Sign up for the SaltyPopcorn weekly newsletter
There were no other movies making their debut on the top 5 this week but further down sequel movie Don't Breathe 2 enters at number 7 with £349,702 and the critically acclaimed The Courier is at 8 with £339,020.
UK box office QuickView
UK box office top 5 breakdown for weekend 13th - 15th August 2021.
Starring Ryan Reynolds this action comedy directed by Shawn Levy takes over at the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend with a gross of £2.4 Million.
Its another movie which has had its release date shifted around a few time because of the pandemic closures but with this debut its not harmed the film much.
The movie is a romance comedy about a video game NPC (Non Playable Character) who suddenly realises what he is will play to the teen audience that is currently on summer holidays in the UK.
With parents struggling to find things to do with their young children during the summer holidays a cinema is once again starting to be a go to, so we see this TV to big screen adaptation making a bog splash on this weeks chart.
Taking £2.4 Million on its opening weekend it lands at number 2 this weekend a narrowly misses out on a top spot debut.
Falling from the top to number 3 this weekend the comic book bad guy movie seems to be loosing steam quickly and this weekend takes £1.06 Million, a 53% drop over last weekend.
The movie has taken £10.8 Million in the UK over its 3 weeks of release and is the 5th top movie of 2021 in the UK.
Also starting to drop quicker than maybe expected is the Disney fantasy adventure starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt which this week takes £847,031, a 57% drop over last weekend.
The movie has taken £8.4 Million in the UK over 3 weeks of release and is currently the 9th top movie of 2021.
Falling to number 5 this weekend is the toon and live action basketball sequel movie which takes £506,179 over the weekend, a 53% drop, for a total UK gross of £10.1 Million and the 6th top movie of 2021.
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.
Copyright © Salty Popcorn 2004 - 2024.
