After two years Hollywood would rather forget, 2022 offered some hope.
At the beginning of the year, the December 2021 holdover "Spider-Man: No Way Home" was still rocking the box office, breathing life back into the Hollywood machine after the COVID-19 pandemic completely derailed the movie industry. That movie proved superhero fans were willing to go back to theaters. But what about everyone else?
There were fits and starts, minor triumphs here and there, as people trickled back into their local multiplexes.
