Los Angeles - (AFP) - In the first three days following its release, the movie "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" topped the box office in North America, according to provisional figures published by the specialized "Experience Relationships" company.

The Friday-to-Sunday revenue of $185 million was "Doctor Strange," the sequel to the adventures of the red-cloaked wizard, starring British actor Benedict Cumberbatch as the Marvel superhero. Thus, the film, which explores parallel worlds, left only crumbs of competing works.

And “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” thus ranked second among the films that achieved the highest revenues immediately after its launch since the beginning of the pandemic, behind “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, which also chose parallel worlds and collected $ 260 million in 2021.

The success of "Doctor Strange" showed that the box office had turned the page on the pandemic and began to recover, as the film achieved nearly ten times more revenue than the same weekend last year.

And "Doctor Strange" moved away from the lead from the animated movie "The Bad Guys", which fell to second place with its outlaw animals that strive to be nice, as its revenues in three days did not exceed 9.8 million dollars.

And in third place is another animal, the blue hedgehog in the movie "Sonic the Hedgehog 2", whose income amounted to 6.2 million dollars.

The fourth place was also for animals, but from the world of magic, as it was occupied by the movie “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”, which is a new part of the “Fantastic Beasts” series derived from the atmosphere of Harry Potter, collecting four million dollars.

And in fifth place, the movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, which also transports the viewer to the absurdity of parallel worlds, came with revenues of $ 3.3 million in its seventh week of showing.

Here are the remaining five films, in order:
6. "The Northman" ($2.8 million)
7. "The Lost City" ($2.5 million)
8. "The Incredible Wit of Massive Talent" ($1.5 million)
9. "Memory" ($1.2 million)
10. "Father Stow" ($800,000)