Unlike last year’s CinemaCon, Sony Pictures Chairman Tom Rothman didn’t have a record-breaking hit like “Spider-Man: No Way Home” to tout from his studio’s 2022 box office record. But that didn’t stop him from cheering on theater owners from the Caesars Palace stage and mocking those who predicted their demise.
“For the past three years, as the punditocracy pissed on your business, we at Sony held fast,” Rothman boasted. “We are the only studio that held entirely to theatrical. We were sure that movies in theaters would not only survive but triumph. Well, whaddaya know?”
In 2022, Sony’s yielded relatively quieter numbers than in 2021, when films like “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” and “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” became big successes while “Spider-Man: No Way Home” became one of the top 10 highest-grossing films of all time.