The long awaited adaptation of the
Wicked hot stage musical tops the UK box office this weekend on its debut giving cinema attendance a much needed boost.
The movie tops the chart with a £13.6 Million gross with easily takes the box office crown from last weeks top movie Gladiator II.
The sequel movie which drop to 2 this weekend was no slouch though as it takes £4.7 Million on its second weekend of release boosting its total to an excellent £18.4 Million.
Both movies has had very good reviews from critics and audiences alike and are showing good potential going forward.
Former number 1 movie Paddington In Peru is still at 3 this weekend with a total gross of £24.5 Million.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Wicked (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Wicked (@1)
- Longest run - The Wild Robot (6 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Paddington In Peru (£24,504,286)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Anora (-29%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £24,938,401
- Also new this weekend
- Girl From the North Country
- Tosca: Met Opera 2024
- Listy Do M. 6
- The Magic Reindeer: Saving Santas Sleigh
- Sookshma Darshini
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 22nd - 24th November 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 £13,696,056 over its debut weekend
- It is the 9th top debuting movie in the month of November
- The movie is the 19th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £4,736,971 over the weekend, a 48% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £18,468,010 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 14th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie is a sequel to Gladiator which took £9,433,058 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £4,218,383 over the weekend, a 38% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £24,504,286 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie is a sequel to Paddington 2 which took £22,990,836 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £866,764 over the weekend, a 39% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £5,891,645 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £205,457 over the weekend, a 59% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £5,425,231 over 4 weeks of release
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Wicked - £13,696,056
- Gladiator II - £4,736,971
- Paddington In Peru - £4,218,383
- Red One - £866,764
- Heretic - £205,457
- The Wild Robot - £183,578
- Small Things Like These - £166,803
- Tosca: Met Opera 2024 - £129,206
- Listy Do M. 6 - £123,448
- Venom: The Last Dance - £122,165
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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.
