Biggest Box Office Hits Of 2022

2022 saw box office returns continue to grow with multiple billion dollar movies like Top Gun Marvick, Jurassic World Dominion and soon Avatar 2: The Way of Water. It was also a good year for moderately priced movies like Smile and Minions plus comic book movies with The Batman, Doctor Strange: In The Multiverse Of Madness, Wakanda Forever and Thor: Love & Thunder. We got through all of them! We love movies! We love the money they make!
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Time Codes
1:34 Smile
2:28 Sonic The Hedgehog 2
3:38 Thor: Love & Thunder
4:26 Black Panther Wakanda Forever
5:36 The Batman
6:39 Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness
7:25 Minions The Rise Of Gru
7:58 Jurassic World: Dominion
9:07 Avatar The Way Of Water
10:37 MODERATE HITS
12:24 Top Gun: Maverick
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#2022 #Avatar #TopGunMaverick #JurassicWorld

[@mrsundaymovies]

Took a bit of a punt putting Avatar 2 so high. But it'll probably end up being the second or maybe even the biggest movie of the year. WE'LL ALL SEE WON'T WE NOW

[@zeta2209]

Its probably second at time of writing, and likely first in a couple weeks. Maximum looks to be around 2 billion.

[@Razorsharp12348]

I need stop smoking so much, my brain made it looks like you said “take a hit of the blunt bc avatar 2 is so high”

[@pociksasiskin7285]

Ok James, also known as Mr. Sunday Movies

[@joshualipe2259]

I hope you’re wrong

[@gwoyang]

I've seen it twice already. I plan to go at least one more time.

[@robertdelossantos5844]

If only Morbius was released in theaters a third time, it might have made this list. We definitely would’ve showed up for the third showing Sony!

[@UsiQuotidiani.18]

I remember crying when Morbius said “it Morby time” 😢

[@rolmodel12.]

Third time is ALWAYS the charm. Except when it is the second or fourth... but, other than that, 3rd is 100% The Charm!!

[@TheFunklin]

Everything Everywhere All At Morbius

[@BichaeldeAngelo]

My favorite part is based on the critically acclaimed box office hit Morbius Sony said to the writers “Hey please write our next project you knocked this one out of the park”

[@thegoodreylo4749]

Stop trying to make morbius happen

[@codydavis3513]

We all know the real biggest hit was the supercut of that guy saying Rodney

[@brucesimmons5517]

I think the biggest hit was all the friends we made along the way.

[@RonnieBarzel]

Hey, “that guy” has a name. Something like…Bill Harvest?

[@brucesimmons5517]

@@RonnieBarzel Yeah, although his original name was Blue Harvest, which coincidentally was also the working title of the original Star Wars movie.

[@greenkoopa]

🤣🤣🤣 the last one when he dies always make me laugh

[@etonTEC]

RADNEIGH?

[@jones3887]

I nearly forgot that The Batman came out this year. It feels like it's been out longer somehow.

[@mrbransformer4184]

Cause it was so boring!

[@Prod.SEMAPHORE]

@@mrbransformer4184 sorry?

[@aasamspb967]

@@mrbransformer4184 not really

[@lefloch9983]

@@mrbransformer4184 Wrong

[@DPMusicStudio]

I meant to see that film in theaters but just never got around to it. Regret it now. But I did see Everything, Everywhere in theaters... and I'm very happy with that!

[@Splintorious]

That avatar 2 figure needs changing because I’m going to see it today and give it an extra £20 please update the video

[@davidthewhale7556]

Mr Sunday’s integrity is at stake if it isn’t updated

[@turnipcrazy4602]

I'm still undecided if I want to go see it, but I know my sister said she went and saw it so add another $20 to the counter.

[@barryallen871]

Lol, it's like you have a vested interest in how well this movie does. 🤦 I could watch it for free online right now but I'd rather watch YT videos then the Smurfs 2.

[@Splintorious]

@@barryallen871 ?? I just want to go see a movie that people have said is good (and it was)

[@underpigeon7465]

@@barryallen871 who asked

[@bobson3014]

I see what you did there by not having Brie Larson smiling in the Avengers Poster and I appreciated it.

