UK Box Office Weekend Report 3rd - 5th April 2015: Fast and Furious 7 motors to the top

In what became fantastic weekend gross Fast & Furious 7 makes its debut at the top of the UK box office with ease, although last weeks top film still does decent numbers.

Fast and Furious 7 took an excellent £12.7 million over the Easter weekend and in the process not only became the top film in the motoring franchise but is also the 31st highest film debut in the UK.

The movie has a debut gross similar to that of a Hunger Games movie so we can expect to see this new Furious film gross over £30 million in the UK, in a similar comparison its debut is near that of Fifty Shades of Grey which has to date taken £34 million.

Last weeks top film, Cinderella, takes nearly £3 million for the weekend placing it at number 2 with a total UK gross now siting at just over £10 million.

Also new this week is The Water Diviner which makes its debu at 7 with While We're Young is at number 8.

Also making an appearance due to screening by the BFI is the 1982 Ridley Scott sci-fi classic Blade Runner which has taken £267,452 over the weekend.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

1. Fast and Furious 7 - £12,765,033
2. Cinderella - £2,969,426
3. Home - £2,387,579
4. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water - £1,121,097
5. Get Hard - £845,040
6. The Divergnt Series: Insurgent - £594,587
7. The Water Diviner - £521,546
8. While We're Young - £427,151
9. Blade Runner - £267,452
10. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - £176,769

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