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UK Box Office Weekend Report 22nd - 24th March 2024: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire tops the UK box office with just over £4 Million on its opening weekend

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The release of a new Ghostbusters movie should be something to celebrate, but with bad critical reviews, but better audience ratings, the movie comes in with a debut gross of just over £4 Million.

This is in the same ballpark as the previous movie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife which took £4.3 Million on its debut.

Dune: Part Two falls to number 2 after 3 weeks at the top and has a total UK gross of £18.9 Million as it races towards the £20 Million milestone.

Immaculate starring Sydney Sweeney is also new this weekend with a debut gross of just over half a million pound and comes in at number 3.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (@1)
  • Longest run - Migration (8 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Dune: Part Two (£30,717,100)
  • Best Percentage change week on week - Perfect Days (-26%)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £9,144,973
  • Also new this weekend
    • Late Night With the Devil
    • Romeo Et Juliette: Met Opera 2023/24
    • Robot Dreams
    • Baltimore
  • Check out the full UK box office.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 22nd - 24th March 2024

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 £4,056,097 over its debut weekend
  • It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of March
  • The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2024
  • The movie is a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife which took £4,314,263 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £2,626,763 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £30,717,100 over 4 weeks of release
  • The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2024
  • The movie is a sequel to Dune which took £18,942,227 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.
  • The movie Is a New Entry At Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £522,583 over its debut weekend
  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £373,505 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £8,160,804 over 5 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2024
Wicked Little Letters

  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £370,464 over the weekend, a 36% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £19,518,962 over 8 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2024

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - £4,056,097
  2. Dune: Part Two - £2,626,763
  3. Immaculate - £522,583
  4. Wicked Little Letters - £373,505
  5. Migration - £370,464
  6. Bob Marley: One Love - £269,814
  7. Late Night With the Devil - £220,436
  8. National Theatre Live: The Motive and the Cue - £157,963
  9. Imaginary - £155,832
  10. Romeo Et Juliette: Met Opera 2023/24 - £81,879
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