It's time to look ahead to 2022 and determine which Disney films will bring in the most money as 2018 comes to a close. The movie Finding Nemo, Despicable Me, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Top Gun: Maverick are on the list below.
Disney will release four movies in 2022, with Finding Nemo earning the most money overall. It currently has the highest box office performance in the studio's history. But not all movies operate in this way. With a projected $256 million globally, the film is predicted to surpass "Avatar" for the first time ever.
Despite becoming the first animated movie to gross at least $70 million, the Disney follow-up to "Jurassic World" failed to take the top place. The film had to compete with massive Universal production and a high-flying Paramount production. Additionally, many disliked the movie's obscure origin tale, which dropped it to second place and made it the first Pixar movie to finish below first.
With five animated films and a brand-new prequel, The Rise of Gru, the Despicable Me franchise has grown to be a cherished one. It is anticipated that the sequel, which follows young Gru in the 1970s, would gross between $70M and $80M domestically in its first four days. Additionally, it is anticipated to perform well abroad and may reach $150M internationally.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon's previous record for highest-grossing live-action/CGI hybrid film was surpassed by "The Rise of Gru." The movie also records for the biggest July 4 opening weekend take. Transformers: Dark of the Moon's previous record, which stood at $111.8 million, was broken. The following-highest-grossing film during that time frame was Spider-Man 2.
Thor: Love and Thunder, the second significant Marvel film to be released in 2022, had the second-highest domestic opening weekend of the entire Disney year with ticket sales of $144.2 million. The performance of the film is in line with what experts and Boxoffice Pro expected. It assisted in making up for "Lightyear" by Pixar's dismal performance.
On September 8, 2022, during Disney+ Day, Thor: Love and Thunder will make its Disney+ debut. In addition, it will make its home video debut two to three months following its theatrical release. It will be among Disney's highest-grossing movies in 2022 as a result.
Most reviews for Thor: Love and Thunder have been favorable. It has a B+ CinemaScore from critics and a new score of 68% on Rotten Tomatoes. 53% of its readership was between the ages of 18 and 34, and about 60% of them were men. According to IMAX, the movie made $23 million from its screens throughout the globe. Chris Hemsworth plays the title character in the film Thor: Love and Thunder. He teams up with Jane Foster, a former flame, to take on Gorr, the god-butcher.
Top Gun: Maverick is on track to surpass Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, and Black Panther with a $1.33 billion global revenue. It will finish 13th this weekend, just after Avengers: Age of Ultron. To put it another way, it will be in high demand in 2022.
The film is currently the sixth-highest-grossing movie in North America. The number of wide releases will be a significant contributor to the shortage in 2022. Forty-two films were released into at least 2,000 North American theaters last year, compared to 73 and 71 in the years prior to the epidemic.
Uncharted has made almost $300 million in the US alone, with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg as the titular explorers. The film has been dubbed "the next major franchise" by Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman, and director Ruben Fleischer has indicated that he is amenable to a sequel. He has already made some rough sketches for a sequel and expressed interest in producing other Uncharted movies.
Reviews for Uncharted have been contradictory. Despite this, the movie has a large following and is predicted to surpass $30 million in its first week of release. A somewhat higher score than it received from the audience, the movie has a 39% Rotten Tomatoes rating. Uncharted is anticipated to stay in the top three for several more weeks, and it won't leave the top five until April 8, when Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is released in theaters.