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UK Box Office Weekend Report 3rd - 5th June 2022: The Top Gun sequel remains at the top of the UK box office with a massive £10 Million second weekend with Men the top new movie

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Top Gun: Maverick
Tom Cruise retains his lead over the UK box office as Top Gun: Maverick retains its position at the top with a massive second week hold.

The Alex Garland directed movie Men is the top new movie of the weekend at number 3 while Vikram is also new at number 6 with £399,425, Major is new at 11 with £55,430, Prithviraj is new at 13 with £54,910 and the controversial The Lady of Heaven makes it onto the top 15 with £44,011.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Top Gun: Maverick (2nd weekend)
  • Highest debut - Men (@3)
  • Longest run - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and The Bad Guys (10 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness (£40.7 Million)

UKwide weekend box office top 5 breakdown 3rd - 5th June 2022

Top Gun Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick

The high flying sequel movie spends a second weekend at the top of the UK box office with a jaw dropping second weekend take of £10.3 Million, a very small 35% over its massive debut last weekend.

This gives the Tom Cruise starring movie a total Uk gross of £38 Million after just 10 days of release which makes it the 3rd top movie of 2022, it will be the top movie of the year by next weekend.

The movie takes an amazing 71% of this weeks top 15 movies, down only a little from last weekend where it took 81% of the total box office.

The movie is out doing the previous movie even when taking inflation into consideration and at its current rate its not hard to imagine it becoming one of the top 10 movies of all time.

Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness

The MCU sequel movie holds onto to its place at number 2 this weekend where it took £1.15 Million, a small 16% drop.

5 weeks on and the movie has taken £40.7 Million and is the 3rd top movie of 2022.

Men

Men

Highest new movie of the weekend if the new movie from celebrated director Alex Garland making its debut at number 3 this week with £519,907.

There is a bug gap between the secodn and third movie this weekend and with a number of bug new released coming in the weeks ahead this movie could drop of the box office quickly.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

The most successful video game movie in the UK goes back up the box office this weekend from 6 to 4 with a weekend gross of £456,187.

This is an increase of 39% over last weekend and gives the movie a total gross of £26.1 Million after 10 weeks of release and is the 5th top movie of 2022.

The Bad Guys

The animated smash hit movie goes back to number 5 from last weeks 7 with a gross of £403,176, a massive 51% increase over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total UK gross of £12.9 Million after 10 weeks of release.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Top Gun: Maverick - £10,325,500
  2. Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness - £1,151,843
  3. Men - £519,907
  4. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - £456,187
  5. Vikram - £425,904
  6. The Bad Guys - £403,176
  7. Everything Everywhere All At Once - £370,968
  8. Downton Abbey: A New Era - £231,108
  9. The Bob's Burgers Movie - £192,369
  10. The Lost City - £160,095
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