With the world’s cinema still clawing its ways back from the pandemic the industry is only just starting to get back to where it was in terms of box office earnings yet despite that only three films broke the magic one billion mark and one of them is still going strong with the real possibility that it could break the $2b mark. That film is of course Avatar the Way of Water ensuring that we will get at least one if not two more sequels
We have focussed on the mainstream Hollywood films but there are 5 films which would be in the Top Twenty with the biggest earning being Water Gate Bridge earing $626m. But those films aside here are the biggest box office earners of 2022.
Avatar The Way of Water $1.516b….and counting!
Top Gun Maverick $1.488b
Jurassic World Dominion $1.001b
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness $955m
Minions The Rise of Gru $939m
Wakanda Forever $822m
The Batman $770m
Thor Love and Thunder $760m
Fantastic Beasts the Secret of Dumbledore $406m
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 $402m
Uncharted $401m
Black Adam $392m
Elvis $287m
The Bad Guys $250m
Bullet Train $239m
Lightyear $226m
Smile $216m
DC League of Superpets $207m
The Lost City $190m
Nope $171m
Though many of the earning seem impressively huge not all is as it seems. Wakanda Forever earned $550m less than the first film. It was not the only superhero film disappointment with Black Adam barely breaking even and any possible sequel at present seeming unlikely. And whilst Minions continued its successful franchise run Pixar had a very disappointing year with Lightyear performing poorly and Jordan Peele’s third film, ‘Nope’ earned less than his previous two films. It’s the horror film Smile that was the sleeper hit of the year a relatively small budgeted film that stormed the box office – read our review HERE
