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UK Box Office Weekend Report 27th - 29th January 2023: 7 weeks at the top of the UK box office for Avatar 2 while Pathaan is the top new movie at number 2

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Avatar: The Way of Water
As Avatar: The Way of Water stays at the top of the UK and Northern Ireland box office for a seventh weekend the Indian movie Pathaan makes an impressive start to its box office run with a debut at 2.

Meanwhile Plane is new at number 3 and The Fabelmans is new at 4 with The Wandering Earth 2 new at 9 with £385,959 and Billie Eilish Live At the O2 is new at 10 with £329,407.

Also new is Unwelcome at 14 with £118,322 and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed at 15 with £88,108.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Avatar: The Way of Water (7th Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Pathaan (@2)
  • Longest run - Matilda: The Musical (10 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Avatar: The Way of Water (£70,884,535)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £10,406,419

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 27th - 29th January 2023

Avatar: The Way of Water

The James Cameron directed sequel movie remains at the top of the UK box office for a 7th weekend, which makes it equal with Toy Story 2 and Gladiator.

One more week at the top and it equals Tenet as the longest pandemic movie, if it can get to 13 weeks then it will equal Camerons own Titanic, but its unlikely!

This weekend the movie ass £2.1 Million to its total for a total of £70.8 Million.

  • The movie remains at number 1 on this weeks UK box office
  • It has spent 7 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
  • It grosses £2,116,615 over the weekend, a 24% drop from last weeeknd
  • It has a total gross of £70,884,535 over 7 weeks of release
  • The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
  • The movie is the 15th top grossing movie of all time in the UK.
  • The movie is a sequel to Avatar which took £65,070,599 at the box office after 7 weeks of release.
Pathaan

Highest New Movie This Weekend

Making its debut at number 2 this weekend is the new movie from Indian director Siddharth Anand which takes £1.9 Million on its opening weekend.

  • The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
  • It grosses £1,967,854 over the weekend on its debut
  • The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2023

Also making its debut this weekend is the new movie starring Gerard Butler which enters the box office at number 3 with £1.1 Million.

The stars last movie Copshop opened in September 2021 to £198,225 for a 3 week run.

  • The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £1,161,382 over the weekend on its debut
  • The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2023
The Fabelmans

The latest movie from director Steven Spielberg finally gets a UK release and opens to just over a million pound.

The movie is nominated for a number of Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director which could help its box office journey, but it may get the Director Oscar but little else.

  • The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £1,067,384 over the weekend on its debut
  • The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2023

Falling to number 5 this weekend the new horror movie franchise takes £749,354 on its 3rd weekend of release.

Compared to Smile from the end of 2022 that movie took £1.4 Million on its 3rd weekend.

  • The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £749,354 over the weekend, a 45% drop from last weeeknd
  • It has a total gross of £5,980,325 over 3 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Avatar: The Way of Water - £2,116,615
  2. Pathaan - £1,967,854
  3. Plane - £1,161,382
  4. The Fabelmans - £1,067,384
  5. M3GAN - £749,354
  6. Babylon - £662,429
  7. Matilda: The Musical - £523,340
  8. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody - £458,930
  9. The Wandering Earth 2 - £385,959
  10. Billie Eilish Live At the O2 - £329,407
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