US release: 8th April 2011
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$48.2 ThousandMaking its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend is Puss In Boots: The Last Wish which takes over from Avatar: The Way of Water after 7 weeks at the top.
Also new this weekend is Knock At the Cabin at number 3, The Whale~2022 at number 5 and BTS: Yet to Come In Cinemas at number 8 with £535,336.
Highest new movie this weekend
Making its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend is the sequel movie to Puss in Boots from 2011 which is part of the Shrek universe of movies.
The movie has done far better than its prequel which took just shy of £2 Million on its debut, but the Shrek movies did far better with Shrek the Third having the best debut with £16.67 Million.
After 7 weeks at the top of the UK box office the Avatar sequel drops to second place, but the movie has still taken over £70 Million so far at the UK box office.
It is more or less on track with the original movie having taken just about £1 Million more, but its well behing the top grossing movie in the UK ever, Star Wars The Force Awakens which had taken £120 Million 8 weeks into its box office run.
The movie also has the smallest from on this weeks top 15 with 39% down on last weekends gross.
The new movie from director M. Night Shyamalan lands at number 4 this weekend with just under £1 Million on its debut.
The movie has a better opening than the directors last movie, Old, which could only manage around £800,000 on its debut.
Dropping to number 4 this weekend is the action Indian movie from director Siddharth Anand wihch landed at number 2 last weekend.
Finishing off the top 5 is the Oscar nominated movie from director Darren Aronofsky which stars Brendan Fraser in his Best Actor nominated role.
The movie is on limited release and will expand as we get closer to the Oscar ceremony where Fraser is expected to walk away with the award.
When the movie was first released it was a quirky movie about multiverse jumping, coinciding with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, but here we are nearly a year later and the movie is doing well in the awards season and is nominated for 11 Oscars.
The movie is nominated in the following categories
Its good to see a movie like this getting recognition for its creative flair and anti-blockbuster independent look and feel.
Michelle Yeoh gets recognitions in a lead actress role although Cate Blanchett is also nominated for Tar and is the current favourite.
Jamie Lee Curtis gets her first ever nomination but Angela Bassett also get a nomination for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which is the current favourite.
Here is a list of all the movies up for best picture of the year
Its interesting seeing both Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick on the list, 2 of the highest grossing movies of the last 12 months, Oscar does not normally award big budget, high grossing blockbusters, although neither will probably get the award!
In the lead actor category Colin Farrell gets a nod for The Banshees of Inisherin but the hot favourite is Brendan Fraser in The Whale who is the one to beat.
The most wide open category is best director which has no out and out leader, Steven Spielberg is an Oscar darling and must be a favourite for The Fabelmans, but then Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan must also be in with a shout for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The ceremony takes place on Sunday March 12th and the full list of nomination can be found on the Oscars Website.
Horror movie Smile~2022 remains at the top of the UK box office for a second weekend as The Woman King enters at number 2 as the top new movie of the week.
Meanwhile Amsterdam~2022 makes its box office debut at number 5 and The Lost King is new at 7 with £368,753.
At the lower end of the box office at number 12 is a new entry for Babe Bhangra Paunde Ne with £100,437 and one place below is Godfather with £93,212
Making it 2 weeks at the top is the low budget horror movie which on its second weekend of release takes £1.7 Million, a very small 8% drop over last weekend.
If you remove the advanced screening from last weekend which added over £2 Million to the weekend total, the movie took £1.5 Million last weekend Friday - Monday which gives it a 17% increase weekend over weekend.
The movie has taken a total of £4.7 Million in the UK, but with Halloween on our doorsteps and a host of horror movies being released, including the high profile Halloween Ends this movie could sink fast.
Highest new movie this weekend
With a critically acclaimed performance from star Viola Davis the highest new movie of the weekend comes in at number 2 with a debut gross of £1.3 Million.
The movie is a strong contender for Oscar recognition at next years ceremony which could see it hang around for a while, and potentially have a second bite of the box office next February.
Falling to number 3 this weekend, but the Florence Pugh and Harry Styles starring movie is doing better in the UK than it is in other territories.
The movie take just over £1 Million on its third weekend of release, which is down 44% from last weekend which gives the movie a UK total of £8.2 Million.
