![]() If anything, there could be a fall-off in 2023īecause the roster doesn’t look as imposing. There was a lot of major firepower in theaters this year and the best ![]() This year had plenty of meaningful titles: a new Batman, a new Thor, a new Doctor Strange, a new Black Panther, a Minions sequel, the conclusion to the Jurassic World trilogy, and long-awaited follow-ups to Top Gun and Avatar. Many fewer theaters and audience tastes were different. Things would collapse all the way back to the mid-1980s. That’s not applying any sort of inflation adjustment. Last time the total annual domestic box office was that low? 1999…and I’ll use the higher number, which places 2022 at $7.5B. Significant increase in ticket sales over 2021 (taken as a whole).Īlthough the year isn’t quite over, it’s possible to extrapolate theįinal number (grosses for the final ten days will be dominated by Avatar: The Way of Water)Īnd should come in somewhere between $250M and $500M for the period. But,ĭespite the strong October-November-December, the year’s total was anĪnemic $4.5B. Something resembling normalcy descended during the fourth quarter and the massive crowds attending Spider-Man: No Way HomeĬemented the realization that multiplexes were past the pandemic. Theaters mostly returned to life around Memorial Day with the release ofĪ Quiet Place Part II. With many theaters shuttered during 2020 (and those that operatedīeing poorly attended), the industry eked out a $2.1B total. ![]() Was $11.4B, continuing a run of >$10B returns that had lasted sinceĢ009. The total domestic box office gross in 2019 Out there but you have to look hard to find them (they often go during Simply “go to the movies” has shrunk to an infinitesimal number. Release without seemingly recognizing that the number of people who To figure out the balance between a theatrical release and a streaming Of Hollywood’s releases (including pretty much everything distributedīy Disney), dampening worldwide grosses. And, overseas, China has shut its doors to about 80% The superhero boom, while not going bust, is showing To be the ones accruing decent amounts at the box office. Unsurprisingly, movies with “blockbuster” status tend Theater is worth the negatives or whether it would beīetter/cheaper/more convenient to wait 45 days for it to becomeĪvailable on a streaming channel. But there are otherįorces at work, chief of which is whether the experience of sitting in a To see a movie based on a fear of becoming sick. Pandemic happened and everything was accelerated. Viewer preferences were changing back in 2019. For anyone paying attention, it shouldn’t be a Was supposed to be the year of the Great Rebound for Hollywood. The following is republication of articles originally posted to the ReelViews Patreon site during late December 2022.
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