The Croods: A New Age 2020

With no surprise the 25th Bond movie No Time To Die spends a second weekend at the top of the UK box office increasing its UK gross to over £50 Million in 10 days of release.

Coming in second this weekend and making its UK debut is the animated sequel feature The Addams Family 2 while also new this weekend is the horror movie Deadly Cuts at 9 with £s;51,195.

UK box office QuickView

• Number 1 - No Time to Die (2nd weekend)
• Highest debut - The Addams Family 2 (@2)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age (12 weeks)
• Highest total gross - No Time to Die (£52.6 Million)

UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 8th - 10th October 2021

No Time To Die

No surprises at all that the 25th Bond movie, and Daniel Craigs last, is still at the top on its second weekend, in fact no studio has released anything that could even challenge the movie, that comes next weekend.

The movie takes £15.2 Million on its second weekend which is a resonable 41% drop over its debut, this gives the movie a total UK gross of £52.6 Million.

It's confusing looking at how this compares with other Daniel Craig Bond movies, its not as good as SPECTRE, but in reality that movie had been out for 14 days by this point, its about the same as Skyfall but that movies wasn't released during a pandemic that closed cinemas for nearly 6 months, but its far better than Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale, one thing is for certain, the Daniel Craig era has been the most successful.

The movie is by far the top film of 2021 in the UK.

The Addams Family 2

A sequel to the 2019 animated hit The Addams Family was always going to happen, and after a difficult year for cinema the sequel movie makes its debut at number 2 this weekend.

The movie takes a reasonable £2 Million on its debut, which is very similar to the originals debut at the same time of year in 2019.

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Marvels smash hit movie falls to number 3 this weekend with a gross of £558,407, a slim 28% drop considering the movie is on its 6th weekend of release.

The total UK gross for the film sits at £20.5 Million, the second highest grossing movie of 2021 in the UK.

Marvel are set to have another good year at the box office after having no new movies for over a year, Black Widow did well a few months ago, and flowing this will be Eternals in a few weeks and Spider-Man: No Way Home in December both of which are setting themselves up to be massive holiday movies.

The Paw Patrol Movie

The animated kids film continues to do well at the box office and this weekend stays put at number 4 with £125,902, a 50% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total UK gross of £8.3 Million over 9 weeks of release.

The Many Saints of Newark

The prequel movie to The Sopranos stays put at number 5 this weekend with £125,404, a 47% drop, giving the movie a UK total of £1.8 Million after 3 weeks.

Anticipation was high for the much delayed 25th Bond movie, and the opening weekend gross didn't disappoint and it took most of this weekends box office and produced the highest weekend take since Avengers: Endgame in 2019.

There was one other new release on the UK box office this weekend, Indian threequel movie Chal Mera Putt 3 made its debut at number 6 with £192,957.

UK box office QuickView

• Number 1 - No Time To Die (1st weekend)
• Highest debut - No Time To Die (@1)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age and Space Jam: A New Legacy (10 weeks)
• Highest total gross - No Time To Die (£25.9 Million)

UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 1st - 3rd October 2021

No Time To Die

It was always going to be a big first weekend for the much delayed 25th James Bond movie, and the last starring Daniel Craig, but there is a suggestion that it actually beat expectation as the movie makes its UK debut with £25.9 Million.

This 3 day (Friday - Sunday) gross is bigger than both Skyfall and SPECTRE (although SPECTRE officially had a 7 day opening of over £40 Million).

The movie has instantly become the top movie of 2021 in the UK beating the £20 Million of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.

It's also worth noting that the success and pent up anticipation for this movie effected the rest of the box office quite negatively as the movie took 91% of all money spent at the box office this weekend, meaning that (less than) 1 in every 10 tickets sold was NOT for this movie.

This will certainly get people back in the habbit of going to the cinema again and unlike when Warner release Tenet this time last year, people are ready to go back to cinemas now.

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

After 4 weeks at the top it is perhaps time for the Marvel superhero to give up the top spot, and as the top movie and this are attracting a similar audience this has suffered quite a bit as the movie take £779,077, a drop of 50% over last weekend.

This gives the movie a 5 week total of £19.6 Million and its the 3rd top movie of 2021 in the UK.

Free Guy

The Ryan Reynolds starring smash hit comedy action movie sits tight at number 3 this weekend with £270,266, a 51% drop, and its largest since relese.

This gives the movie a total gross of £16.5 Million after 8 weeks of release and its the 5th top movie of 2021.

The Paw Patrol Movie

The kids favourite dogs climb back up the box office from number 7 to number 4 this weekend with a gross of £251,511, an incredible 15% increase over last weekend.

The movie has now taken £8.1 Million over 8 weeks of release.

The Many Saints of Newark

Falling hard this weekend is the prequel movie to The Sopranos which takes £237,150 on its second weekend, a massive 75% drop over last weekend, this gives the movie a total UK gross of £1.5 Million.

Superhero movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stays put at the top of the UK box office this week making it four weeks consecutively for the Marvel movie.

Highest new film of the weekend is The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark which makes its debut at number 2 while also inside the top 5 is documentary Oasis Knebworth 1996.

The new releases continue with the much delayed The Green Knight finally making its box office debut at number 8 with £166,118.

UK box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (4th Weekend)
• Highest debut - The Many Saints of Newark (@2)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age and Space Jam: A New Legacy (11 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ($18 Million)

UK box office top 5 breakdown 24th - 26th September 2021

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

The UK cinema scene is starting to show signs of a total recovery and the Marvel superhero movie has to date shown that people are going back into the cinema.

