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UK Box Office Weekend Report 21st - 23rd July 2023: Barbie makes its UK debut with an £18 Million plus debut, Oppenheimer debuts with £10 Million

Barbie
UK Box Office Weekend Report 21st - 23rd July 2023: Barbie makes its UK debut with an £18 Million plus debut, Oppenheimer debuts with £10 Million Making its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend with a debut of £18.5 Million is the Greta Gerwig directed movie Barbie.

The movie is the 4th top debuting movie in the month of July and is the 8th top grossing movie so far in 2023.

The second part of the Barbenhiemer weekend, Oppenheimer makes its debut in the runner up spot with a fantastic £10.8 Million.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Barbie (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Barbie (@1)
  • Longest run - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (16 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (£54,280,405)
  • Best Percentage change week on week - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (49%)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £35,658,240
  • Also new this weekend
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UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 21st - 23rd July 2023

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 £18,509,235 over its debut weekend
  • It is the 4th top debuting movie in the month of July
  • The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2023
Barbie
  • The movie Is a New Entry At Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £10,891,486 over its debut weekend
  • The movie is the 15th top grossing film so far in 2023
  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £2,891,093 over the weekend, a 72% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £16,434,929 over 2 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2023
  • The movie is a sequel to Mission:Impossible - Fallout which took £13,357,630 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.
  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £1,430,063 over the weekend, a 42% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £8,960,702 over 3 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 16th top grossing film so far in 2023
Elemental

  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £677,203 over the weekend, a 62% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £17,999,463 over 4 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 9th top grossing film so far in 2023
  • The movie is a sequel to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull which took £35,586,886 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Barbie - £18,509,235
  2. Oppenheimer - £10,891,486
  3. Mission:Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - £2,891,093
  4. Elemental - £1,430,063
  5. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - £677,203
  6. Insidious: The Red Door - £535,267
  7. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - £266,020
  8. The Little Mermaid - £113,018
  9. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - £86,002
  10. The Super Mario Bros. Movie - £75,935
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