
£480.2 Thousand
$13.5 Million
$0 Avengers: Endgame was always going to open big, and on its 4 day opening weekend, including Thursday previews, the film gains the top opening weekend in the UK beating Spectre who gained it in 2015.
The latest Marvel movie, and end of this phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, took a gigantic £43.4 million on its debut weeekend.
Spectre in 2015 took the title with a 7 day opening, Monday - Sunday, so this is actually more impressive.
The film opened higher than expectation and we will be watching over the coming weeks to see if the film continues to gross well and beat Star Wars: The Force Awakens £123 million total gross, the highest in the UK.
Tim Burtons live action remake continues to do well at the UK box office and remains at number 2 this week with £1.02 Million.
This pushes the films total UK gross to £23.3 million after 5 weeks of release, comparatively the film is doing better in the UK than many other countries.
The animated film climbs from 7 back to number 3 on its 3rd weekend of release with a £454,366 weekend, pushing its total to £3.8 million.
The Judi Dench starring film also climbs this week to number 4 with a weekend of £420,629 which now puts its total gross at £1.5 million.
The DC Captain Marvel falls from the top to number 5 this week with the Marvel film giving people their super hero fix.
The film takes £398,317 on its 4th weekend and it sits at £12.8 million in total grosses.
There was a thought that the other Marvel super hero film on release at the moment would get a boost from Avengers: Endgame but in reality the film falls to 6 on its 8th week of release, its total gross is £38.8 million.
Praised by critics this coming of age drama from director Bo Burnham lands on the box office at number 10 with £144,923, it did go up agains Avengers: Endgame!
This weekend, Friday 26th April 2019, there are 3 new films released in the UK looking to hit the box office and challenge Shazam! for the top spot.
First up at cinemas this week is new movie Avengers: Endgame directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo who also directed Avengers: Infinity War in 2018 which grossed £70,804,892.
It stars Robert Downey Jr. who last starred in Avengers: Endgame and Chris Evans who also last appeared in Avengers: Endgame.
Next on the new release schedule is Eighth Grade, this new movie stars Elsie Fisher and Josh Hamilton.
The film is brought to us by new director Bo Burnham.
Also out this week is Bel Canto which is directed by Paul Weitz who directed Grandma in 2015.
It stars Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe.
-Check back on Monday to see where these films end up on the weekends box office chart.
Come back next week when there are 6 new releases. -