The Batman makes it 4 weeks at the top of the UK box office with no major new releases in cinemas over the weekend while Indian movie RRR is the top new movie of the weekend at number 2. Ambulance also makes its debut inside the top 5 while Oscar contender The Worst Person In the World is new at number 7 with £193,493 and the event movie Don Carlos: Met Opera 2022 is new at 12 with £72,610.
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UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 25th - 27th March 2022
Fourth weekend at the summit for the latest incarnation of the caped crusader as the movie takes £1.6 Million over the weekend, an acceptable 50% drop over last weekend.
The total gross of the film in the Uk now sits at £35.6 Million, it is the top movie of 2022 to date.
It will most likely be toppled from the top next weekend with 2 strong contenders hitting cinemas but this run for a DC superhero movie has been good and a sequel is already being planned.
Indian language movie have always done well in the UK and this new period movie from director S.S. Rajamouli is the top new movie of the weekend entering at number 2.
Taking £650,204 on its debut it has beat out a number of higher profiles movie, the distributer wisely chose to release the movie on a quiet weekend between Hollywood blockbusters.
Director Micheal Bay leaves The Transformers behind and brings to the cinema this hard hitting action drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
The movie makes its debut at number 3 this weekend with a debut gross of £521,049.
Falling to number 4 on its 7th weekend of release is the Tom Holland starring movie co-starring Mark Wahlberg which takes £349,456, a 42% drop over last week.
The movie is the 4th top movie of 2022 sto date.
Critically panned the Catherine Tate starring movie drops to number 5 this weekend with a gross of £289,730, a 52% drop, giving it a £1.1 Million total.
Warner Bros. DC Universe hit movie The Batman spends a third weekend at the top of the UK box office while Japanese anime Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie is the highest debut at 2.
Also inside the top 5 there is a new entry for The Nan Movie and The Phantom of the Open which are both British produces movies.
Director Ti West's latest horror movie X is a new entry at number 7 this weekend with a debut gross of £227,501 while at the lower end of the top 15 there are new entries for Bachchan Pandey and Paris, 13th District at 14 and 15.
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UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 18th - 20th March 2022
Three weeks at the top of the UK box office for the Robert Pattinson starring Dark Knight movie which crosses the £30 Million mark this weekend with a total UK gross of £32.6 Million.
The movie took £3.5 Million over the weekend which is a steep 33% drop but it inline with other superhero movies.
It is now the top movie of 2022 in the UK having taken Sing 2 and its within reach of the UK top 100 movies ever.
The Japanese animated hot movie is the top new film of the weekend landing on the box office at number 2 with £825,529 including preview shows which brought in £307,860.
The movie was a big hit in Japan when it was released last December and the global figures for the movie are looking good where it has taken nearly $150 Million.
The video game adaptation falls to number 3 this weekend after 6 weeks on the chart with £605,722, a 43% drop over last weekend.
this gives the movie a total UK gross of £22.7 Million, it is currently the 4th top movie of 2022.
A new entry at number 4 this weekend, after a difficult production and a year long delay due to the pandemic the infamous Catherine Tate character comes to the big screen.
The movie lands with a gross of £565,340, and the movie also seems to have lost its director Josie Rourke after a series of reshoots.
Its been reported that the movie changed its narrative direction and is now more of a road movie between the character of Nan and her grandson, whereas the original cut was more of a origins movie, it seems it lost the original director credit in the process.
Another British produced movie about an ammeter golfer being entered into the Open, the movie which stars Mark Rylance makes its debut at number 5 with £456,829 of which £61,645 was from previews screens.