[@GothamClive]

They couldn't decide who would ask her to smile. :)

[@barryallen871]

@@GothamClive 🤦

[@evanafter]

A truly inspiring bit, and an excellent catch by you

[@LuisSierra42]

@@evanafter truly one of the catches ever

[@r7diego]

yeaaaaah i saw that too, top natch detail

[@RonnieBarzel]

It may not have been the most profitable on this list, but the Smile marketing campaign where creepy smiling people were placed in prime spots at baseball games may have been the best of the year.

[@DaDestroyer1986]

“Terrifier 2” probably had the highest ROI and they didn’t bring it up.

[@barryallen871]

@@DaDestroyer1986 Well I mean, 100 people did go see that movie that cost $5 to make, but I don't know if that counts.

[@LuisSierra42]

It was very profitable tho

[@leececil7565]

Shame the movie itself fucking sucked

[@miguelvaleroarcia7931]

The fact y'all used the Avengers poster where BRIE EFFING LARSON IS THE ONLY ONE NOT SMILING is god-tier.

[@Sispants]

Captain Marvel specializes in deadpan face and slight smirk face, not smiling

[@miguelvaleroarcia7931]

@concert4aliens Got a little excited while typing.

[@dscass3]

I didn’t realize so many movies made close to $1 billion this year because I’ve never seen a movie in my life

[@waldo109]

It's important to note that Avatar: The Way of Water has yet to undergo the collection of box office totals due to its seasonal release, as we have yet to enter the period of tallying the "crops" of its sales so to speak. The same thing happened when Avatar 1 released. Named after the colour of the Na'vi, James Cameron has famously called this tally a blue harvest.

[@Brooklyn_Bleek]

Well, at least he doesn't have to waste too much time tallying anything in China! If Cameron had any testosterone, he'd have some sort of manly regard towards it.

[@DPMusicStudio]

Oh this is very good. Wish I could give you 10 thumbs up.

[@everburn]

Didn't see the blue harvest part coming 😂🙌

[@solo13th]

You got me you piece of shit 😂😂😂😂

[@angelsunemtoledocabllero5801]

@@Brooklyn_Bleek what are you talking about?

[@Paplefication]

Wow, I can't believe Snake Eyes was the most profitable movie of 2022!

[@seanodeli7031]

I forgot they made a snake eyes movie it’s kinda like oh yea they made a bloodshot movie

[@trevorghalt1881]

Snake Eyes was this year, it feels like a bad 2015 ish movie

[@motherplayer]

@@seanodeli7031 The Snake-Eyes movie where he comes off a bigger jerk than Storm Shadow did.

[@anthem47]

For a sec I thought you meant that dead boring Nicholas Cage movie and I was like "wow, that's a deep cut".

[@jefftakesdscakes30]

@@trevorghalt1881 it was last year

[@Harrison1875]

Terrifier 2 was a pretty big indie horror win. Crowd funded budget of $250,000 and ended up bringing in over $12 million.

[@JeffreyJFerguson]

Yeah it literally earned nearly 5000% of what it cost to make. Figured it would get a mention.

[@professorskye]

Never tire of these two. Perfect comedic chemistry.

[@Amouroso]

I love these biggest flops/hits videos every year. The one where Quibi was the #1 flop still makes me laugh. Thanks for all the content lads

[@jdunnatl]

It's sad how many of these movies I strongly disliked/hated. Hollywood is pouring gasoline on itself as it crashes and burns.

[@ThreadBomb]

Quibi will never die!!!

[@oscarbautista6840]

That clip of Maverick edited with John Wick's brutal fall killed me. Thanks for offering such great content, guys.

[@mxmissy]

My favourite thing about Top Gun Maverick was seeing a trailer of it in the cinema (I was watching Doc Strange) and at the end of the trailer the person in front of me says to their friend "I think that's military propaganda". It was the funniest thing ever.

[@chipsneak1348]

Crowning achievement of 2022 was adding Del Boy to the ‘Rodney!’ Compilation. Thanks for another great year!

[@thirdcoast6513]

RODNEY

[@xGamermonkeyx]

Look I don't want to be dismissive of all the other amazing editing the fantastic editors have done this year, but @12:56 is literally the funniest edit of the year.

[@thirdcoast6513]

What movie the fall from?

[@ch3ssm3n]

The Top Gun, John Wick mashup killed me. I am dead.

[@TheFiddleFaddle]

In the Air Force, I liked to say that Top Gun was the best Air Force recruiting ad the Navy ever produced.

