This weekend the tenth movie in
The Fast and the Furious series of movies gets its UK debut and tops the box office in the process with a gross of £5.8 Million.
The movie is just shy of there previous movie which took just over £6 Million on its debut in 2020 and it is well below the series high of Fast & Furious 8 which took £14 Million in April 2013.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 slips to number 2 this weekend after a couple of weeks at the top as the movies total gross hits £29 Million, below that of the previous movie.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still in the top 3 after 7 weeks of release as its gross passes another milestone of £50 Million at the UK box office.
Finally in the top 5 are a couple of new releases, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is at number 3 with £327,197 and Beau Is Afraid is at 5 with £231,370.
Also new this weekend is the event movie, Don Giovanni: Met Opera at 9 with £99,842.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 19th - 21st May 2023
Fast X
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £5,895,674 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
- The movie is the 14th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took £6,014,132 at the box office after 1 week in cinemas.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,810,731 over the weekend, a 47% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £28,928,869 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took £33,041,912 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £544,283 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £51,839,229 over 7 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Beau Is Afraid
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Fast X - £5,895,674
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - £2,810,731
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie - £544,283
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - £327,197
- Beau Is Afraid - £231,370
- Book Club 2: The Next Chapter - £143,100
- Evil Dead Rise - £110,323
- 2018 - £105,969
- Don Giovanni: Met Opera - £99,842
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - £72,246
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