Despite Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse taking over $50 Million on its second weekend of release Transformers: Rise of the Beasts takes over at the top with a $60.5 Million debut.
With the long awaited The Flash movie hitting cinemas this weekend and almost certainly hitting the top next weekend we could see the first weekend in years with 3 movies taking over $50 Million at the US box office.
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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.
Highest new movie this weekend
The signs were strong that Spider Man: Across the Spider Verse was going to be a big movie and with a debut gross over $120 Million it surpassed expectation and is now the 7th top debuting movie in June at the North American box office.
The movie takes close to a $100 Million more than its predecessor Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took $35 Million on its debut in 2018.
The Little Mermaid~2023 spends a single weekend at the top of the box office and falls to number 2 this weekend and has taken $186.2 Million after 2 weekends of release.
Second highest new movie this weekend is the Stephen King written movie The Boogeyman which makes its debut at 3 with $12.3 Million.
Holdover movies fill out most of the top 15 until a new entry at 12 for Past Lives which takes $232,266 and at 13 there is a new entry for The Roundup: No Way Out which takes $200,000.
Highest new movie this weekend