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UK Box Office Weekend Report 7th - 9th July 2023: In a very tight race for the top of the UK box office Elemental just beats Indiana Jones

UK Box Office Weekend Report 7th - 9th July 2023:  In a very tight race for the top of the UK box office Elemental just beats Indiana Jones
Elemental
Elemental takes over at the top of the UK box office this weekend with a margin of just £2,775 more than last weeks top movie Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

The new pixar film had a hard time in the US going up agains The Flash but in the long run ot looks like Elemental will actually do better at the box office.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny falls to number 2 with a huge drop of 57% which could see the movie fail to become the summer blockbuster it should be.

UK box office QuickView

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 7th - 9th July 2023

Elemental

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 £3,049,002 over its debut weekend
  • It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of July
Elemental

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Insidious: The Red Door

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £964,566 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £27,743,603 over 6 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2023
  • The movie is a sequel to Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse which took £9,294,314 at the box office after 6 weeks in cinemas.
Spider Man: Across the Spider Verse

The Little Mermaid~2023

  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £490,836 over the weekend, a 41% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £25,970,520 over 7 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2023

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Elemental - £3,049,002
  2. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - £3,046,227
  3. Insidious: The Red Door - £2,279,084
  4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - £964,566
  5. The Little Mermaid - £490,836
  6. Asteroid City - £460,880
  7. No Hard Feelings - £348,815
  8. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - £296,929
  9. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - £284,081
  10. The Flash - £241,260
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