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UK Box Office Weekend Report 6th - 8th January 2023: With a weekend gross of £5.8 Million Avatar 2 stays at the top of the UK box office

UK Box Office Weekend Report 6th - 8th January 2023:  With a weekend gross of £5.8 Million Avatar 2 stays at the top of the UK box office
Avatar: The Way of Water
As the year 2023 rolls on into January there are movie new releases this weekend, but none were good enough to topple Avatar: The Way of Water from the top of the UK box office.

The highest new movie of the weekend is A Man Called Otto which is new at 4, also in the top 5 is the latest cinema event Andre Rieu: In Dublin 2023.

Further down the chart is Till which is new at 6 with £327,496, the action movie The Enforcer is new at 12 with £71,836 and finally there is a re-entry at 15 for Shrek, the 2001 animated hit movie which take £44,199.

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UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 6th - 8th January 2023

Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

The sequel movie to Avatar takes £5.8 Million on its 4th weekend of release which is a small 25% drop over last weekend.

The movie has taken a UK total of £57.2 Million, which almost by default makes it the top movie of 2023, and although its not the top movie released in 2022 it is catching Top Gun: Maverick and has grossed almost the same at that movie 4 weeks into its box office run.

The original movie has taken £41 Million 4 weeks into its run so this movie is well ahead of that and is set to out gross the 2009 film.

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody

The bio-pic of Whitney Houston remains at number 2 for a second weekend with a gross of £1.3 Million, a 58% drop over its debut last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of £6.2 Million after 2 weekends of release.

Matilda: The Musical

The musical version of the Roald Dahl story Matilda remains at number 3 this weekend with a gross of £1.1 Million, a drop of 42%.

The movie has been a massive hit in the UK with a 3 week run at the top and after 7 weeks, all inside the top 3, the movie has taken £23.9 Million.

A Man Called Otto

A Man Called Otto

Highest New Movie This Weekend

Highest new movie of the weekend is the latest from Tom Hanks which is a remake of the Swedish movie A Man Called Ove from 2015.

THe movie takes £1.1 Million on its debut weekend of release in the UK.

Andre Rieu: In Dublin 2023

No stranger to the box office, Andre Rieu's latest live concert offering where he is performing live in Dublin lands at number 5 this week.

The event movie takes £715,986 in screenings starting from Saturday 7th which is about on par with the violinists last concert Andre Rieu's 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again which took £798,706 in August of 2022.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Avatar: The Way of Water - £5,870,063
  2. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody - £1,388,927
  3. Matilda: The Musical - £1,182,411
  4. A Man Called Otto - £1,088,410
  5. André Rieu: In Dublin 2023 - £715,986
  6. Till - £327,496
  7. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - £270,417
  8. Strange World - £140,593
  9. The Menu - £135,878
  10. Aftersun - £91,252
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