US release: 11th April 2008
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$14.9 MillionStarring Dwayne Johnson Black Adam, the latest superhero movie from the DC Universe stable of films hits the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend.
Irish friendship drama The Banshees of Inisherin is new at number 2, while outside the top 5 there is a new entry for Chinese drama Decision to Leave which enters at 6 with £410,107.
Highest new movie this weekend
Starring Dwayne Johnson in the title role the latest movie from the Warner Bros. DC Extended Universe of movies makes its debut at the top of the box office.
The movie makes its debut with a gross of £1.6 Million which is lower that The Batman from earlier this year, but this is a new IP and that was from one of the longest renning series of movies starring a DC superhero.
The movie has little competition in the coming weeks but come 11th November it we get the Black Panther sequel!
Starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson this lighthearted drama about friendship comes from the director who brought us the critically acclaimed In Bruges
The movie lands at numebr 2 this weekend with an incredible gross of £1.6 Million, quite a bit higher that In Bruges which took £343,760 on its debut, that movie was a bit of a sleeper hit and went on the take £4.7 Million over 15 weeks.
After making its debut at the top last weekend the childrens book brought to the big screen by directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck falls to number 3.
The movie takes £1.4 Million on its second weekend of release, a 48% drop over last weekend giving the movie a UK total of £4.9 Million.
The horror movie of the moment falls to number 4 this weekend with a gross of £996,477 on its 4th weekend, this is a 30% drop over last week.
THe movie has now taken an amazing £9 Million in the UK as it get close to the £10 Million milestone.
It will most likely see a bump in taking next weekend as the Halloween season is in full swing and audiences are looking for the scare over the weekend.
The last in the last trilogy of Halloween movies falls to number 5 this weekend with £703,338, a large 67% drop over last week.
The movie now has a total UK gross of £3.6 Million, and despite the fact it could get a boost from the Halloween season next week it will finish off its box office run the lowest of this trilogy of movies.
Giving Sonic the hedgehog 2 only a single weekend at the top of the UK box office, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore makes its UK debut at the top.
Also new this week is The Outfit from director Graham Moore which is new at 7 with £96,600 and Compartment No 6 from Juho Kuosmanen which enters at 12 with £42,999.
UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 8th - 10th April 2022
This third in the series of movies that serve as a prequel to the Harry Potter movies, starring Eddie Redmayne as the Beasts finder Newt Scamander the series has turned into an origins movie for Albus Dumbledore played in this series by Jude law.
The movie opens with a gross of £5.8 Million which is well below the last movie in the series Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald with an opening of £12 Million and the first movie in the series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which took £15 Million on its opening.
This series of movies has not touched the heights of the Harry Potter series which started 20 years ago with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which took £15 Million on its debut and ended with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 which took £23 Million.
The movie is the 10th top movie of the year so far, and will end up most likely in the top 5, but it is debatable if Warner Bros. will see this as good enough to continue the movies in what should have been a 5 movie series.
The blue speedy hedgehog which made its debut at number 1 last weekend falls to number 2 on its second weekend of release with £2.9 Million, a 42% drop over last weekend.
this gives the movie a total UK gross of £10.6 Million after 2 weeks of release, this is more than double the take of the first movie at the same point of release.
The movie is the 6th top film of 2022 and at this rate bound to do even better.
Proving to be a smash hit is the latest movie from the DreamWorks animated stable which this weekend takes £1.1 Million, a 51% drop over last weekend, taking the movies total UK gross to £4.8 Million.
Sony's Spiderverse movie drops to number 4 this weekend with £740,336, a massive 77% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of £5 Million after 2 weekends of release, it will most likely drop out of the top 5 next weekend and end its run with about £7 Million.
Its not been good for the super villain movie especially after the success last year of Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Dropping to number 5 this weekend The Caped Crusader takes £623,866 on its 6th weekend of release, a 48% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total of £39 Million.
The movie is the top movie of 2022 so far, an honor it will loose in the coming weeks, but the film has been a success for Warner Bros. in fact it has been more successful tha Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice from 2016 which took £35 Million over its total 6 week run.
