It was a very slow weekend with no major new releases at the UK box office, and for the first time since the end of 2020 as cinemas started to close due to the COVID pandemic where no film in over the weekend took over a Million pound.

The top movie of the weekend, and the highest debut, is the event cinema Andre Rieues 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again from the famous violinist which easily beast the new Idris Elba movie Beast~20221 which makes its debut at 2.

Further down the box office there is a new entry for The Invitation which has been on limited release and makes its debut at 12 with £261,791 and Official Competition which also on limited release is new at 15 with £101,916.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 26th - 28th August 2022

Highest new movie of the weekend

Violinist Andre Rieu brings his summer concert from Maastricht to cinemas once again which gives the popular musician the highest debut and number one movie of the weekend.

In what is a very quiet period for cinemas and new releases the event cinema concert takes £798,706 on its debut.

This is of course not the first time Rieu has hit the box office but it is the first time one of his cinema events has hit the top of the box office.

The last time a concert hit the top was during the pandemic in the shape of Michael Ball & Alfie Boe: Back Together which took £175,778 in October 2020.

This has done better that last years summer concert which took, Andre Rieus 2021 Summer Concert: Together Again, which took £420,056 exactly a year ago.

The new movie starring Idris Elba makes its debut at number 2 this weekend with a debut gross of £600,259.

This is perhaps a little on the disappointing side for a film starring such a big name, the last film Elba was in was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and he has a cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness both of which are among the biggest movies of the year.

Elba stars in another movie released this weekend, Three Thousand Years of Longing, which has not gone down that well in the US so it will be interesting to see next week how well it does in the UK.

The animated feature from the DC Universe of movies stays at number 3 this weekend with a gross of £598,985, a 26% drop.

The movie has now taken £12.2 Million in the UK after 5 weekends of release.

The Brad Pitt starring movie falls to number 4 this weekend with £593,044, a 29% drop which gives the movie a total gros sof £8.1 Million after 4 weeks of release.

Falling from the top to this weeks number 5 the Jordan Peele horror movie takes £576,643, a 50% over its gross last weekend.

The movie has now taken £5.9 Million in the UK after 3 weeks of release.

Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 26th August 2022, there are 4 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Nope from the top of the UK box office.

Here are this weeks new releases

• Beast
• André Rieu's 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again
• The Invitation
• Official Competition

Beast

• The movie is directed by Baltasar Kormakur, it is the directors 15th movie.
• Baltasar Kormakur also directed Everest in 2015 which grossed £10.6 Mil. in the UK and grossed $203.4 Mil. globally.
• It stars Idris Elba who also starred in This Christmas (2007).
• The film also stars Sharlto Copley who was last seen in Seal Team (2021).
• The BBFC UK age rating is

André Rieu's 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again

• The movie is directed by Michael Wiseman, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Michael Wiseman also directed Christmas With André in 2021 which grossed £693.7K in the UK.
• It stars André Rieu who also starred in André Rieu: Live In Bucharest (2015).
• The film also stars Donij van Doorn who was last seen in Christmas With André (2021).
• Andre Rieu and Donij van Doorn have starred in 18 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in André Rieu: Live In Bucharest in 2015, André Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert: Shall We Dance? in 2019, Christmas With André in 2021, André Rieu: Christmas With André in 2016, André Rieu: Christmas With André in 2016, André Rieu: Ich Hab Mein Herz In Heidelberg Verloren in 2009, André Rieu's 2018 Maastricht Concert in 2018, André Rieu: Live In Bucharest in 2015, André Rieu: Die Grobe Nacht Der Wiener Musik in 2006, André Rieu's 2014 Maastricht Concert in 2014, André Rieu's 2021 Summer Concert: Together Again in 2021, André Rieu's 2017 Maastricht Concert in 2017, André Rieu: 70 Years Young in 2020, André Rieu: Live In Sydney in 2009, André Rieu: Ich Tanze Mit Dir In Den Himmel Hinein in 2008, André Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert in 2016, André Rieu's 2015 Maastricht Concert in 2015 and André Rieu's Magical Maastricht: Together In Music in 2020.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Invitation

• The movie is directed by Jessica M. Thompson, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Jessica M. Thompson also directed The Light of the Moon in 2017.
• It stars Nathalie Emmanuel who also starred in Army of Thieves (2021).
• The film also stars Thomas Doherty who was last seen in Descendants 3 (2019).
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Official Competition

• The movie is from director Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Penélope Cruz who also starred in The Counsellor (2013).
• The film also stars Antonio Banderas who was last seen in Uncharted (2022).
• Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have starred in 2 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Pain and Glory in 2019 and I'm So Excited in 2013.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 2 new movies released

• Three Thousand Years of Longing - Friday, 30th September
• The Forgiven - Friday, 2nd September