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UK Box Office Weekend Report 4th - 6th November 2022: Black Adam makes it three weeks at the top of the UK box office while Living is the top new movie at 4

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Black Adam
Superhero movie Black Adam is starting to be a sizable hit iin its own right on its last weekend before the next major event movie hits UK cinemas and spends a third weekend at the top of the UK box office.

The top new movie of the weekend is the Bill Nighy starring movie Living which enters at 4 with the Japansese animated movie One Piece Film: Red coming in one place below at 4.

There are also new releases for Ania at number 11 with £165,145 and Watcher at number 12 with £140,396, and finally there is the event movie La Traviata: Met Opera 2022 which comes in at 14 with £102,437.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Black Adam (3rd Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Living (@4)
  • Longest run - Ticket to Paradise (7 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Black Adam (£3.6 Million)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £7.1 Million

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 4th - 6th November 2022

Black Adam

The Dwayne Johnson starring superhero movie remains strong this weekend as it notches up a third weekend at the top of the UK box office.

Taking a very respectable £2 Million it is a sizable but respectable 42% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total UK gross of £17 Million over its 3 weeks of release as it pushes its way towards the £20 Million milestone.

The movie is the only film this weekend to gross over £1 Million at the box office.

The children's comic book adaptation remains in second place this weekend as its takes £979,484, a 35% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a fantastic £10 Million over its 4 weeks of release and is becoming a major hit in the UK.

The Irish comedy drama starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson remains at number 3 this weekend as it takes £976,323, a very slim 23% drop from last weekend.

The movie has taken £6.2 Million in total over its 3 weeks of release.

Living

Highest New Movie This Weekend

Highest new entry of the weekend comes from director Oliver Hermanus who adapts the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa.

The movie lands at number 4 this weekend with a debut gross of £670,206 which is the directors highest grossing movie in the UK.

The Japanese animated movie sequel makes its debut at the UK box office this weekend at number 5 with a debut gross of £559,623.

The movie which is a sequel to One Piece: Stampede from 2020, this movie far out grosses that movie which make its debut at the end of January with £69,174 and spent a single week on the box office.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Black Adam - £2,006,821
  2. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile - £979,484
  3. The Banshees of Inisherin - £976,323
  4. Living - £670,206
  5. One Piece Film: Red - £559,623
  6. Prey For the Devil - £364,725
  7. Smile - £351,843
  8. Triangle of Sadness - £216,755
  9. Barbarian - £197,545
  10. Ticket to Paradise - £174,415
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