As the Halloween season approaches the horror movies come thick and fast and this weekend the sequel movie (of sorts)
The Exorcist: Believer tops the UK box office with a debut gross of £1,7 Million.
Last weeks top movie, The Creator drops to number 2 on its second weekend of release.
For the first time in its 12 week run Oppenheimer out grosses its box office rival Barbie on this weekends chart.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 6th - 8th October 2023
The Exorcist: Believer
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 £1,747,925 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of October
- The movie is a sequel to Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist which took didn't make a mark at the UK box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
The Creator~2023
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,000,000 over the weekend, a 56% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £4,200,000 over 2 weeks of release
Saw X
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £953,798 over the weekend, a 50% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £3,800,000 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is a sequel to Spiral: From the Book of Saw which took £1,201,653 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.
The Great Escaper
A Haunting In Venice
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £558,724 over the weekend, a 44% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £7,900,000 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is a sequel to Death On the Nile which took £7,150,696 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- The Exorcist: Believer - £1,678,645
- The Creator - £1,041,276
- Saw X - £956,030
- The Great Escaper - £598,135
- A Haunting In Venice - £561,058
- The Equalizer 3 - £174,347
- The Nun II - £160,587
- The Old Oak - £130,484
- A Little Life - £121,137
- BlackBerry - £117,263
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