Check the list of the Top 10 box office hits of 2022 and you’ll find nine were sequels or spinoffs, led by “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” and one was a restart: “The Batman.”
This is the way of the mainstream movie world. In the year ahead, we’re getting “Magic Mike’s Last Dance,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” “Creed III,” “John Wick: Chapter 4,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One,” “The Marvels,” “The Exorcist,” “Dune Part Two,” “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” “Wonka,” “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” etc., etc.
