The Batman still dominates the box office





(Los Angeles) The Batmanthe new dark opus of the adventures of the masked vigilante, continues to fly over the North American box office for the third consecutive week, according to provisional figures from the specialized firm Exhibitor Relations published on Sunday.

Posted at 2:42 p.m.

The Warner Bros. film, where Batman is played by British actor Robert Pattinson, grossed $36.8 million from Friday to Sunday in the United States and Canada, and more than $300 million since its release. exit.

The feature film directed by Matt Reeves, with a budget of 200 million dollars, is also an international success with 598 million dollars in revenue.

The animated movie Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 from studio Crunchyroll/Funimation (95% owned by Sony Pictures), climbed to a surprising second place for its release. Also of dark inspiration, it tells the fight of a young man who became an exorcist against evil spirits.

A huge popular success in Japan, it collected $17.7 million in receipts over three days in North American cinemas, “a huge release” for an animated film according to David Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.

He relegates to third place Uncharted, adaptation of the successful video game published by Sony. The film, in which Tom Holland plays a treasure hunter, returns in the fifth week with 8 million dollars (125.9 million in total).

Another new release, the horror movie X, ranks directly fourth with $4.4 million in revenue. Even if the amount seems small, “a horror film is not expensive to make” and Xwhich enjoyed good reviews, “should bail out and even make a few dollars” in profit, according to David Gross.

The journey continues for dog, fifth in the charts with $4.1 million for its fifth week in theaters. The film tells the road trip of an American army veteran, played by Channing Tatum, who accompanies Lulu, a dog injured while working with the army in Afghanistan, to the funeral of his former master.

The rest of the top 10

6. Spider-Man: No Way Home (3.2 million)
7. Death on the Nile (1.7 million)
8. The Outfit (1.5 million)
9. The Kashmir Files (1.5 million)
10. Sing 2 (1.5 million)


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