With less anticipation it didn't do as well at Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but it did better than last years offshoot Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, although the reviews are no where near as good.
An opening weekend of £28 million is the 3rd highest in the UK ever with only the previous Star Wars movie and Spectre doing better, time will tell what the final gross will be but with mixed reviews it will most likely be around the £90 million mark and be a top 5 all time movie in the UK.
Paddington 2 falls from the top to number 2 while Daddy's Home 2 is at number 3.
Wonder is still doing well at number 4 with Justice League falling to number 5 this week.
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.