This weekend the tenth movie in The Fast and the Furious series of movies gets its UK debut and tops the box office in the process with a gross of £5.8 Million.

The movie is just shy of there previous movie which took just over £6 Million on its debut in 2020 and it is well below the series high of Fast & Furious 8 which took £14 Million in April 2013.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 slips to number 2 this weekend after a couple of weeks at the top as the movies total gross hits £29 Million, below that of the previous movie.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still in the top 3 after 7 weeks of release as its gross passes another milestone of £50 Million at the UK box office.

Finally in the top 5 are a couple of new releases, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is at number 3 with £327,197 and Beau Is Afraid is at 5 with £231,370.

Also new this weekend is the event movie, Don Giovanni: Met Opera at 9 with £99,842.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 19th - 21st May 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £5,895,674 over its debut weekend
• It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
• The movie is the 14th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took £6,014,132 at the box office after 1 week in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £2,810,731 over the weekend, a 47% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £28,928,869 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took £33,041,912 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £544,283 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £51,839,229 over 7 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie is a new entry at number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £327,197 over its debut weekend

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £231,370 over its debut weekend

The accolades for Avatar just keep on rolling as this weeks total gross for the movie easily takes it past Mamma Mia's gross to make it the highest grossing film in the UK ever.

It took 11 years to topple Camerons previous king of the world, Titanic, and in 2008 Mamma Mia! just edged past the 1997 epics gross of £69,025,646 with £69,166,087 but now Avatar, a mere 18 months later, passes the £70 million mark to become the UK's top grossing movie.

Now Avatar is the first film to go past the 70 million mark in the UK the race is on the become the first film to get past £100 million, although Avatar is still going well with a weekly gross in the region of about £6 million surely it cant get to the magic figure, but I wouldn't bet against it at the moment.

With half term coming and the possibilities of BAFTA and Oscar awards who knows it could just edge it's way past the milestone.

Of course the thing we need to look at for a full picture is cinema attendance and I'm afraid that's one are where Avatar lacks, about 13 million people in the UK have seen the film, Mamma Mia is just ahead with just over 13.5 million tickets sold, whereas Titanic is way ahead with over 18 million people seeing the film at the cinema, of course none come close to the champion on this list, Gone with the Wind, with around 35 million tickets sold.

No one can deny Camerons achievement with Avatar and it still has a way to go.