US release: 10th October 2017
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The highest new movie of the weekend is A Man Called Otto which is new at 4, also in the top 5 is the latest cinema event Andre Rieu: In Dublin 2023.
Further down the chart is Till which is new at 6 with £327,496, the action movie The Enforcer~2022 is new at 12 with £71,836 and finally there is a re-entry at 15 for Shrek, the 2001 animated hit movie which take £44,199.
The sequel movie to Avatar takes £5.8 Million on its 4th weekend of release which is a small 25% drop over last weekend.
The movie has taken a UK total of £57.2 Million, which almost by default makes it the top movie of 2023, and although its not the top movie released in 2022 it is catching Top Gun: Maverick and has grossed almost the same at that movie 4 weeks into its box office run.
The original movie has taken £41 Million 4 weeks into its run so this movie is well ahead of that and is set to out gross the 2009 film.
The bio-pic of Whitney Houston remains at number 2 for a second weekend with a gross of £1.3 Million, a 58% drop over its debut last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of £6.2 Million after 2 weekends of release.
The musical version of the Roald Dahl story Matilda remains at number 3 this weekend with a gross of £1.1 Million, a drop of 42%.
The movie has been a massive hit in the UK with a 3 week run at the top and after 7 weeks, all inside the top 3, the movie has taken £23.9 Million.
Highest new movie this weekend
Highest new movie of the weekend is the latest from Tom Hanks which is a remake of the Swedish movie A Man Called Ove from 2015.
THe movie takes £1.1 Million on its debut weekend of release in the UK.
No stranger to the box office, Andre Rieu's latest live concert offering where he is performing live in Dublin lands at number 5 this week.
The event movie takes £715,986 in screenings starting from Saturday 7th which is about on par with the violinists last concert Andre Rieu's 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again which took £798,706 in August of 2022.
Giving Sonic the hedgehog 2 only a single weekend at the top of the UK box office, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore makes its UK debut at the top.
Also new this week is The Outfit from director Graham Moore which is new at 7 with £96,600 and Compartment No 6 from Juho Kuosmanen which enters at 12 with £42,999.
UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 8th - 10th April 2022
This third in the series of movies that serve as a prequel to the Harry Potter movies, starring Eddie Redmayne as the Beasts finder Newt Scamander the series has turned into an origins movie for Albus Dumbledore played in this series by Jude law.
The movie opens with a gross of £5.8 Million which is well below the last movie in the series Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald with an opening of £12 Million and the first movie in the series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which took £15 Million on its opening.
This series of movies has not touched the heights of the Harry Potter series which started 20 years ago with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which took £15 Million on its debut and ended with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 which took £23 Million.
The movie is the 10th top movie of the year so far, and will end up most likely in the top 5, but it is debatable if Warner Bros. will see this as good enough to continue the movies in what should have been a 5 movie series.
The blue speedy hedgehog which made its debut at number 1 last weekend falls to number 2 on its second weekend of release with £2.9 Million, a 42% drop over last weekend.
this gives the movie a total UK gross of £10.6 Million after 2 weeks of release, this is more than double the take of the first movie at the same point of release.
The movie is the 6th top film of 2022 and at this rate bound to do even better.
Proving to be a smash hit is the latest movie from the DreamWorks animated stable which this weekend takes £1.1 Million, a 51% drop over last weekend, taking the movies total UK gross to £4.8 Million.
Sony's Spiderverse movie drops to number 4 this weekend with £740,336, a massive 77% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of £5 Million after 2 weekends of release, it will most likely drop out of the top 5 next weekend and end its run with about £7 Million.
Its not been good for the super villain movie especially after the success last year of Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Dropping to number 5 this weekend The Caped Crusader takes £623,866 on its 6th weekend of release, a 48% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total of £39 Million.
The movie is the top movie of 2022 so far, an honor it will loose in the coming weeks, but the film has been a success for Warner Bros. in fact it has been more successful tha Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice from 2016 which took £35 Million over its total 6 week run.
It has not been as successful though as Joker~2019 from 2019 which had taken £54 Million 6 weeks into its run on its way to £58 Million total.
Despite the less than favourable reviews The Predator takes the top spot on its debut weekend in the UK knocking horror film The Nun down to number 2.
The sixth film in the Predator franchise (including the 2 cross over films with the Alien franchise) takes £2.3 million on its opening weekend which is in the same ball park of the previous film Predators from 2010.
The film will most likely have most of its business in this first weekend so expect the film to drop considerably on its second weekend.
Falling to number 2 this week is The Nun which takes £1.8 million on its second weekend of release which brings the films total gross to £7.7 million.
New at number 3 is the US smash hit Crazy Rich Asians, although the film doesn't seem to be repeating the same success in the UK.
There was an expectation that the film would top the box office but with a £1.6 million opening this is only good enough for a top 3 debut.
Michael Cains new film King Of Thieves enters the chart at number 4 with a £1.5 million debut.
The star has been in some big movies over the last 20 years which have had massive debuts but for a lesser known film this is a good debut, no doubt increased by his star power.
Finishing off the top 5 is former number 1 film Christopher Robin which takes £521,842 this week, this brings the films total gross after 5 weeks to £13 million.The Dark Tower this week makes its debut at the top of the US box office stopping Dunkirk from making it a trio of weeks at number 1.
Its a far softer debut that was expected as The Dark Tower debuts with just shy of $20 million, although it was good enough to see it at number 1.
More was expected considering the high profile stars in Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and the connection to Stephen Kings world though his novels.
Dunkirk gave up the top spot but with a 3rd weekend gross of $17 million the film has been another massive success for director Christopher Nolan.
The films total gross in the US now sits at $133 million with $200 million fast approaching.
Also new this week is Kidnapped starring Halle Berry which debuts at 5 with $10 million.
Longest running film this week is once again Despicable Me 3 although the top total grossing movie this week is Spider-Man Homecoming with $294 million.
There were plenty of contenders this last weekend that tried to topple the Marvel film Doctor Strange but none were good enough so the good doctor spends another week at the top.
A weekend gross of £3.4 million takes the films total UK gross to £15.7 million, very good indeed and on course to be one of the better Marvel Cinematic Universe films.
Coming in highest is The Accountant starring Ben Affleck, a debut weekend gross of £1.6 million brings it in at number 3.
There are 3 other new film this week, at 4 is a Street Cat Named Bob, at 5 is Nocturnal Animals and at number 6 is The Light Between Oceans.
Bridget Jones's Baby is the top total grossing film of the week with an incredible £46.1 million and its is also the longest running film at 8 weeks.
Historical charts
A year ago - Spectre spent its second week at the top of the UK box office while Brooklyn came in highest at number 3.
Five years ago - The Adventures of Tintin The Secret of The Unicorn spent its second week at the top while In Time came in highest at number 2.
Ten years ago - Making its debut at the top of the box office was Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan while Saw III dropped to number 2.
Fifteen years ago - The Others was new at the top of the chart, it knocked off American Pie 2 which fell to number 2.
Twenty years ago - British film Brassed Off landed on the chart at the top, it knocked Dragonheart down to number 2 after 2 weeks on top.
Twenty five years ago - Dead Again remained at the top of the box office and on this week there were no new releases.