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$0Event cinema has become a regular part of the UK and Ireland box office in recent years, and the one woman show Prima Facie - NT Live 2022 has just overtaken the one woman show Fleabag: NT Live 2019 as the top grossing event.
Prima Facie: NT Live 2022 stars Jodie Comer as a young brilliant barrister and has been received with fantastic reviews.
The movie is still playing in cinemas and has taken £4.47 to date while Fleabag: NT Live 2019 starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge was released in September 2019 and spent 32 weeks on the chart taking £4.46 Million.
In an intersting turn of events this weeks, 26th August 2022, the number one movie at the UK box office is an event cinema itself with the ever popular Andre Rieu taking his summer concert Andre Rieus 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again to the top.
Courtesy of comscore.com
Jodie Comer has done it! As of yesterday, PRIMA FACIE - NT LIVE has become the highest-grossing Event Cinema release of all time in the UK & Ireland. A remarkable achievement.#PrimaFaciePlay now stands on �4.47m to date, moving ahead of FLEABAG - NT LIVE's total of �4.42m. pic.twitter.com/Iec3dLptF3
— Comscore Movies UK & Ireland (@CsMoviesUK) September 2, 2022
Warner Bros. release their super-hero inspired movie DC League of Super-Pets this weekend to capitalise on the Summer Holidays and score a number 1 hit at the UK box office.
Also hitting the box office this weekend is Ek Villain Returns at number 12 with £128,493, Olivia Coleman in Joyride~2022 at number 14 with £64,824 and Fire of Love at 15 with £59,803.
Highest new movie of the weekend
Making its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend is a movie inspired by the characters in the DC Universe of Super-heroes and their Super-Pets!
The movie stars the voise talents of Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Heart and it takes £2.6 Million on its debut weekend.
Falling to number 2 this weekend after taking the top spot for a second time is the Minions sequel movie which on its 5th weekend of release takes £1.9 Million, a 35% drop.
The movie has now taken a total of £33.5 Million in the UK which is just behind the original movie which had taken £37 Million in 2015.
The movie is also the 6th biggest film of 2022 to date.
The latest in the MCU movies falls to number 3 this weekend with £1,9 Million, a 37% drop over last weekend.
The fourth in the Thor series has now taken £30 Million at the UK box office after 4 weeks of release, it is currently ahead of 2017's Thor: Ragnarok which had taken £28 Million at this stage in its run.
The movie is currently the 7th top movie of 2022.
The Elvis Presley bio-pic from director Baz Luhrmann remains at number 4 this weekend with £1.1 Million on its 6th weekend, a very slim 11% drop over last week.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £20.8 Million making it the directors top grossing movie in the UK.
The incredible run of the Top Gun sequel has been unprecedented for a movie that was release over 30 years after the original, and it has found a new generation of fans and the studio must be looking at doing another movie, perhaps without Tom Cruise!
The movie has this weekend taken £981,129, a very slim 10% drop over last weekend which takes the movies total in the UK to £76 Million.
It is the top grossing movie of 2022, where it might remain if Avatar: Way of the Water doesn't spoil the party in December.
The movie is also now the 9th top grossing movie ever in the UK having taken over the 2019 version of The LIon King~2019 with an eye to go even higher on the list.
Comparing it to the original movie from 1986 is hard considering the gap in releases, but if adjust for inflation the £1.88 average price of a ticket in 1986 then the original would have taken about £49 Million at this stage in its run.
Disney and Marvel finally release their first movie at the box office in 18 months in the shape of Black Widow and score another number 1 hit movie
With such a strong release no other studio has released anything in competition so it is the only new release on the top 15 this weekend.
Also worth a note is this weeks US box office is the highest grossing top 15 since late 2019 when war movie 1917 made its debut.
US box office QuickView
US box office top 5 breakdown 9th - 11th July 2021
It may have been a delayed release by well over a year but the new MCU movie hits the top of the US bod office with ease taking a pandemic beating $80 Million.
The movie also made another $60 Million on the Disney+ streaming service where viewers had to pay another $30 to see the movie, although this was more 24 hours after its theatrical release.
The movie is already the fifth top grossing movie of 2021.
Falling from the top to number 2 is the ninth The Fast Saga movie which takes $10.8 Million this weekend, a 55% drop over last weekend.
Over 3 weeks of release the movie has now taken $141.3 Million, it is currently the second top movie is 2021.
Falling to number 3 this weekend is the animated sequel which takes $8.7 Million on its second weekend of release, a 50% drop, giving it a $34.7 Million total.
Falling to number 4 this week is the fifth movie in The Purge series which takes $6.7 Million, a 47% drop, giving the movie a 2 week total of $27.4 Million.
The John Krasinski directed movie falls to number 5 this weekend with $3 Million, a 29% drop over last weekend.
The movie has been on the chart for 7 weeks now, all in the top 5, and is the top grossing movie in the US for 2021 with $150.7 Million.
As cinemas re-open in bigger numbers in the UK and the public get more comfortable with sitting in a dark room with a mask on the midweek box office chart has The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It set for a number one debut.
The movie, which is the third in The Conjuring main series but the 8th in the extended universe got a UK release on Wednesday 26th May, also getting a release on that day is Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train.
The Japanese animated movie has been a global smash taking nearly $500 Million so far and it set for a top 3 release, the midweek position is number 2.
Wednesday May 27th UK box office.
WEDNESDAY'S TOP 5 FILMS FOR THE UK: - - 1 - #TheConjuring : The Devil Made Me Do It - 2 - Demon Slayer: #MugenTrain - 3 - #PeterRabbit2 - 4 - #Nomadland - 5 - #Spiral
— Comscore Movies UK & Ireland (@CsMoviesUK) May 27, 2021
May 17th 2021 marked the day in the UK when cinemas were allowed to re-open and the British public could once again watch a movie on the big screen.
On this first day the sequel movie Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway was the top movie in the country.
There were many new movies that opened on this first day like the Oscar winning Nomadland and the US number 1 movie Spiral: From The Book of Saw.
Here is the top 5 movies in the UK for May 17th 2021 according to Comscore Movies UK and Ireland.
The box office chart this weekend will be the first full chart since Christmas last year when Wonder Woman 1984 was the top movie.
Cinemas are back!! Monday's Top 5 films for the UK: - - 1 - #PeterRabbit2 - 2 - #Nomadland - 3 - #GodzillaVsKong - 4 -#SpiralFromtheBookofSaw - 5 - #TheUnholy
— Comscore Movies UK & Ireland (@CsMoviesUK) May 18, 2021