Proving that anime movies continue to increase their appeal in the United States and Canada, Jujutsu Kaisen O opened strongly and landed second place in the box office charts.

But the number two showing of Jujutsu Kaisen O, a film adaptation of Gege Akutami’s manga series revolving around Yuji Itadori, a young student who becomes a jujutsu sorcerer, surprised even some box office analysts. The Funimation release’s $17.6 million opening figures surpassed predictions.

Directed by Sunghoo Park, the film adaptation, which follows a new character, Yuta Okkotsu (Kayleigh McKee in the English voice cast), has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 100% percent as this story is being written.

The Batman picked up $36.8 million to stay on top on its third weekend. Those ticket sales helped push Robert Pattinson’s first outing as Bruce Wayne to hit the $300 million benchmark in the domestic charts.

Also still going strong was Tom Holland’s Uncharted, which ranked third with $8 million. Director Ruben Fleischer’s take of the video game franchise has amassed $125.8 million after five weeks in North America.

X, which premiered at SXSW and is a cinematic ode to 1970s horror, porn, and classic slasher films, bowed in fourth place. Auteur Ti West’s film, chronicling a porn crew shooting in a rural Texas property owned by an elderly couple, pocketed $4.4 million.

The gory film, directed, written, and edited by West, stars Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Martin Henderson, Kid Cudi, Owen Campbell, and Stephen Ure.

Channing Tatum’s Dog stayed solid with $4 million, which kept the human/canine buddy road-trip comedy in the fifth spot. The movie finally edged out Spider-Man: No Way Home in the top five.

Still, the acclaimed Spidey movie, which raked in $3.2 million and was good enough for sixth place, can still boast of being in the top ten after 14 weekends.

Rounding out the magic ten were, in order, Gal Gadot and Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile ($1.7 million); The Outfit, a crime drama starring Mark Rylance in Graham Moore’s feature directing debut ($1.51 million); The Kashmir Files, an Indian Hindi-language drama ($1.485 million); and Sing 2, the highest-grossing U.S. studio animated film in the pandemic area ($1.48 million).

Overseas, the Caped Crusader still reigned. Even with a less than stellar bow of $12.1 million in China because the world’s biggest film market is experiencing another COVID-19 spike and has shuttered 43 percent of its movie houses, The Batman has now collected $598 million globally.

Matt Reeves’ well-received interpretation of the DC Comics superhero earned $49.1 million in the offshore market and still performed especially well in France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico.

But in a twist, The Batman’s worldwide grosses came slightly more from the domestic market (50.1 percent). The movie is now poised to hit the $600 million global tally.

Uncharted, which further solidified Tom Holland’s status as an international box office star, reached the $200 million overseas benchmark. Worldwide, the treasure hunt action-adventure also starring Mark Wahlberg has racked up a ticket revenue fortune of $337.3 million.

Jared Leto and Marvel Comics will shake up the box office race when their Morbius arrives on April 1.