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Universal starts to spread the wings of its very successful Fast & Furious series with a spin off using the characters of Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw.
The film opens well in the UK, although not as well as the parent movie since episode 6, but a £6.3 Million opening weekend is still good.
The film takes 40% of the grosses on this weeks top 15.
Disneys CGI live action movie takes £5.1 Million over the weekend to push its UK gross to an incredible £50.7 Million after 3 weeks of release.
This makes the film the third highest grossing film of the year with Toy Story 4 and Avengers: Endgame ahead of it.
Over the full week Monday - Sunday the films gross is £13 Million far outgrossing Hobbs And Shaw, and if you take away the Thursday previews then the Disney movie also outgrosses the number 1 film.
The Pixar animation falls to number 3 this week with £1.3 Million which gives the film a £55.4 Million gross after 7 weeks of release.
Marvels team up with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the MCU is on its 5th weekend and takes £862 Thousand at number 4 for a £32.9 Million total.
Making its debut at number 5 this week is the follow up to 2016 movie The Angry Birds which took £2.1 Million on its debut and entered the box office at number 2.
The follow up manages a debut weekend of a little over £700 Thousand.
Guy Ritchie's live action Disney movie has been the surprise summer hit and this week is at number 13 with a total UK gross of £36.3 Million after 11 weeks of release.
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
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