there will be interesting bets.

At Sundance, which starts in two weeks,

by Patricia Ortega, will premiere

a comedy with Kiti Mánver as a grandmother who had not enjoyed an orgasm for decades.

A handful of directors will premiere their second feature, after a first quality work: Lucía Alemany

Marta Díaz

Celia Rico

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

and Carlota Pereda

Newcomers called to make noise are Eva Hache with

Pablo Maqueda (his first fiction feature in commercial theaters) with

and above all Mario Casas, who directs

with his own script and with his brother Óscar as the protagonist.

Arantxa Echevarría, during the filming of 'Chinas'

Among the veterans will premiere Álex Montoya

adaptation of the comic by Paco Roca), Víctor García León (the comedy

Patxi Amezcua (the

Daniel Calparsoro (the action film

F. Javier Gutiérrez

Paco Plaza (who will extend his success in terror with

Belén Macías

and two creators with films that smell like festivals: Elena Trapé and her

and Arantxa Echevarría, with another social immersion:

In Spain, three titles created to lead the box office are

animation directed by Juan Jesús García Galocha;

, by Javier Fesser (which premieres the continuation of

at the same time that Hollywood launches the

and

by Santiago Segura, a sure value in theaters.

First image of 'Campeonex'.

Finally, the heavyweights of auteur cinema.

After many years without making a film, Jaime Chávarri premieres

Manuel Martín Cuenca is already working on the post-production of

as is Fernando Trueba, who has directed

with Matt Dillon and Aida Folch.

Benito Zambrano delves into

daily drama of emigration that lives on Mount Gurugú in El Salto.

And Carlos Saura launches, before receiving the Goya de Honor, the documentary on painting

.

Víctor Erice, between Jose Coronado and Manolo Solo on the set of 'Cerrar los ojos'.

Besides, a capital trio.

In Cannes Pedro Almodóvar will screen his medium -length film

western ;

Juan Antonio Bayona is Netflix's bet for the autumn festivals with

and its reconstruction of the plane crash in the Andes, of which half a century has now passed.

And Víctor Erice may also be at Cannes with

a nostalgic drama about the friendship between a veteran director and his lead actor, in a return longed for by world cinephiles for three decades.

The tremendous Cannes that is coming

Ben Whishaw, in an image from 'Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie'.

The whole moviegoing world is crazy.

The Cannes festival, which will start on May 16, has an exacerbated list of possible participants.

The latest Palme d'Or,

by Ruben Östlund, which will hit theaters in February, is still awaiting its premiere in Spain. The machinery of rumors about the cinema on La Croisette is already at full capacity.

Among those noted, Ken Loach

Kiril Serebrennikov

Sofia Coppola

, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (

Rose Glass

Luca Guadagnino

Alexander Payne

Matteo Garrone

Todd Haynes

Lone Scherfig

Roman Polanski

Nanni Moretti (

, Steve McQueen

Pawel Pawlikowski

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Aki Kaurismäki

and the posthumous film by Jean-Luc Godard

These are the irrefutable names, because the list expands much more.

Promotional image of 'El conde', by Pablo Larraín.

There are other films with power for which the festivals will stick, and their release dates indicate them for the 2024 Oscars. Like

directed and starring Bradley Cooper giving life to Leonard Bernstein;

Ari Aster's new horror work;

which will now mean the withdrawal, after several feints, of Hayao Miyazaki;

(shot in Spain) and

both by Wes Anderson;

Brandon Cronenberg's

by Lisandro Alonso;

by Yorgos Lanthimos;

Alex Garland's

by Pablo Larraín, about a vampire Pinochet, played by Alfredo Castro, who has lived for 250 years;

David Fincher's

by Marco Bellocchio (tireless at 83, with his highly ideological films);

which chronicles the last days of Jesus Christ;

about the scientist who developed the first atomic bombs;

by Martin Scorsese, which is still looking for its place for release, or

a satire on the painter, the work of Quentin Dupieux.

And we'll see if it ends in this 2023 Ridley Scott his

biography of the French emperor played by Joaquin Phoenix.

Christopher Nolan, on the set of 'Oppenheimer'.

Among the films that are much talked about and expected are Taika Waititi's soccer comedy

;

by Greta Gerwig, a twist on the world of the mythical doll, with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling;

by Elizabeth Banks, inspired by the true story of a black bear who snorted 40 kilos of cocaine in an American national park that had been parachuted by a fleeing drug dealer, and

in which Nicholas Hoult plays a poor man who yearns for a better life, but who can't get away from his boss: he is Count Dracula's servant, played by Nicolas Cage.

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in 'Barbie'.

The Oscars this season

Before March 12, the day the 95th Oscar Awards gala will be held, many of the favorites for the Hollywood awards will premiere in Spain.

Like

Park Chan-wook's

thriller

drama about two friends—Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson fighting for statuettes—by Martin McDonagh;

with a morbidly obese English teacher Brendan Fraser;

by Todd Field, in which Cate Blanchett plays a prestigious conductor at the peak of her career;

the French

by Alice Diop;

by Sarah Polley, which delves into sexual abuse in a Mennonite community (and which has the best female cast of the season), and

which also shows a true event, the lynching and murder of the boy Emmett Louis Till in 1955, crime that shocked the United States.

In addition, two directors who travel to their teenage memories: Steven Spielberg does so in

and Sam Mendes recalls those years in

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, in 'The Banshees of Inisherin', by Martin McDonagh