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World Box Office Weekend Report 8th - 10th April 2022: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 takes over at the top of the global box office with $108 Million weekend gross

World Box Office Weekend Report 8th - 10th April 2022: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 takes over at the top of the global box office with $108 Million weekend gross
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
As the movie goes wide into 54 counties including North America Sonic the Hedgehog 2 easily tops the global box office on its second weekend of release.

Top new movie of the weekend is Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore which gets released in 22 countries, but has to wait until this weekend coming for its North American debut.

Also entering the global box office at number 10 is French movie Qu'est Ce Qu'on a Tous Fait Au Bon Dieu? (Serial (Bad) Weddings 3) which takes $5.7 Million from its single country release.

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

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

After being beaten by Morbius last weekend the speedy blue video game hedgehog jump to the top of the global box office with ease this weekend having extended its country count to 54.

The movie takes $108 Million, a 76% increase, over the weekend pushing its total global gross to $141 Million after 2 weeks of release, it is the 9th top movie of 2022.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Getting a release in 22 countries the third in the Fantastic Beasts series of movies makes its debut at number 2 this weekend getting a release in 22 countries.

The movie takes a reasonable $58 Million on its debut, but with a release in countries like North America next weekend expect this to more than double and the movie to take over at the top.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Morbius

Falling hard to number 3 this weekend is the Marvel/Sony vampire movie starring Jared Leto which takes $25.2 Million over the weekend, a hard 70% drop over last weekend.

This puts the movie total global gross at $126 Million after 2 weeks of release, this must be seen as a big disappointment for Sony, especially after the mega success of Spider Man: No Way Home.

The Batman

Falling to number 4 on its 6th weekend of release the Caped Crusader takes $13 Million, a 46% drop over last weekend, the movie has taken a total of $735 Million.

The movie will fail to make $1 Billion, not too much of a surprise considering there is still a pandemic gripping the world and the Cinese release was far less than expected, but the movie is the top film of 2022 across the globe, so far!

Ambulance

The Michael Bay movie jumps to number 5 this weekend, from number 9, with $11.5 Million, a 75% increase over last weekend as the movie expands into 69 countries, this takes its total gross to $31 Million after 4 weeks of release.

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