Live-action musicals and/or musically inclined melodramas were, in pre-Covid times, among the safer theatrical sub-genres, as we saw with Pitch Perfect 2, La La Land, The Greatest Showman and A Star Is Born. They’ve been doing it (at least) since Magic Mike in 2012, along with (among others) Gravity, American Sniper, It, Crazy Rich Asians, Joker and Dune. is the best in the business at turning less-conventional biggies into genuine theatrical hits. The $85 million Austin Butler/Tom Hanks flick has earned $270 million worldwide, second among musical biopics only to Bohemian Rhapsody ($905 million) but above the likes of Walk the Line, Rocketman and Straight Outta Compton. It is now Baz Luhrmann’s biggest North American earner ever.
The least surprising surprise hit of the summer:Įlvis has just passed the unadjusted $144.8 million domestic gross of The Great Gatsby. But in the summer of 2022, it opened with $51 million and flamed out with $118 million domestic and $226 million worldwide.Īustin Butler and Tom Hanks in 'Elvis' Warner Bros. In a world where any big-scale animated film was an automatic event, Lightyear would have performed just fine. The movie was a visually dazzling and surprisingly melancholy critique of nostalgia and arrested development among older adults. After two years of inclusive, original and/or ambitious titles like Soul, Luca and Turning Red going straight to Disney+, there was something grimly cynical about Lightyear, a stand-alone, Chris Evans-starring Buzz Lightyear movie getting the preferred release treatment. Lightyear was the first Pixar movie to get a full-blown, uninterrupted ( Onward opened theatrically just a week before the world shut down in March of 2020) global theatrical release since Toy Story 4. The biggest box office bomb of the summer: Directed by Angus MacLane (co-director “Finding Dory”) and produced by Galyn Susman (“Toy Story That Time Forgot”), the sci-fi action-adventure releases on June 17, 2022. A hidden grab bag of gizmos in a cute kitty package, Sox is Buzz’s go-to friend and sidekick. But Buzz can’t do it alone-he shares space with a dutiful robot companion cat called Sox (voice of Peter Sohn). HERO’S BEST FRIEND - Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” is an all-new, original feature film that presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans)-the hero who inspired the toy-following the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic adventure.
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