Continuing the legacy of the
Rocky movies,
Creed III tops the UK box office this weekend as it makes its debut in cinemas.
Also making its debut on this weeks box office chart is Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village which comes in at number 6 with just over £500,00 and Heaven In Hell at number 10 with £146,318 and finally Close at number 11 with £128,208.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Creed III (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Creed III (@1)
- Longest run - Matilda: The Musical (15 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Avatar: The Way of Water (£76,725,041)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £11,292,539
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 3rd - 5th March 2023
Highest New Movie This Weekend
Making its debut at the top of the UK box office is the third installment of the Creed franchise of movie, which itself is a spin off from the Rocky series of movies.
The series has got better and better with each movie and this one which is a directorial debut for star Micheal B Jordan makes its debut with kist over £5 Million.
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £5,003,452 over its debut weekend
- The movie is the 9th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Creed II which took £2,991,509 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
Dropping to number 2 this weekend after a couple of weeks at the top is the sequel to Ant-Man and the Wasp which adds £1.4 Million to its UK total.
- The movie goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,435,619 over the weekend, a 53% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £17,214,114 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Ant-Man and the Wasp which took £13,597,140 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.
5 weeks on and the Puss In Boots sequel falls to number 3 with a weekend gross of £1.1 Million giving the movie a fantastic total of £22 Million.
- The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,151,520 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £22,143,133 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to Puss In Boots which took £12,153,259 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.
Dropping to number 4 this week after making its debut at number 3 is the Elizabeth Banks directed movie about a bear who accidentally takes an overdose of cocaine.
- The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,090,419 over the weekend, a 31% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £3,639,103 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 14th top grossing film so far in 2023
The British romantic comedy starring Lily James and directed by Shekhar Kapur falls to number 5 this weekend after making its debut last weekend at number 4.
- The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £845,838 over the weekend, a 22% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £2,710,717 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 17th top grossing film so far in 2023
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Creed III - £5,003,452
- Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania - £1,435,619
- Puss In Boots: The Last Wish - £1,151,520
- Cocaine Bear - £1,090,419
- What's Love Got to Do With It? - £845,838
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village - £567,638
- Magic Mike's Last Dance - £265,822
- Avatar: The Way of Water - £229,667
- Epic Tails - £174,360
- Heaven In Hell - £146,318
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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