[@ToomanyFrancis]

I was 10 years old when the first Despicable Me was released and I genuinely believe Minion: The Rise of Gru is the best movie in the franchise by a significant margin. It's almost difficult to believe that it was made by the same people that made Despicable Me 2, Despicable Me 3, and the first Minions movie.

[@ThreadBomb]

The first Minions movie was better than the Despicable Me movies.

[@briexander8353]

They're all amazing but Rise of Gru may have been my least favorite in the franchise

[@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266]

@@ThreadBomb Not really. Minions is a cute fun children flick but is the blandest entry of the franchise by far.

[@peacefusion]

the whole series is just minion marketing.

[@MariOmor1]

Personally for me DM2 was great as well

[@THEMANDOMOVIE]

I like how everyone but captain marvel was smiling on the endgame poster.

[@yrrr4871]

"The Batman" and "Top Gun: Maverick" were my favorite movies of 2022

[@jackelproductions7035]

Avatar 2 is making a lot of money very fast, it hasn’t even been out for two weeks! 13 days I believe.

[@DPMusicStudio]

It's nearly at a billion according to Box Office Mojo.

[@jackelproductions7035]

@@DPMusicStudio Oh, I though it already hit it.

[@randomly_random_0]

$2B is possible

[@jackelproductions7035]

@@randomly_random_0 Yes it is

[@DPMusicStudio]

@@legostuds680 $700M of it is ticket sales in China

[@oq1106]

The problem with the hits is always that its - that movie that was good that expectedly did good - that franchise movie that isn't particularly good but did amazing because franchise - a decent horror movie that wasn't particularly better than other horror movies but somehow got lucky and made the list because of its relatively low production cost

[@imanoldurango8213]

Bro. NOBODY could’ve predicted how well top gun 2 did. I used to make fun of that movie and trailer when it was first announced. Like who in the fuck thought making a top gun sequel was a good idea. But it was amazing 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@GaryOPostle]

I've always watched the Hits and the Bombs videos but I find the Bombs videos interesting because they have movies I didn't even know about

[@connorrheoa]

The real enemy in top gun maverick was the friends we made along the way

[@thomasoconnor8279]

The avengers poster joke killed me

[@ed_5578]

wasn't expecting another video this year thanks lads

[@trevorghalt1881]

I'm glad The Batman and Sonic 2 did well and 13:18 he really enjoys his gears and pistons, nice

[@LaDeAlPakino]

2:24 That Brie Larson smile lmao Kudos for that little tweak

[@Madog361428]

Every time I'm having a bad day, I always look to see if a new video has been uploaded by you guys. I love your channel, love your personality.

[@MantisRapture]

I genuinely get more entertainment and satisfaction watching you two talk about these movies than I do actually watching most of these movies. I fucking love you guys.

[@finnegan0212]

I choose to believe the bad guys in top gun were the bastard Irish from the Titanic.

[@chrisjimenez2192]

Lmao I was already watching one of your videos! Alright! More great content! Thank you James, Mason, Ben, & Lawrence!!

[@KyleJensenVO]

My favourite part of the videos was the skewed number 8 at 3:32. Love a little visual gag like this.

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

Lol I'm glad I'm not the only one foreseeing Tom's fiery doom at the hands of his own stunt for our big theater entertainment

[@marcomcvey428]

Love that Carol Danvers is the only avenger not smiling in the poster... I see what you're doing @MrSundayMovies!

[@Army1601]

It makes me sad that people complain about Wakanda Forever being too sad. Personally getting a little worn out on the quips and jokes, seeing a more serious tone was refreshing. Lets not discourage Marvel fron doing that, James

[@KelleyGreenEcstasy]

omg that edit at 12:55, that is the funniest way to start the new year. shout out to you

[@HaliousX]

Fabulous editing with the numbers (and all around, of course)

[@StarsAndAngels]

Mason going to jail made me literally spit tea all over my phone 😂😂😂😂😂 these guys are hilarious

[@Hnter2200]

“Smile” was CREEPY AF. And I don’t get creeped out by horror… Ever. But that one stayed with me, and legit had me jump scared by one my chairs shadow in the middle of that night. Loved it so much. Go watch it now if you haven’t!

[@notsyzagts7967]

I found it extremely boring. So much to the point that I skipped chunks of it during streaming. Would not watch it again.

