The new re-image of the
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory story,
Wonka is the top movie in the UK on its debut with a £5.8 Million gross.
This is lower than the Tom Burton movie from 2005 which took nearly £8 Million and starred Johnny Depp in the lead role of Wonka.
Last weeks top movie, Napoleon fell to number 4 this weekend after a couple of weeks at the top and has a total of £11 Million.
With the Christmas season upon on now there are some festive movies on the box office this weekend in the shape of Elf, Home Alone and Loveactually.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Wonka (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Wonka (@1)
- Longest run - Trolls Band Together (8 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Trolls Band Together (£15,316,583)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Home Alone (0%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £13,653,016
- Also new this weekend
- The Peasants
- Hi Nanna
- Anselm
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 8th - 10th December 2023
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- 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 £8,904,750 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of December
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,119,644 over the weekend, a 22% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £5,804,888 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £961,055 over the weekend, a 43% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £14,791,638 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 16th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 which took £25,496,552 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £951,101 over the weekend, a 50% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £11,381,100 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £417,609 over the weekend, a 29% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £4,110,885 over 4 weeks of release
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Wonka - £8,904,750
- Wish - £1,119,644
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - £961,055
- Napoleon - £951,101
- Saltburn - £417,609
- Animal - £401,015
- Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé - £296,389
- Elf - £163,189
- Home Alone - £89,363
- The Peasants - £74,441
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ABOUT:
Robert Hyde
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.
