If Marvel fatigue is real, it isn’t manifesting itself in Fandango’s “most anticipated movies of 2023” survey. Among the 5,000 Fandango users polled, the most anticipated films coming next year are “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” and the Sony-produced Marvel sequel “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”
The hope is that an overall increase in theatrical releases in 2023 will help close the gap between the current overall domestic box office for the late 2010s. The overall box office is down around 43% from the last few pre-COVID years, and there were around 45% fewer theatrical releases compared to 2019.