Despite all the success stories that are currently thanks Avatar-The Way of Water dominating the headlines, 2022 was an extremely difficult year for the cinema industry. The corona pandemic (and the restrictions on public life associated with it) repeatedly slowed down business with Hollywood blockbusters, animated films, art house productions and the like. In addition, large and small studios had to repeatedly postpone numerous projects due to long breaks in shooting. Nevertheless, above all, arrive Disney numerous big international hits.
Disney is the undisputed number 1 at the box office
Unsurprisingly, in 2022, Disney is still the undisputed number 1 at the worldwide box office. Although another studio was able to keep up in the last twelve months, in the end it confirmed Mickey Mouse Corporation its supremacy on the big screens around the world and ensured a box office result of $4.9 billion.
The purchase of Fox has been paying off since Avatar – The Way of Water hit theaters at the latest. The new work of Filmmaker James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator 2, Titanic) is currently on track to become one of the highest grossing films of all time. But the superhero films of the MCU, above all Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, again made sure that the box office was full.
thanks to the minions and Jurassic World: A New Age landed competitor universel with $3.9 billion On place 2. Paramount Pictures was among other things Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and the horror film and TikTok phenomenon Smile and landed thanks Top Gun: Maverick an over hit. At Warner, the DC superhero Black Adam with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was particularly disappointing.
Despite the flop, Disney is expanding its supremacy with Avatar and Marvel
Thanks to future-oriented acquisitions in the past Disney hasn’t relied solely on his animation and family films for a long time. This impressively illustrates a huge flop that the company had to put up with (and quickly transfer to Disney Plus) despite all the successes at the box office. The disastrous box office result of Strange World, this year’s work by the Disney animation studioscould not harm the positive overall result.
In addition to the numerous new productions of phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avatar-The Way of Water ensure high visitor numbers and corresponding sales well into the cinema year 2023. Although the “Star Wars” brand is currently idle in terms of cinema films, as in recent years Disney still be the hottest contender for the throne of the international box office.
Source: deadline