It has not been as successful though as Joker~2019 from 2019 which had taken £54 Million 6 weeks into its run on its way to £58 Million total.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe returned to the top the box office this week with Spider-Man: Far From Home on its debut weekend knocking Toy Story 4 off the top after 2 weeks at number 1.
The first MCU film post Avengers: Endgame takes the film series back to the top of the box office with a weekend gross of £14 Million.
This is far highest than the £10 Million of Spider-Man: Homecoming, and is the 36 top film debut in the UK.
The MCU is on a massive high at the moment, and with Endgames record breaking box office run the next film in the series is bound to do well.
Thee weeks in and the Pixar movie falls to number 2 with a weekend gross of £5.5 Million which pushes the films total UK gross to £36 Million.
The films gross is going to end up well below the previous movie Toy Story 3 as that film had taken an amazing £51.5 Million 3 weeks into its run.
The film is the third top film of 2019 behind Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame.
Danny Boyles comedy based around the music of The Beatles falls to number 3 this week after missing out on the top spot with a weekend gross of £1.6 Million.
This brings the films total gross after 2 weeks £5.6 Million.
After the success of the Take That Greatest Hits Live broadcast a few weeks back Westlife try the same with great success and take their twenty year tour to number 4 with £899,488.
Director Ari Aster's new film disappointingly enters the box office at number 5 this week with a debut gross of £812,052.
This animated feature enters the box office at number 6 this week with a gross of £520,540.
Luc bessons new movie starring Sasha Luss and Helen Mirren enters the UK box office at number 9 this week with a weekend gross of £198,390.
11 weeks in and now at number 14 the mega smash movie has now taken a UK gross of £88.5 Million.
Those loveable but very annoyed birds take over at the top of the UK video chart on their debut week of release.
The Angry Birds Movie was released on 13th May 2016 and hit the number 2 spot on its debut with £2.1 million it was kept off the top spot by Captain America: Civil War.
The film was a massive hit at the box office and on its second weekend of release grossed £2 million, tis very rare for a film to have such a small drop on its second weekend.
An 11 week run on the box office gave the film an incredible £10.4 million gross in the UK and its the 487th top grossing film in the UK.
Globally the film took $346.4 million and is the 293rd top grossing film, these numbers almost guarantee a sequel.
Warcraft falls from the top last week down to the number 3 slot this week after a single week.
Also new is The Conjuring 2 The Enfield Case at number 2, The Take at number 6 and Cell at number 11.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 retains its position at the top of the UK box office this week despite some strong competition entering the chart.
The last of The Hunger Games films adds £4.5 million on its second weekend of release which brings its total to £19.3 million after 10 days of release.
The film is almost mirroring the take of the second and third film in the series and will most likely end up grossing somewhere is the region of £30 million which is the same as part 1.
Highest new film of the week is The Good Dinosaur at number 2, the new film from Pixar takes a debut gross of £2.9 million, not quite but certainly one of the lowest gross from a Pixar film.
Also new this week are: Spielberg and Hanks double header Bridge of Spies is new at 4 while the new Johnny Depp film Black Mass is new at 5. New at 7 is Carol and Tamasha is new at number 8.
Highest total grossing film on the Uk box office this week is Spectre which after 5 weeks has grossed £88.3 million.
Historical charts
A year ago - Paddington was new at the top of the box office which knocked The HUnger Games Mockingjay Part 1 down to number 2.
Five years ago - Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 stayed at the top for another week while Unstoppable was the highest new film at number 2.
Ten years ago - Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire was still holsing onto the top spot while Jodie Foster was the star of Flightplan which debuted at 2.
Fifteen years ago - Charlies Angels spent its debut week at the top of the box office, it knocked off What Lies Beneath from the top spot.
Twenty years ago - The Bond film Goldeneye made its debut a the top of the box office knocking Pocahontas down to number 2.
Twenty five years ago - Home Alone stayed at the top while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original version) entered at number 2.