Spidey Star Tom Holland does Double Duty as Uncharted Takes the #1 Spot with $51 Million over President's Day Weekend
by Chris Nashawaty - Box Office News
Feb. 20, 2022


It’s official: the winter belongs to Tom Holland, the rest of us are just living in it. A mere ten weeks after the blockbuster launch of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the 25-year-old British actor (or should we now say “star”?) returned to the top of the box-office chart with his second out-of-the-gate smash of the season— the videogame adaptation Uncharted, which debuted over President’s Day weekend to a projected $51 million after Monday is factored in.

Meanwhile, just a notch below in second place, Channing Tatum’s feel-good man-and-his-best-friend road movie, Dog, sunk its canines into an $18 million opening holiday frame while the less-cuddly four-legged flick, The Cursed, barely managed to nose its way into the top ten with a $1.9 million bow.







A prequel of sorts to Sony’s hit treasure-hunting videogame series, Uncharted was always expected to open in first place. Still, few expected the margin of victory to be quite as large as it was. The fact that it will surpass $50 million by the time the four-day holiday weekend is over seems to be a testament to both the loyalty of the game’s young male fanbase as well as Holland’s newly-minted drawing power in the wake of No Way Home.

Pulling in a hair less than $44.2 million between Friday and Sunday, the PG-13-rated action-adventure now has the biggest domestic debut of 2022, blowing past Scream’s $30 million freshman frame a month a half ago. While critics were less than wowed by Uncharted (which also stars Mark Wahlberg), dismissing it as a National Treasure knock-off and giving it an anemic 39% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, audiences were clearly more smitten, handing the film a ‘B+’ CinemaScore grade.




Unspooling in 4,275 theaters, Uncharted had an $11,929 per-screen average and stands to collect $88 million overseas by the time the weekend is through (it debuted a week earlier in several foreign markets), putting its worldwide box-office total at $139 million.

Unlike Holland’s latest Spider-Man entry, Uncharted is scheduled to be released in China (on March 14), which should goose its global numbers nicely.







In second place, Channing Tatum’s Dog was anything but a dog. The heartwarming dramatic comedy about an army ranger who travels cross-country with a military canine to attend the funeral of its former handler marked the actor’s first starring role since 2017.

Distributed by United Artists, the PG-13-rated film grossed $15.1 million between Friday and Sunday and is expected to take in a little less than $18.1 once the Monday holiday is accounted for. Both critics and audiences agreed that the movie hit the sweet spot (76% on Rotten Tomatoes; ‘A-‘ CinemaScore) as it scored a $4,908 per-screen average in 3,677 theaters.

Dog has not been unleashed yet overseas.







Landing in third was Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home with just under $7.7 million between Friday and Monday and an estimated $8.8 million by the end of Monday — a bounce of +1.7% from the previous frame.

In its tenth week in multiplexes, the PG-13-rated sensation lassoed a $2,977 per-screen average at 2,956 locations. The film’s domestic total is now $771.7 million.



Last Monday, it passed 2009’s Avatar in the Hollywood record books, becoming the third-highest grossing film of all time at the domestic box office.

Internationally, No Way Home has piled up an eye-popping $1.06 billion so far, putting its worldwide cumulative haul at $1.83 billion.







Finishing in fourth place was last week’s champ, 20th Century Studios’ Death on the Nile with $6.3 million between Friday and Monday and a projected $7.2 million once Monday is factored in.

Kenneth Branagh’s follow-up to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express fell -51.5% from its opening weekend and had a $2,191 per-screen average in 3,280 theaters in its sophomore session.

The PG-13-rated whodunit has racked up $25.9 million in North America to date and an additional $49.9 million internationally, putting its two-week worldwide cume at $75.8 million.







Rounding out the top five was Paramount’s Jackass Forever with $5.2 million between Friday and Sunday and a projected $6.2 million for the long holiday weekend.

The latest R-rated collection of masochism and male camaraderie led by Johnny Knoxville slipped -35.3% from the previous weekend, scoring a $2,018 per-screen average in 3,071 theaters. The film, which cost a bargain-basement $10 million to produce, has now taken in $47.7 million domestically and another $13.3 million from overseas, putting its current worldwide haul at $61 million.







The only other major new release of the weekend was LD Entertainment’s werewolf movie The Cursed, which debuted in tenth place with $1.7 million between Friday and Sunday and a projected $1.9 million by the close of Monday.

The indie chiller about a village in 19th century France that is terrorized by a werewolf unspooled in 1,687 theaters and nabbed a $1,155 per-screen average.

Perhaps even scarier, however, was the fact that both Jennifer Lopez and Liam Neeson’s new films dropped out of the top five in just their second weeks of release, with J.Lo’s Marry Me slipping to sixth and Neeson’s Blacklight nosediving to ninth.

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February 18-21, 2022: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Uncharted $51,000,000
2. Dog $18,011,000
3. Spider-Man: No Way Home $8,500,000 / $771,440,686
4. Death on the Nile $7,507,000 / $26,234,032
5. Jackass Forever $6,150,000 / $47,693,627
6. Marry Me $4,310,000 / $17,432,665
7. Sing 2 $3,760,000 / $148,278,985
8. Scream $2,285,000 / $77,340,539
9. Blacklight $2,025,000 / $7,326,030
10. The Cursed $2,007,050

Uncharted is Unmatched in Quiet Weekend ahead of The Batman Release
by Sam Mendelsohn - Box Office News
Feb. 28, 2022


It is the quiet before the bat storm, and as we are one week out from the latest reboot of The Batman franchise, no big studio thought it wise to go wide with any of their titles.

