Will these summer blockbusters be hits or more giant bombs?

In Apple’s excellent new show “The Studio,” Seth Rogen plays a fresh-faced Hollywood exec who comes to a startling and demoralizing conclusion.“I love movies,” his character Matt says.“But now I have this fear that my job is to ruin them.”Naive Matt dreams of creating artful and innovative films, which don’t make much money these days, while his corporate overlord demands he put all his focus on a schlocky “Barbie” knock-off about the Kool-Aid man.He’s not unlike Warner Bros.’ real co-chairs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, who’ve churned out admirable flop after flop lately with prestigious collaborators: “Juror No.

2” (Clint Eastwood), “Mickey 17” (Bong Joon-ho) and “The Alto Knights” (Robert De Niro), among other prestige bombs.Things are bad enough that last week their big boss, Warner Bros.Discovery CEO David Zaslav, was reportedly interviewing replacements. But this weekend the pair have finally notched a box-office hit — “A Minecraft Movie,” a piece of dismal video-game mush starring Jack Black.

Their very own “Kool-Aid.”   Still, the duo isn’t in the clear yet.With the summer movie season kicking off next month, everybody is on thin, melting ice. And not only at Warner Bros.Over the next several months, the Disney-owned Marvel Studios will continue its sad quest to pretend we’re still in 2019 by releasing two more MCU flicks: “Thunderbolts” (May 2) and “The Fantastic Four — First Steps” (July 25). For those keeping score at home, that’s No.

36 and 37.Franchise fatigue? More like franchise fatality. Their last attempt, February’s “Captain America: Brave New World,” was a critical and box office disaster — and the Captain is one of their most popular tentpoles. Who the heck are the Thunderbolts? A Google search reveals they are B-team antiheroes, including Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova.

Uh oh.Sounds like “Eternals” to me.“Fantastic Four,” meanwhile, has the distinct advant...