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- The latest Black Panther movie is a 14/1 shot to be the highest grossing film of 2022
- Top Gun: Maverick remains the bookmakers favourite at 1/2
- Avatar 2 seems to be the only competition to Top Gun at 15/8 to be highest grossing movie of the year
The latest Black Panther movie is a 14/1 shot to be the highest grossing film of 2022
The latest Marvel movie has been released with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever the sequel to the 2018 hit film Black Panther.
Bookmakers make the sequel 14/1 to be the highest grossing film of 2022 with a big box office performance expected for the movie.
Paddy Power still make Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar favourites over the new Black Panther film though with much shorter odds than the Marvel movie.
| Highest Grossing Film Worldwide 2022 | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Top Gun: Maverick | 1/2 | 66.7% |
| Avatar 2 | 15/8 | 34.8% |
| Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | 14/1 | 6.7% |
| Strange World | 100/1 | 1.0% |
| Babylon | 100/1 | 1.0% |
Top Gun: Maverick remains the bookmakers favourite at 1/2
Tom Cruise movie Top Gun: Maverick remains the 1/2 favourite with bookmakers to be the highest grossing film this year.
So far at the Box Office the movie has made over $1.4 billion this year and it'll take something special from surpass that.
Top Gun: Maverick is by far the biggest film of Tom Cruise's career with more than $1.4b taken at the Box Office.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout was Cruise's previous highest grossing film with $791m earned globally but that's been surpassed by Top Gun: Maverick.
Avatar 2 seems to be the only competition to Top Gun at 15/8 to be highest grossing movie of the year
Avatar 2, the sequel to James Cameron's Box Office Hit Avatar, remains the only real competition for Top Gun at the Box Office this year at odds of 15/8.
There's a 34% chance of the movie being the highest grossing film behind Top Gun which has a 66% chance according to the latest odds.
The first Avatar film has the highest all-time Box Office grossing with $2,847,397,339 being taken worldwide by the film.
Avatar 2 won't be released until half way through December so has just two weeks to topple Top Gun from the top of the grossing figures.
