It finished on Sunday with $803.2 million in worldwide ticket sales. This makes it the No. 2 Hollywood film of the pandemic era behind Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1.89 billion).
Downtown Abbey: A New Era made a strong opening for Focus Features with $16mn from 3,820 theaters, but there has been no real blockbuster competition for Doctor Strange.
Before pandemic, box office season generally brought in more than $4bn annually. After an essentially non-existent 2020, the 2021 take, in a year of recovery, was $1.75bn
But while world waits Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness crossed the $800mn mark in global grosses, surpassing The Batman to become the top-grossing film of year.