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Also new this week is Parallel Mothers starring Penelope Cruz which makes its debut at 6 with £301,877.
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UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 28th - 30th January 2022
The animated sequel to director Garth Jennings 2017 original Sing lands on this weeks box office at the top with a gross £6.8 Million.
This is lower than the first movies debut gross which was £10 Million, but that is most likely down to the pandemic as we are still seeing lower box office returns on the whole.
The movie has been a smash hit across the globe and in the UK the original was a smash hit, this will hang around for quite a while, it is already the second top movie of 2022 in the UK.
Kenneth Branagh's movie never made it to the top spot in the UK but it is proving to be a big hit regardless as it spends another weekend at number 2.
The film takes £1.8 Million over the weekend pushing its total to £6 Million, and making it the 3rd top movie of 2022.
The movie spent 6 weeks at number 1 over the 2021 Christmas and new year period but this week leaps over Belfast to number 3 as it looses the number 1 crown to Sing 2.
On its 7th weekend the movie takes £1.7 Million, a 24% drop over last week, giving it a total UK gross of £90 Million.
It is the top movie of 2022 and is the 6th top movie of all time as it tries to beat the £93 Million taken by Avatar.
Falling to number 4 this weekend is the horror franchise movie which takes £788,123 on its 3rd weekend of release, a 37% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total in the UK of £6.1 Million.
Falling to 5 this weekend after its debut is the Guillermo del Toro directed movie which takes £330,830, a 40% drop from last week, giving the movie a total in the UK of £1,2 Million.
The movie could end up being one of the famed directors lowest grossing films in the UK.
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