List of 2022 box office number-one films in the United States

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This is a list of films which ranked number one at the weekend box office for the year 2022. [1]

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Number-one films

#Weekend end dateFilmGrossNotesRef.
1January 9, 2022 Spider-Man: No Way Home $32,617,921Spider-Man: No Way Home became the first film since Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings to top the box office for four consecutive weekends. During the weekend, Sing 2 became the first animated film since the COVID-19 lockdowns in North America to surpass $100 million domestically. [2]
2January 16, 2022 Scream $30,018,805 [3]
3January 23, 2022Spider-Man: No Way Home$14,005,614Spider-Man: No Way Home reclaimed the #1 spot in its sixth weekend of release, making it the first film since Guardians of the Galaxy to top the box office in its sixth weekend. It also became the first film since The Croods: A New Age to top the box office for five weekends as well as for five non-consecutive weekends. [4]
4January 30, 2022$11,003,528Spider-Man: No Way Home became the first film since Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle to top the box office in its seventh weekend. It also became the first film since Avatar to top the box office for six weekends as well as the first film since Back to the Future to top the box office for six non-consecutive weekends. During the weekend, the film surpassed $1 billion at the international box office. [5]
5February 6, 2022 Jackass Forever $23,154,388 [6]
6February 13, 2022 Death on the Nile $12,891,123 [7]
7February 20, 2022 Uncharted $44,010,155 [8]
8February 27, 2022$23,001,773 [9]
9March 6, 2022 The Batman $134,008,624 [10]
10March 13, 2022$66,511,221In third place, BTS Permission to Dance on Stage — Seoul: Live Viewing 's $6.8 million opening weekend broke Burn the Stage: The Movie 's record ($2.4 million) for the highest opening for an event cinema film. [11]
11March 20, 2022$36,723,197The Batman became the first film in 2022 to top the box office for three consecutive weekends. [12]
12March 27, 2022 The Lost City $30,453,269During the weekend, Spider-Man: No Way Home became the third film to gross over $800 million at the domestic box office after Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Endgame . [13]
13April 3, 2022 Morbius $39,005,895 [14]
14April 10, 2022 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 $72,105,176Sonic the Hedgehog 2 broke Sonic the Hedgehog 's record ($58 million) for the highest weekend debut for a video game adaptation. [15]
15April 17, 2022 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore $42,151,256 [16]
16April 24, 2022 The Bad Guys $23,950,245During the week, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($149.5 million) passed Sonic the Hedgehog ($148.9 million) to become the highest grossing video game adaptation of all time at the domestic box office. [17]
17May 1, 2022$16,237,070 [18]
18May 8, 2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness $187,420,998Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had the highest weekend debut of 2022. [19]
19May 15, 2022$61,755,804 [20]
20May 22, 2022$32,304,560 [21]
21May 29, 2022 Top Gun: Maverick $126,707,459Top Gun: Maverick broke Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 's record ($114.7 million) for the highest Memorial Day weekend debut. [22]
22June 5, 2022$90,037,011Top Gun: Maverick's –28.9% drop broke Shrek 2 's record (–33.2%) for the smallest drop in its second weekend of any film debuting with over $100 million in its opening weekend. [23]
23June 12, 2022 Jurassic World Dominion $145,075,625 [24]
24June 19, 2022$59,150,175 [25]
25June 26, 2022 Elvis $31,211,579Initial estimates had Top Gun: Maverick ahead of Elvis. [26]
26July 3, 2022 Minions: The Rise of Gru $107,010,140Minions: The Rise of Gru broke Transformers: Dark of the Moon 's record ($97.9 million) for the highest Fourth of July weekend debut. It also became the first animated film to open with $100 million during the COVID-19 pandemic era. [27]
27July 10, 2022 Thor: Love and Thunder $144,165,107Minions: The Rise of Gru and Thor: Love and Thunder became the first two films to bring in over $100 million over two consecutive weekends since Incredibles 2 and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in 2018. [28]
28July 17, 2022$46,632,172 [29]
29July 24, 2022 Nope $44,366,910Nope had the highest opening weekend for an original film since director Jordan Peele's previous film Us in 2019. [30]
30July 31, 2022 DC League of Super-Pets $23,003,441 [31]
31August 7, 2022 Bullet Train $30,030,156 [32]
32August 14, 2022$13,405,022 [33]
33August 21, 2022 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero $21,053,798Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero became the first foreign language film as well as the first Japanese animated film since Demon Slayer: Mugen Train to reach #1 at the box office. [34]
34August 28, 2022 The Invitation $6,805,468 [35]
35September 4, 2022Top Gun: Maverick$6,014,128Top Gun: Maverick reclaimed the #1 spot in its fifteenth week of release after twelve weekends out of the top spot, making it the first film since Titanic to top the box office in its fifteenth weekend. Initial estimates had Spider-Man: No Way Home (The More Fun Stuff Version) ahead of Top Gun: Maverick. [36]
36September 11, 2022 Barbarian $10,543,948 [37]
37September 18, 2022 The Woman King $19,051,442 [38]
38September 25, 2022 Don't Worry Darling $19,353,213 [39]
39October 2, 2022 Smile $22,609,925 [40]
40October 9, 2022$18,461,772Smile's –18.3% drop marked the best non-holiday hold of the COVID-19 pandemic era. [41]
41October 16, 2022 Halloween Ends $40,050,355Simultaneously released on Peacock. [42]
42October 23, 2022 Black Adam $67,004,323 [43]
43October 30, 2022$27,472,140 [44]
44November 6, 2022$18,271,625 [45]
45November 13, 2022 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever $181,339,761Black Panther: Wakanda Forever broke The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 's record ($158 million) for the highest weekend debut in November as well as Beauty and the Beast 's record ($174.7 million) for the highest weekend debut for a film with a female protagonist. [46]
46November 20, 2022$66,482,266 [47]
47November 27, 2022$45,583,904Black Adam and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever became the first two films to top the box office for at least three consecutive weekends in a row since Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle . [48]
48December 4, 2022$17,540,051Black Panther: Wakanda Forever became the first film since Spider-Man: No Way Home to top the box office for four consecutive weekends. [49]
49December 11, 2022$11,234,702Black Panther: Wakanda Forever became the first film since Spider-Man: No Way Home to top the box office for five weekends as well as the first film since Tenet to top the box office for five consecutive weekends. [50]
50December 18, 2022 Avatar: The Way of Water $134,100,226Avatar: The Way of Water broke Avatar 's record ($77 million) for the highest weekend debut for an environmentalist film and Deadpool 's record ($132.4 million) for the highest weekend debut for a 20th Century Studios film. [51]
51December 25, 2022$63,338,220 [52]
52January 1, 2023$67,409,155Black Adam, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Avatar: The Way of Water became the first three films since Coco , Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle to each top the box office for at least three consecutive weekends in a row. [53]

