2022 box office records • The
Jurassic Park franchise became the
tenth film franchise to gross $6 billion with the release of
Jurassic World Dominion. • Additionally,
Jurassic World Dominion became the 50th film to gross $1 billion worldwide. • The
Marvel Cinematic Universe became
the first film franchise to gross $26 billion, $27 billion, and $28 billion with the releases of
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,
Thor: Love and Thunder, and
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. • The
Despicable Me and
Shrek franchises became the
first animated film franchises and the
15th and 17th overall film franchises to gross $4 billion with the release of
Minions: The Rise of Gru and
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Studio records • With the release of
Avatar: The Way of Water,
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures led over other film distributors in worldwide box office grosses and crossed the $4.9 billion mark for the eighth year. Disney's cumulative gross was generated from 16 film releases across its various studio divisions. •
Top Gun: Maverick became the highest-grossing film distributed solely by
Paramount Pictures worldwide, surpassing
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), and also Paramount's highest-grossing film in the
United States and Canada, surpassing
Titanic (1997).
Film records •
Avatar: The Way of Water became the 51st film to gross $1 billion worldwide, the sixth film to gross $2 billion worldwide, the
sixth-fastest film to cross the billion-dollar mark at 14 days, the
second fastest to gross the $2 billion mark, the highest-grossing film of 2022, and the highest-grossing film of the
COVID-19 pandemic era. • It had the
11th-biggest global opening of all time and the third-biggest global opening for a film in the pandemic era behind
Spider-Man: No Way Home and
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, earning $441.7 million in its first weekend. • It also achieved the second-highest global opening weekend ever for a film released in
IMAX cinemas with $48.8 million. • Additionally, the film surpassed
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) to become
Tom Cruise's highest-grossing film of all time at the worldwide box office and also surpassed
War of the Worlds (2005) to become Cruise's highest-grossing film at the domestic box office. • It also passed
The Mummy (2017) as Cruise's biggest opening weekend at the worldwide box office and also passed
War of the Worlds (2005) as Cruise's biggest opening at the domestic box office and his first film to open to over $100million in the U.S. •
Top Gun: Maverick also passed
Shrek 2 (2004) for the lowest second-weekend drop (29%) for a film that opened to over $100 million. • It also passed ''
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), another Jerry Bruckheimer produced movie, to have the highest Memorial Day opening weekend and passed Shrek 2'' (2004) to have the lowest second-weekend drop for a movie that made over $100 million in its opening weekend. •
Jurassic World Dominion became the 50th film to gross $1 billion worldwide. • The Jurassic Park film franchise grossed over $6 billion with the release of
Jurassic World Dominion. •
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness surpassed
Spider-Man 3 (2007) to become director
Sam Raimi's highest-grossing film. •
Minions: The Rise of Gru became the
highest-grossing animated film released since the
COVID-19 pandemic, surpassing the 2020
anime film
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train. •
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever attained the biggest opening weekend ever for a film released in the month of November in the U.S. and Canada with $181.3 million. • Disney Africa reported that the film set an all-time box office record in
West Africa and had the biggest opening of 2022 in
East Africa, as well as the second-highest box office gross ever in
Southern Africa. • In
Nigeria, it achieved the highest opening weekend ever for a film. •
KGF: Chapter 2 becomes the most-liked trailer and teaser on YouTube with 9 million likes, surpassing
Avengers: Infinity War likes. ==Events==