Barbie is now starting to be in the running for longest ever number 1 movie, a record currently held by
Titanic with 14 weeks, as the movie stays at the top for a 6th weekend.
The Greta Gerwig directed movie is also getting close to a milestone that only 2 other movies have achieved, Skyfall in 2012 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, grossing over £100 Million at the UK box office, Barbie has so far grossed £90 Million.
Oppenheimer is one again at number 2 this weekend with a total UK gross of over £50 Million.
Top new movie of the weekend is the live concert event feature Andre Rieus 2023 Maastricht Concert Love Is All Around from the ever popular world famous violinist.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 25th - 27th August 2023
Barbie
- 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 £1,944,777 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £89,082,599 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is the 7th top grossing movie of all time in the UK.
Oppenheimer
- The movie Remains At Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,638,665 over the weekend, a 20% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £53,173,902 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
Meg 2: The Trench
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £776,085 over the weekend, a 20% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £11,299,337 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 17th top grossing film so far in 2023
- The movie is a sequel to The Meg which took £13,967,081 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.
Blue Beetle
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £767,790 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £2,823,413 over 2 weeks of release
Andre Rieus 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Barbie - £1,944,777
- Oppenheimer - £1,638,665
- Meg 2: The Trench - £776,085
- Blue Beetle - £767,790
- André Rieu's 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around - £710,326
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - £478,605
- Haunted Mansion - £378,916
- Mission:Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 - £372,432
- The Blackening - £367,486
- Elemental - £340,191
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