Meanwhile, Thor: Love and Thunder is about to domestically pass the $333-$336 million likes of Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Joker, Aquaman and Spider-Man 3. Removing those two key territories, Doctor Strange 2 earned 77% more domestically and 109% more than Doctor Strange. Otherwise, it likely would have passed Captain Marvel and Spider-Man: Far from Home ($1.13 billion). It has earned $955 million worldwide, becoming Marvel’s third biggest no Iron Man/no Spider-Man flick behind only Captain Marvel ($1.128 billion) and Black Panther ($1.346 billion). 2, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Iron Man 3 and Captain America: Civil War.
The so-called disappointments that were actually huge hits:ĭoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has earned $411 million domestic, more than Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Moreover, with likely Oscar nominations on the way, Elvis’s success seemed to convince Discovery’s David Zaslov that Warner Bros.’ theatrical slate isn’t just about DC Films.Ĭhadwick Boseman in 'Black Panther,' Brie Larson in 'Captain Marvel,' Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong in 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' and Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in 'Thor: Love and Thunder.' Walt Disney and Marvel Strong reviews (including some pans out of Cannes that still made it seem like a must-see) and a terrific trailer playing in front of almost every theatrical showing of Top Gun: Maverick (thus selling itself to the older, irregular moviegoers WB was chasing) did the trick.
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In a world where marquee characters are butts-in-seats movie stars, Elvis Presley was up there (relatively speaking) with Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, Doctor Stephen Strange and Gru. Live-action musicals and/or musically inclined melodramas were, in pre-Covid times, among the safer theatrical sub-genres, as we saw with Pitch Perfect 2, La La Land, The Greatest Showman and A Star Is Born. They’ve been doing it (at least) since Magic Mike in 2012, along with (among others) Gravity, American Sniper, It, Crazy Rich Asians, Joker and Dune.
is the best in the business at turning less-conventional biggies into genuine theatrical hits. The $85 million Austin Butler/Tom Hanks flick has earned $270 million worldwide, second among musical biopics only to Bohemian Rhapsody ($905 million) but above the likes of Walk the Line, Rocketman and Straight Outta Compton. It is now Baz Luhrmann’s biggest North American earner ever. The least surprising surprise hit of the summer:Įlvis has just passed the unadjusted $144.8 million domestic gross of The Great Gatsby. But in the summer of 2022, it opened with $51 million and flamed out with $118 million domestic and $226 million worldwide.Īustin Butler and Tom Hanks in 'Elvis' Warner Bros. In a world where any big-scale animated film was an automatic event, Lightyear would have performed just fine. The movie was a visually dazzling and surprisingly melancholy critique of nostalgia and arrested development among older adults. After two years of inclusive, original and/or ambitious titles like Soul, Luca and Turning Red going straight to Disney+, there was something grimly cynical about Lightyear, a stand-alone, Chris Evans-starring Buzz Lightyear movie getting the preferred release treatment. Lightyear was the first Pixar movie to get a full-blown, uninterrupted ( Onward opened theatrically just a week before the world shut down in March of 2020) global theatrical release since Toy Story 4. The biggest box office bomb of the summer: Directed by Angus MacLane (co-director “Finding Dory”) and produced by Galyn Susman (“Toy Story That Time Forgot”), the sci-fi action-adventure releases on June 17, 2022. A hidden grab bag of gizmos in a cute kitty package, Sox is Buzz’s go-to friend and sidekick. But Buzz can’t do it alone-he shares space with a dutiful robot companion cat called Sox (voice of Peter Sohn). HERO’S BEST FRIEND - Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” is an all-new, original feature film that presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans)-the hero who inspired the toy-following the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure.
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