So you would think that this thing would be settled relatively in the near term. But again, there’s so much emotion involved in these things. And when emotion clashes with the real world, it’s very hard to make concrete predictions. But for what it’s worth, and I’m not at the bargaining table, I think this thing will settle in the not too distant future. In terms of how it affects 2024, I mean, I’ve said this consistently, it depends when it settles. So if it doesn’t settle until six months from now, yes, we’re going to have an issue in ’24, because a lot of the films that are on our slate for the second half of ’24 haven’t finished filming. If it settles in the next couple months by Thanksgiving, I’ll feel a lot better about it. That’s beyond our control and very hard to predict.
But one of the things that turns out to have been I think a good break for us is the fact that Dune moved to the first quarter of ’24. And as we said during our comments, Dune One was filmed 40% with IMAX cameras. This one is a 100% with IMAX cameras. There have been some really good additions to the cast, including Austin Butler. People have seen the film, have said really good things about it. So that’s a really nice anchor for us to have in the first quarter. And then, as you go through the first half of the year, there are also a number of, I think films that’ll do very well, including another Fury Road, Godzilla Vs. Kong, another Apple movie in the first half of the year and a bunch of other things. So for the first half, it looks pretty solid.
For the second half if the set strike settles in the not too distant future, there’s a lot of things going on there. But again, I have to go back and you even asked this as part of your question, the local language, there are some very promising things rumored to be coming out Chinese New Year. There’s alternative content like concerts, much more streaming product coming on board. So I don’t want to answer your question quite specifically because we’re in the middle of the strike, but there’s a lot in play there where I think if things fall in the right way, 2024 certainly can be a year of growth for us. The other thing I want to say, it’s sort of obvious, but we don’t say it, maybe because it’s too obvious, is an exhibitor who programs a multiplex needs lots of movies to program that multiplex.
And if you look at IMAX this year where we’re running consistent with our best year ever 2019 and exhibition is pretty far behind that, it’s because there have been enough blockbuster really good films. So if the end of the second half of the year has kind of hurt a little bit by the strike, in general, all IMAX needs is one blockbuster or one concert or one streaming film in that period. So one thing I’ll certainly say is I feel better about our growth prospects than exhibitions’ growth prospects, irrespective of when the strike settles.
Operator: Now, next question coming from the line of James Goss with Barrington Research. James Goss, your line is open.
Operator: All right. And I’m showing no further questions in the queue at this time. I’ll turn the call back over to Mr. Richard Gelfond for any closing remarks.
Richard Gelfond : Thank you, operator. I just have a few things to say to our shareholder base and thank you for being supportive all through these years, in the ups and downs. But one thing is that’s management’s credibility is based on, is delivering what they say they’re going to deliver. And I’ve got to say, if you look back even over the pandemic and the last couple of years and our guidance this year, there’s been a lot of consensus people saying streaming is going to last forever. And then the theatrical experience is dead. And then bankruptcies are going to destroy the industry. And IMAX is an exhibitor, look at them and their results. And we’ve consistently fought back on those false narratives and every one of them that we’ve said has proven to come true and they just haven’t proven to come true in some theoretical abstract way.
