DC and Warner Bros.’  Black Adam remained atop the weekend box office chart in its third run with an estimated $18.5 million from 3,985 theaters for a domestic tally of $137.4 million through Sunday.  Globally, the picture has surpassed $300 million.

Black Adam also dominated overseas, earning another $25.4 million from 76 markets for a foreign tally of $182.3 million and $319.7 million worldwide.

In North America, Black Adam fell 33 percent from last weekend and took a better-than-expected hit on Saturday as more women showed up.

Starring Dwayne Johnson, Black Adam had the advantage of facing little competition.  That all changes next weekend when Marvel and Disney’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hits theaters worldwide.  Domestically, Wakanda Forever is expected to debut to $175 million or more.

Black Adam, which is just the third film of 2022 to take the box office crown for three consecutive weekends, has no problem beating out the only new wide offering of the weekend, Japanese anime One Piece Film: Red.

Red looks to open in second place with about $9.5 million from 2,410 locations, on the low end of expectations.  Crunchyroll, a division of Sony, is handling One Piece Film: Red on Crunchyroll’s recent US hit, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, which opened to a much larger $21 million domestically in late April 2022. 

One Piece Film: Red earned an A CinemaScore from audiences, with men making up 76% of Friday’s ticket buyers.  In terms of age, a whopping 75 percent of the audience was between the ages of 18-34.

Universal’s romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise came in third with $8.5 million from 4,066 theaters — down just 13 percent from last weekend — for a domestic tally of $46.7 million and a romantic global cume of $137.2 million.

Paramount’s horror pic Smile continued to laugh out loud, topping new horror entries to come in at No. 4 in North America with $4 million from 3,046 sites for a domestic total of nearly $100 million, or $99.1 million.  Overseas, the $17 million film took in $103.8 million for a staggering worldwide cume of $202.9 million, making it one of the highest-grossing films of the year. 

Fellow Lionsgate horror offering Prey for the Devil slipped to No. 5 in its second weekend, falling 46% to $3.9 million from 2,980 theaters for a domestic total of $13.6 million.

At the specialty box office, Searchlight’s The Banishees of Inisherin broke into the top 10 when it expanded to a total of 895 theaters, earning $2 million for a domestic total of $3 million.  It has now grossed $7.2 million in the UK for a worldwide total of $10.2 million.

MGM and UAR’s Till followed with $1.9 million for a total of 2,136 locations for a domestic total of $6.6 million.  (The critically acclaimed film is just the third release of 2022 to receive a coveted A+ CinemaScore from audiences after Top Gun: Maverick and The Woman King.)

James Gray’s Armageddon Time continued to struggle in its second weekend as it took its theater count to 1,006.  The Focus Features release earned $810,000 for a 10-day total of $902,000.

Tár , also from Focus and now in its fifth weekend, earned $670,000 from 1,090 theaters for a total of $3.7 million, a relatively good showing for an arthouse title. 

November 6, 8:30 am  PT: Updated with numbers through Saturday and international box office.