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The Oscar winning director ducked out of the series second movie 28 Weeks Late and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo took on directing duties, but he brought the series to life in 2002 with 28 Days Later.
The movie takes a fantastic £4.7 Million on its debut which is better than the previous two movies combined.
Last weeks top movie, How to Train Your Dragon~2025, drop to number 2 this week after only a single weekend at the top, although with the school summer holidays just round the corner a longer stay, and maybe return to the top, is likely.
Elio from Disney and Pixar falls short this weekend and can only manage a top 3 entry at 3 with just under a million debut - although with the school holidays around the corner - and good reviews - it could hang around.
Highest new movie this weekend
With the British Easter holidays on full swing Kung-Fu Panda 4 remains at the top of the UK box office chart for a second weekend.
The movies takes £2.8 Million on its second weekend which boosts its total UK gross to £12.7 Million.
Remaining at number 2 this weekend is Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire which takes £1.9 Million for a £9.1 Million total.
Highest new movie of the weekend is the Dev Patel directed Monkey Man at number 5 which takes £810,253 on its debut.
Highest new movie this weekend
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Another new number 1 this weekend with the release of Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves at the box office which takes a very resonable £3.5 Million.
Also new this weekend is animated movie Mummies which is given a well times release over the UK school holidays while Dasara is new at 11 with £108,625 and Life of Pi: NT Live 2023 is new at 12 with £89,514.
Finally there is the new Florence Pugh movie God's Creatures which is new at 14 with £69,284 and Falstaff: Met Opera 2023 at 15 with £68,655.
Highest new movie this weekend
Starring Chris Pine in a new iteration of the Dungeons and Dragons story the movie makes its debut at the top of the UK box office with an opening gross of £3.5 Million.
Falling into the runner up spot after its debut at the top is the fourth chapter in the John Wick series which drops 51% this weekend.
The well times release of this new animated tale during the Easter Holidays gives it a new entry at number 3 with a gross of over half a million pound.
The disappointing release of the DC Universe latest movie gives it a hefty 57% drop on its 3rd weekend as its gross jump to just £4.8 Million.
Still going strong is the third movie in the Creed series which has taken £13.5 Million after 5 weeks of release.
In a fascinating weekend for the UK box office a 10 week old movie, Minions: The Rise of Gru goes back to the top, a 15 week old movie, Top Gun: Maverick goes back into the top 5 and a 2021 movie and one of the top grossing movies in the UK is the top new release, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Adding to this the second highest new movie is E.T. The Extra Terrestrial celebrating its 40th anniversary, yes 40 years since the release of the once global highest grossing movie of all time!
Less impressive this weekend is the debut releases for Three Thousand Years of Longing which is new at 10 with £307,176, Fall~2022 new at 13 with £220,270 and The Forgiven~2021 new at 15 with £182,772.
Going back to the top of the UK box office, once again, is the sequel movie to Minions which 5 weeks after it was last at the top, and 10 weeks after it was first at the top it takes £1.06 Million to return to the top, a 46% jump over last weekend.
With no high profile new releases now in the last couple of weeks, and the end of the school summer holidays, and the bargain price of £3 per ticket on Saturday this is perhaps not too much of a surprise.
The movie has now taken £44 Million in the UK and is the second top movie of 2022, it is also the 61st top movie of all time.
Interestingly the movie is behind the first Minions movie but it has been consistently about £1 Million behind.
Also doing well at the end of the school summer holidays and jumping back up to number 2 this weekend is the animated movie based on DC superhero pets which takes £1 Million on its 6th weekend, which is 41% up from last weekend.
The movie has taken a total of £14 Million in the UK over its 6 weeks of release.
The movie which simply wont go away is the top movie of 2022 in the UK which this weekend takes £600,258, a modest 7% increase over last weekend.
The movie has now taken a total of £81.6 Million over its 15 weeks of release and is the 9th top movie of all time in the UK.
The only film this weekend on the top 5 this drops week on week is the Brad Pitt fast train heist movie which takes £554,100 on its 5th weekend of release, a 7% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £9.2 Million.
Highest new movie of the weekend
Getting a re-release to celebrate National Cinema Day is the 2021 Spider-Man release from Marvel and Sony with a little help Disney.
The movie takes a quite incredible £469,309 on its return to the box office, incredible because the movie is the 4th biggest movie of all time in the UK and it was only in cinemas earlier this year, and although there is 20 minites extra footage it does not change the story and makes it a 3 hour movie!
Still the movie has now spent 16 weeks on the chart and taken an amazing £96.9 Million, it is also the 8th top movie of 2022.