Spider-Man: No Way Home remains at the top of the UK box office despite a decent challenge from newcomer Scream which is the top new entry at number 2.

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• Number 1 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (5th weekend)
• Highest debut - Scream (@2)
• Longest run - Ghostbusters: Afterlife (9 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Spider-Man: No Way Home (£84.1 Million)

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 14th - 16th January 2022

Spider Man: No Way Home

Holding onto the top spot for a 5th weekend is the Marvel/Sony movie from the MCU which takes £3.2 Million over the weekend, a low 28% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a 5 week total of £84.1 Million making it the 7th top movie in the UK as well as it being the top movie so far in 2022 with £14.2 Million taken this year.

Scream

Highest new entry this weekend is the 5th movie in the long running Scream series which makes its debut at number 2.

The movies debut gross is £2.4 Million, which is higher than the debut gross of the previous movie in the series Scream 4 from 2011, although that movie did make its debut at number 1 in mid April.

The King's Man

Falling to number 3 on its 3rd weekend is the prequel movie from director Matthew Vaughn which takes £627,445, a 31% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of £6.4 Million and it is also the second top movie of 2022 with £2.9 Million taken this year.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Remaining at number 4 this week is the live action version of the big red dog animated series which takes £525,107 over the weekend, a low 16% drop.

The movie has now taken £7.9 Million over its 6 weeks of release and with £1.9 Million taken in 2022 it is the 4th top movie of the year.

Licorice Pizza

Paul Thomas Anderson's coming of age drama drops to number 5 this weekend with £393,988, a large 55% drop over last weekend, this gives the movie a total gross of £1.5 Million after 2 weeks, it is also the 6th top movie of 2022.

This weekend, Friday 14th January 2022, there are 3 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home, for the number 1 spot?

Here are this weeks new releases

• Scream
• Embrace Again
• Save the Cinema

Scream

• The movie is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett also directed Devil's Due in 2014 which grossed £1.8 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Neve Campbell who also starred in Drowning Mona (2000).
• The film also stars Courteney Cox who last appeared in Friends 25th: The One With the Anniversary (2019).
• Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox have starred in 4 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Scream 2 (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Scream (1996) and Scream 4 (2011).
• UK box office prediction: Number 1

Embrace Again

• The movie is directed by Xiaolu Xue, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Xiaolu Xue also directed My People, My Country in 2019 which grossed £135.3K in the UK and grossed $450.1 Mil. globally.
• It stars Bo Huang who also starred in Crazy Alien (2019).
• The film also stars Ling Jia who last appeared in Hi, Mom (2021).
• They also appeared together in My People, My Homeland (2020).

Save the Cinema

• The movie is directed by Sara Sugarman, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Sara Sugarman also directed Very Annie Mary in 2001.
• It stars Samantha Morton who also starred in John Carter (2012).
• The film also stars Tom Felton who last appeared in Braking For Whales (2019).
• UK box office prediction: Number 8

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 3 new movies released

• Belfast, Friday, 21st January
• Nightmare Alley, Friday, 21st January
• A Journal For Jordan, Friday, 21st January

A new poster has been released for upcoming movie Scream which can seen in full if you scroll down this page.

• The movie is due for release on 14th January 2022
• It stars among others Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox
• It is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
• It is a sequel to Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3 and Scream 4

Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.

The first trailer for the new Scream movie, the fifth in the series, has been released, and the old gang are back together 11 after the last movie and 26 years after the original.

The first Scream was released in 1996 while Scream 4 was released in 2011 so a long time has passed, but Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette are all brought together to remind us of the rules of a horror movie as a new Ghostface terrorises a new generation.

The trailer starts with what will be the traditional opening of a Scream movie as a young woman battles the infamous killer after the phone rings.

The movie is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and gets released on 14th January 2022.

Disney and Jon Favreau live action version of the classic Rudyard Kipling book makes in incredible showing at the box office this week.

Making it debut at the top with a £9.9 million weekend the film has become the 63rd highest opening weekend in the UK ever, in 2016 Batman V Superman and Deadpool opened higher.

With such a strong opening the film is sure to follow in the footsteps of Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland and be a massive live action film for Disney.

Falling from the top in dramatic style this week is The Huntsman: Winters War which drops to, a second weekend of £0.6 million brings the total to £4.4 million.

Highest total grossing movie on the box office this week is former number 1 film Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice which has now grossed £35.3 million after 4 weeks of play.

Historical chart

A year ago - Fast and Furious 7 retained its hold on the top and with a strong top 4 Child 44 was the top new film at 4.

Five years ago - Scream 4 took over at the top on its debut weekend leaving Rio to fall to number 2.

Ten years ago - Ice Age: The Meltdown stayed at the top for another weekend leaving Scary Movie 4 to enter the chart at number 2.

Fifteen years ago - Bridget Jones's Diary made its debut at the top while Rugrats In Paris The Movie fell to number 3.

Twenty years ago - Broken Arrow was new at the top while Toy Story fell into the runner up position after 3 weeks at the top.

Twenty five years ago - Highlander II The Quickening was the top new film of the week with Quigley Down Under falling into number 3.