US release: 18th November 2022
Australia release: 17th November 2022
Denmark release: 17th November 2022
£1.3 Million 
$5.8 Million 
$4.2 Million Matilda: The Musical is the top movie of the weekend, making its debut at the top and knocking Black Panther: Wakanda Forever down to number 2.
Also new this weekend is the Disney animated feature Strange World which enters at number 3 and She Said which is new at number 4.
Outside the top 5 Bones and All is new at number 6 with £318,246 while the live stage broadcast of Tim Minchin: Back is new at 8 with £155,353 including previews, also a live stage broadcast A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story is new at 11 with £113,203 and finally Table For Six is new at 14 with £69,732.
Highest new movie this weekend
Starring Alisha Weir as Matilda and Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull this is an adaptation of the stage music with music by Tim Minchin.
The movie lands at the top of the UK box office this weekend with a debut gross of £4.1 Million.
In a crazy comparison, the original Matilda which came out in 1996 would have taken £19 Million on its debut, adjusted for inflation, for a total of nearly £50 Million!
After a couple of weeks at the top of the UK box office the latest Marvel sequel movie falls to number 2 with a weekend gross of £2.6 Million, a large 56% drop over last weekend.
The movie is tracking below Black Panther which by its third weekend of release had taken over £35 Million, which means it will end up lower than the first movies £50 Million total.
The sequel has taken £27 Million after 3 weeks of release.
The new Disney animated feature has proved to be a bit of a non event as it lands at number 3 this weekend with a debut gross of £833,043.
This is way below the usual Disney standard and in comparison, Encanto, which came out when cinema attendance was still low due to the pandemic, made its debut with £1.7 Million at the same time of year in 2021.
This movie is going on to Disney+ and skipping cinemas in many countries, and will most likely be on the streaming platform before too long in the UK.
Starring Carey Mulligan, this movie about the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse case lands at number 4 on this weeks UK box office.
The movie takes £444,806 on its debut weekend of release.
Falling to number 5 on its second weekend the Ralph Finnes starring movie takes £429,522 on its second weekend, a drop of 54%.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of just over £1 Million after 2 weeks at the box office.