Weekend estimates: Jujutsu Kaisen headed to $17.7-million weekend, The Batman tops $300 million domestically

March 20, 2022

The Batman

The Batman will pass $300 million at the domestic box office today, based on Warner Bros. Sunday-morning projection. It’ll be close though: the studio has it reaching $300.1 million today. With Spider-Man: No Way Home likely to surpass $800 million domestically in the next week, things are looking good at the box office right now. Having five new releases in the top 11 also helps, although Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie is the only one of those to really break out.

Here’s how the domestic numbers look this morning (click on the image for the full chart of films reporting so far)…



While The Batman is down a little more than our model anticipated, it’s still doing great business in its third weekend. It may have been pulled down a little by the competition this weekend, particularly Jujutsu Kaisen, which continues a run of good form for anime films. The Kashmir Files continues the international theme in the top 10. In general, the theatrical market seems to be returning from the pandemic a little more welcoming to foreign-language films, which have generally struggled in the US market. To be fair, Jujutsu Kaisen is screening in both dubbed and Japanese subtitled versions, and we don’t have a breakout of the performance of each version.

The other new releases are coming in below the model’s Friday morning prediction, although that’s not unexpected. X is clearly the stand-out performer among them, with a respectable $4.4-million debut. All of these films will face challenges in holding on to theaters over the next few weeks though, as The Lost City, Morbius, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 arrive, one weekend at a time.

- Weekend studio estimates
- All-time top-grossing movies in North America
- All-time top-grossing movies worldwide

Bruce Nash,

Filed under: Weekend Estimates, The Batman, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Lost City, X, Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0, The Kashmir Files