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UK Box Office Weekend Report 23rd - 25th December 2022: Avatar 2 remains at the top as its UK gross passes £25 Million after 10 days

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Avatar: The Way of Water
Remaining at the top over the Christmas weekend in the sequel movie Avatar: The Way of Water and with no big new releases this week the high new film comes in at number 12, the Indian Hindi-language movie Cirkus takes £72,006.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Avatar: The Way of Water (2nd Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Cirkus (@12)
  • Longest run - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (7 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (£32,285,841)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £8 Million

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 23rd - 25th December 2022

Avatar: The Way of Water

The sequel movie to 2009's Avatar remains at the top for a second weekend with a weekend gross of just less than £5 Million, a 58% drop over last weekend, but taken into consideration cinemas were closed on Sunday, Christmas Day, this is higher than would normally have been.

The movie has now taken just over £25 Million over 10 days of release, which is higher than the original Avatar which has taken $18 Million 10 days into its run.

No doubt the movie will be one of the top movies released in 2022 by the time it finishes its run well into 2023, comparing it to the top movie of 2022, Top Gun: Maverick that movie took &pond;10 Million on its second weekend and £38 Million after 10 days, it has taken over £83 Million in total.

The movie version of the stage version of the film version of Matilda remains at number 2 this weekend with £1.1 Million, a small 14% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross in the UK fo £16 Million after 5 weeks of release.

The highest Christmas movie this weekend is the 2003 all star ensable directed by Richard Curtis which takes £408,178 from only a handful of screen, a 95% increase from last weekend.

The re-release of the movie has taken £651,745 while the movie has taken £36.2 Million at the UK box office in total.

Elf

Another seasonal re-release is at number 4 this weekend as the Will Ferrell starring movie directed by Jon Favreau which takes £252,060 this weekend, a 52% increase.

This gives the movie a £1.7 Million re-release total, and a £16.5 Million UK box office total.

Falling to number 4 this weekend is the violent Santa movie which takes £246,399 one its 4th weekend of release, a 30% drop over last weekend.

The movie has now taken a total of £3.3 Million at the UK box office.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Avatar: The Way of Water - £4,974,004
  2. Matilda: The Musical - £1,128,063
  3. LoveActually - £408,178
  4. Elf - £252,060
  5. Violent Night - £246,399
  6. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - £200,945
  7. Home Alone - £187,525
  8. It's a Wonderful Life - £177,501
  9. Strange World - £143,572
  10. The Muppet Christmas Carol - £142,774
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