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Hollywood hits and flops, 2022

Every Hollywood film released in 2022 with a cost and a gross on record, graded on gross against cost six weeks after release. Blockbuster is three times its cost and up, hit is one and a half, average is one, and anything under one is a flop. 45 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	The Whale2022-12-09	$3M	$58M	19.2×	Blockbuster
2	Megan2022-12-28	$12M	$180M	15.0×	Blockbuster
3	X2022-03-17	$1M	$15M	14.7×	Blockbuster
4	Smile2022-09-23	$17M	$217M	12.8×	Blockbuster
5	Minions: The Rise of Gru2022-06-29	$85M	$940M	11.1×	Blockbuster
6	The Black Phone2022-06-16	$16M	$161M	10.1×	Blockbuster
7	Barbarian2022-09-08	$5M	$45M	10.1×	Blockbuster
8	Pearl2022-09-16	$1M	$10M	9.8×	Blockbuster
9	Top Gun: Maverick2022-05-27	$170M	$1.49B	8.8×	Blockbuster
10	Scream2022-01-12	$24M	$139M	5.8×	Blockbuster
11	Fall2022-08-11	$3M	$17M	5.8×	Blockbuster
12	Everything Everywhere All at Once2022-03-25	$25M	$139M	5.6×	Blockbuster
13	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022-12-07	$90M	$485M	5.4×	Blockbuster
14	Avatar: The Way of Water2022-12-16	$460M	$2.33B	5.1×	Blockbuster
15	The Batman2022-03-04	$185M	$773M	4.2×	Blockbuster
16	Sonic the Hedgehog 22022-03-30	$110M	$405M	3.7×	Blockbuster
17	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever2022-11-09	$250M	$859M	3.4×	Blockbuster
18	Uncharted2022-02-10	$120M	$407M	3.4×	Blockbuster
19	Elvis2022-06-22	$85M	$289M	3.4×	Blockbuster
20	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022-05-04	$295M	$956M	3.2×	Blockbuster
21	Thor: Love and Thunder2022-07-06	$250M	$761M	3.0×	Blockbuster
22	Bullet Train2022-08-03	$90M	$239M	2.7×	Hit
23	The Lost City2022-03-23	$74M	$193M	2.6×	Hit
24	Nope2022-07-20	$68M	$172M	2.5×	Hit
25	Don't Worry Darling2022-09-21	$35M	$87M	2.5×	Hit
26	The Banshees of Inisherin2022-10-20	$20M	$49M	2.5×	Hit
27	A Man Called Otto2022-12-28	$50M	$113M	2.3×	Hit
28	The Menu2022-11-17	$35M	$80M	2.3×	Hit
29	Morbius2022-03-30	$75M	$168M	2.2×	Hit
30	Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore2022-04-06	$200M	$407M	2.0×	Hit
31	Black Adam2022-10-19	$200M	$393M	2.0×	Hit
32	Triangle of Sadness2022-09-18	$16M	$25M	1.6×	Hit
33	Jurassic World Dominion2022-06-01	$659M	$1.00B	1.5×	Hit
34	Death on the Nile2022-02-09	$90M	$137M	1.5×	Hit
35	Lightyear2022-06-15	$200M	$226M	1.1×	Average
36	The Fabelmans2022-11-11	$40M	$46M	1.1×	Average
37	The Northman2022-04-07	$70M	$70M	1.0×	Flop
38	Babylon2022-12-22	$78M	$65M	0.8×	Flop
39	Tár2022-10-07	$35M	$29M	0.8×	Flop
40	Moonfall2022-02-02	$146M	$67M	0.5×	Flop
41	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022-11-23	$40M	$15M	0.4×	Flop
42	Women Talking2022-12-23	$20M	$8M	0.4×	Flop
43	Hotel Transylvania: Transformania2022-01-31	$75M	$19M	0.2×	Flop
44	Turning Red2022-03-10	$175M	$22M	0.1×	Flop
45	The Gray Man2022-07-13	$200M	$454K	0.0×	Flop

The method, in full

How a verdict is reached

Blockbuster: Gross of at least 3× cost and up what the film cost to make.
Hit: Gross of at least 1.5× what the film cost to make.
Average: Gross of at least 1× what the film cost to make.
Flop: Anything that did not return its cost. under 1×.

Budget and gross as reported on TMDB A film is graded 42 days after release, so a run still in cinemas is not called early, and a film with no budget on record cannot be graded at all.