US release: 20th May 2022
France release: 27th April 2022
Argentina release: 28th April 2022
£15.1 Million $43.9 Million
$69 MillionRemaining at the top this weekend is the Tom Cruise starring sequel movie Top Gun Maverick which has a small 32% drop over its debut last weekend.
Highest new movie of the weekend is the Indian movie Vikram which makes its debut at 7 with $1.7 Million, also new this weekend is David Cronenberg new movie Crimes of the Future with $1.1 Million while Watcher is new at number 11 with $815,000.
After a massive opening weekend the Top Gun sequel was going to stay at the top of the US box office for a second weekend, and it does it in style dropping only 32% from last weekend for a weekend gross of $86 Million.
The movie is proving to be a megga success for Paramount studios, which will make them wonder why they waited 36 years to pruduce a sequel, but perhaps thats why its proving to be a hit, the movie has been getting phenomenal reviews and great word of mouth as not being a formulaic summer blockbuster.
The total gross for the movie is now $291.6 Million after 10 days in cinemas which makes it the 3rd top movie of 2022.
The MCU sequel movie remains at number 2 this weekend with $9.2 Million on its 5th weekend of release, a 42% drop over last weekend.
This pushes the movies total US gross to $388.7 Million making it the top grossing movie of 2022 so far and the top grossing movie on this weekends box office chart.
The animated movie remains at number 3 this weekend with $4.5 Million, a large drop of 65% over its debut weekend last week.
The movie has now taken a US total of $22,2 Million, and with the American school holidays about to start this could be a top 5 mainstay for a few weeks to come.
The animated smash hit movie climbs back up to 4 this weekend with a gross of $3.3 Million, a small 24% drop over last week giving the movie a total of $87.2 Million after 7 weeks of release.
Dropping to number 5 is the British high class movie which takes $3 Million on its 3rd weekend of release, a 48% drop, giving the movie a total US gross of $35.7 Million.
Also following the in the footsteps, this time of animated TV series The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers makes its way from TV show to movie as The Bobs Burgers Movie makes its debut at number 5 this weekend.
Top Gun released in 1986 was the breakout movie for Tom Cruise and catapulted the young actor into mega stardom, there have been many attempts to bring a sequel to the big screen and 36 years later we finally get the movie.
After amazing reviews the movie flies into the box office at number 1 on its debut weekend with a gross of £15 Million making it the highest grossing debut for the actor, and the 27th highest debut of all time.
Its unfair to compare the gross of the sequel with the original but Top Gun opened to around £4.2 Million in 1986 which adjusted for inflation is about £16 Million, it went on to gross around £8.5 Million in the UK which adjusted for inflation is about £31 Million.
The movie is already the 8th top film in 2022, it should end up in the top 5 if not the top 3 by year end.
After spending 3 weeks at the top the sequel movie to Doctor Strange falls to number 2 this weekend with a gross os £1.3 Million, a fairly big 54% drop over last weekend.
This gives the film a total UK gross of £37.7 Million after 4 weeks of release, it is currently the top grossing movie on the top 15.
For 2022 it is currently the second top grossing movie but it should take The Batman by next weekend to become the top movie of the year so far, unless Top Gun Maverick spoils the party, and with a very long holiday weekend coming who can tell!
The independent movie about the multiverse has done amazingly well considering it went up against Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness but the movie peaked at number 2 last weekend and drops to number 3 this week with £486,829, a 42% drop.
After 3 weeks on the box office the movie has taken £3 Million in the UK.
Dropping to number 4 this weekend is the British aristocracy movie which takes £350,593, a 54% drop, over its 5th weekend giving the movie a total UK gross of £13 Million.
The sequel has not done as well as its predecessor as that movie had taken £25 Million at this point in its run having spent 3 weeks at the top.
The movie is the 10th top movie of 2022.
The Belcher family make their big screen debut as they transfer to the big screen which takes £346,591 on its debut.
The TV series Bob's Burgers is not as big in the UK as it is in America where the movie made its debut at number 3, and compared to The Simpsons Movie which made its debut on 2007, that movie took an amazing £13.6 Million and debuted at the top, The Simpsons are an institution thought!
The largest memorial day weekend opening and the highest opening of one of the biggest stars in the world isn't a bad claim for this weekends US box office as Top Gun Maverick makes its debut at the top.
Also inside the top 5 is the animated feature The Bobs Burgers Movie which is new at number 3 while the Indian sequel movie F3 Fun and Frustration is new at 10 with a debut of just over a $1 Million.
Veteran actor Tom Cruise made came to the attention of most people in the 1986 movie Top Gun and despite a number of attempts to bring a sequel to the big screen it has taken 36 years to make it.
