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World Box Office Weekend Report 18th - 20th March 2022: Another weekend at the top for The Batman as animated movie The Bad Guys is the top new movie

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The Batman

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

  • Number 1 - The Batman (3rd weekend)
  • Highest debut - The Bad Guys (@4)
  • Longest run - Spider-Man: No Way Home (14 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1.88 Billion)

World box office top 5 weekend breakdown 18th - 20th March 2022

The Batman

The Batman

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

Uncharted

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.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie

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.

The Bad Guys

The Bad Guys

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.

Sing 2

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.

This weeks top 10 World Box Office films

  1. The Batman - $85,900,000
  2. Uncharted - $27,000,000
  3. Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie - $22,058,677
  4. The Kashmir Files - $11,271,032
  5. The Bad Guys - $8,488,000
  6. Sing 2 - $7,580,000
  7. Dog - $5,689,209
  8. X - $4,796,259
  9. Spider-Man: No Way Home - $4,700,000
  10. Ambulance - $4,378,000
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