2022 in Film Part 1

 Hard to believe it but another movie year is coming to a close as we’re only 3 weeks or so until 2022 ends and 2023 begins.

 

And man oh man has it been an eventful year in film with a sequel to Top Gun buzzing every box office tower you could ever ask it to do while our 2 biggest studios Disney and Warner Brothers struggle to recover from Covid while the other 3 (Paramount, Universal and Columbia/Tristar) all enjoyed good to great box office success.

 

But this was the year that without a doubt saw movie going especially in movie theatres that holy church of the cinema came back in a big way, yes 2021 in particular was the beginning of the comeback with the Dry in January of that year and then the opening weekend of A Quiet Place 2 and Cruella being the first big movie going weekend since the dark times began but we were crawling and taking our first steps into cinema going again.

 

But this year well the huge success of Spider-Man No Way Home and Top Gun Maverick saw a real cascade effect on the box office as both of those films were the 2 main films that brought huge swathes of the audience back to movie theatres and that has flowed on ever since with Dr Strange, Jurassic World Dominion, Uncharted, the Batman all enjoying healthy box office success among other films such as Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and the indie breakout hit Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.

 

But as the year ends we finally get Avatar: The Way of Water and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2 very warmly received films that should help the end of the year box office with a much needed boost along with a major awards contender in the Banshees of Inisherin and 2023 looks to be a very strong year at the box office.

 

With movies like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Force of Nature the follow up film to the Dry with Robert Connolly and Eric Bana returning, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Dune Part 2 among other movies that should now that we’ve found our way back this year should continue on this momentum and build on it more and I for one am very hopeful/optimistic that becomes the case.