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UK Box Office Weekend Report 3rd - 5th December 2021: House of Gucci remains at the top while a Christmas with Andre is the top new movie

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House of Gucci
Starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver House of Gucci remains on top of the UK box office for a second weekend while the top new movie is the Event feature Christmas With André at number 4.

Making its debut lower down the box office is Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City which makes its debut at 8 with £253,199 and Dziewczyny Z Dubaju which is new at 10 with &pond;204,458.

Worth noting this week is that the Bond movie No Time To Die spends its first weekend outside the top 5 since its release 10 weeks ago.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - House of Gucci (2nd weekend)
  • Highest debut - Christmas with Gucci (@4)
  • Longest run - No Time To Die (10 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - No Time To Die (£96 Million)

UK box office top 5 breakdown weekend 3rd - 5th December 2021

House of Gucci

House of Gucci

The Ridley Scott directed movie based on the true life story of the Gucci family spends its second weekend at the top with a gross of £1.5 Million, a slim 38% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total UK gross after 2 weekends of £5.5 Million.

Encanto

Disney's latest animated adventure climbs this week to number 2 with a second weekend gross of £1.2 Million, a very slim 26% drop over last weekend.

The movie has now takem £3.3 Million in the UK after 2 weekend and with the school Christmas holidays nearly here and good word of mouth this could be a bit of a sleeper hit for the studio.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

The Ghostbusters sequel movie falls to number 3 this weekend with a gross of just over £1 Million, a 49% drop over last week.

The movie has now taken £9.1 Million over 3 weekends on release and the movie is keeping just a slither above the 2016 reboot with had taken £9 Million 3 weeks into its run.

Christmas With Andre

Christmas With Andre

Violinist Andre Rieu invites us to his annual Christmas concert in this 2 day Event cinema spectacle which this weeks lands at number 4 with a weekend gross of £693,676.

The Andre Rieu concerts are no stranger to the UK box office with his biggest hit to date being Andrerieus 2019 Live New Year Concert From Sydney from 2019 which took £1.7 Million.

Eternals

The Chloe Zhao directed Marvel movie falls to number 5 this week with £318,717 on its 5th weekend of release, a 46% drop over last weekend, and now has a total UK gross of £14.4 Million and is the 9th top movie of 2021.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. House of Gucci - £1,511,982
  2. Encanto - £1,279,213
  3. Ghostbusters: Afterlife - £1,066,150
  4. André Rieu: Christmas With André - £693,676
  5. Eternals - £318,717
  6. No Time To Die - £270,149
  7. Boxing Day - £265,263
  8. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City - £253,199
  9. Dune - £240,423
  10. Dziewczyny Z Dubaju - £204,458
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