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$0In a fascinating weekend for the UK box office a 10 week old movie, Minions: The Rise of Gru goes back to the top, a 15 week old movie, Top Gun: Maverick goes back into the top 5 and a 2021 movie and one of the top grossing movies in the UK is the top new release, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Adding to this the second highest new movie is E.T. The Extra Terrestrial celebrating its 40th anniversary, yes 40 years since the release of the once global highest grossing movie of all time!
Less impressive this weekend is the debut releases for Three Thousand Years of Longing which is new at 10 with £307,176, Fall~2022 new at 13 with £220,270 and The Forgiven~2021 new at 15 with £182,772.
Going back to the top of the UK box office, once again, is the sequel movie to Minions which 5 weeks after it was last at the top, and 10 weeks after it was first at the top it takes £1.06 Million to return to the top, a 46% jump over last weekend.
With no high profile new releases now in the last couple of weeks, and the end of the school summer holidays, and the bargain price of £3 per ticket on Saturday this is perhaps not too much of a surprise.
The movie has now taken £44 Million in the UK and is the second top movie of 2022, it is also the 61st top movie of all time.
Interestingly the movie is behind the first Minions movie but it has been consistently about £1 Million behind.
Also doing well at the end of the school summer holidays and jumping back up to number 2 this weekend is the animated movie based on DC superhero pets which takes £1 Million on its 6th weekend, which is 41% up from last weekend.
The movie has taken a total of £14 Million in the UK over its 6 weeks of release.
The movie which simply wont go away is the top movie of 2022 in the UK which this weekend takes £600,258, a modest 7% increase over last weekend.
The movie has now taken a total of £81.6 Million over its 15 weeks of release and is the 9th top movie of all time in the UK.
The only film this weekend on the top 5 this drops week on week is the Brad Pitt fast train heist movie which takes £554,100 on its 5th weekend of release, a 7% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £9.2 Million.
Highest new movie of the weekend
Getting a re-release to celebrate National Cinema Day is the 2021 Spider-Man release from Marvel and Sony with a little help Disney.
The movie takes a quite incredible £469,309 on its return to the box office, incredible because the movie is the 4th biggest movie of all time in the UK and it was only in cinemas earlier this year, and although there is 20 minites extra footage it does not change the story and makes it a 3 hour movie!
Still the movie has now spent 16 weeks on the chart and taken an amazing £96.9 Million, it is also the 8th top movie of 2022.
Sequel movie Minions: The Rise of Gru has been given a U age rating in the UK for mild comic violence, very mild scary scenes, rude humour, language.
The movie stars the voice talents of Steve Carell as the evil henchman Gru as he has done in the Despicable Me movies, it also stars the voice talent of Pierre Coffin as the Minions.
The movie is directed by Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson, Jonathan del Val who have all worked on Despicable Me and Minions movies in the past.
Movie Synopsis
In the 1970s, young Gru tries to join a group of supervillains called the Vicious 6 after they oust their leader -- the legendary fighter Wild Knuckles. When the interview turns disastrous, Gru and his Minions go on the run with the Vicious 6 hot on their tails. Luckily, he finds an unlikely source for guidance -- Wild Knuckles himself -- and soon discovers that even bad guys need a little help from their friends.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
A new poster has been released for upcoming movie Minions: The Rise of Gru which can seen in full if you scroll down this page.
Synopsis for Minions: The Rise of Gru
It's the 1970s and a twelve year old Felonius Gru is growing up in your average suburbs. He is a fan of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6 and wants to join them and when they get rid of their leader, legendary fighter Wild Knuckles, Gru seizes the opportunity and goes for the vacant position. After Gru steals from them he becomes their enemy and the epitome of evil himself. Gru turns to Wild Knuckles for help and soon discovers he needs a little help himself from the little yellow men.
Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.
A new poster of sorts has been released for what is now next years movie sequel Minions: The Rise Of Gru which you can see to the right.
The movies new release date is 2nd July 2021 and this poster is more or less simply to reflect that.
The film stars among others Steve Carell and Pierre Coffin and is directed by Kyle Balda and Brad Ableson.
It"s the 1970s and a twelve year old Felonius Gru is growing up in your average suburbs. He is a fan of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6 and wants to join them and when they get rid of their leader, legendary fighter Wild Knuckles, Gru seizes the opportunity and goes for the vacant position. After Gru steals from them he becomes their enemy and the epitome of evil himself. Gru turns to Wild Knuckles for help and soon discovers he needs a little help himself from the little yellow men.
Check out the movie page for more information on this film.
The Boxtrolls hit the number 1 spot at the UK box office this week, but it had a little help from previews screenings the previous week.
In a similar vein to Bad Neighbours from earlier in the year, The Boxtrolls' official gross for the weekend is £2 million, but £600,000 was achieved with the previous weeks previews.
A £1.6 million weekend would have still seen it at the top but with a much reduced opening, last weeks top film, Lucy falls to second place £811,936, still £800,000 behind.
Regardless of how figures are worked out it was still a very quiet weekend at UK cinemas, only one film over a million and film number 15 under £100,000.
With no major blockbuster out this week either, we might see a similar picture this time next week.
Historical box office.
This time last year things looked far better at the box office, Insidious Chapter 2 topped the box office knocking About Time down to 4th, Rush and White House Down also debuting at 2 and 3.
Five years ago District 13 was still at the top while the highest new film was Dorian Gray which entered at 3.
Ten years ago low budget factual drama Open Water took over at the top of the chart, The Terminal few from 1 to 2 on it;s second week of release.
Fifteen years ago Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman starred in Stanley Kubrick final film before his death which entered at the top knocking South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut from the top.