COVID-19 outbreak, superhero films' box office revenue stood at 141.8 million dollars. Despite the growth, the 2021 figure amounts to around 45 percent of the 3.19-billion-dollar box office revenue recorded in 2019.
Throughout 2021, superhero movies – namely "Spider-Man: No Way Home", "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings", "Venom: Let There Be Carnage", "Black Widow", "Eternals", "The Suicide Squad", and "Wonder Woman 1984" – collectively grossed almost 1.44 billion U.S. dollars in the United States and Canada. A year earlier, amidst the Combined annual box office revenue of superhero movies in the United States and Canada from 1978 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars)
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Overview
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- Premium Statistic Highest-grossing film franchises and series 2023
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- Basic Statistic Average revenue of films in the U.S. & Canada 1995-2022, by selected source material
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Box office
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- Premium Statistic Combined annual box office revenue of superhero movies in the U.S. & Canada 1978-2021
- Basic Statistic DC Comics movies box office revenue in the U.S. & Canada 1978-2022
- Premium Statistic Marvel Comics films: production costs and global box office revenue 2002-2022
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Viewers
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- Premium Statistic Superhero movie viewers in theaters in the U.S. 2019, by age group
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Characters
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- Premium Statistic Favorability of actors who played Catwoman in the U.S. 2019
- Premium Statistic The Batman movie: Robert Pattinson or Nicholas Hoult as Batman in the U.S. 2019
- Premium Statistic Favorability of actors who played the Joker in the U.S. 2019
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Representation
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- Premium Statistic Public opinion on the diversity of superhero movies in the U.S. 2019
- Premium Statistic Representation of minorities in superhero movies U.S. 2019
- Premium Statistic Representation of LGBTQ people in superhero movies U.S. 2019
- Premium Statistic Representation of African people in superhero movies U.S. 2019, by ethnicity
- Premium Statistic Representation of Black people in superhero movies U.S. 2019
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- Premium Statistic Public opinion on superhero movies having more white characters U.S. 2018
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- Films with more nominations to the Goya Awards 2021
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- Box office revenue of the Fantastic Beasts movies worldwide as of 2022, by region
- Childrens' favorite superheroes in Australia 2018
- Box office revenue distribution during Spring Festival in China 2022, by region
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Statista. (June 3, 2022). Combined annual box office revenue of superhero movies in the United States and Canada from 1978 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 08, 2023, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/311931/superhero-movies-box-office-revenue/
Statista. "Combined annual box office revenue of superhero movies in the United States and Canada from 1978 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars)." Chart. June 3, 2022. Statista. Accessed December 08, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/311931/superhero-movies-box-office-revenue/
Statista. (2022). Combined annual box office revenue of superhero movies in the United States and Canada from 1978 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 08, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/311931/superhero-movies-box-office-revenue/
Statista. "Combined Annual Box Office Revenue of Superhero Movies in The United States and Canada from 1978 to 2021 (in Million U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 3 Jun 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/311931/superhero-movies-box-office-revenue/
Statista, Combined annual box office revenue of superhero movies in the United States and Canada from 1978 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/311931/superhero-movies-box-office-revenue/ (last visited December 08, 2023)
Combined annual box office revenue of superhero movies in the United States and Canada from 1978 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph], Statista, June 3, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/311931/superhero-movies-box-office-revenue/