Weekend box office gross of the 10 top-grossing movies in the U.S. & Canada 2022

During the weekend ending on July 3, 2022, the animated comedy "Minions: The Rise of Gru" was the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, collectively known as the North American movie market. Its box office revenue amounted to little more than 125 million U.S. dollars. That was more than all other nine titles in the top 10 combined. The Minions are part of the "Despicable Me" movie series, one of the most popular film franchises in the U.S.

The North American box office after the pandemic

The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak persists in the arguably most influential market worldwide. Box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada stood slightly below 4.5 billion dollars in 2021 – less than 40 percent of the value recorded in 2019. Perhaps unsurprisingly, cinema attendance experienced a very similar trajectory. The number of movie tickets sold in Canada and the U.S. amounted to little more than 492 million in 2021. Between 1980 and 2019, it had always surpassed a billion.

The struggle of Canada's cinema

When looking only at the northernmost country part of the North American movie market, the post-pandemic recovery was even slower. Box office gross in Canada amounted to 345 million Canadian dollars in 2021, roughly only one-third of the result seen in 2019. It is possible that the audience remained cautious after the coronavirus outbreak. As of mid-2021, nearly 70 percent of people aged 14 and above said in a survey that they did not go to a movie theater in Canada throughout the past 12 months.