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UK Box Office Weekend Report 14th - 16th January 2022: Spider-Man holds off the challenge from newcomer Scream to hold the top of the UK box office

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Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home remains at the top of the UK box office despite a decent challenge from newcomer Scream which is the top new entry at number 2.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (5th weekend)
  • Highest debut - Scream (@2)
  • Longest run - Ghostbusters: Afterlife (9 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Spider-Man: No Way Home (£84.1 Million)

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 14th - 16th January 2022

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Holding onto the top spot for a 5th weekend is the Marvel/Sony movie from the MCU which takes £3.2 Million over the weekend, a low 28% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a 5 week total of £84.1 Million making it the 7th top movie in the UK as well as it being the top movie so far in 2022 with £14.2 Million taken this year.

Scream

Highest new entry this weekend is the 5th movie in the long running Scream series which makes its debut at number 2.

The movies debut gross is £2.4 Million, which is higher than the debut gross of the previous movie in the series Scream 4 from 2011, although that movie did make its debut at number 1 in mid April.

Scream

The King's Man

Falling to number 3 on its 3rd weekend is the prequel movie from director Matthew Vaughn which takes £627,445, a 31% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of £6.4 Million and it is also the second top movie of 2022 with £2.9 Million taken this year.

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Remaining at number 4 this week is the live action version of the big red dog animated series which takes £525,107 over the weekend, a low 16% drop.

The movie has now taken £7.9 Million over its 6 weeks of release and with £1.9 Million taken in 2022 it is the 4th top movie of the year.

Licorice Pizza

Paul Thomas Anderson's coming of age drama drops to number 5 this weekend with £393,988, a large 55% drop over last weekend, this gives the movie a total gross of £1.5 Million after 2 weeks, it is also the 6th top movie of 2022.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Spider-Man: No Way Home - £3,215,166
  2. Scream - £2,468,510
  3. The King's Man - £627,445
  4. Clifford the Big Red Dog - £525,107
  5. Licorice Pizza - £393,988
  6. West Side Story - £350,014
  7. The Matrix Resurrections - £299,182
  8. Encanto - £221,635
  9. House of Gucci - £173,686
  10. The 355 - £161,483
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