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The highest new movie of the week was the sequel Chinese film The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure which landed at 9 with $3 Million on its debut.
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Global box office top 5 breakdown weekend 28th - 30th January 2022
Seven weeks in now for the multiverse Spider-Man movie as it starts to challenge the global box office to be the top grossing movie of all time, an honour currently held by Avatar which has taken $2.8 Billion since its release in 2009.
The movie has still to be released in China which is currently still unset and its unknown if a release will happen.
This weekend the movie takes another $32.1 Million from 64 countries which pushes the movies total to $1.7 Million, so it still has a long way to go before it even goes over the $2 Billion mark, but it is achievable.
Its quite an achievement that the movie still only has a 23% drop over last weekend, meaning that people are most likely seeing the film multiple times.
The movie is naturally the top movie of 2022 and its gross is getting to the point where it may be hard to beat with $370.9 Million taken this year.
The animated sequel is proving to be a massive hit just like its prequel Sing from 2017 as the movie takes $22,2 Million in second place where it jumped back to this week, this is an amazing 17% increase over last weekend and the movie is released in 63 countries.
The movie is edging towards the $300 Million mark as this weeks its total gross hits $267.9 Million after 6 weeks of release.
This places the movie as the second top film of 2022 globally.
The horror movie sequel falls to number 3 this week as it starts its decent down the box office with a weekend gross of $13.8 Million from 56 countries, a 39% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total gross of $106.2 Million after 3 weeks.
Director Guillermo del Toro latest movie jumps up the box office to number 6 this weekend with $6.6 Million from 42 countries, a 26% increase over last weekend, giving the movie a $22,9 Million total after 2 weeks.
Six week of release now for the prequel movie as it falls to number 5 this weekend with $5.9 Million from 47 countries, a 25% drop, giving the film a total global gross of $114.4 Million.
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