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UK Box Office Weekend Report 1st - 3rd July 2022: Minions 2 hits the top with a debut gross of over £10 Million

UK Box Office Weekend Report 1st - 3rd July 2022: Minions 2 hits the top with a debut gross of over £10 Million
Minions: The Rise of Gru
Like its predecessor Minions: The Rise of Grus, the second Minions movie from the Despicable Me series, hits the top of the UK box office on its debut.

Alos new this weekend is Nitram at number 10 with £41,909, Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War at number 11 with £30,266 and finally Rocketry at number 12 with £23,833.

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UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 1st - 3rd July 2022

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Making its debut at the top this weekend is the latest movie from the smash hit series Despicable Me, and the direct sequel to Minions from 2015.

The movie takes an incredible £10.4 Million on its opening weekend giving it a clear debut at the top and knocking Elvis~2022 to number 2 after a weeke at the top.

In comparison to 2015 original took £11.5 Million on its debut at the top at the same time of year and went on to take nearly £50 Million.

Elvis~2022

A week at the top for the Baz Luhrmann bio-pic which falls to number 2 this weekend with nearly £3 Million, a small 26% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of £10.1 Million in the UK after 2 weeks of release.

Top Gun Maverick

Still inside the top 3 this weekend is the Tom Cruise smash hit with takes £2.6 Million on its 6th weekend of release, a small 21% drop over last weekend.

THe movie has now taken an amazing £68 Million at the UK box office and is by far the top movie of 2022.

Jurassic World: Dominion

Jurassic World: Dominion

The threequel dinosaur movie falls to number 4 this weekend with a gross of £1.8 Million, a large 47% drop over last weekend.

This gives the Jurassic movie a total UK gross of £30.4 Million after 4 weeks of release and its the 5th top movie of 2022 in the UK.

Lightyear

The Toy Story inspired movie and origin movie to Buzz Lightyear drops to number 5 this weekend with £864,035, a large 62% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total UK gross of £8.5 Million after 3 weeks of release.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Minions: The Rise of Gru - £10,424,758
  2. Elvis - £2,963,292
  3. Top Gun: Maverick - £2,661,080
  4. Jurassic World: Dominion - £1,823,313
  5. Lightyear - £864,035
  6. The Black Phone - £576,251
  7. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande - £69,431
  8. Jug Jugg Jeeyo - £64,337
  9. Everything Everywhere All At Once - £57,549
  10. Nitram - £41,909
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