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Global Box Office Figures 4th - 6th March 2022: The Batman dominates the global box office on its debut weekend of release #boxoffice

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The Batman
Superhero movies strike again as Warner Bros. DC movie The Batman storms to the top of the global box office on its opening weekend and dominates every country on release.

Global box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - The Batman (1st weekend)
  • Highest debut - The Batman (@1)
  • Longest run - Spider-Man: No Way Home (12 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1.86 Billion)

Global box office top 5 weekend breakdown 4th - 6th March 2022

The Batman

The Batman

With all the hype and due to a couple of release date changes causing pent up demand the Matt Reeves directed movie storms the global box office making its debut in 75 location and taking 76% of the box office takings.

The latest incarnation of the caped crusader, played by Robert Pattison, gets a debut gross of $248 Million, the second highest since 2019 with only Spider-Man: No Way Home taking more.

The movie is already the 5th top grossing movie of 2022.

Uncharted

The Tom Holland starring movie falls into second place this weekend with $28 Million from 65 countries, a 51% drop over last weekend.

The movie has now taken $271 in global takings and is the 4th top movie of 2022.

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Still hanging around on the top 3, and for the 12 weekend is the smash hit Marvel/Sony movie which takes $8.4 Million over the weekend from 64 countries, a reasonable 34% drop over last weekend.

The movie has now taken $1.8 Billion globally, it is the second top movie of 2022 and the 3rd top movie of all time.

Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

Dropping to number 4 this weekend, Kenneth Branagh's version of the Agatha Christie novel which takes $7.8 Million from 42 countries, a 48% drop.

The movies total global gross of now $113 Million over 4 weeks of release and is the 9th top movie of 2022.

The Battle At Lake Changjin II

The smash hit Chinese language sequel holds at number 5 this weekend with $7 Million from 5 countries, 39% down on last weekend, giving the movie a $601 Million total.

It is the top movie of 2022, despite having such a limited global release.

This weeks top 10 Global Box Office films

  1. The Batman - $258,200,000
  2. Uncharted - $28,400,000
  3. Spider-Man: No Way Home - $8,400,000
  4. Death On the Nile - $7,827,000
  5. The Battle At Lake Changjin II - $7,497,828
  6. Dog - $6,831,181
  7. Too Cool to Kill - $5,944,879
  8. Sing 2 - $5,759,000
  9. Nice VIew - $3,950,725
  10. Doraemon The Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 - $3,434,293
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