The top five is identical to last weekend, and the second weekend holdovers Uncharted and Dog both held on strong with less than 50% drops. The only fully wide new release was the Foo Fighters’ horror/comedy Studio 666 from Open Road, but with just $1.5 million it fell short of the top five, and the other notable newcomer, United Artists’ Cyrano, was right behind it with $1.4 million from 797 theaters.







As expected, Sony’s adventure film Uncharted took the top spot with ease in its second weekend, grossing an additional $23.3 million, roughly 10% of that coming from IMAX.

With a 47% drop, the video game adaptation held stronger in its second week than any of 2021’s $50+ million openers (the best hold of those was Shang-Chi which dropped 54%).



There are a multitude of possible factors here, considering the game’s popularity and minimal competition, but it is also looking more and more likely that Tom Holland is a bonafide box office draw, at least if the surrounding elements are right.

Uncharted is now at $83.4 million domestic and $226 million worldwide, having brought in an additional $35 million this weekend from international markets, which dropped just 35%.







Dog held even stronger than Uncharted, dropping a mere 32%. Audiences kept wagging their tails for the Channing Tatum film (which he starred in as well as co-directed with Magic Mike scribe Reid Carolin) in its second weekend, giving it an additional $10.1 million.

It may be running below the disappointing box office of Magic Mike XXL, but with a 10 day cume of $30.9 million it is already one of the most successful comedies and the most successful dramedy since before the pandemic.

Like Uncharted, Dog could continue to play well through March as counterprogramming to The Batman.







Spider-Man: No Way Home, in third place, took its biggest tumble percentage wise in over a month, but even that was a small number (down only 23.8%) as it pulled in $5.8 million, a noteworthy feat in its 11th weekend.

Now at $780 million, it looks like No Way Home could actually swing its way past $800 million.







Fourth place is Death on the Nile, which dropped 31% for a third weekend gross of $4.5 million. It is a good hold, but the raw numbers are too small to celebrate.

Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptation has a domestic cume of $32.8 million and a global cume of $101 million against a $90 million budget, and it doesn’t look like it has the steam to chug along much further. The film is seriously underperforming compared to its predecessor, Murder on the Orient Express, which grossed $353 million worldwide.

Even in China, where Nile opened last weekend, the follow-up is lagging behind previous installment, opening to only $5.8 million compared to Orient Express’ $18.9 million cume.







Jackass Forever came in fifth with a 39% drop and a three-day total of $3.2 million. Its four week cume is $52.1 million, and it does not seem likely that it can catch up to Jackass: The Movie (which grossed $64.3 million domestic and $79.5 million worldwide).

Even if it ends up the lowest grossing film in the series though, it is still a win for Paramount given its $10 million budget, and it is the second highest grossing live-action comedy of the pandemic era after the big-budget, effects-heavy Free Guy.







Sing 2 impressively came in 6th place in its tenth weekend with $2.1 million, a small number but enough to get it past the $150 million line.

It also crossed the milestones of $200 million internationally and $350 worldwide all in the same weekend. It still doesn’t hold a candle to the first film’s $634 million global cume, but it remains one of the pandemic’s biggest successes.







A little further down the chart we finally get one of the weekend’s newcomers.

Studio 666 came in 8th place with a small $1.5 million. The horror-comedy starring the Foo Fighters has the band play fictionalized versions of themselves as they record an album in a haunted house. The reviews indicate that it is strictly for the fans, and the box office reflects the limited audience for the film.




Cyrano was narrowly behind in number nine, grossing just $1.4 million. United Artists launched the Joe Wright directed musical take on "Cyrano de Bergerac" in 797 locations, but there weren’t a ton of takers for the awards season movie that failed to garner many major nominations (as far as the Oscars go it is just Best Costume Design).

It is also looking unlikely that it would make up for a soft domestic gross with a strong overseas gross. Internationally it brought in only $1 million from 9 markets, which included U.K. where Wright’s period films often play well.







Outside the top ten, we have the weekend's best per theater average ($5,872) with the old but gold The Godfather, which grossed $916k this weekend.

Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia classic got a new restoration for its 50th anniversary and it played exclusively in 156 Dolby Cinema auditoriums at AMC. Internationally it grossed an additional $1.4 million from 27 markets.

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February 25-27, 2022: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Uncharted $23,001,773 / $83,137,251
2. Dog $10,159,283 / $30,930,367
3. Spider-Man: No Way Home $5,801,584 / $779,938,531
4. Death on the Nile $4,494,226 / $32,748,992
5. Jackass Forever $3,144,917 / $52,039,642
6. Sing 2 $2,251,150 / $151,345,355
7. Marry Me $1,887,745 / $20,251,430
8. Studio 666 $1,540,543
9. Cyrano $1,385,995
10. Scream $1,339,723 / $79,215,509