The era of cinema was behind dark skies in the pandemic era and Hollywood, like any other cinema, could not raise much revenue. However, it gave a little when movies like ‘Spiderman-No Way Home’, ‘No Time To Die’ among a few others succeeded in drawing some crowds to theaters. But it was when 2022 bombed theaters with the highest-grossing cinema like “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis,”, “Ticket to Paradise”, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and in the end, 2022 gave a special kick to Hollywood with James Cameron’s ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water”.
However, where 2022 got its fair share of hits, it also became gloomy with some flops. Disney’s “Lightyear” and “Strange World” are two of them. Nevertheless, the Hollywood box office has collected $7.4 billion so far in 2022, according to Comscore.
How Hollywood studios performed in 2022
Disney
Highs: “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ($955 million), “Thor: Love and Thunder” ($760 million) “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” ($800 million and counting), “Avatar: The Way of Water” ($955 million and counting)
Lows: “Death on the Nile” ($137 million), “Lightyear” ($226 million), “Amsterdam” ($31 million), “Strange World” ($54 million)
Paramount
Highs: “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.488 billion), “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” ($402 million), “Smile” ($216 million), “The Lost City” ($190 million), “Scream” ($140 million), “Jackass Forever” ($80 million)
Lows: “Babylon” ($5.3 million and counting)
Sony
Highs: “Uncharted” ($401 million), “Bullet Train” ($293 million), “Where the Crawdads Sing” ($140 million), “The Woman King” ($92 million)
Lows: “Morbius” ($167 million), “Father Stu” ($21 million), “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” ($87 million), “Devotion” ($17 million), “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” ($9.5 million)
Universal
Highs: “Jurassic World Dominion” ($1.001 billion), “Minions: The Rise of Gru” ($939 million), “The Black Phone” ($161 million), “Ticket to Paradise” ($165 million), “Halloween Ends” ($104 million), “Nope” ($171 million)
Lows: “The 355” ($27 million), “The Northman” ($69 million), “Bros” ($14 million), “Easter Sunday” ($13 million), “She Said” ($10 million), “The Fabelmans” ($10.5 million)
Warner Bros
Highs: “The Batman” ($770 million), “Elvis” ($286 million), “Don’t Worry Darling” ($86 million), “DC League of Super-Pets” ($220 million)
Lows: “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” ($405 million), “Black Adam” ($389 million)
