US release: 19th October 1973
Japan release: 9th February 1974
Denmark release: 27th March 1974
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$0 Giving Sonic the hedgehog 2 only a single weekend at the top of the UK box office, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore makes its UK debut at the top.
Also new this week is The Outfit from director Graham Moore which is new at 7 with £96,600 and Compartment No 6 from Juho Kuosmanen which enters at 12 with £42,999.
UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 8th - 10th April 2022
This third in the series of movies that serve as a prequel to the Harry Potter movies, starring Eddie Redmayne as the Beasts finder Newt Scamander the series has turned into an origins movie for Albus Dumbledore played in this series by Jude law.
The movie opens with a gross of £5.8 Million which is well below the last movie in the series Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald with an opening of £12 Million and the first movie in the series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which took £15 Million on its opening.
This series of movies has not touched the heights of the Harry Potter series which started 20 years ago with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which took £15 Million on its debut and ended with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 which took £23 Million.
The movie is the 10th top movie of the year so far, and will end up most likely in the top 5, but it is debatable if Warner Bros. will see this as good enough to continue the movies in what should have been a 5 movie series.
The blue speedy hedgehog which made its debut at number 1 last weekend falls to number 2 on its second weekend of release with £2.9 Million, a 42% drop over last weekend.
this gives the movie a total UK gross of £10.6 Million after 2 weeks of release, this is more than double the take of the first movie at the same point of release.
The movie is the 6th top film of 2022 and at this rate bound to do even better.
Proving to be a smash hit is the latest movie from the DreamWorks animated stable which this weekend takes £1.1 Million, a 51% drop over last weekend, taking the movies total UK gross to £4.8 Million.
Sony's Spiderverse movie drops to number 4 this weekend with £740,336, a massive 77% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of £5 Million after 2 weekends of release, it will most likely drop out of the top 5 next weekend and end its run with about £7 Million.
Its not been good for the super villain movie especially after the success last year of Venom: Let There Be Carnage and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Dropping to number 5 this weekend The Caped Crusader takes £623,866 on its 6th weekend of release, a 48% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total of £39 Million.
The movie is the top movie of 2022 so far, an honor it will loose in the coming weeks, but the film has been a success for Warner Bros. in fact it has been more successful tha Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice from 2016 which took £35 Million over its total 6 week run.
It has not been as successful though as Joker~2019 from 2019 which had taken £54 Million 6 weeks into its run on its way to £58 Million total.
Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 8th April 2022, there are 3 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Sonic the Hedgehog 2 from the top of the UK box office.
Here are this weeks new releases
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
This weekend, Friday 1st April 2022, there are 4 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, The Batman, for the number 1 spot?
Here are this weeks new releases
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
The Batman spends its 3rd weekend at the top of the US box office while the Japanese manga movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie is the top debut at 2.
Horror movie X makes its debut at number 4 and The Outfit is a new movie at number 8 with $1.5 Million on its debut.
Global hit The Kashmir Files makes a new entry at number 9 with $1.4 Million while Sandra Oh stars in Umma which is new at 11 with $915,000 and finally Alice~2022 is a new entry at number 12 with $176,120.
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US box office top 5 weekend breakdown 18th - 20th March 2022
Another weekend at the top of the US box office for the DC Universe smash hit movie which takes $36.8 Million over the weekend, a 45% drop from last weekend.
This gives the movie a total US gross of $300 Million and it it now by far the top movie of 2022.
Highest new movie of the weekend makes its debut at number 2 as the Japanese Manga title directed by Seong-Hu Park takes $14.8 Million.
The movie was a smash hit in Japan upon release at the end of December 2021.
Slipping down to number 3 this weekend is the former number 1 movie starring Tom Holland as Nathan Drake from the video games series of the same name.
The movie takes $8 Million on its 5th weekend of release, a drop of only 14%, giving the movie a total of $125.9 Million and making it the 3rd top movie of 2022.
Director Ti West brings his latest horror movie to the big screen which makes its debut at number 4 this weekend with $4.4 Million.
The directors highest grossing movie to date is V/H/S which took $100,000 in 2012, so this is by far his biggest movie to date.
The feel good buddy movie from Channing Tatum drop to number 5 this weekend with $4 Million, a 21% drop on its 5th weekend giving the movie a $54.2 Million total and the 7th top movie of 2022.
Yes it's corny but then the whole premise behind the show is getting a little bit like that! Today Warner and HBO reveal the first of what will no doubt be many Sex and the City 2 poster.
So you're wondering what the story line will be, take a quick peek in the reflection in the sun glasses SJP is wearing and you might get a small clue.
From this poster I guess the film will be a lot brighter than the first, but Carrie looks a lot more sensibly dressed that some of the outfits worn in the first movie, maybe this will be a coming of age film.
What do you think?