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UK Box Office Weekend Report 10th - 12th December 2021: West Side Story and Clifford battle it out for the top in a very close box office race

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West Side Story
Maverick director Steven Spielberg releases his much anticipated, and much delayed, remake of West Side Story which should have been an easy number 1 movie but it was released the same weekend as children's favourite Clifford the Big Red Dog and and the two had a mighty battle for the top spot!

Also new this week is a re-entry for the Christmas favourite Home Alone which gets another holiday release this year and enters at number 7 this week with £122,299.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - West Side Story (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - West Side Story (@1)
  • Longest run - No Time To Die (11 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - No Time To Die (£96.3 Million)

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

West Side Story

West Side Story

Director Steven Spielberg brings his latest movie to the big screen, his first since 2018's Ready Player One, and it narrowly hits the top of the weekend box office on its debut weeekend.

The movie which is baed on the 1957 Broadway show of the same name takes £1.297 Million over the weekend.

The movie had a tight fight with Clifford the Big Red Dog and in the end there was less than half a million pound separating them.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Landing at 2 this week is the children's classic animated TV show which here gets the big screen treatment with a large CGI dog.

The movie is directed by Walt Becker and stars Britains own Jack Whitehall, it took £1.293 Million over its debut weekend.

House of Gucci

The Ridley Scott directed true life drama falls to 3 this week taking £779,973 on its 3rd weekend of release, a 48% drop over last weekend which gives it a UK total gross of £7.3 Million.

Encanto

The Disney animated feature falls to 4 this week with £635,387, a 50% drop over last week, giving the movie a 3 week total of £4.2 Million.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Finishing off the top 5 this week is the Ghostbusters sequel which takes £585,505 on its 4th weekend of release, a 45% drop, giving it a £10.1 Million total.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. West Side Story - £1,297,786
  2. Clifford the Big Red Dog - £1,293,354
  3. House of Gucci - £779,973
  4. Encanto - £635,387
  5. Ghostbusters: Afterlife - £585,505
  6. Eternals - £152,524
  7. Home Alone - £122,999
  8. No Time To Die - £118,751
  9. Elf - £118,473
  10. A Boy Called Christmas - £112,036
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