[@NathanS__]

Brie Larson not smiling on the "smiling avengers" poster is funny.

[@jonbetteridge2377]

love you guys, happy new year

[@li-limandragon9287]

Morbius not being here shows that the Box Office cannot be trusted.

[@nashocheese]

There's no way Morbius came out in 2022 Edit: google says April 1st 2022, and I can't tell if it's joking, some long april fools joke.

[@jefftakesdscakes30]

@@nashocheese came out March 31 in uk

[@guy5631]

I just got an ad for Top Gun: Maverick on paramount+ while they were talking about Avatar 2

[@dustintirey6122]

Did you guys even tell us what Avatar 2's box office return was? I'm pretty sure Mason cut James off (as he usually does) right as he was getting ready to say. Thanks a lot Nick Mason!!!

[@ToomanyFrancis]

I'll be honest, I've read some comics, mostly the ones in the newspaper, and I would never have expected a The Batman movie to do well. I can't believe unknown indie director Matt Reeves was able to make a moderately successful The Batman movie. At this point, anything is possible.

[@SpaceJockey805]

My favorite of 2022 was Prey… mostly because I didn’t have to go to the smelly theater to watch a Predator movie

[@Jaksi-a]

I apparently travelled to the future and have already heard the bombs video. It's ok, I guess, etcetera and so forth. Best video ever!

[@Lukehendo]

I miss these guys over the Christmas break but it’s nice. I add little videos like this.

[@jmaguire2232]

Camp Batman is 100% gonna come back. There will come a point where that’s the only thing left to do.

[@Sicod79]

I appreciate how on your Smile Avengers poster Carol Danver's is still not playing the game.

[@beatrixwickson8477]

10:33 your lack of commitment to the suspense bit is pants-shittingly funny.

[@danielroberts7444]

Tom Cruise fall really made me laugh. Excellent work.

[@J.O.R.D]

15:16 please clean it folks 😂I didn’t release until having kids and picked up toothbrush and thought WTF is that on the end of it 😂

[@gautampressman]

I didn't know it earlier but this is a movie list I look forward to every year

[@jimmynoneya2584]

Very funny guys as usual. Bring out the next video I love watching the flops

[@mezzanoon]

Good God the editor and Mason coming together to try and kill me with laughter at 9:00

[@soutarm]

Laughed my guts out at Tom Cruise going out the window 🤣

[@bgsam8109]

Great video

[@Denistone]

Commenters convinced me to look up Terrifier 2. Looks like fun. Thanks for that.

[@CriticsCupofficial]

That John wick clip killed me 😂

[@Dan89201]

This is my favourite mr Sundays movies of the year

[@AllInTheGame01]

A little surprised that The Batman was narrowly beaten out domestically by Minions, had no idea the latter was that popular! BPWF ($433.1m domestic) if it hadn't lost over 1100 screens/theaters this past weekend to 4 new movies according to BoxOfficeMojo had a small chance of passing Avengers: Age of Ultron's $459m domestic number by the end of its run as the MCU's 6th highest grossing domestic movie (behind Avengers 1, 3, 4, NHW & BP) and narrowly missing out on the #20 position on the all-time domestic list. It's been a little disappointing that its current foreign $375.3m number couldn't match or better Love & Thunder's $417.7m number :(

[@oscarnator2324]

I know some people who saw minions 2-3 tImes because of the trend for people to see it in suits

[@AllInTheGame01]

@@oscarnator2324 That just blows my mind!

[@esmeecampbell7396]

The Batman was a 15 or 18 so it lost the opportunity for a lot of that, kid audience and thus family ticket prices. It arguably therefore did better because it made almost as much with a smaller potential audience.

[@motherplayer]

@@esmeecampbell7396 Indeed. Sometimes it really is that simple as to why something did better. Because it's playing to a particular wider audience compared to the dark crime thriller.

[@cactustalks]

Dude how many tabs did you have to open to write this good on you but man that seems like a lot of work for a comment

[@everburn]

2:24 don't think we didn't see that little jab at captain marvel. Hilarious.😂

[@HoraceInkling]

I love how Captain Marvel is the only character without a photoshopped smile on the Avengers poster.

[@IWouldDrownJesus]

I appreciate That Mitchell and Webb Look clip

[@Sicod79]

Everything Everywhere All at Once was pure parental sleep medication. They got lost and sleepy watching it with us.

