US release: 18th December 2009
Bangladesh release: 16th December 2009
Belgium release: 16th December 2009
£95 Million $779.8 Million
$2.9 BillionAvatar this week has become the top grossing movie released globally in 2022, it is yet to be the top grossing movie of 2022 in North America and Canada or the UK.
The James Cameron directed sequel to Avatar has taken over $1.5 Billion at the global box office, with China, Japan, Europe and Australia showing good figures for the movie.
The current tally of global grosses is
In the UK the top grossing movie of 2022 is Top Gun: Maverick which took an amazing £83.5 Million during its summer run, the Avatar sequel still has a bit to go to catch up.
In North America and Canada the Top Gun sequel took $717 Million on its 24 week run, and with Avatar: The Way of Water still pulling in good numbers, and an increase in screen this weekend couples with little competition until Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in mid February its looking likely the movie will go ahead.
It was an interesting year at the box office in 2022, there were some big disappointments, but its looks like there were 3 Billion dollar movies as well as a couple which got close.
One of those movie will most likely go over the $2 Billion mark, the first time that has happened since Avengers: Endgame in 2019 (pre-pandemic), although Spider-Man: No Way Home came very close in 2021.
See the full list of the highest grossing global box office movies.
A couple of new releases bookend the UK box office this weekend with Avatar: The Way of Water making its debut at the top and The Nutcracker and the Magic Flute new at number 12 with £16,691.
Highest new movie this weekend
Director James Cameron and Disney finally release the long awaited sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time Avatar at the Uk box office.
The movie comes 13 years after the film visit to Pandora, and this movie takes place 10 years after the events of that movie.
The first Avatar took £8.5 Million on its opening weekend and over 18 weeks took over £93 Million and overtook Titanic as the top grossing movie in the UK, it has since been taken by a number of movie and Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the top grossing movie.
This sequel takes £11.6 Million on its debut which makes it the 77th top opening in the UK ever and the 9th top opening in the UK for the month of December.
THe original Avatar was a bit of a slow burner, and with the Christmas season upon us this movie could have good legs until Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is released on 17th February 2023.
After spending an incredible 3 weeks at the top the musical version of the classic Roal Dahl novel falls to number 2 with £1.3 Million, a 34% drop.
The movie has taken an amazing £12.8 Million over its 4 weeks of release.
In comparison the 1997 movie, adjusted for inflation, took £3.7 Million on its 4th weekend for a total of £37.8 Million.
Looking ahead to the movies total gross and if it can become the top grossing movie released in 2022, Top Gun: Maverick took £15.9 Million on its debut weekend and spent 23 weeks on the box office.
Falling to 3 this week is the sequel movie to Black Panther which takes a bit of a hit this weekend with Avatar: The Way of Water being a movie in direct competition, it takes £377,598 over the weekend, a 53% drop.
The movie has taken £31.6 Million over its 6 weeks of release, far lower than the original movie which has taken £44.8 Million at this point.
The movie about Santa Claus being a bad ass drops to number 3 this weekend with £330,606, a 42% drop over last weekend.
The movie as been on the box office fir 3 weeks now and has taken £2.6 Million.
Falling to number 4 is the latest Disney movie which takes £193,659 this weekend, a 37% drop, for a £2 Million total over 4 weeks of release.
As the world awaits the new Avatar movie released this coming Friday Black panther: Wakanda Forever spends a 5th weekend at the top of the North American box office as the top 5 stays the same as last weekend!
The highest new movie comes in at number 13 as the critically acclaimed The Whale~2022 takes $360,000 on limited release and The Mean One at 15 with $188,523.
5 weeks in for the Black Panther sequel and another weekend at the top of the North American box office as the movie takes $11 Million, a small 37% drop.
This pushes the total gross up to $409.8 Million over its 5 weeks of release which makes it the 3rd top movie of 2022.
The first movie took $26.6 Million on its fifth weekend for a total of $605 Million.
The bloodfest that is Santa Claus meets Home Alone remains in the runner up spot for a second weekend with $8.6 Million, a 35% drop.
This gives the movie a $26.6 Million total after 2 weekends of release which comparing it Krampus from 2015 which had taken $28.5 Million after 2 weeks its very close.
Disney's latest animated tale remains at 3 this weekend with $3.6 Million, a reasonable 29% drop over last weekend.
A $30.4 Million total after 4 weeks of release is causing Disney to put the animated feature on Disney+ sooner rather than later and will be removing from cinemas in the coming weeks.
Comparing it to last years Encanto it way lower than the $71 Million that movie took after 3 weeks.
The fine dining movie from director Mark Mylod is at 4 again this weekend with $2.7 Million, a 22% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken $29 Million over its 4 weeks of release.
The flying based movie starring Jonathan Majors is at 5 this weekend with $1.99 Million, a low 27% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total of $16.9 Million after 3 weeks of release.
There is a new trailer and a new poster released for upcoming sequel movie Avatar: The Way of Water which can seen in full if you scroll down this page.
On December 16, return to Pandora. - - Watch the brand-new trailer and experience #AvatarTheWayOfWater in 3D. pic.twitter.com/UtxAbycCIc
— Avatar (@officialavatar) November 2, 2022
Synopsis for Avatar: The Way of Water
Jake Sully and Ney'tiri have formed a family and are doing everything to stay together. However, they must leave their home and explore the regions of Pandora. When an ancient threat resurfaces, Jake must fight a difficult war against the humans.
Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.
Chinese movie Home Coming
hits the top of the global box office in another quiet weekend with the Hollywood movie Smile~2022 coming in behind it at number 2.Further down the chart Indian movie Ponniyin Selvan: I is new at number 7 with $8.7 Million, Ordinary Hero is also new at number 8 with $8.4 Million while Hollywood movie BROS is new at 9 with $4.8 Million.
Outside the top 10 there is a new release at number 12 with Honest Candidate 2 which takes $2.7 Million on its debut.
Highest new movie this weekend
Released in China to celebrate China's National Day holiday weekend the movie about two members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tasked with getting people out after was breaks out with Libya in 2011.
the movie makes its debut with a gross of $59.5 Million from its single terretory of release.
A new horror movie from director Parker Finn is the new movie at number 2 this weekend as it gets a release in a large 59 countries.
The movie has a global debut of $36.5 Million which includes territories like United Kingdom and Untied States.
The re-release of the highest grossing global movie of all time drops to number 2 this weekend after making a debut at the top.
The re-release takes $16.9 Million, from 52 territories, on its second weekend, a drop of 44%, and a take of $58 Million for this release, the movie of very close to an all time of $3 Billion and if it ever does cross that milestone it will be the first movie to ever achieve this.
Director Olivia Wildes troubled movie falls to number 4 this weekend with a gross fo $13.7 Million, from 64 territories, a large 54% drop over last weekend.
The movie has taken $54.7 Million over its 2 weeks of release.
George Clooney and Julie Roberts latest star vehicle drops to number 5 this weekend after 4 weeks on the chart with $9.4 Million from 59 countries.
The movie drop a small 15% this weekend for a total global gross of $45 Million, the movie has been a bigger hit than anyone probably thought, including the studio.