It was a neck-and-neck race for the top spot at the box office this weekend, with two holdovers – last weekend’s No. 1 film Scream and the six-week-old Spider-Man: No Way Home – vying for bragging rights over a slow frame in which two wide openers failed to make much of an impression.
Emerging victorious was Spider-Man: No Way Home, which took in an estimated $14.13M, a drop of just 30% from last weekend. That brings the Marvel blockbuster to $721.01M, putting it in fourth place all-time domestically (the No. 3 spot is held by Avatar, which has a lifetime gross of $760.5M in North America).
Globally, Spider-Man: No Way Home reached a new milestone, surpassing the lifetime grosses of both The Lion King ($1.66B) and Jurassic World ($1.67B) to become the No. 6 all-time grosser at the worldwide box office. No Way Home brought in an estimated $27.7M from 63 markets this weekend for a global tally of $1.69B, $970.1M of which came from overseas. Top markets to date include the U.K. ($116.9M), Mexico ($73.4M), South Korea ($60.6M), France ($59.9M), Australia ($53.2M) and Brazil ($52.4M). Globally, No Way Home is now the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time in the IMAX format, where it took in an estimated $2.7M this weekend for a worldwide tally of $105M.
Last weekend’s top finisher, Paramount’s Scream “re-quel” (sequel/reboot), took in an estimated $12.4M in its sophomore frame, down 59% from its $30.02M three-day opening. That’s a fairly steep drop, though certainly not unusual for a horror film given the typically frontloaded nature of the genre at the box office. Nevertheless, the meta-slasher has a healthy gross of $51.35M to date and has already far surpassed the $38.2M lifetime total of 2011’s Scream 4, the last entry in the long-running horror series.
Scream grossed an estimated $10.2M from 54 markets, bringing its international total to $33.6M and its global tally to $84.95M.
Third place again went to Universal’s Sing 2, which grossed an estimated $5.71M in its fifth weekend of release (down just 28%). The leggy animated sequel has a healthy $128.41M to date. Overseas, Sing 2 grossed an estimated $12.8M, including No. 1 openings in Germany ($2.98M) and Poland ($2.42M), bringing its international total to $112.8M and its global total to $241.21M.
Debuting softly in fourth place was the Universal-distributed Redeeming Love (from Nthibah Pictures, Mission Pictures and Pinnacle Peak Pictures), which took in an estimated $3.71M in its opening frame from 1,903 locations. The faith-based romantic drama based on the novel of the same name was dinged by terrible reviews (it currently sits at just 11% on Rotten Tomatoes), while its opening gross was no doubt affected by the reticence of its target audience (women over 35) to return to theaters amid the ongoing pandemic.
No. 5 went to Disney/20th Century Studios’ The King’s Man, which grossed an estimated $1.8M in its fifth weekend of release for a total of $31.5M to date. Overseas, the franchise entry grossed an estimated $6.2M from 45 markets, bringing its international total to $73.8M and its global total to $105.3M.
Closely behind that in sixth place was Universal’s The 355, which took in $1.6M in its third weekend for a total of $11.08M.
Lionsgate’s American Underdog took seventh place with an estimated $1.23M, down just 22% from last weekend. The Kurt Warner biopic has $23.13M to date.
Gravitas Ventures’ The King’s Daughter barely made an impression despite debuting in 2,170 locations, with a meager opening gross of $750k. Like Redeeming Love, the action-fantasy starring Pierce Brosnan suffered from lackluster reviews (it sits at 24% on Rotten Tomatoes).
Ninth and tenth place went to West Side Story and Licorice Pizza, which finished the weekend with an estimated $698k and $683k, respectively. The total for West Side Story now stands at $35.05M after seven weeks, while Licorice Pizza has $10.79M after nine weeks.
Sunday’s Studio Weekend Estimates: January 21-23, 2022
| Title | Estimated weekend | % change | Locations | Location change | Average | Total | Weekend | Distributor |
| Spider-Man: No Way Home | $14,125,000 | -30% | 3,705 | -220 | $3,812 | $721,010,988 | 6 | Sony Pictures |
| Scream | $12,400,000 | -59% | 3,666 | 2 | $3,382 | $51,347,929 | 2 | Paramount |
| Sing 2 | $5,710,000 | -28% | 3,434 | -147 | $1,663 | $128,411,630 | 5 | Universal |
| Redeeming Love | $3,710,000 | 1,903 | $1,950 | $3,710,000 | 1 | Universal | ||
| The King’s Man | $1,779,000 | -20% | 2,360 | -150 | $754 | $31,510,014 | 5 | 20th Century |
| The 355 | $1,600,000 | -30% | 2,609 | -536 | $613 | $11,081,010 | 3 | Universal |
| American Underdog | $1,225,000 | -22% | 2,164 | -348 | $566 | $23,132,748 | 5 | Lionsgate |
| The King’s Daughter | $750,000 | 2,170 | $346 | $750,000 | 1 | Gravitas Ventures | ||
| West Side Story | $698,000 | -25% | 1,290 | -170 | $541 | $35,051,495 | 7 | 20th Century |
| Licorice Pizza | $683,357 | -22% | 772 | n/c | $885 | $10,786,005 | 9 | United Artists |
| Ghostbusters: Afterlife | $625,000 | -18% | 1,061 | -141 | $589 | $127,077,539 | 10 | Sony Pictures |
| Belle | $550,290 | -65% | 1,180 | -158 | $466 | $2,744,021 | 2 | GKIDS |
| The Matrix Resurrections | $435,000 | -46% | 1,009 | -716 | $431 | $36,600,074 | 5 | Warner Bros. |
| Nightmare Alley | $236,000 | -9% | 400 | -150 | $590 | $9,701,281 | 6 | Searchlight |
| Encanto | $232,000 | -25% | 450 | -210 | $516 | $93,401,292 | 9 | Walt Disney |
| Venom: Let There be Carnage | $175,000 | -57% | 725 | -710 | $241 | $213,480,773 | 17 | Sony Pictures |
| Drive My Car | $96,250 | 26% | 96 | 31 | $1,003 | $649,489 | 9 | Janus Films |
| Flee | $36,380 | 2664% | 37 | 35 | $983 | $100,063 | 8 | Neon |
| Red Rocket | $31,145 | -22% | 56 | -26 | $556 | $1,039,866 | 7 | A24 |
| Belfast | $30,000 | -1% | 63 | -8 | $476 | $7,057,440 | 11 | Focus Features |
| The French Dispatch | $18,000 | -4% | 40 | 5 | $450 | $16,114,473 | 14 | Searchlight |
| Eternals | $10,000 | -54% | 60 | -25 | $167 | $164,865,174 | 12 | Walt Disney |
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