Looking at the top 100 worldwide box office performers
Does not include China’s box office figures
No surprise, US movies ruled the worldwide box office. However, China put on a strong performance especially considering that China’s domestic box office figures are not included in the above graph.
Digging deeper into the US box office – studying the 20 highest grossing movies (Excluding Avatar: The Way of Water)
Top Gun had a dream box office run – both in absolute terms and multiple over production budget
As expected, Action and Comic book movies grossed the highest average box office collection – likely because movie goers seek a good cinematic experience while OTT suffices for other genres.
No surprises, Marvel won the battle of the supers
Now, looking at how the major studios fared.
Disney had the highest average worldwide collection thanks to the super performance of Marvel movies. Paramount got a massive boost from Top Gun Maverick.
Bonus: Avatar: The Way of Water has grossed 1,168 million in 2 weeks to become the second highest grossing movie of 2022. The movie is outperforming its peers in its first 2 weeks and would hope to emulate the long box office run of Top Gun Maverick
Data Source: The Numbers