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UK Box Office Weekend 27th - 29th April 2018: Avengers Infinity Wars conquers the UK with a 23 million pound debut

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Avengers: Infinity War
The UK like the rest of the world embraced the new Avengers movie this weekend and took it to a dizzying height on its debut weekend.

The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie SocietyIt wasn't quite a record breaking weekend in the UK and Avengers Infinity War has a gross or £23.1 million making it the 6th top grossing debut weekend ever.

This amazing weekend gross also means that on its debut it is already the 5 highest grossing movie of 2018, stable mate Black Panther is the top grossing film of the year with £50 million and Avengers should overtake it in a couple of weeks.

At 2 this week is The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society with a weekend gross of just shy of a million which brings the films gross to £3 million.

At 3 is A Quite Place, the sleeper film takes £920,000 for the weekend which brings its total gross to just shy of £10 million.

Hanging on at 4 and 5 is Rampage and Peter Rabbit which have not got a total gross of £8 million and £39 million respectively.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Avengers: Infinity War - £29,379,496
  2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - £968,681
  3. A Quiet Place - £920,235
  4. Rampage - £735,856
  5. Peter Rabbit - £585,713
  6. The Greatest Showman - £300,947
  7. Truth Or Dare - £246,426
  8. Blade Runner - £225,428
  9. Cendrillon: Met Opera 2018 - £212,366
  10. Ready Player One - £203,129
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