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World Box Office, February 21 to 27, 2022: Tom Holland Remains Number 1
Before The Batman enters Uncharted territory next week, Spider-Man hung on to the box office top three. And with that, Tom Holland dominated the charts again, three weeks in a row, with two movies.
With Uncharted’s $23.25 million haul leading the domestic race, Tom appears to have another franchise in his hands. After two weekends, the actor’s globe-trotting treasure hunt movie with Mark Wahlberg has collected a total bounty of $83.3 million.
Channing Tatum also struck gold with Dog, his buddy road trip with a Belgian Malinois named Lulu. Channing’s co-directing debut with Reid Carolin held on to second place with a still-robust $10.13 million.
With a two-week total of $30.9 million, the comedy-drama is banking on its demographic – predominantly adult females – so it can stay solid amid the onslaught of Robert Pattinson’s The Batman next week.
Spider-Man: No Way Home, setting a record for staying in the top three since it debuted in December, collected $5.75 million. Tom’s Marvel Cinematic Universe megahit has now racked up a domestic total of $779.89 million.
Will Jon Watts’ movie, which saw all three actors who played Spidey in the last two decades – Tom, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire – together on the screen, hit the $800 million benchmark in North America? Box office pundits think it’s possible.
Gal Gadot’s Death on the Nile cruised to fourth place with $4.5 million. Kenneth Branagh’s $90 million-budgeted murder mystery, in which he stars as beloved Hercule Poirot, has earned $32.75 million so far.
On an otherwise quiet weekend, Jackass Forever sold $3.18 million movie tickets, enough to land the stunt-reality franchise installment at number five.
Rounding out the top ten, were, in order: Jennifer Lopez’s Marry Me ($1.85 million); Studio 666, the Foo Fighters’ comedy horror film where the band depicts recording their tenth album in a haunted Encino, California mansion (a so-so $1.58 million); Sing 2 ($2.11 million); Peter Dinklage and Joe Wright’s musical-romantic-drama adaptation of the classic play, Cyrano ($1.4 million); and Scream 5 ($1.35 million).
Internationally, Tom was also still king as Uncharted yielded a treasure loot of $35 million in more than 60 territories. As a result, director Ruben Fleischer’s action-adventure celebrated its $200 million milestone overseas.
Death on the Nile is finding life in offshore markets, which brought in $10.6 million. The movie also starring Armie Hammer, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, and Russell Brand crossed the $100 million global benchmark and has amassed $68.5 million overseas total so far.
Sing 2, the pandemic season’s runaway animated hit voiced by a cast led by Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConaughey, picked up $8.4 million and hit the $200 million mark internationally.
After drawing $7 million in movie stub sales in offshore cineplexes, No Way Home now boasts of these figures: $1.072 billion and $1.85 billion in overseas and global tallies, respectively. The superhero epic hit is especially strong in Mexico, Australia, Korea, France, and the United Kingdom.
Offshore revenues also buoyed up Marry Me ($2.65 million) and Jackass Forever ($1.7 million).
In China, the sequel to the country’s highest-grossing movie, The Battle at Lake Changjin II, has amassed cumulative revenues of $608 million. The original posted a record $905 million-plus in ticket sales.