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World Box Office Weekend Report 1st - 3rd April 2022: Morbius makes its debut at the top of the global box office with $84 Million

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Morbius
Sony releases their next comic book movie from the Spider-Man universe with the vampire villain Morbius and despite mixed reviews the movie makes its debut at the top of the global box office.

Also making its debut in second place is the video game favourite Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which was release in fewer countries and did top the box office in many of them<./p>

World box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Morbius (1st weekend)
  • Highest debut - Morbius (@1)
  • Longest run - Sing 2 (15 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - The Batman ($710.5 Million)

World box office top 5 weekend breakdown 1st - 3rd April 2022

Morbius

Morbius

Sony continue their run of Spiderverse villains following in the same vein as Venom as Jared Leto leto becomes scientist who tries to find a cure for his medical condition and becomes a vampire type creature.

The movie takes $85 Million globally on its debut from 63 countries, a figure reflective of the critical panning the movie got and the bad word of mouth.

This movie could be a mis-step for the successful Spiderverse movies and the almost guaranteed sequel must now be in question.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Released in 31 countries, presumably to stop a clash with Morbius in many territories, the blue hedgehog video game hero makes its debut at number 2 with $25.2 Million.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

The movie gets a far wider release next weekend and its likely we'll see it climb to the top of the global box office.

The Batman

Five weeks on fro the caped crusader as the movie slips to number 3 on the global box office with a weekend gross of $24 Million from 77 countries, a 47% drop giving the movie a total gross of $7120.5 Million.

The movie has been a major success for the DC universe and a sequel is all but guaranteed, but considering we just has Spider-Man: No Way Home almost hit $2 Billion globally Warner Bros. must be feeling a little upset the movie didn't get to go over the Billion milestone!

RRR

The smash hit Indian period drama falls to number 4 this weekend after its impressive debut at 3 last weekend, this week it takes $22.7 Million from 21 countries, a 41% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total of $112 Million.

The Lost City

Dropping to number 5 this weekend after its number 2 debut last weekend the Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum action comedy takes $16.7 Million from 18 countries on its second weekend, a 52% drop, giving the movie a total of $61.5 Million.

In comparison Channing Tatum's last movie Dog, released only a few weeks ago had taken over $35 Million total by its second weekend of release globally, although this movie is due to open in quite a few territories still.

This weeks top 10 World Box Office films

  1. Morbius - $84,000,000
  2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - $25,500,000
  3. The Batman - $24,200,000
  4. RRR - $22,702,989
  5. The Lost City - $16,700,000
  6. The Bad Guys - $10,543,000
  7. Uncharted - $8,805,000
  8. Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie - $4,552,766
  9. Ambulance - $3,340,000
  10. Sing 2 - $3,231,000
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