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UK Box Office Weekend Report 21st - 23rd April 2023: Super Mario Bros. Movie remains at the top for a third weekend as its gross goes over £40 Million in the UK

The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The animated smash hit video game adaptation The Super Mario Bros. Movie remains at the top of the UK box office for a third straight weekend.

The top new movie of the weekend is the horror movie Evil Dead Rise which makes its debut at number 2 while The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan is a new movie at number 10 with £161,609.

Event movie Coldplay - Music of the Spheres: Live At River Plate is also new at 12 with £145,544, Good: NT Live 2023 is new at 14 with £117,421 and finally How to Blow Up a Pipeline makes its debut at 15 with £85,685.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (3rd Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Evil Dead Rise (@2)
  • Longest run - John Wick: Chapter 4 (5 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (£41,605,147)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £9,592,101

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 21st - 23rd April 2023

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

The animated movie remains at number 1 this weekend with £4 Million which takes its total UK gross to £41.6 Million as the movie continues to do bug business at cinemas.

  • The movie remains at number 1 on this weeks UK box office
  • It has spent 3 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
  • It grosses £4,271,315 over the weekend, a 44% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £41,605,147 over 3 weeks of release
  • The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023

Highest New Movie This Weekend

Highest new movie of the weekend is the horrow movie sequel of sorts to The Evil Dead franchise which comes in at 2 with £1.4 Million.

The last Evil Dead movie, not counting the remake from 2013, came out in 1993.

  • The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
  • It grosses £1,477,840 over its debut weekend
  • The movie is a sequel to Army of Darkness which took £210,888 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.

Falling to number 3 this week is the board game adaptation which has taken £11 Million in the UK so far.

  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £768,683 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £11,913,835 over 4 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023
John Wick: Chapter 4

Still hanging on to a top 5 place is the sequel movie to the John Wick series which has taken £15 Million to date.

  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £589,976 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £15,905,053 over 5 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2023
  • The movie is a sequel to John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum which took £9,587,828 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.

The Ben Affleck directed movie falls to number 5 this weekend with a gross of half a million on its 3rd weekend of release.

  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £516,224 over the weekend, a 29% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £3,653,838 over 3 weeks of release

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie - £4,271,315
  2. Evil Dead Rise - £1,477,840
  3. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - £768,683
  4. John Wick: Chapter 4 - £589,976
  5. Air - £516,224
  6. Missing - £382,054
  7. Renfield - £301,250
  8. Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan - £292,626
  9. The Pope's Exorcist - £189,924
  10. The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan - £161,609
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