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World Box Office Weekend Report 8th - 10th July 2022: Thor: Love and Thunder is the top global movie on its debut with over $300 Million

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Thor: Love and Thunder
There are three new releases on the global box office this weekend with Thor: Love and Thunder the highest as it makes its debut at the top of the global box office.

Also new is Detective Vs. Sleuths at number 6 with $22 Million from just 3 countries and I Love You (Bahebek) at number 10 with $2.6 Million from 5 countries.

World box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Thor: Love and Thunder (1st weekend)
  • Highest debut - Thor: Love and Thunder (@1)
  • Longest run - Top Gun: Maverick (7 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Top Gun: Maverick ($1.1 Billion)

World weekend box office top 5 breakdown 8th - 10th July 2022

Thor: Love and Thunder

Making its debut at the top of the global box office is the latest movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the fourth in the Thor series of movies which reunites Thor with Jane Foster.

The movie gets a release in 48 countries and takes $302 Million on its debut weekend.

After climbing to number 1 last weekend as the movie went wide across the globe this weekend the movie falls to number 2 unable to hold off the might of Thor: Love and Thunder.

Released in a huge 65 countries the movie takes $45.5 Million over the weekend, a reasonable 48% drop on its 3rd weekend.

This gives the animates sequel a total gross of $399.8 Million after 3 weeks of release.

Still inside the top 3 on its 7th weekend, the Tom Cruise sequel movie to Top Gun tales $38 Million this weekend, a 38% drop, from 66 countries.

This gives the movie a total global gross of $1.18 Million and makes it by far the top grossing movie of 2022.

Lighting Up the Stars

The Chinese movie about a relationship between a funeral director and a young girl is still released in a single country and this weekend is at 4 with $27 Million, a 37% drop.

This takes the movies total global gross to $176.2 Million after 3 weeks of release.

Finally on the top 5, and falling to 5 is the latest dinosaur movie from director Colin Trevorrow which takes $23.9 Million on its 6th weekend of release, a 44% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total global gross of $876.4 Million and the third top movie of 2022 so far.

The movie will miss out of the one billion mark globally which will makes it the lowest grossing movie of the Jurassic World series which have all gone over the global milestone.

This weeks top 10 World Box Office films

  1. Thor: Love and Thunder - $302,000,000
  2. Minions: The Rise of Gru - $101,945,000
  3. Top Gun: Maverick - $38,500,000
  4. Lighting Up the Stars - $27,648,000
  5. Jurassic World: Dominion - $23,942,000
  6. Detective Vs. Sleuths - $22,572,000
  7. Elvis - $19,700,000
  8. The Black Phone - $12,581,000
  9. Lightyear - $7,800,000
  10. I Love You - $2,618,000
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