Sign up for the SaltyPopcorn weekly newsletter
Highest New Movie This Weekend
Director James Cameron and Disney finally release the long awaited sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time Avatar at the Uk box office.
The movie comes 13 years after the film visit to Pandora, and this movie takes place 10 years after the events of that movie.
The first Avatar took £8.5 Million on its opening weekend and over 18 weeks took over £93 Million and overtook Titanic as the top grossing movie in the UK, it has since been taken by a number of movie and Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the top grossing movie.
This sequel takes £11.6 Million on its debut which makes it the 77th top opening in the UK ever and the 9th top opening in the UK for the month of December.
THe original Avatar was a bit of a slow burner, and with the Christmas season upon us this movie could have good legs until Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania is released on 17th February 2023.
After spending an incredible 3 weeks at the top the musical version of the classic Roal Dahl novel falls to number 2 with £1.3 Million, a 34% drop.
The movie has taken an amazing £12.8 Million over its 4 weeks of release.
In comparison the 1997 movie, adjusted for inflation, took £3.7 Million on its 4th weekend for a total of £37.8 Million.
Looking ahead to the movies total gross and if it can become the top grossing movie released in 2022, Top Gun: Maverick took £15.9 Million on its debut weekend and spent 23 weeks on the box office.
Falling to 3 this week is the sequel movie to Black Panther which takes a bit of a hit this weekend with Avatar: The Way of Water being a movie in direct competition, it takes £377,598 over the weekend, a 53% drop.
The movie has taken £31.6 Million over its 6 weeks of release, far lower than the original movie which has taken £44.8 Million at this point.
The movie about Santa Claus being a bad ass drops to number 3 this weekend with £330,606, a 42% drop over last weekend.
The movie as been on the box office fir 3 weeks now and has taken £2.6 Million.
Falling to number 4 is the latest Disney movie which takes £193,659 this weekend, a 37% drop, for a £2 Million total over 4 weeks of release.
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.
