As the James Cameron directed Avatar: The Way of Water spends its 6th weekend at the top of the UK box office, new movie Babylon makes its debut in 3rd place.

Also new this weekend is That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime The Movie: Scarlet Bond whi makes its debut at 13 with £62,612, Holy Spider is new at 14 with £60,731 and Na Twoim Miejscu makes its debut at 15 with £57,883.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 20th - 22nd January 2023

AS the sequel movie from James Cameron goes over $2 Billion worldwide it remains at the top of the UK box office for a 6th weekend with a gross of £2.7 Million which pushes its total to £67.8 Million.

• The movie remains at number 1 on this weeks UK box office
• It has spent 6 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £2,789,760 over the weekend, a 33% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of £67,845,973 over 6 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is the 17th top grossing movie of all time in the UK.
• The movie is a sequel to Avatar which took £57,441,123 at the box office after 6 weeks of release.

The new horror IP from director Gerard Johnstone remains at 2 this weekend with £1.3 Million taking its total gross of £4.6 million after 2 weeks.

The success of the movie has called for a sequel, M3GAN 2 to be made making this a new horror franchise.

• The movie remains at number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,354,537 over the weekend, a 43% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of £4,667,263 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2023

Highest New Movie This Weekend

Making its debut at 3 this week is the star studded movie from director Damien Chazelle starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie

The movie takes £1.3 Million on its debut weekend in the UK.

• The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It grosses £1,323,683 over the weekend on its debut.
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023

The Whitney Houston bio-pic remains at number 4 this weekend with a gross of £766,245 on its 4th weekend giving it a £9.6 Million total.

• The movie remains at number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £766,245 over the weekend, a 31% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of £9,600,212 over 4 weeks of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023

The musical version of Roal Dahl's classic book remains at number 5 this weekend with a gross of £661,449 which gives the former number 1 movie a total UK gross of £25.8 Million after 9 weeks.

• The movie remains at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £661,449 over the weekend, a 23% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of £25,804,997 over 9 weeks of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

1. Avatar: The Way of Water - £2,789,760
2. M3GAN - £1,354,537
3. Babylon - £1,323,683
4. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody - £766,245
5. Matilda: The Musical - £661,449
6. A Man Called Otto - £577,305
7. Empire of Light - £445,127
8. TÁR - £364,363
9. Strange World - £88,256
10. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - £85,258

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