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Post pandemic figures can't be compared to pre at all. It's just a silly thing to attempt. Opening night showings for films that are declared "full" have 50% capacity or less. No film is going to make anything near what it could have made under normal conditions.I do enjoy the detractors pointing at the box office results and comparing it to the original SS. That's not an apples to apples comparison. There are too many variables to account for. It seems silly to me that we're even arguing about it, frankly.
Would it have made a billion dollars under normal market conditions? No. I have my doubts that it would have exceeded the first movie's gross. That does not mean that it wouldn't have been profitable in a normal year.