As 2024 comes to an end
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 takes over at the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend.
The threequel movie which has got good reviews across the board makes its debut with a gross of £11.7 Million.
This is higher than the previous movie but this figure is the gross since release and only took £4 Million over the weekend.
Falling to number 2 is Mufasa: The Lion King which took £4.2 Million and was the top movie once the 3 day weekend Friday to Sunday.
Also new this weekend is Better Man, the Robbie Williams bio-pic which is new at 5 with £1.5 Million.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (@1)
- Longest run - Paddington In Peru (8 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Wicked (£53,009,797)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Paddington In Peru (20%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £24,754,955
- Also new this weekend
- Baby John
- Spirited Away
- The Order
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 27th - 29th December 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 £11,760,314 over its debut weekend
- It is the 8th top debuting movie in the month of December
- The movie is the th top grossing film so far in 2025
- The movie is a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which took £4,986,334 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 £4,244,612 over the weekend, a 4% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £12,613,098 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is a sequel to The Lion King which took £36,889,089 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 £2,699,246 over the weekend, a 7% increase from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £53,009,797 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,214,589 over the weekend, a 7% increase from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £33,768,201 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is a sequel to Moana which took £13,701,447 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Is a New Entry At Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,568,932 over its debut weekend
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - £11,760,314
- Mufasa: The Lion King - £4,244,612
- Wicked - £2,699,246
- Moana 2 - £2,214,589
- Better Man - £1,568,932
- Paddington In Peru - £819,038
- Gladiator II - £561,662
- Conclave - £364,319
- Baby John - £112,834
- Kraven the Hunter - £87,631
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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.
