Venom The Last Dance makes its debut on the UK box office this weekend and despite hitting the top spot grosses less that the previous movie on its debut.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage was released in a whirlwind of hype and took over £6 Million on its debut whereas the 3rd movie in the trilogy took a little less than £4.5 Million.
The first movie in the series, Venom, took over £8 Million on its debut.
Last weeks top movie,
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With two high profile releases in the same weekend there was going to be a fight to the top, but The Wild Robot easily wins the chart this weekend.
The animated movie secures the top this weekend with a debut gross of £3.2 Million.
Thus coming in at number 2 is horror movie sequel Smile 2 which lands on its debut with a £2 Million weekend gross.
The movie makes its debut higher than the original Smile~2022 movie but in the same ballpark.
Last weeks top movie Transformers: One falls to number 4 this weekend.
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The new animated Transformers movie takes over at the top of the UK box office this week, but like many other countries Joker Folie a Deux slid hard.
The new Transformers origin movie took over at the top with a debut weekend gross of £1.6 Million, which is the lowest of the modern era of movies, but its an animation!
After being hit hard by critics the Joker~2019 sequl movie Joker Folie a Deux falls to number 2 with a 71% drop from last weekend.
The movie takes £1.4 Million to boost its total to £8.6 Million after 2 weeks.
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Critically acclaimed new animated movie The Wild Robot tops the North American box office on its debut weekend of release.
The movie takes $35 Million on its debut, nearly 40% of the weekends total takings.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice gives up the top spot after 3 weeks at the top taking $16 Million this weekend.
The movie has now taked over $250 Million over its 4 weeks of release.
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Box office races are often tight and this weekend was one of those time as Beetlejuice Beetlejuice just about hangs on to the top spot as Transformers: One makes a decent debut at 2.
The Tim Burton directed movie just about hangs on to the top spot with a weekend gross of nearly $26 Million which pushes the movies total gross to $226.7 Million.
Transformers: One being the top new movie comes in at 2 with $24.6 Million, a decent opening gross for an animated movie thats not Disney.
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