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Global Box Office Figures 20th - 22nd May 2022: Doctor Strange 2 spends a third weekend at the top with The Roundup entering at number 2

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Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness

Worldwide box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness (3rd weekend)
  • Highest debut - The Roundup (@2)
  • Longest run - The Bad Guys (10 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness ($803 Million)
Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness spends a third weekend at the top of the global box office ahead of a huge weekend that will surely see it dethroned with 2 massive new releases hitting multiplexes.

Highest new entry of the weekend is the Korean action movie The Roundup which makes its debut at number 2.

Worldwide box office top 5 weekend breakdown 20th - 22nd May 2022

Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness

Three weeks at the top now for the Marvel sequel as the movie's global gross over the $800 Million mark on its way to a potential $1 Billion.

This weekend the movie took $71.6 Million from 50 countries which is a drop of 50% on its third weekend of release.

As mentioned there is a stong chance the movie could go over the $1 Billion mark in the coming weeks and the be first 2022 release to manage the milestone.

The movie is the top grossing film of 2022 this weekend taking over from The Batman.

The Roundup

The Roundup

Directed by Lee Sang-yong and starring Ma Dong-seok, this is a Korean action movie which has been released in 2 territories this weekend and still managed to enter the global box office at number 2.

The movie takes $23.7 Million on its debut weekend.

Downton Abbey: A New Era

The British high society drama gets its North American debut this week and goes back up the global box office to number 3 with a gross of $19.5 Million, a massive 82% increase, from 54 countries.

This gives the sequel movie a total global gross of $51.7 Million after 4 weeks of release.

The Bad Guys

The animated hit from the DreamWorks animated studio takes $12,7 Million over its 10th weekend of release from 69 countries.

The movie falls to 4th place this weekend and has now taken $182 Million globally at the box office.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

The video game movie adaptation falls to number 5 this weekend with $8.5 Million from 62 countries, a 13% drop, giving the movie a total global gross of $375 Million.

The movie has been on the box office now for 8 weeks and is the 8th top movie of 2022.

This weeks top 10 Global Box Office films

  1. Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness - $71,600,000
  2. The Roundup - $23,725,000
  3. Downton Abbey: A New Era - $19,568,000
  4. The Bad Guys - $12,747,000
  5. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - $8,540,000
  6. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 - $7,712,202
  7. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - $5,805,000
  8. Love Will Tear Us Apart - $5,795,000
  9. Everything Everywhere All At Once - $5,505,928
  10. The Lost City - $3,900,000
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