Box office: What are the 5 biggest worldwide drops of 2022?

In 2022, the global box office has picked up some colors after a difficult year, especially related to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on theaters. Top Gun: Maverick really managed to create a real frenzy and offered Tom Cruise his greatest success. And Avatar 2 proved that James Cameron is still the king of the world when it comes to action.

But there were, as every year, some spectacular falls and Deadline 2022 flop 5 released at the box office. Or the ranking of the highest-grossing American feature films, based on a comparison of total costs (including production and marketing budgets) and global grosses. Therefore, it is not necessarily the opus that brought in the least, but the ones that were the least profitable.

The sort of rating an actor or studio dreads finding themselves at the end of training. We note that in 2022, Disney appears there twice, as well as Margot Robbie, who did not even calm down with an Oscar nomination in Babylon or Amsterdam.

#5 – Babylon

$87.4 million loss – To date, Damien Chazelle’s fifth film has brought in $75 million from theaters (and in particular from 1.5 million viewers gathered in France, which slightly reduces the overall results) and exhibition video. But this is the amount of the budget for this mural in Hollywood in the late 20s (80 million GEL), to which various expenses were added, totaling 162.4 million.

#4 – Loyalty

$89.2 million loss – After hitting the heights thanks to Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise, Glenn Powell has also put his name in the 2022 Flop 5. Also on board is Devotion, a biopic set in the Korean War, in which he teams up with a not-yet-disgraced Jonathan Major.

The JD Dillard feature cost a whopping $158.2 million (including 90 just to make it) and only grossed 69 worldwide. First released on Netflix in France, it is now available on Prime Video.

#3 – Lightning Bolt

$106 million in losses – After the direct Disney + series (Soul, Luke, Red Alert), Pixar returned to the dark rooms thanks to this spin-off of the saga Toy Story, with which the studio hoped to infinity and beyond. Global box office. But no. Because social habits have changed? Or was it because the project, presented as a movie that young Andy saw and loved so much that he wanted a Buzz Lightyear toy, was difficult to visualize clearly?

Still, if his $267 million worldwide earnings are far from outrageous, it doesn’t cover his total expenses of $373 million. And place Buzz Lightyear in third position on this flop of 5.

#2 – Amsterdam

$108.4 million in losses – Until Margot Robbie came back. Surrounded no longer by Brad Pitt, but by Christian Bale, John David Washington, Robert De Niro, Anya Taylor-Joy… Amsterdam, which also sought to be invited to the Oscar race, like previous feature films. David O. Russell.

Not only was it not so. But the film could not calm down even at the box office. Between theaters and its video exploits, Amsterdam has grossed $63 million worldwide. But its budget was 80 GEL, and the total expenses were 171.4 GEL. Hence these colossal losses for the opus, which we did not imagine to be expensive.

#1 – Avalon

$197.4 million in losses – In 2022, Disney will be at the global box office (thanks to Avatar 2) and at the bottom will be Avalonia, its Christmas animated film, which took in $317.4 million (including $180 for its only productions), and brought in only 120. Of these, 37.9 in America in cinemas.

Would its fate have been different if this exciting adventure film had been shown in French cinemas, which the studio had taken away in order to pressure the chronology of the French media? Probably not when you see the total number of losses.

We also note, thanks to detailed figures at Deadline, that five members of this list have in common not to pass the Chinese cinemas, which has become a strategic issue and can emphasize success or save careers. He Pacific Rim and Warcraft.

The impact might have been limited in the case of Amsterdam or Devotion, which lacked blockbuster ambitions. But who knows if Buzz Lightyear and Avalonia would have been part of that flop if they had made it through China.