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Also new this weekend is the event movie Westlife: Live From Wembley Stadium which makes its debut at number 8 with £468,214 and Sita Ramam which is new at 14 with £35,403.
Top Gun: Maverick spends its firs weekend outside the top 5 this week, but the movie which has been on the chart for 11 weeks takes £609,409 for a total of £77.5 Million.
Highest New Movie of the Weekend
Hitting the top on its debut weekend is the new action comedy from director David Leitch which stars Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Taking a debut weekend gross of £2.8 Million, opening on Thursday, it easily hits the number one spot.
In comparison it it is far lower than the directors previous movie, Fast and Furious Presents Hobbs and Shaw which opened to over £6 Million but its in the same ball park as Brad Pitt's last movie Ad Astra.
After making its debut at the top of the UK box office last weekend the DC Universe based animated feature drop to number 2 on its second weekend of release.
A weekend gross of £1.2 Million is a 55% drop over last weekend and gives the movie a total of £6.2 Million.
Falling to number 3 this weekend is the animated sequel from the Despicable Me universe which takes £1.1 Million, a 45% drop.
This gives the movie a total gross of £36.7 Million after 6 weeks of release and is the 5th top movie of 2022.
In comparison the the first Minions movie at 6 weeks in its run this is lower than the £40 Million that film made in 2015.
The fourquel movie in the Thor series of MCU movies falls to number 4 this weekend with £938,257, a 51% drop over its gross last weekend.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £33.2 Million over its 5 weeks of release and is the 7th top movie of 2022.
The movie is tracking just ahead of Thor: Ragnarok which had taken £29 Million 5 weeks into its run.
Director Baz Luhrmann bio-pic to the King of Rock and Roll has been consistently on the top 5 now for 7 weeks and takes £737,844 this weekend, a 33% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of £22.6 Million in the UK and is the directors highest grossing movie.
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