This weeks the movie takes £1.5 Million at the box office which is a 34% drop over last week, this gives the movie a total UK gross of £18.2 Million.

This puts the movie at number 3 on the top movies of 2021 and will soon overtake Black Widow and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway to potentially be the top movie of the year, although with the release of No Time To Die this weekend it may not get there!

The Many Saints of Newark

Released as a prequel to the TV show The Sopranos the movie stars Michael Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, the role originally played by his late father James Gandolfini.

The movie is the top new film of the week at number 2 taking £945,319 on its debut weekend.

Free Guy

Falling to number 3 this weekend is the smash hit movie which spends its 7th weekend on the box office taking £551,195, a very slim 17% drop.

The film has now taken £16.1 Million at the UK box office and is the 5th top movie of 2021.

Oasis Knebworth 1996

Directed by Jake Scott this documentary about the superband Oasis playing the legendary Knebworth in 1996 at the height of their fame is the top documentary at the box office in 2021.

The film takes £344,832 on its special showing in selected cinemas over the weekend.

Respect

The movie based on the life of Aretha Franklin drop to number 5 this weekend with £250,050 on its 3rd week, a 34 % drop over last weekend which gives the movie a total UK gross of £1.7 Million.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings made it 3 weeks at the top of the UK box office as the MCU's latest hero has no challange from new releases.

The highest new movie of the week is the Polish movie Small World from director Patryk Vega which made its debut at number 10 with a weekend gross of £106,493.

Sadly with a top 15 which grossed only £5.1 Million this is the lowest total gross for the UK box office in many a week, I think this is just pent up demand for the upcoming Bond movie No Time To Die which should give cinemas a massive boost and get people back in the habit of going cinemas after the pandemic closures.

UK box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (3rd weekend)
• Highest debut - Small World (@10)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age (10 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (£15.8 Million)

UK box office top 5 breakdown weekend 17th - 19th September 2021.

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Three weeks at the top for Disney's latest character in the MCU as the superhero movie takes £2.3 Million over the weekend, a very reasonable 34% drop over last weekend.

The movie has now taken £15.8 Million over its 3 weeks at the top and is the 4th top movie of 2021.

The movie has done well for a new character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has so far beaten Captain America: The First Avenger and is on its way to beating Iron Man and Ant-Man.

Free Guy

Starring Ryan Reynolds this has been the sleeper hit of the summer and this week the video game inspired action comedy pulls in another £676,999, only 2% down on last weekend!

The movie is still at number 2 this weekend and after 6 weeks has spent 3 weeks at the top and 3 weeks at number 2.

The movie has a UK total gross of £15.3 Million and is the 5th top movie of 2021.

Respect

Staying put at number 3 on its second weekend of release is the Aretha Franklin bio-pic which takes £377,395 over the weekend, a slim 11% drop over last weekend, the movie has grossed £1,1 Million.

Candyman

Also staying put this week, at number 4, is the horror movie sequel/retelling which takes £323,350 over the weekend, a 23% drop, giving the movie a total gross of £4.3 Million.

The Paw Patrol Movie

The children's TV favourite goes back into the top 5 this week as the animated dogs climb 1 place to number 5 this week with £263,167, a 19% drop.

This gives the movie a UK total gross of £7,613,081 and its the 13th top movie of 2021.

The Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings remained at the top of the UK box office for a second weekend sweeping away any challenge for the top by quite a large margin with the film at number 2 taking 7 times less than the super hero movie.

Highest new movie of the week is the bio-pic of Aretha Franklin Respect starring Jennifer Hudson which comes in at number 3 and Conjuring director James Wan brings his new movie Malignant in at number 5.

Further down the chart Copshop is new at 7 with £198,225 on its debut and director Phyllida Lloyd's new movie Herself is new at 12 with £85,649.

UK box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2nd weekend)
• Highest debut - Respect (@3)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age and Space Jam: A New Legacy (9 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Free Guy (£14.3 Million)

UK box office top 5 breakdown weekend 10th - 12th September 2021

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Marvels latest superhero movie spends a second weekend at the top of the UK box office with a fantastic hold, only dropping 38% the movie takes £3.6 Million over its second weekend.

The movie has now taken an excellent £11.8 Million on the UK box office and is the 8th top movie of 2021 so far.

The movie incredibly took over £6 Million on its first full week of release in the UK.

Free Guy

The Shawn Levy action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds holds steady at number 2 this week and again has a fantastic low drop of only 28% with a weekend gross of £690,408.

This takes the movie total UK gross to £14.3 Million over 5 weeks of release and its the 4th top movie of 2021 at the UK box office.

It could potentially take Fast & Furious 9 which is currently the 3rd top movie of 2021, but then it will most likely be taken by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings by next weekend!

Respect

Highest new entry of the weekend is a bio-pic of Aretha Franklin starring Jennifer Hudson which is naturally getting a lot of Oscar hype for Hudson's performance.

The movie takes £424,514 to land at number 3 on this weeks box office.

Candyman

The horror franchise movie remake falls to number 4 this weekend with £418,414, a 45% drop over last weekend, taking the movies total UK gross to £3.7 Million over 3 weeks of release.

Malignant

Respected horror director of The Conjuring series brings his latest fright fest to the big screen which this weekend makes its debut at number 5 on the UK box office with £409,298.