France release: 5th October 2022
Ireland release: 5th October 2022
India release: 5th October 2022
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$0 Horror movie Smile~2022 remains at the top of the UK box office for a second weekend as The Woman King enters at number 2 as the top new movie of the week.
Meanwhile Amsterdam~2022 makes its box office debut at number 5 and The Lost King is new at 7 with £368,753.
At the lower end of the box office at number 12 is a new entry for Babe Bhangra Paunde Ne with £100,437 and one place below is Godfather with £93,212
Making it 2 weeks at the top is the low budget horror movie which on its second weekend of release takes £1.7 Million, a very small 8% drop over last weekend.
If you remove the advanced screening from last weekend which added over £2 Million to the weekend total, the movie took £1.5 Million last weekend Friday - Monday which gives it a 17% increase weekend over weekend.
The movie has taken a total of £4.7 Million in the UK, but with Halloween on our doorsteps and a host of horror movies being released, including the high profile Halloween Ends this movie could sink fast.
Highest new movie this weekend
With a critically acclaimed performance from star Viola Davis the highest new movie of the weekend comes in at number 2 with a debut gross of £1.3 Million.
The movie is a strong contender for Oscar recognition at next years ceremony which could see it hang around for a while, and potentially have a second bite of the box office next February.
Falling to number 3 this weekend, but the Florence Pugh and Harry Styles starring movie is doing better in the UK than it is in other territories.
The movie take just over £1 Million on its third weekend of release, which is down 44% from last weekend which gives the movie a UK total of £8.2 Million.
With the star powere the film has it has clearly not performed to the standard hoped by the studio, but in the UK at least it has been a minor hit.
The George Clooney and Julia Roberts double header continues to pull in the crowds as its spends a third weekend inside the top 5 at number 4 with £861,172, a 36% drop over last weekend.
The movie now has a total UK gross of £6.7 Million after 3 weeks of release.
A high profile cast including Margot Robbie, Christian Bale and John David Washington has not stopped this movie from being critically panned and not making an impact on the UK box office as it makes its debut at number 4 this weekend.
A debut gross of £632,722 and an entry at number 5 will see it sing out of the box office fast having spent a single weekend at the top end of the box office.
The long awaited release of director Matt Reeves vision of the caped crusader finally happened this weekend after a couple of delays and The Batman hit number 1 on its debut.
Also making its debut us Ali & Ava which enters at number 9 with a debut gross of ¤106,133, and The Godfather Part II re-enters at number 13 after the 25th Anniversary of the original The Godfather.
UK box office QuickView
UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 4th - 6th March 2022
As expected the country went crazy for the first solo Batman movie in a while, and the reviews were very favourable for Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader.
The movie made its debut with a weekend gross of £13.5 Million, this makes it the 50th top opening weekend ever in the UK.
It will no doubt get into the top grossing movie of all time in the UK but until then it is at least the 5th top grossing movie of 2022 on its debut with the possibility of jumping into the top 3 by next weekend.
The road ahead looks good until the end of March/beginning of April when there is a double big release of Morbius and Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Tom Holland drops to number 2 this weekend with the video game adaptation which spent 3 weeks at number 1, this week it takes £1.3 Million, a hefty 57% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross in the UK of £20 Million and its the third top movie of 2022.
The movie also takes the honor this weekend of the highest grossing movie based on a video game, taking over from Sonic the Hedgehog.
The mega smash animated sequel this weekend takes £1.03 Million as it drops to number 3, a big 61% drop on its 6th weekend of release.
It has now taken £30 Million in the UK as marks a new milestone in box office takings, it also is the top grossing movie, so far, of 2022.
One last honor it takes this weekend, it surpasses the total gross of the original Sing which took £28.9 Million in 2017.
Falling ot number 4 this weekend is the true life dramatic comedy starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren which takes £682,096 on its second weekend, a 31% drop, for a total of £2.7 Million.
Dropping to number 5 is the Kenneth Branagh directed Hercule Poirot mystery which takes £283,550 after 4 weeks, a big 63% drop, for a £7.1 Million total.
Each week we present a rundown of the UK box office chart headlines on this same weekend over the last 30 years.
Making headlines were Onward from this time last year, Rango hitting the top of the box office in 2011 and the classic Transpotting which was the bog movie of the week in 1996.
No. 1 and highest debut: - Onward starring Tom Holland and Chris Pratt and directed by Dan Scanlon
Top total grossing and longest run: - 1917 which had taken £43.4 Million over 9 weeks of release.