Highest-grossing films

Calendar gross

Highest-grossing films of 2022 by Calendar Gross [54]

RankTitleStudio(s)Actor(s)Director(s)Domestic Gross
1. Top Gun: Maverick Paramount Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris and Val Kilmer Joseph Kosinski $718,732,821
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Walt Disney Studios Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Martin Freeman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Angela Bassett Ryan Coogler $436,499,646
3. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Walt Disney Studios Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg and Rachel McAdams Sam Raimi $411,331,607
4. Avatar: The Way of Water Disney/20th Century Studios Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, Matt Gerald, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco and Jemaine Clement James Cameron $401,007,908
5. Jurassic World Dominion Universal Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Isabella Sermon, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong and Omar Sy Colin Trevorrow $376,851,080
6. Minions: The Rise of Gru Universal voices of Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeoh, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews and Alan Arkin Kyle Balda $369,695,210
7. The Batman Warner Bros. Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis and Colin Farrell Matt Reeves $369,345,583
8. Thor: Love and Thunder Walt Disney Studios Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Taika Waititi, Russell Crowe and Natalie Portman Taika Waititi$343,256,830
9. Spider-Man: No Way Home Sony Pictures Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire Jon Watts $241,130,301
10. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Paramount James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore, Lee Majdoub, Idris Elba and Jim Carrey Jeff Fowler $190,872,904

In-Year Release

Highest-grossing films of 2022 by In-year release [55]
RankTitleDistributorDomestic gross
1. Top Gun: Maverick Paramount $718,732,821
2. Avatar: The Way of Water Disney/20th Century $684,075,767
3. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Disney $453,829,060
4. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness $411,331,607
5. Jurassic World Dominion Universal $376,851,080
6. Minions: The Rise of Gru $369,695,210
7. The Batman Warner Bros. $369,345,583
8. Thor: Love and Thunder Disney $343,256,830
9. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Paramount $190,872,904
10. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Universal $185,535,345


Highest-grossing films by MPA rating of 2022 [56]
G The Polar Express (re-release)
PG Minions: The Rise of Gru
PG-13 Top Gun: Maverick
R Nope

See also

References

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