As the box office summer season moves into the next gear sequel movie
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes gets its UK release and top the UK box office.
The movie takes £3.8 Million on its debut, which in recent times is not a terrible opening weekend but it is half that of War For the Planet of the Apes £7.1 Million from 7 years ago.
Last weeks top movie The Fall Guy takes a hard tumble from the top this week with a weekend gross of £948,970, a 74% drop from last week.
Only 1 movie this weekend took over a million, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and with a total 15 combines gross of £6.3 Million this of the lowest box office total since December 6th 2022 when Matilda: The Musical spent its 3rd weekend at the top.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (@1)
- Longest run - Dune: Part Two (11 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Dune: Part Two (£39,466,555)
- Best Percentage change week on week - National Theatre Live: Nye (93%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £6,249,770
- Also new this weekend
- La Chimera
- Madama Butterfly: Met Opera 2023/24
- Shinda Shinda No Papa
- Big Banana Feet
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 10th - 12th May 2024
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 £3,802,189 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
- The movie is a sequel to War For the Planet of the Apes which took £7,195,773 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £948,970 over the weekend, a 74% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £948,970 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie Remains At Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £333,281 over the weekend, a 66% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £4,699,043 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 17th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie Remains At Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £211,408 over the weekend, a 73% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £11,300,178 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2024
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £140,983 over the weekend, a 72% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £923,013 over 2 weeks of release
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - £3,802,189
- The Fall Guy - £948,970
- Challengers - £333,281
- Back to Black - £211,408
- Tarot - £140,983
- Kung-Fu Panda 4 - £139,738
- National Theatre Live: Nye - £119,413
- La Chimera - £99,985
- Madama Butterfly: Met Opera 2023/24 - £96,727
- Love Lies Bleeding - £87,060
See full chart
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Robert Hyde
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
