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UK Box Office Weekend Report 19th - 21st May 2023: Fast X is the top movie in the UK on its debut with nearly £6 Million

Fast X
This weekend the tenth movie in The Fast and the Furious series of movies gets its UK debut and tops the box office in the process with a gross of £5.8 Million.

The movie is just shy of there previous movie which took just over £6 Million on its debut in 2020 and it is well below the series high of Fast and Furious 8 which took £14 Million in April 2013.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 slips to number 2 this weekend after a couple of weeks at the top as the movies total gross hits £29 Million, below that of the previous movie.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still in the top 3 after 7 weeks of release as its gross passes another milestone of £50 Million at the UK box office.

Finally in the top 5 are a couple of new releases, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is at number 3 with £327,197 and Beau Is Afraid is at 5 with £231,370.

Also new this weekend is the event movie, Don Giovanni: Met Opera at 9 with £99,842.

UK box office QuickView

  • Number 1 - Fast X (1st Weekend)
  • Highest debut - Fast X (@1)
  • Longest run - John Wick: Chapter 4 (9 weeks)
  • Highest total gross - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (£51,839,229)
  • Top Percentage change week on week - The Kerala Story (86%)
  • Total UK top 15 this weekend - £10,563,613

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 19th - 21st May 2023

Fast X

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 £5,895,674 over its debut weekend
  • It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
  • The movie is the 14th top grossing film so far in 2023
  • The movie is a sequel to Fast and Furious 9 which took £6,014,132 at the box office after 1 week in cinemas.
  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £2,810,731 over the weekend, a 47% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £28,928,869 over 3 weeks of release
  • The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
  • The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 which took £33,041,912 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.
  • The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £544,283 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
  • It has a total gross of £51,839,229 over 7 weeks of release
  • The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
  • The movie Is a New Entry At Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £327,197 over its debut weekend
  • The movie Is a New Entry At Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
  • It grosses £231,370 over its debut weekend

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Fast X - £5,895,674
  2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - £2,810,731
  3. The Super Mario Bros. Movie - £544,283
  4. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - £327,197
  5. Beau Is Afraid - £231,370
  6. Book Club 2: The Next Chapter - £143,100
  7. Evil Dead Rise - £110,323
  8. 2018 - £105,969
  9. Don Giovanni: Met Opera - £99,842
  10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - £72,246
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