Ongoing strikes could kill Hollywood’s momentum after the ‘Barbenheimer’ bump, but 4 industry insiders and analysts are still optimistic about the future of these 5 entertainment companies

• Audiences flocked to movie theaters to see the buzzworthy Barbie and Oppenheimer.
• But the box office’s momentum is in jeopardy as both writers and actors guilds strike. 
• Here’s which entertainment companies will outperform, according to analysts and industry insiders.

The box office is back thanks to a historic weekend from a pair of mid-summer blockbusters, but Hollywood insiders and analysts fear that the movie industry’s momentum may soon stall.

Movie theaters were packed this past weekend for the simultaneous openings of Barbie and Oppenheimer, which crushed even the most optimistic expectations with domestic debuts of $162 million and $82.4 million, respectively, according to estimates from box-office data provider Comscore.