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UK Box Office Weekend Report 6th - 8th January 2023: With a weekend gross of £5.8 Million Avatar 2 stays at the top of the UK box office

Avatar: The Way of Water
As the year 2023 rolls on into January there are movie new releases this weekend, but none were good enough to topple Avatar: The Way of Water from the top of the UK box office.

The highest new movie of the weekend is A Man Called Otto which is new at 4, also in the top 5 is the latest cinema event André Rieu: In Dublin 2023.

Further down the chart is Till which is new at 6 with £327,496, the action movie The Enforcer is new at 12 with £71,836 and finally there is a re-entry at 15 for Shrek, the 2001 animated hit movie which take £44,199.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Avatar: The Way of Water (4th Weekend)
  • Highest debut - A Man Called Otto (@4)
  • Longest run - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (9 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Avatar: The Way of Water (£57,286,005)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £11 Million

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 6th - 8th January 2023

Avatar: The Way of Water

The sequel movie to Avatar takes £5.8 Million on its 4th weekend of release which is a small 25% drop over last weekend.

The movie has taken a UK total of £57.2 Million, which almost by default makes it the top movie of 2023, and although its not the top movie released in 2022 it is catching Top Gun: Maverick and has grossed almost the same at that movie 4 weeks into its box office run.

The original movie has taken £41 Million 4 weeks into its run so this movie is well ahead of that and is set to out gross the 2009 film.

The bio-pic of Whitney Houston remains at number 2 for a second weekend with a gross of £1.3 Million, a 58% drop over its debut last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of £6.2 Million after 2 weekends of release.

The musical version of the Roald Dahl story Matilda remains at number 3 this weekend with a gross of £1.1 Million, a drop of 42%.

The movie has been a massive hit in the UK with a 3 week run at the top and after 7 weeks, all inside the top 3, the movie has taken £23.9 Million.

A Man Called Otto

Highest New Movie This Weekend

Highest new movie of the weekend is the latest from Tom Hanks which is a remake of the Swedish movie A Man Called Ove from 2015.

THe movie takes £1.1 Million on its debut weekend of release in the UK.

No stranger to the box office, Andre Rieu's latest live concert offering where he is performing live in Dublin lands at number 5 this week.

The event movie takes £715,986 in screenings starting from Saturday 7th which is about on par with the violinists last concert André Rieu's 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again which took £798,706 in August of 2022.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Avatar: The Way of Water - £5,870,063
  2. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody - £1,388,927
  3. Matilda: The Musical - £1,182,411
  4. A Man Called Otto - £1,088,410
  5. André Rieu: In Dublin 2023 - £715,986
  6. Till - £327,496
  7. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - £270,417
  8. Strange World - £140,593
  9. The Menu - £135,878
  10. Aftersun - £91,252
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