[Reporter Xu Shiying/Special Report] Today is the last day of 2022. "The Defender: The Lone Ranger" starring "Tang Brother" Tom Cruise is still firmly seated at the annual box office with a box office record of 732.13 million .

The sequel "Avatar: The Way of Water", which was released on the 14th, sold more than 393.6 million in just 16 days (the first day was released in the evening). It is currently the second place of the year and will officially break through today. The 400 million mark is amazing.

"Avatar: Way of Water" will sell over 400 million in Taiwan today.

(courtesy of Disney)

Tom cruise set a career peak and various personal box office records with "Defenders: The Lone Ranger" this year. The global box office also became the annual champion with a global box office of 1.488 billion US dollars (approximately NT$45.488 billion).

On the 22nd of this month, Paramount's own streaming platform "Paramount+" also broke the viewing record of the platform in the United States, becoming the film with the highest premiere viewing rate on the platform, and also increased the viewing rate of the first episode "Defending Warrior" 400%, and even cruise's signature masterpiece "Mission Impossible" series saw a 140% increase in ratings.

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"Defenders: The Lone Ranger" starring Tom Cruise is still the annual box office champion in Taiwan with a box office record of 732.13 million.

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"Avatar: The Way of Water", which debuted at the end of the year, not only continued to sell well in Taiwan, but also sold 1.168 billion US dollars (approximately NT$35.705 billion) worldwide in just two weeks. Breaking through US$1.2 billion (approximately NT$36.684 billion), the global box office will approach US$1.4 billion (approximately NT$42.798 billion) by the end of this weekend (January 1, 2023).

At present, the film has also broken through 810 million US dollars (approximately NT$24.761 billion), becoming the highest overseas box office outside North America this year.

The "Marvel Cinematic Universe" series, which has always won the box office, took the lead in May with "Doctor Strange 2: Out of Control Multiverse", with a final box office of 244.5 million, ranking fifth at the current annual box office; "Thor Thor" released in July: "Love and Thunder" ranked seventh with 225.3 million; "Black Panther 2: Long Live Wakanda", which is still in theaters, came from behind. Breaking through 250 million this weekend.

In 2022, Taiwan's top 10 movie box office box office.

(Reporter Xu Shiying tabulation)

Other movies that squeezed into the top 10 box office of the year include "Jurassic World: Domination of the World" released in June, which ranked third at the current annual box office with 334.16 million; "occupied the 6th place with 232.3 million, and "One Piece The Movie: The Red-haired Diva", which set the highest box office of the series in Taiwan, ranked 8th with 175.28 million, and "The Curse" took 171.75 million. Entering the 9th place, it is also the only Chinese film on the list. "Black Adam" starring Dashi Johnson became the 10th place of the year with 148.16 million.

In 2022, TOP 10 box office of foreign films released in Taiwan.

(Reporter Xu Shiying tabulation)

The top 10 Chinese-language films as of the New Year's Eve are the same as the statistics at the beginning of this month. Except for the winning "Curse", the sales of other films failed to exceed 100 million. The ranking is "I Ate That Boy for a Whole" "Breakfast of the Year" 73.93 million, "Liu Magou No. 15", which is still in theaters, 37.92 million, "Young Man" 32.55 million, "Minxiong Haunted House" 29.7 million, "The First Seven" 27.73 million, and the documentary "Revolution of the Times" 27.71 million , "Su Zhenzhen" 22.65 million, "The Truth After the Crime" 16.38 million, and "You On My Heart" 15.7 million.

In 2022, Taiwan's Chinese-language film box office TOP 10.

(Reporter Xu Shiying tabulation)

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