2022 global box office list： Top Gun 2 ranked first, Watergate Bridge of Changjin Lake ranked ninth.

Sohu Entertainment feature (HAMA/Wen) has ended in 2022. Looking back at the film industry this year, many markets around the world are recovering after the epidemic. The recovery of the film market in most countries depends on the supply of Hollywood blockbusters. How the blockbusters of several major Hollywood studios sell determines the rise and fall of many markets.

However, there are some exceptions, such as China and Indian film markets. Although the global influence of local films is limited, in their domestic markets, local films have an overwhelming advantage, and Hollywood blockbusters can only be embellished. In Asian markets such as Japan and South Korea, local films also have their own characteristics, which are basically equal to Hollywood blockbusters.

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun 2 ranks first in the world.

In 2022, there were 18 movies in the United States with a global box office of more than 200 million dollars, among which the top ten movies were all IP sequels and restarts, including Top Gun 2, Avatar 2, Jurassic World 3’s Doctor Strange 2, Little Yellow Man’s Big Eyes 2, Panther 2, New Batman, Thor 4’s Fantastic Animals 3 and Sonik the Hedgehog 2.

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun 2 became the highest-grossing movie in 2022, with a North American box office of 719 million dollars and a global box office of 1,488.7 million dollars, which was a big profit compared with the production cost of 170 million dollars. However, on the box office list of film history, it only ranks 11th, which is far from the global box office of Avatar, the first movie, with 2.923 billion dollars.

Avatar 2 was released on December 16th, and the global cumulative box office has exceeded $1.1 billion. The final global box office of the film is expected to reach 1.5 billion yuan and 2 billion yuan, which is likely to surpass Top Gun 2 and become the real champion in 2022.

Hollywood studios prefer to shoot sequels and IP instead of originality, which is a realistic choice, because sequels and IP have low risk and high success rate, while original works are easy to rush to the street.

Among the top ten films at the global box office in 2022, except Fantastic Animals 3, all other films met or exceeded expectations. Theoretically, if the global box office of Hollywood blockbusters can reach more than three times the production cost, it is considered to be profitable.

The production cost of Fantastic Animals 3 is $200 million, and the global box office is $400 million. It is not qualified to return to this standard with three times the box office.

The other nine films all earned more than three times the global box office. Among them, the global box office of Top Gun 2 is 8.76 times the production cost, Jurassic Century 3 is 6.07 times the production cost, and Little Yellow Man with Big Eyes 2 is 11.74 times the production cost.

The sequels such as Jurassic Century 3 and Little Yellow Man with Big Eyes 2 are not as good as their predecessors, but it does not affect them to make money from box office, copyright, peripheral products, theme parks and other channels.

However, many original works failed, such as Warner Bros.’ Black Adam, which cost US$ 200 million, the global box office of US$ 391 million, Sony Pictures’ bullet train, which cost US$ 86 million, the global box office of US$ 239 million, Paramount’s Lost City, which cost US$ 74 million and the global box office of US$ 191 million.

Two China films rank among the top ten in the global box office list.

Let’s look at the China market globally.

China’s films are rarely popular overseas, with only a relatively small box office income. However, because China’s domestic market is large enough, some films can also occupy a high position in the global box office list in terms of US dollars.

According to the statistics of boxofficemojo, a North American box office website, the Watergate Bridge of Changjin Lake is ranked ninth and tenth in the global box office list in 2022.

Watergate Bridge of Changjin Lake earned 4.067 billion yuan in China, 117,300 dollars in North America and 626.6 million dollars in the world. The box office in China, Moon Man was 3.102 billion yuan, which was not shown in North America, and the global box office was 460 million dollars.

This kind of statistics has the problem of exchange rate changes. If the exchange rate of US$ 1 to RMB in 7 yuan is calculated, the box office of domestic films is not included in the net box office of the service fee of the ticketing platform. The global box office of Watergate Bridge of Changjin Lake is about 537 million US dollars, the global box office of Moon Man is about 406 million US dollars, and the global box office of The Killer is not too quiet, Life Events and Returning to Wan Li are 343 million US dollars, 225 million US dollars and 208 million US dollars respectively, accounting for 50 million US dollars.

In recent years, China movies have been suppressed by Hollywood movies, shared the market with Hollywood movies, and occupied more and more market dominance. Among the top 20 movies at the box office in China in 2022, only Jurassic World 3’s Avatar 2 and League of Bad Guys ranked seventh, ninth and nineteenth respectively, and the others were all domestic films.

There is also an influence factor, that is, Hollywood blockbusters need quota and approval to enter China. In the past two years, Spider-Man: No Return of Heroes, Top Gun 2, Doctor Strange 2, Panther 2, Thor 4 Black Adam, Bullet Train and The Story of Light Year have not been introduced for release.

