Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) is the highest-grossing action movie released in 2022, with $2.3B worldwide, ahead of Jurassic World Dominion (2022) at $1B and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) at $955.8M. 233 action films released in 2022 report a worldwide gross, $11.2B in all, 37% of it from the US & Canada. 2 films crossed $1 billion and 18 crossed $100 million. That is up 8% on 2021, whose releases took $10.3B. By language, English leads with $9.8B across 86 action releases.

2022 releases with a gross

233

combined worldwide

$11.2B

films crossed $100M

18

vs 2021

+8%

#1 of 233

#1 action movie of 2022

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

2022 · Action, Adventure

$2.3B worldwide · 21% of the chart's total

$688.5M US & Canada · 29% $1.7B elsewhere · 71%