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Recent reports paint a bleak picture. Nearly a third of all industry workers have disappeared over the past five years—a figure mirroring the exact decline in ticket sales during the same period. Hollywood is experiencing its worst years in memory, with 2025 likely to be remembered as a particularly dismal chapter in recent cinematic history. At the time of recording, only two films managed to cross the billion-dollar mark: Lilo and Stitch and Minecraft. Neither will be remembered as cinematic milestones.