Amph The 2022 Box Office Blood Booster

I saw 18, after getting vaccinated:

Black Widow
Pig
The Green Knight
The Suicide Squad
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
The Many Saints of Newark
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Lamb
Dune
The Last Duel
Last Night in Soho
Antlers
Eternals
Spencer
The French Dispatch
House of Gucci
Nightmare Alley
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Had tickets for The Matrix: Resurrections in IMAX on opening day, but I canceled that booking at the last minute, since COVID cases started really spiking right around that time in my area and I watched the film on HBO Max instead as a result. I was also hoping to catch Licorice Pizza but haven't been to the theater for that for the very same reason. Taking some time off from the theater in general, unfortunately, because of the way things are right now. Hoping it is all looking better in a few months time, as some of the movies I'm really anticipating for 2022 start releasing. Will be incredibly upset if I have to miss The Northman on the big screen....

 

@The2ndQuest And the production budget was $25 million for Scream 22' (really do not know what else to call it) so it could make back it's production + media campaign in it's first long weekend and everything else can start goes turning a profit.

Seeing the original Scream btw in the theater back in 1996 is still one of my all time favorite movie theater experience. First Winter Break from college as I graduated from high school the previous May as I was with my high school girlfriend (who were of seeing each other, kind of not at that point) and a bunch of friends in a packed theater late opening night with I don't anyone in attendance that was not either in late high school, college or recently graduated college. Never thought I watch a horror film were the audience was cheering on the killers at certain points and laughing hysteria as well but happened that night. As I tell my students, Scream really did embodied later teenage life in the mid-90's along with Empire Records and Clueless.

Lost in the shuffle of all the insanity going around us is that No Way Home is about to zoom past Infinity War on the domestic list all time and will eventually climb past Black Panther as it will become only fifth movie in history to make over $700 million at the box office in NA. It's going to be in the Top 5 all time domestically though I don't see it moving into the Top 5 Worldwide though as it's over $400 million behind Infinity War. Could knock off Jurassic World for sixth all time worldwide. Pretty insane.

 

Yeah crazy stuff happens when you mess with the Multiverse

 

Imagine what those other Marvel movies in the Top Ten’s box office would have been if they were Christmas releases?

 

@bstnsx704 where were you in Shelf of Shame?

 

I think it got plenty of attention for being the top movie of 2021 worldwide by a wide margin. People everywhere defied the spread of covid to see it, and it probably did more to promote community spread of omicron than almost anything else you can think of other than maybe school lunch periods and restaurants.

 

Imagine if Endgame came out in December 2021 and the even bigger boost it would have given COVID.

My earlier post was more about the Holiday Box Office boost movies get and what would Infinity War, Black Panther, or Endgame’s Box Office total look like if they were December releases like Avatar, The Force Awakens, or Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Endgame in December could have made more money than Avatar and The Force Awakens adjusted for inflation.

 

I honestly think Endgame was not effected at all by an late April release date. Schools are winding down at that point and the weather is good enough to not really worry about bundling up and dealing with crappy weather to go out but at the same time most of the country is not in pool weather yet either. Having the late April window in particular really helped with high schoolers. It was before most proms, AP testing, finals, graduations etc so many of my students saw it as a perfect time to go see it before prom/graduation season got kick into high gear.

 

that's interesting, where's the articles pointing to covid spread specifically being primarily because theatres and No Way Home showings? Aside from all the US having lack of vaccination passes, lack of mandatory masking, and the abundance of settings like restaurants, bars and workplaces and home gatherings over the holidays. But, yah, No Way Home is the biggest problem.

 

With the exception of GOTG, most of the MCU movies introducing new characters tend to perform more softly than the rest, so the ones that introduced new characters in 2021 might have done better without the pandemic but likely wouldn't have broken many records.
They're still a lot of fun, though - and they keep adding fresh blood to the franchise, which is extremely important with some of the first Avengers cycling out of the MCU

 

I think Endgame may have had a shot of out grossing The Force Awakens had it been a Christmas release. The film was massively front loaded with the opening weekend. Based off its opening numbers the film massively underperformed in the following weeks. A holiday release could have created better legs in line with the opening weekend box office trajectory - similar to TFA.

As it stands Endgame ultimately had a box office run similar to the 8th and final Harry Potter film.

 

The trailer for Death on the Nile is so bad it makes it look like a bad comedy. The acting looks like intentionally wooden comedy, particularly Russell Brand's yelling.

 

Yeah, that Kenneth Branagh, total hack

 

Speaking as someone who absolutely loves a couple of Branagh's films, he's made enough garbage to not deserve a free pass.

Also, he's a Rangers fan. So like... doubly undeserving of free passes.

 

Spiderman : No Way Home back to 1st this weekend

 

Hardly anyone has noticed with all that is going on but No Way Home is within $23 million of Avatar for third all time:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...live-reaction-to-no-way-home-box-office-stats

Also it's crept into the sixth slot worldwide all time which is where it will stay as it's not going to join the $2 billion worldwide mark. Still though over $1.7 billion worldwide is just insane especially since there is no China bucks coming in.

Meanwhile both Moonfall and Jackass Forever are coming out this week. Moonfall is getting shredded by critics while Jackass Forever is getting good reviews. It's also tracking for a $20+ million opening weekend. I honestly cannot believe it's still that popular after all these years. The show aired like twenty years ago. Even the teenagers who watched it (I was had finished college the spring before it began) are in their thirties+ now. Pretty incredible that still grabbing younger audiences like Scream is which btw just got greenlighted for another sequel:



Again look forward to watching it when it drops on Paramount+ at the end of the month.

 

The screaming will never stop...

 

Spidey just $12 million from passing Avatar domestically - will do so this month for sure

 

@Princess_Tina Yep and Jackass Forever absolutely destroyed Moonfall. How on earth Moonfall was even green lite I still don't know LOL!

 

Sometimes people just shoot for the moon...
Also, every Jackass movie ever has opened at #1 - pretty amazing, huh?

 

@Princess_Tina Yes especially since the show first aired the same year as I graduated college....2000. That is pretty incredible that over twenty years later they can come out with a movie and it be #1 at the box office. This definitely is their last go around unless Knoxville can find a new generation of morons to do this stuff LOL!