Reviving the
Alien franchise director Fede Alvarez takes his new movie
Alien: Romulus, set between
Alien and
Aliens to the top of the UK box office.
The movie lands at number 1 with a £3.7 Million gross, lower than the previous movie in the series by director Ridley Scott, Alien: Covenant which took £5.1 Million.
Dropping down to number 2 this weekend is It Ends With Us which takes £2.8 Million for a total gross of £11.3 Million.
Inside Out 2 continues to do well and remains at number 7 this weekend with a total gross of £55.5 Million.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Alien: Romulus (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Alien: Romulus (@1)
- Longest run - Inside Out 2 (10 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Inside Out 2 (£55,537,751)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Coraline (100%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £13,871,879
- Also new this weekend
- Stree 2
- Ozi: Voice of the Forest
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 16th - 18th August 2024
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 £3,741,287 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of August
- The movie is a sequel to Alien: Covenant which took £5,178,531 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,834,201 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £11,384,454 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 17th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,393,213 over the weekend, a 41% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £48,418,795 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie is a sequel to Deadpool 2 which took £29,042,739 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,260,124 over the weekend, a 100% increase from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £1,263,351 over 11 weeks of release
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,195,158 over the weekend, a 22% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £38,786,080 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie is a sequel to Despicable Me 3 which took £39,340,830 at the box office after 6 weeks in cinemas.
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Alien: Romulus - £3,741,287
- It Ends With Us - £2,834,201
- Deadpool & Wolverine - £2,393,213
- Coraline - £1,260,124
- Despicable Me 4 - £1,195,158
- Trap - £558,233
- Inside Out 2 - £506,524
- Twisters - £315,162
- Stree 2 - £291,804
- Borderlands - £181,065
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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.
