Amph The 2022 Box Office Blood Booster

We still have a long way to go to get back to pre-pandemic levels...

 

Doesn’t the new movie also serve as the pilot for a new TV series about the later adventures of the house?

 

No Way Home had the third highest Christmas Day total ever. Considering everything that is going on, that is absolutely incredible. With decent enough legs, it can wind up in the Top 15 domestically easily.

 

I’d think the holiday boost will end on its own before any omicron restrictions are in place.

 

If there was never a COVID pandemic, I wonder how Spider-Man NWH would be doing.

 

1. It’s great on its own merits and would have made $1.3 billion or more absent a pandemic

2. it was just good enough to become a symbol of going back to the movies otherwise it would have performed closer to other recent spider movies.

I’d lean toward 1

 

Like any films like this, it's a perfect storm. Film that had a lot of buzz going into it that is not only getting great reviews but also tremendous WOM. Combined that with a optimal window for releasing both in terms of date + virtually no competition and you have a recipe for a runaway hit.

 

And let’s not forget that magic number of 20 years for nostalgia since the original Spider-Man and the adults who were children / teens 20 years ago wanting to see it again.

I think Spidey being released first will help MOM. Now MOM is a follow up to both WandaVision and Spider-Man.

 

@Jedi_Sith_Smuggler_Droid I agree and if everything goes as we hope in terms of the pandemic, May will be where we really have moved beyond the Omicron Surge or we better have therefore I think there will be even less hesitation to be at the movies. And being a early May release will help too since people will be in up for a movie then but come Memorial Day weekend they will be looking to get out of town much like we saw this past May.

 

2022 interested list...

1. Scream -- interested but probably won't go to theaters
2. Uncharted -- cautious optimistic
3. The Batman -- last trailer looked awesome
4. Morbius -- will see eventually but still need to see Venom 2
5. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore -- curious if this will breathe some life into this tired series. I really hope it does
6. Doctor Stranger in the Multiverse of Madness -- super excited for this
7. Top Gun: Maverick -- really hoping this doesn't disappoint. I want a fun story, just not technical feats of Tom Cruise craziness
8. Jurassic World: Dominion -- I still need to watch Jurassic World 2 even though I heard it was not good
9. Pixar's Lightyear -- looks really good
10. Thor: Love and Thunder -- yes, please
11. Black Adam -- eventually will see this out of curiosity
12. Mission: Impossible 7 -- series usually doesn't disappoint as I've mostly enjoyed the others
13. Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse (Pt 1) -- high expectations for this one
14. DC's The Flash -- only looking forward to this because of Keaton's Batman
15. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever -- looking forward to where they take this story
16. Creed III -- still need to see Creed II
17. Aquaman 2 -- eventually will see this out of curiosity
18. Avatar 2 -- we'll see...
19. Super Mario Bros. The Movie -- sleeper hit of the year? LOL

 

@TiniTinyTony Ironically I have a very similar list but honestly? I will maybe see 3-4 movies at the theaters this upcoming year and that is pushing it. The pandemic really enforce it as a home viewer for all intense and purposes to say nothing of enjoy it more now combined with being a married dad of three young kids. I was trending that way anyway but now I am definitely one that prefers to stay at home and stream it even if it's a movie I really really really excited for. "The Batman" is right now my #1 movie I want to see this year (at least right now) but does that mean I will go to the theater and see it come March? Most likely no especially it does not look like a movie I can take the boys to go see over spring break later in the month. HBO Max as already announced "The Batman" will be available for streaming on April 19th. I can totally wait six weeks to go see it. The only movie I can say we will definitely see in the theater this year (unless the pandemic is still bad) is "Lightyear" since it's a movie all five of us can go see and want to. Perhaps "Super Marios Brothers" since it's supposed to come out around the holidays and that could be a good family Christmas movie. But other then that I think it will not be much. The boys are really getting into MCU movies so perhaps I will take them to go see one of them but I feel bad since my daughter is really old enough for them and again I can wait on everything else. "Top Gun: Maverick" was a movie my childhood friends and I planned to go see together when it was supposed to have come out two years ago as a mini reunion but nobody is interested now in doing that especially it is supposed to come out Memorial Day weekend as almost all of them plan on being out of town whether they live here or not.

I must say I like this year's slate way better then 2021 and am looking forward to seeing a lot of movies this year just again will be streaming almost all of them.

 

@Luke02 I ended up watching 18 new movies in 2021, and I wanted to go to the theater as little as possible as well. I was glad to watch what I could on HBOMax, Netflix, or Disney+ (without paying a premium). Ultimately, I went to the theater to see 7 of them: Raya, Quiet Place 2, Black Widow, Shang Chi, Eternals, Ghostbusters, and Spider-man.

I definitely feel like The Batman will be a theater trip for sure as well as most of the Marvel movies, but if I didn't feel safe I would recommend staying home, especially for the sake of your family.

 

3. It was the first Spiderman movie with actual Spiderman (read: Tobey Maguire), which is why it performed close to Spiderman 2.

This is the actual correct answer.

 

Every Spider-Man movie has featured an actual Spider-Man, but SMNWH is the first movie ever

Spoiler

to feature all 3 big-screen Spider-Men - as well as half a dozen Spider-Man villains.

 

In point of fact, several films featured Iron Man Jr, and two more featured. . .I honestly don't know what that was. There were only three Spiderman films before now.

 

Yeah, I don't think the rest of the world shares that view, but whatever floats your boat.

 

Box office prediction 2022 - COVID-19 officially enters endemic and therefore James Cameron gets to be the saviour of cinema and box office juggernaut by Avatar 2 release. Cameron wins again!

 

Question - Why Scream (2022) in January? Is it destined for failure regardless of pandemic?

Scream (1996) and Scream 2 were in December.
Scream 3 was February and Scream 4 was March -- which IIRC Scream 3 was the way less successful than 1 & 2. I never saw 4.

 

i saw 7 films at the box office in the second half of the year. mostly good. i don't think i loved any of them though.