The sequel to the 2018 animated, Oscar Winning, Spider-Man: Inside the Spider-Verse easily makes its UK box office debut at the top with a £9.3 Million gross.

The movie knock off Disney's The Little Mermaid~2023 after a single weekend at the top, despite the fact that the live action movie took a very slim 16% fall from its debut last weekend.

The Little Mermaid~2023 itself takes £4.2 Million on its decond weekend of release for a nice £16.2 Million total.

Also new this weekend is the Stephen King written The Boogeyman which makes its debut at number 5 with a gross of £492,070.

A pair of event movie make their debuts at 7 and 8 with Suga/Agust D Tour: D-Day in Japan - Live Viewing opening with a gross of £119,464 and Die Zauberflote: Met Opera 2023 with £104,668 on its debut.

As few more new entries make up the top 15 in the shape of Reality~2023 at 9 with £62,987, Indian movie Zara Hatke Zara Bachke at 10 with £56,925 and finally The Machine~2023 at 14 with £36,377.

The British half term holiday has given Mummies a re-entry at 15 this weekend.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th June 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £9,317,300 over its debut weekend
• It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of June
• The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took £2,279,995 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £4,200,000 over the weekend, a 16% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £16,200,000 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,104,303 over the weekend, a 51% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £13,295,382 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took £13,064,613 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £994,000 over the weekend, a 38% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £34,600,000 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took £37,819,438 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £493,000 over its debut weekend

The British aristocracy film stays at the top of the UK box office for a third week in a row while hold overs make up the rest of the top 5 with Ready Or Not the top new film at 4.

Downton Abbey

Staying at the top for a third weekend is the ITV series turned hit movie which takes £2.6 Million over the weekend.

This puts the films 3 week total at £19.3 Million, the film will go well over the £20 Million mark by next weekend.

Ad Astra

The space drama starring Brad Pitt stays put at number 2 this week with £1.2 Million which pushes its total UK gross to £4.5 Million after 2 weeks.

Hustlers

The surprise hit movie starring Jennifer Lopez goes back up to number 3 this weeeknd with £1.01 Million which pushes the films total gross to £5.03 Million.

Ready Or Not

Coming in as the top new film of the week is this quirky comedy action film starring Samara Weaving and Adam Brody which takes just under a million pound and is at number 4.

IT Chapter Two

Warner Bros. watch the IT sequel film fall to number 5 this weekend with a take of £940,513 after 4 weeks of release.

The film has really struggled to find its feet and the films total gross is currently £17.7 Million, it is starting to struggle now to get eyes on the screen and outside a boost over halloween it could vanish fast.

The Lion King

Disneys mega hit remake is still doing good business and is this week the top total grossing movie on the box office with £74.8 Million after 11 weeks of release.

Toy Story 4

Pixars sequel has the longest total run on the chart and this week is at number 11 after 15 weeks, the films total gross is £65.5 Million.

It had all the cast reunited from the first Fast and Furious movie and this excited movie goers so much that not only did the film make over $600 million dollars worldwide and become a DVD/Blu-ray smash hit but it was the most pirated film in 2011 according to torrentfreak.com

Fast Five starring Vin Diesel was downloaded more than 9 million times, in second place was The Hangover Part II and in third place was Thor. The argument for Pirated movies has been a long and intense once, but all 3 of these films were big hits at the cinema with each one taking over or close to half a billion dollars in box office takings.

I'm not sure what this list tells us, I'll let you make up your own minds, cinema attendances were down this year but were in the middle of a world wide financial crisis, personally I think that on the whole people who will see the film in cinemas will do and then maybe down load the movie, people who download the movie and don't see it in cinemas would never anyway. This is an interesting list so for your pleasure take a look at the top 10 most downloaded films of 2011 and by all means let me know your thoughts.