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UK Box Office Weekend Report 15th - 18th April 2022: Sandra Bullock takes over the top of the UK box office with The Lost City while The Northman is new at 4

The Lost City
It was a tight battle at the top this weekend but The Lost City~2022 just about does enough to make its debut at the top of the UK box office.

The Northman also makes a new entry at number 4 while Operation Mincemeat is also new at 5, also making their debuts are K.G.F: Chapter 2 at 7 with £612,327 and Beast~2022 at 8 with £319,464, finally director Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta is new at 11 with £62,056.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - The Lost City~2022 (1st weekend)
  • Highest debut - The Lost City~2022 (@1)
  • Longest run - Sing 2 (12 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - The Batman (£40 Million)

UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 15th - 18th April 2022

The Lost City

The Lost City

After a weekend full of new releases the Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum starring action comedy makes its UK box office debut at the top.

The movie takes £2.7 Million on its UK debut, this higher than Tatums hit movie Dog from earlier this year but half that of Bullocks last cinema film Ocean's 8 from 2018.

The movie has been a hit across the globe with the UK one of the last countries to get the movie, but with a number of high profile movies coming in the next few weeks this could be a short stay for the movie.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

It was a tight margin between this and The Lost City~2022 at number 1 but the third Fantastic Beasts movie fell just short of a second weekend at the top.

With a gross of £2.6 Million, 55% down on its debut last weekend, and despite not doing that bad it is well short of the previous two movies Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the series has simply not had the impact of the Harry Potter series.

The movie is the 7th top grosser of 2022 and there is every possibility it could return to top next weekend.

Sonic the hedgehog 2

THe video game star falls to number 3 this weekend with £2 Million, a 29% drop over last weekend giving the blue hedgehog a total UK gross of £16 Million after 3 weeks and the 5th top movie of 2022.

The Northman

The Northman

Highly praised by critics the Nordic action movie directed by Robert Eggers and starring Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman lands at number 4 this weekend.

The movie takes £897,737 on its debut weekend.

Operation Mincemeat

Finally on the top 5 is another new entry with the Colin Firth starring movie which is at 5 with a debut gross of £895,008, a small margin separated this and The Northman!

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. The Lost City - £2,743,211
  2. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - £2,643,621
  3. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - £2,046,908
  4. The Northman - £897,737
  5. Operation Mincemeat - £895,008
  6. The Bad Guys - £807,369
  7. K.G.F: Chapter 2 - £612,327
  8. Beast - £505,648
  9. The Batman - £319,464
  10. Morbius - £247,627
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