No. 1 and highest debut: - London Has Fallen starring Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart and directed by Babak Najafi
Top total grossing and longest run: - Star Wars: The Force Awakens which had taken £122.8 Million over 12 weeks of release.
No. 1 and Highest debut: - Rango starring Johnny Depp and Isla Fisher and directed by Gore Verbinski
Top total grossing and longest run: - The Kings Speech which had taken £41.9 Million over 9 weeks of release.
No.1 movie: - Date Movie which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
Highest debut: - Syriana directed by Stephen Gaghan and starring Kayvan Novak and George Clooney which entered the box office at number 2.
Longest run: - Brokeback Mountain which had been on the box office for 9 weeks.
Top total grossing: - Chicken Little which had taken £11.8 Million after 4 weeks of release.
No. 1 movie: - Hannibal which had been at the top for 3 weeks and with a total gross of £17 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
Highest Debut: - Chocolat directed by Lasse Hallstrm and starring Juliette Binoche and Judi Dench which entered the box office at number 2.
Longest run: - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which had been on the box office for 9 weeks.
No. 1 and highest debut: - Trainspotting starring Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner and directed by Danny Boyle
Longest run: - Babe which had been on the box office for 13 weeks.
Top total grossing: - Seven which had taken £18.8 Million after 10 weeks of release.
No. 1 and highest debut: - The Godfather Part III starring Al Pacino and Diane Keaton and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Longest run: - Home Alone which had been on the box office for 14 weeks.
Top total grossing: - Dances With Wolves which had taken £9.5 Million after 5 weeks of release.
It's time for another catalogue film to hit the top of the UK box office as England comes out of lockdown and cinemas slowly start to open again, 231 cinemas made up this weeks box office.
Elf was first released in the UK at the beginning of December 2003, it never hit the top then spending 4 weeks in the runner up spot, exactly 17 years later the movie get to the top.
Highest new movie of the week is a new telling of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol while outside the top 5 Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular makes a debut at number 10, director Rob Savage's move Host is new at 14 and the re-edit of The Godfather Part III is new at 15.
UK box office Quickview.
Here is a breakdown of the top 5 film on the UK box office 4th - 6th December 2020.
After 17 years director Jon Favreau's festival favourite hits the top of the UK box office, albeit under strange circumstances, with a weekend gross of £48,244, a 97% increase from last weekend.
The big increase from last weekend is due to the increased number of cinemas that have re-opened, but the movie has taken a total of £17 Million since its release in 2003.
The Chris Columbus movie falls from the top this week with £36,878, a 93% increase from last weekend!
This pushes the movies total gross to £9.64 Million since its 1990 release.
Highest film of the weeks that is not a re-release is this animation from directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart which takes £26,171, a 94% increase over last weekend.
The movie has now taken £74,874 since its release 4 weeks ago.
Highest new movie of the week lands at number 4, a re-telling of the classic Christmas story, this time directed by Jacqui Morris and starring Simon Russell Beale and Martin Freeman.
The film takes £22,366 on its debut weekend of release.
Finally on the top 5 is the former number 1 movies which takes £21,952 on its 7th weekend of release giving the animated take a total gross of £1 Million, it finally made it over the Million line!
With cinema closures under the global pandemic continuing across the US which is for the 10th month disrupting the box office animated feature The Croods 2 stays at the top for a second weekend.
Top new movie of the weekend enters the box office at 2 in the shape of Mexican movie Half Brothers and All My Life also makes a new entry at 4.
Also making a new entry on the box office this weekend is the re-edited version of The Godfather Part II, called The Godfather, Coda: The Death Of Michael Corleone, which debuts at 15 with $52,000.
US box office Quickview.
Here is the US box office top 5 rundown for 4th - 6th December 2020.
Second weekend at the top for the animated movie from director Joel Crawford starring Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds which takes $4.4 Million, 55% down from last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of $20.3 Million after 2 weeks of release.
A Mexican movie from director Luke Greenfield is the highest new movie of the weekend making its debut at number 2 on the US box office.
The film took a very respectable $720,000 on its debut weekend of release.
The horror comedy former number 1 movie falls to number 3 this weekend with $460,000, a 42% drop from last weekend.
The Christopher Landon directed movie has now taked $7.74 Million during its 4 weeks of release.
New at number 4 this weekend is this romance from director Marc Meyers which takes $350,000 on its debut weekend.
Surprise hit of the year starring Rober De Niro falls to number 5 this weekend with $329,359, a 44% drop, giving the movie a total gross of $17.63 Million after 9 weeks of release, all in the top 5!