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$0 Avatar 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 static top 5 this weekend leaves Thor: Love and Thunder at the top for a second weekend while the top new movie of the weekend cam in outside the top 5 at number 6 with The Railway Children Return.
There were 2 other new releases, the first at number 10, Kaduva which took £47,354 and The Warriorr came in at number 12 with £25,850.
Remaining at the top of the UK box office this weekend is the fourth in the Thor series of movies which is also part of the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The movie suffers a hard fall in its second weekend with 67% from a weekend of £4.06 Million.
The movie has taken a total gross in the UK of £20.8 Million which a 1% above the previous movie Thor: Ragnarok.
The animated sequel movie, which is a spin off of the greater Despicable Me franchise remains at number 2 this weekend with £2.6 Million, a slim 38% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken £23.1 Million in the UK and this weekend breaks into the top 10 movies of 2022 at number 9.
The school summer holidays are about to start in the UK, and with the heatwave the Europe is experience at the moment this could work in the movies favour and it could see a return to the top.
The Baz Luhrmann directed bio-pic sits at number 3 this weekend with £1 Million, a very slim 24% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £16 Million after 3 weeks of release.
Still inside the top 5 after 8 weeks of release is the Tom Cruise sequel movie which has shattered expectation and this week takes £810,638, its first weekend taking under £1 Million.
Incredibly after 7 weeks this is a very slim 19% drop over last week and pushes the movies total to £72 Million, it is by far the top movie of 2022.
The dinosaur movie takes £383,502 on its 6th weekend of release, a reasonable 32% drop, which takes it total gross to £32 Million making it the 5th top movie of 2022.
Highest new movie this weekend
Highest new movie of the weekend comes in at number 6 in the shape of the 52 years in the making sequel to The Railway Children which starred a young Jenny Agutter.
This new movie is directed by Morgan Matthews and makes its debut with £365,481.
Top Gun Maverick remains at the top of the WorldWide box office on its second weekend if release wile the top new movie if Jurassic World Dominion which gets an early release in 15 countries.
Tom Cruise stays at the top of the global box office for a second weekend with his long in the waiting sequel with takes $167.7 Million, from 65 countries, on its second weekend of release, a small 32% drop over last weekend.
The movie crosses the $500 Million milestone this weekend as its total global gross rises to $548.6 Million.
The movie also jumps to the 4th top movie of 2022 with every possibility it will be in the top 3 by next weekend.
The Dinosaur sequel movie gets an early release in 15 countries this weekend and enters the global box office at number 2 with $55 Million.
The movie goes wide in Europe and America this coming weekend, so expect the movie to take over from Top Gun Maverick next weekend.
Five weeks of release now for the MCU movie and it takes $20.6 Million from 50 countries, a 47% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of $909.4 Million over its 5 weeks of release.
The movie will pass the $1 Billion mark in the coming weeks, in the mean time it is the top grossing movie of 2022 and the 71st top grossing movie of all time.
The animated hit movie climbs back to number 4 this weekend with $12.2 Million from a massive 72 movie, a 15% increase from last weekend.
The movie has now taken an amazing $218.2 Million over 12 weeks of release and is challenging Sing 2 for a position on the top 10 movies of 2022.
The Korean movie which entered the box office at number 3 last weekend falls to number 5 this week with $10.7 Million, a 35% drop over last weekend, from 5 countries.
This gives the movie a total global gross of $65 Million.
Batman spends a 3rd weekend at the top of the global box office while Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie climbs back to number 3 and animated movie The Bad Guys is the top new film of the weekend.
X is also a new entry at number 7 with $7.9 Million from 5 countries and Ambulance is also new with $4.3 Million from 35 countries.
World box office QuickView
World box office top 5 weekend breakdown 18th - 20th March 2022
Spending a third weekend at the top of the global box office this week for the caped crusader starring Robert Pattinson as the movie takes $85.9 Million from 77 countries, a 35% drop over last weekend, and this marks the movies first week of release in China.
This pushes the movies total global gross to over the half a billion threshold to $598 Million, which means it is still the second highest movie of 2022 behind The Battle At Lake Changjin II but it should take that movie by next weekend.
There is still no serious competition for the superhero movie until Morbius is released at the end of march so next weekend should see the movie continue at the top
The Tom Holland starring video game adaptation goes back up to number 2 on its 6th weekend of release with a weekend total of $27 Million from 58 countries, a 24% drop over last weekend.
Having now taken $337.2 globally the Ruben Fleischer directed film is the 5th top grossing movie of 2022.
This Japanese animated manga movie as first released in Japan at the tale end of 2021 where is was a smash hit, this weekend it got released in a few more countries, including some of Europe and America, which has pushed the film back to number 3 on the global box office.
Released now in 10 countries the movie grosses $22 Million giving it a total global gross of $144.6 Million.
Highest new movie of the weekend is this animated tale directed by Pierre Perifel and starring Sam Rockwell and Awkwafina.
Released in 25 countries the film takes $8.4 Million over the weekend and is new at number 4.
The animated smash hit movie climbs back to number 5 on its 13th weekend of release taking $7.5 Million from 69 countries, a 40% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a $376.4 Million global total.
A new trailer has been released by Sony for the next James Bond 007 movie No Time To Die starring Daniel Craig.
The new trailer comes a couple of months before the much delayed movie and includes some new footage from the much anticipated movie.
What is more interesting about this trailer, intended for the American audience, is that it looks as all the Daniel Craig Bond movie as one story and calls this the last installment.
In fact the first part of the trailer is like a condensed best of for Daniel Craig in the role.
The trailer gives away little of the story but there are some nice action shots in the trailer, the movie is out in the US on 8th October but in Europe and the UK you can see it on September 30th.