The movie opens over memorial weekend which is often considered the start of the summer season for movies and takes an incredible $124 Million on its debut.
This is not only the top grossing movie over the holiday weekend but incredibly the top debut for Tom Cruise.
The movie has instantly become the 6th top movie in North America for 2022 but will most likely finish at least top 3.
The MCU movie from Disney has been around now for 4 weeks and gets push from the top after a successful 3 week run where it grossed an amazing $370 Million at the US box office.
This weekend the Sam Raimi directed movie take $16.4 Million, a 49% drop over last weekend, it does take over from The Batman as the top movie of 2022.
Like The Simpsons before them, Bob's Burgers makes the leap from television to the big screen and lands at number 3 this weekend.
The movie take a respectable $12.6 Million over the memorial day holiday, and with good reviews and school holidays on the horizon, like The Bad Guys this could hang around for a while.
The sequel movie based on the British Aristocracy falls to number 4 on its second weekend of release with $5.9 Million, a big 63% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a $28.4 Million total.
Falling to 3 this weekend is the animated former number 1 movie which takes $4.6 Million on its 6 weekend of release, a small 25% drop, giving the movie a total of $81.3 Million after 6 weeks of release.
With the impending explosion at the box office holdovers filled a majority of this weeks top 15 with the highest debut coming in at 8 as Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 takes £123,160.
Coming in at 9 is the encoure versions of the one day event movie Twenty One Pilots Cinema Experience which took £114,873 and just below at 11 is Benediction which took £100,635, and finally in the top 15 is the event movie Lucia Di Lammermoor: Met Opera 2022 which took £78,828.
The MCU hit movie remains at the top of the UK box office for a third weekend with a weekend gross of £3 Million taking its total to £35 Million after 3 weeks.
This weekend gross is a 48% drop over last weekend and although the movie has not grossed anywhere near that of the previous MCU movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home it has already far outgrossed the £23 Million of the first Doctor Strange from 2016.
The movie is the second top grossing movie of 2022 and should move into first place by next weekend replacing The Batman.
After the excellent word of mouth and reviews of the Michelle Yeoh starring movie it jumps up the box office with a weekend gross of £839,974 taking its total UK gross of £1.9 Million after 2 weeks.
The weekend gross is an amazing 19% increase over its debut weekend and although next weeks releases will effect the movies takings this has long box office run written all over it.
Falling to number 3 this weekend is the sequel movie based on the stately home in England with took £757,303 over the weekend, a 22% drop.
The movie has now taken £12 Million in the UK after 4 weeks and although it running behind that of Downton Abbey from 2019 this is still not a bad post COVID total and should seal the movie a third outing.
The little blue hedgehog this week spends its 8th weekend on the box office with a weekend take of £423,552, a small 19% drop over last weekend, especially good considering the age of the movie.
The movie has taken £24 Million in total and is the 5th top movie of 2022, and it has now beaten Uncharted to become the top grossing video game adaptation in the UK, an honor Uncharted recently took from the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
The Sandra Bullock action comedy spends a 6th weekend on the box office, and goes back up the chart into the top 5 with £357,144, a 3% increase.
The movie has now taken an excellent £9.8 Million in the UK and will pass the £10 Million milestone by next weekend.
Top new movie of the weekend is the sequel movie Downton Abbey: A New Era which makes its debut at number 2 this weekend.
Also making a debut in the top 5 is Men while outside the top 5 at number 13 is 2000 Mules with $765,000.
US box office top 5 weekend breakdown 20th - 22nd May 2022
Sitting at the top of the North American box office for a third straight weekend is the latest MCU movie event which this weekend takes $31.6 Million, a 49% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken a huge $342 Million in total in the US, which far outstips the total US gross of the first movies $232.6 Million.
The movie has also this weekend taken over as the top movie of 2022 in North America.
Making its debut at number 2 this weekend is the sequel to the 2019 movie Downton Abbey which was the first big screen outing of the much loved TV show.
The sequel takes $16 Million on its debut which is half that of the original movie, a sign of diminishing returns.
It would seem that the only series of movies which bucks the trend of sequels not doing as well as the original is anything Disney release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even the sequel trilogy of Star Wars movies took less as each movie was released!
The DreamWorks animated hit movie falls to number 3 this weekend with $6 Million, a small 13% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a US total gross of $74.3 Million after 5 weeks of release.
The blue hedgehog and friends fall a single place to number 4 this weekend with $3.9 Million, a small 15% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total gross of $181 Million.
The movie is the 4th top grossing film of 2022 in the US.
Finally on the top 5 and making its debut is the latest film from celebrated director Alex Garland which takes $3.2 Million in its debut.
The directors last movie Annihilation which starred Natalie Portman made its debut in February 2018 and took $11 Million on its first weekend of release.