Some of the more recent disinterest has to do with superhero movie fatigue.
Can Marvel and DC hit the do-over button in 2025 and hope for a return to blockbuster superhero box office?
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The studio’s golden box office aura has been dented, but chief architect Kevin Feige isn’t scrapping his years-long cinematic universe plan, just refining it: “They’re not going to give up,” says an insider.
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I'm not sure it's fair to look at box office numbers for 2021 and at least the first half of 2022 due to the pandemic shutting down movie theaters and movie production, plus some people were hesitant to go back in 2022 when theaters started opening up while others got used to watching movies at home
Only 41% of respondents said they sometimes or often see movies in theaters.
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Key Facts
- 62% of American adults are comfortable going to a movie theater, compared to a low of 12% who were comfortable doing so in May 2020, shortly after the pandemic began.
- 36% of respondents said concern about Covid-19 is a major reason why they don’t regularly see movies in theaters, with 25% saying it's a minor reason and 39% saying it’s not a reason at all.
- Only 41% of respondents said they sometimes or often see movies in theaters, compared to 59% who said they did so before the pandemic started.
- Over half of respondents, 55%, said they are more interested in watching movies at home, 50% said it’s too expensive to see movies in theaters and 32% said they aren’t interested in the movies playing in theaters are major reasons why they don’t go to theaters.
Comparing the frequency with which U.S. consumers have attended the cinema over multiple years reveals that, based on Kagan’s recent Consumer Insights survey, frequent movie-goers have returned to the theater after the pandemic, but overall attendance is still down due to fewer infrequent...
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- Approximately half of internet adults in the U.S. reported attending the cinema over a three-month period, a substantial increase over 2021 totals, but still short of historic trends.
- Currently, 22% of internet adults attend the cinema multiple times per month, mirroring pre-pandemic levels in 2018 and 2019. However, the survey data shows a shortfall in overall cinema attendance due to infrequent movie-goers being hesitant to return to the theater.
- The survey also found that frequent movie-goers use more SVOD and AVOD services but spend the least amount of time watching TV/video content each day compared to infrequent/non-movie goers.
While Disney has had some good box office results from a few movies...
- Avatar: The Way of Water (2022/2023) @ $2,320,250,281 worldwide
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 (2023) @ $845,555,777 worldwide
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) @ $955,775,804 worldwide
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022/2023) @ $859,208,836 worldwide
- Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) @ $760,928,081 worldwide
They also had quite a few disappointments...
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) @ $383,963,057 worldwide
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) @ $476,071,180 worldwide
- The Marvels (2023) @ $206,112,932 worldwide
- Lightyear (2022) @ $226,425,420 worldwide
- Wish (2023) @ $254,582,609 worldwide
- Encanto (2021) @ $256,786,742 worldwide