In the end, the box office of Chinese movies went backwards in 2022.

In 2020 and 2021, due to effective epidemic prevention and control, China surpassed North America and became the largest film market in the world.

In 2022, other countries in the world liberalized their control earlier, and people’s life returned to normal. However, the repeated prevention and control of the China epidemic made cinemas open and close, and many films were delayed in shooting, booking and release, resulting in the loss of audiences. The box office dropped to less than 30 billion yuan in the whole year, falling back to the level of 2014.

This year, the box office of movies in North America returned to the level of 64% in 2019 before the epidemic, while the box office in China only reached the level of 46% in 2019. The box office in North China was $7.266 billion, about 1.7 times that of.

Japanese, Korean and Indian films have their own strengths.

Looking at films in other major overseas markets, Japanese, Indian and Korean films all have their own strengths. According to the proportion of box office in normal years before the epidemic, Japan is the third largest ticket warehouse in the world, South Korea is the fifth largest ticket warehouse in the world and India is the seventh largest ticket warehouse in the world.

Japan’s IP animation sequel "Voyager: Geji with Red Hair" has a global box office of 174.5 million US dollars, of which, the domestic box office in Japan is 139 million US dollars, accounting for nearly 80%, and the other 20% is contributed by overseas markets.

Voyager: The Red-haired Song Ji has been shown in many overseas markets, such as North America, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, South Korea, Viet Nam, China, etc. Among them, the box office in North America is 12.78 million US dollars, accounting for 7.3% of the total box office in the world. Compared with China films, this overseas achievement is very outstanding.

In Japan, anime movies are usually the most popular, just as superhero movies are the best sellers in the United States.

In 2022, Voyager: Geji with Red Hair ranked first, Journey to the Bell Bud ranked third, Detective Conan: Bride of Halloween ranked fourth, and Slam Dunk ranked sixth, all of which were animation. The eighth place "King of the World 2" and the eleventh place "New Altman" are full-blown live-action movies.

The other five places in the top 10 of the box office list were reserved for Hollywood blockbusters Top Gun 2, Jurassic World 3, Spider-Man: No Return of Heroes, Fantastic Animals 3 and Little Yellow Man with Big Eyes 2.

South Korea’s performance in genre films has been outstanding in recent years. In 2022, Crime City 2, Helping Together 2: International, Hunting 6 are all action and crime genre films, Owlman 7 is a historical film, Witch 2 is a suspense crime action film, and the remaining major positions are occupied by Hollywood blockbusters.

Crime City 2 has a global box office of US$ 101 million, including US$ 99.77 million in South Korea and US$ 1.38 million overseas (including US$ 810,000 in North China). Like American movies, it mainly sells in the local market.

In the field of literary films, Japanese and Korean films have also been very strong in recent years. Li Cangdong’s Burning, Bong Joon ho’s Parasite, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Driving My Car, Park Chan-wook’s Resolution to Break Up, Hirokazu Koreeda’s Broker, Sang-soo Hong’s Runaway Woman, Novelist’s Movie and In front of You have all attracted much attention at international film festivals.

The Indian market has always been dominated by domestic films, and Hollywood blockbusters are just embellishments.

In 2022, among the top 16 films in Indian box office, only three Hollywood films from Thor 4 ranked third, seventh and tenth respectively, and the others were all Indian films, including Coral Gold Mine 2, RRR, Brahma Artifact, Anti-drug Storm, Kashmir Archives, Godfather and Fauvism Agent.

The global box office of RRR was $102.7 million, including $81.54 million in India and $21.16 million overseas (including $11.11 million in North America).

RRR’s Hong Kong translation of Revolutionary Heroes is a fictional spectacle blockbuster with a historical theme. It tells the story of two Indian national heroes who fought against Britain under the British colonial background. Because it can arouse the patriotic feelings of the audience, it is described as "Indian version of Wolf Warriors".

The film was directed by S.S.Rajamouli, who made The Legend of the Warrior Burava, Kung Fu Fly and baahubali. baahubali once became a masterpiece in Indian film history and set a box office record because of its high investment, luxurious scenery, spectacular war scenes and unique national wonders. "RRR" once again won with luxury production.

Coral Gold Mine 2 and Brahma Artifact are also typical Indian blockbusters, focusing on action and special effects.

"Coral Gold Mine 2" has a global box office of 89.12 million US dollars, including 82.23 million US dollars in India, which is the local annual box office champion. The global box office of Brahma Artifact was 50.16 million yuan, including 38.31 million yuan in India.

Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Brazil and other major markets also have their own local films, but their ability to resist Hollywood blockbusters is far less than those of Asian markets such as China, India, Japan and South Korea, and their local films are also difficult to have global influence, and the presence of commercial films is not as strong as that of art films.