After an impossible 2020 and a very difficult 2021, the start of the year was still sluggish for UK cinemas. Doctor Strange, Batman, The Minions and Thor provided big movie box offices, but the only stellar performance came from Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick. It's UK box office ($93M) is almost twice that of its nearest rival.
Unfortunately, there have been fewer blockbusters to follow it up. We have Covid related production delays to blame for that. The result has contributed to a drop of a third in overall cinema attendance.
The impact? Financial restructuring at Vue and a tactical bankruptcy protection filing by the world's second largest cinema chain, Cineworld.
But, there is nothing quite like the big screen experience and cinema advertisers are still bullish. With good reason, releases are picking up. Marvel, Avatar and DC are all releasing major films in the final quarter of 2022. We have a promising run-in to a bumper 2023!
Here are some of the films we are looking forward to in the remainder of 2022!
Halloween Ends - 14th October 2022
Emily - 14th October 2022
Black Adam - 21st October 2022
The Banshees Of Inisherin - 21st October 2022
Mia And Me: The Hero Of Centopia - 21st October 2022
Barbarian - 28th October 2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 11th November 2022
The Menu - 18th November 2022
Strange World - 23rd November 2022
Bones And All - 23rd November 2022
She Said - 25th November 2022
Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical - 25th November 2022
Violent Night - 2nd December 2022
Avatar: The Way of Water - 16th December 2022
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - 26th December 2022
The post-pandemic pick-up in movie releases continues in to next year. Here are the major films that are currently scheduled for release in 2023...
Empire of Light - 13th January
Mario - 7th April
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - 2nd June
Indiana Jones (5) - 30th June
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One - 14th July
Barbie - 21st July
Oppenheimer - 21st July
Dune: Part 2 - 17th November
Wonka - 15th December
We will be tracking down as many of the movie posters as we can! For now, why not check out the amazing movie posters we have to offer? We can even frame them for you too.
Adam and the Art of the Movies team.