[@DPMusicStudio]

Loved that movie.

[@J.O.R.D]

3:25 says no but then says he saw it the very second after 😂

[@J.O.R.D]

6:49 didn’t catch this edit until the rewatch 🤣👏🏽

[@J.O.R.D]

14:03 😂 I love that it’s kept in

[@SuperPuris]

2:24 Amazing stuff from you, right there

[@ryangabbert3646]

Terrifier 2 had a budget of 250k and made 10 million where is it??!!

[@Luurens]

2:24 editor makes everyone smile except captain marvel💀👀

[@yoo_dude1855]

LMAO “it’s top gun maverick but I can’t tell you that yet”

[@KidFresh71]

Good year for movies! Top Gun was super fun.

[@ntat262]

These two have maybe the best banter on the internet

[@wayneturner8575]

Top Gun: Maverick was my favourite of those I watched in this lot. After thinking the original was memorable for being 80's cheesy camp,and the movie that cemented Tom Cruise as a megastar. I was highly weary about the belated sequel,and massively surprised.Maverick was fantastic fun, especially on the BIG SCREEN 🔥

[@MrTwon1610]

People forget the biggest hit this year was SnakeEyes. I can wait for the guys to review it

[@jcblacksmith]

You should know I just found your first commentary for captain America on an ancient Mr Sunday channel and was the 69th like (nice)

[@eddybaro7170]

I love these videos

[@motherplayer]

I may not be the biggest fan of Avatar in it's storytelling, but I will still give it better credit for being a success before I have to remember how disgusting it feels that "Jurassic World: Dominion" did better than it ever deserved.

[@mattrandazzo5491]

The hits video is the bomb and the bombs video is the hit

[@CHIIIEEEEEEEEFFFFSSS]

7:47 what a beautiful description of Minions

[@rl8259]

Not having China is really hurting Marvel. Doctor Strange 2 would easily pass 1.1B with China. Thor L&T would make 900M with China and Wakanda Forever would make 950M with China.

[@tronam]

China is a bit overrated for box office returns. The studio only gets about 20% of those grosses. 😕

[@rl8259]

@@tronam Doesn’t matter they’re useful for numbers and headlines they don’t actually care about the money they care about the numbers

[@nickydinino5651]

Great vid, love u guys, but there’s a glaring omission in this! Terrifier 2!!! Budget was just a few hundred thousand and it made 15 million

[@coolguyhino92]

2:23 I see you editor. That was funny.

[@nashocheese]

Some pretty good bets, but don't worry, I'm prepared to watch the bombs video twice so that it crushes this video

[@TechySpeaking]

I like how James just skipped Avatar's box office

[@Brione30]

Minions beating out Doctor Strange is the funniest thing to me

[@rl8259]

Why? The Minions franchise consistently makes over a Billion and the last Doctor Strange made 600M lol

[@taylorgayhart9497]

I don’t know why, but I find it endlessly hilarious that I didn’t even know sonic 2 came out this year lol

[@TheLastPrime38]

Nice to see Sonic make the list. Really surprised at how much I've enjoyed both movies.

[@shilowaters6082]

That Elvis comment was awesome!!!

[@janersy2003]

Australians sound funny 😁 subbed

[@americanpaisareturns9051]

I shed tears of joy during the opening sequence of Top Gun Maverick

[@DPMusicStudio]

Really? I checked my phone, because I wanted to make sure that I had bought tickets to the correct movie. I literally thought... "Did they re-release the original film and I bought tickets to that?" I was very confused. But - once I got over that... yes, I felt a lot of emotions throughout this film. I left that movie feeling amazing, unlike the horrible nightmare that was NO TIME TO DIE where I left depressed and hopeless. Doesn't it feel good to just feel good when you leave a film?

[@jaminelvers7250]

Same

[@DoNotWorryPodcast]

Terrifier 2 made $10 million off a $250k budget

[@ItsCoolerByTheLake]

It really is a shame that Glass Onion had that pitifully short one week released in cinemas before disappearing for a month only to be released as a Netflix exclusive. I saw it at the theater when it was around, and it absolutely deserved better.

[@yaboicatman]

Update: avatar 2 is already at 1.4 billion and is about to pass Top Gun 2