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UK Box Office Weekend Report 8th - 10th July 2022: Thor 4 hits the top on its debut weekend with over £12 Million

Thor: Love and Thunder
Disney and Marvel release their new movie this weekend and as is the norm these days at the cinema Thor: Love and Thunder makes its debut at the top.

Also new this weekend is London Nahi Jaunga at number 8 with a debut gross of £92,117 while Brian and Charles is new at number 9 with £71,890.

There was a double bill cinema event this weekend of Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invation Earth 2150 A.D., currently the only feature films in the 60 year history of Doctor Who, which took £64,730.

Finally at number 15 there is Quaid-E-Azam Zindabad making a debut with £14,447.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Thor: Love and Thunder (1st weekend)
  • Highest debut - Thor: Love and Thunder (@1)
  • Longest run - Everything Everywhere All At Once (9 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Top Gun: Maverick (£70 Million)

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 8th - 10th July 2022

Thor: Love and Thunder

The fourth film in the Thor series of movie from the grander Marvel Cinematic Universe which is once again directed by Taika Waititi as was Thor: Ragnarok.

The movie makes its debut at the top of this weeks box office with £12.2 Million which is lover than the last two Marvel movies, Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness and Spider-Man: No Way Home but in the same ballpark as the last Thor movie.

The road ahead looks good for the movie with no new competition until Bullet Train in early August, although with middle of the road reviews the current releases, especially Minions: The Rise of Gru could see its number 1 run cut short.

Giving way to Thor: Love and Thunder the Minions sequel drops to number 2 on its second weekend of release, at least for this weekend.

The movie takes £4.3 Million, a large 58% drop over its debut last weekend, this gives it a total gross of £18.4 Million.

This places the movie on the top 10 movies of 2022 at number 10.

Director Baz Luhrmann's bio-pic of the King of Rock 'N' Roll falls to number 3 this weekend with a gross of £1.3 Million, a 55% drop over last weekend, on its 3rd weekend of release.

This gives the movie a total UK gross of £13.8 Million.

Top Gun Maverick

The Top Gun sequel movie continues to do amazingly well on the UK box office and this weekend slips just a single place on its 7th weekend of release with just over £1 Million, a 62% drop over last weeeknd.

The movie has now taken a eye popping £70 Million in its UK box office run and is by far the top movie of 2022.

As the Dino movie starts to end its UK box office run it drop to number 5 on the chart with £560,166 over the weekend, a large 69% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total UK gross of £31.7 Million after 5 weeks of release, it will end up the lowest grossing of the Jurassic World series of movies.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Thor: Love and Thunder - £12,283,719
  2. Minions: The Rise of Gru - £4,327,537
  3. Elvis - £1,325,853
  4. Top Gun: Maverick - £1,002,495
  5. Jurassic World: Dominion - £560,166
  6. Lightyear - £227,445
  7. The Black Phone - £207,588
  8. London Nahi Jaunga - £92,117
  9. Brian and Charles - £71,890
  10. Dr. Who and the Daleks - £64,730
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