With the star powere the film has it has clearly not performed to the standard hoped by the studio, but in the UK at least it has been a minor hit.
The George Clooney and Julia Roberts double header continues to pull in the crowds as its spends a third weekend inside the top 5 at number 4 with £861,172, a 36% drop over last weekend.
The movie now has a total UK gross of £6.7 Million after 3 weeks of release.
A high profile cast including Margot Robbie, Christian Bale and John David Washington has not stopped this movie from being critically panned and not making an impact on the UK box office as it makes its debut at number 4 this weekend.
A debut gross of £632,722 and an entry at number 5 will see it sing out of the box office fast having spent a single weekend at the top end of the box office.
The animated sequel movie Sing 2 remained at the top of the UK cinema box office charts for a second weekend while the stunt spectacular Jackass Forever was the top new movie at number 2.
Moonfall came in at number 3 this weekend while Japanese animated hit Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess was a new entry at number 9 with £152,287 on limited release in 147 screens.
Outside the top 10 The Souvenir: Part II from director Joanna Hogg was new at 11 with £93,044 from just 94 screen.
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UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 4th - 6th February 2022
The animated sequel movie from director Garth Jennings spends a second weekend at the top of the UK box office with a fantastic £5.1 Million weekend gross, a very slim 25% decline for the movie on its second weekend of release.
This gives it a total UK gross of £12.9 Million making it the top movie released in 2022 and the second top movie of 2022 behind Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Its been 12 years since Jackass 3D was in our local multiplexes and the crew from the TV show Jackass are back for one last outing of crazy stunts and hidden camera hi-jinx.
The movie lands at number 2 in the UK with a weekend gross of £2 Million which is probably higher than expected, and it becomes the 10th top movie of 2022 in the process.
The Kenneth Branagh directed movie falls one place to number 3 this weekend with &poind;1.47 Million, a slender 22% drop over last weekend.
This gives it a total UK gross of £8.9 Million in the UK making it the 3rd top movie of 2022.
After picking up 7 Oscar nominations this week it could mean a good future projection for the movie, and although it might not expect to get many, if any, this will see it hand around until at least the ceremony takes place on March 27th.
Much hyped but seemingly ignored by audiences after a bit of a critical panning, the latest movie from director Roland Emmerich lands on the box office with £1.16 Million this weekend.
Falling to number 5 this weekend after 8 weeks on the box office, the Marvel/Sony movie takes £1.15 Million, a low 35% drop from last weekend, which is incredible considering the movie has been around a couple of months.
Having now taken £91.7 Million in the UK it is the top film of 2022 with £22 Million and it will likely take over Avatar by next weekend as the 5th top movie ever in the UK.
Who would have thought it, Robert Downey Jr. stars in the new movie Dolittle which above expectations easily beats out Margot Robbie and the Birds Of Prey to make its debut at the top leaving the ladies to debut at number 2, meanwhile 1917 falls to number 3 and Oscar darling Parasite makes a good debut.
Despite getting a good panning from the critics the money paying audience did not listen and the Robert Downey Jr. starring vehicle makes its debut at the top with an excellent gross of £5 Million.
This is getting on fos double that of the new film at number 2 this weekend and far better than anyone could have expected.
It will have a big problem beating the new Sonic The Hedgehog film released next weekend but it can at least bask in its glory this week.
I'm sure Warner Bros. expected this to fly in at the top of the box office this weekend but the film has come up short being beaten by Dolittle.
The Margot Robbie starring movie debuts at number 2 this week with £2.8 million.
After spending an excellent 4 weeks at the top of the UK box office Sam Mandes war movie, which missed out on the best film Oscar this weekend, falls to number 3 with £2.2 Million.
This pushes the film total gross to £35.8 Million after 5 weeks of release.
What turned out to be the Oscar darling at this years ceremony makes id debut on the UK box office at number 4 with a weekend gross of £1.4 Million.
The film will go into more cineas in the coming week so expect next weeks weekend gross to maybe be higher than this week.
Will Smith and martin Lawrence fall to number 5 this week with a little over a Million over the weekend pushing the films total gross to £12.3 Million after 3 weeks.
Disney's sequel movie falls to number 15 this weekend but it has the longerst run on the box offie with 12 weeks and the highest total gross with £52.9 Million.