US release: 26th July 2019
£232.2 Thousand
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$0Anticipation was high for the much delayed 25th Bond movie, and the opening weekend gross didn't disappoint and it took most of this weekends box office and produced the highest weekend take since Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
There was one other new release on the UK box office this weekend, Indian threequel movie Chal Mera Putt 3 made its debut at number 6 with £192,957.
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UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 1st - 3rd October 2021
It was always going to be a big first weekend for the much delayed 25th James Bond movie, and the last starring Daniel Craig, but there is a suggestion that it actually beat expectation as the movie makes its UK debut with £25.9 Million.
This 3 day (Friday - Sunday) gross is bigger than both Skyfall and SPECTRE (although SPECTRE officially had a 7 day opening of over £40 Million).
The movie has instantly become the top movie of 2021 in the UK beating the £20 Million of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.
It's also worth noting that the success and pent up anticipation for this movie effected the rest of the box office quite negatively as the movie took 91% of all money spent at the box office this weekend, meaning that (less than) 1 in every 10 tickets sold was NOT for this movie.
This will certainly get people back in the habbit of going to the cinema again and unlike when Warner release Tenet this time last year, people are ready to go back to cinemas now.
After 4 weeks at the top it is perhaps time for the Marvel superhero to give up the top spot, and as the top movie and this are attracting a similar audience this has suffered quite a bit as the movie take £779,077, a drop of 50% over last weekend.
This gives the movie a 5 week total of £19.6 Million and its the 3rd top movie of 2021 in the UK.
The Ryan Reynolds starring smash hit comedy action movie sits tight at number 3 this weekend with £270,266, a 51% drop, and its largest since relese.
This gives the movie a total gross of £16.5 Million after 8 weeks of release and its the 5th top movie of 2021.
The kids favourite dogs climb back up the box office from number 7 to number 4 this weekend with a gross of £251,511, an incredible 15% increase over last weekend.
The movie has now taken £8.1 Million over 8 weeks of release.
Falling hard this weekend is the prequel movie to The Sopranos which takes £237,150 on its second weekend, a massive 75% drop over last weekend, this gives the movie a total UK gross of £1.5 Million.
Making its debut at the top of the US box office this weekend is the sequel movie Venom: Let There Be Carnage which gives us the best opening weekend of the pandemic, and one of the best October weekends in the US.
Also new this week at number 2 is the sequel animated feature The Addams Family 2 and the prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark which came in at number 4.
Further down the top 10 Indina movie Chal Mera Putt 3 was new at 9 with a debut gross of $644,000 and The Jesus Music was new at 19 with $548,848.
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North American box office top 5 breakdown 1st - 3rd October 2021
The Villainous Venom from the Spider-Man universe makes its debut at the top of the US box office this week in the sequel movie which brings in the kind of figures not seen since before the start of the global pandemic.
The movie takes an amazing $90 Million on its debut weekend, and in fact it outgrossed the original Venom movie from 2018 which took $80.2 Million on its debit.
The opening gross of the movie is so good it is the 8th top grossing movie of 2021 in North America after a single weekend.
Another sequel movie is a new entry at number 2 this weekend at the kooky Addams Family make their debut with a weekend gross of $17.3 Million.
The first movie in the animated series too $30 Million in 2019 at the same time of year, but that movie had better word of mouth, still expect this to hang around and do well over the upcoming Halloween season.
After 4 weeks at the top of the North American box office Marvels latest superhero movie falls to number 3 with a weekend gross of $6.1 Million, a large 53% drop over last weekend, not surprising as it targets a very similar audience to Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
The movie is now the top grossing box office film in the US for 2021 with $206.1 Million, it may be a short stay as there are some of the years biggest film released over the coming months, but still its one of the best debuts for a new character in the long running MCU.
The Sopranos was a massive TV event between 1999 and when it ended abruptly in 2007, after which its star James Gandolfini died suddenly.
The stars son Micheal Gandolfini takes over from his late father in a prequel movie to the TV series which makes its debut this weekend at number 3 with a gross of $4.6 Million.
The musical comedy drama drop to number 5 on its second weekend of release with a gross of $2.4 Million, a large 67% drop over last weekend, this gives the movie a total US gross of $11.8 Million.