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. Audiences were so outraged that they spent their money instead on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Jurassic World Dominion and Thor: Love and Thunder (all of which featured non-white lesbian co-leads). Finally, did online controversy over the film’s same-sex kiss hurt? Maybe, at least just enough to keep it below The Good Dinosaur ($123 million). It was another unrequested origin story prequel centered on a significant character from a successful franchise played by a different actor with nothing to offer those who weren’t already onboard with the pitch.
But in the summer of 2022, it opened with $51 million and flamed out with $118 million domestic and $226 million worldwide.ĭisney+ conditioning audiences to expect big-deal Disney flicks at home in 45 days ‘for free’ didn’t help. In a world where any big-scale animated film was an automatic event, Lightyear would have performed just fine.
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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. With rave reviews, an A+ from Cinemascore, legs worthy of James Cameron and the ability to pull in older moviegoers and the sorts of irregular audiences who only show up for once-in-a-generation events like American Sniper, The Passion of the Christ, Black Panther and The Force Awakens, Top Gun: Maverick was the unquestionable savior of the summer movie season. Top Gun: Maverick (which just dropped on PVOD and EST yesterday) made up 22% of the overall summer movie box office, which (not counting the summer of 2020) is the biggest percentage earned by a single summer movie since E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (23.2%) in the summer of 1982. While Age of Ultron grossed $300 million in China, Tom Cruise’s legacy sequel didn’t even play in China, helping end the notion that Hollywood tentpoles needed Chinese box office to compete globally. It has, as of yesterday, passed the unadjusted $1.405 billion global cume of Avengers: Age of Ultron to become the second biggest ‘part two’ sequel of all time behind Frozen II ($1.45 billion).
Instead, it has grossed $684 million domestic from a record-breaking $160.5 million Memorial Day weekend debut, with its sights set on Black Panther’s $700 million cume. Had it performed to pre-release expectations, think $150 million domestic, the overall summer would be down closer to 40%. Top Gun: Maverick so ridiculously overperformed that it singlehandedly created a summer that, domestically, was down just 25% from 2019. The unmitigated box office champion of the summer: Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
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