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UK Box Office Weekend Report 19th - 21st October 2018: A Star Is Born holds onto the top despite a big challenge from Halloween

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A Star Is Born
There was another tight battle fought at the top of the UK box office this week with A Star Is Born just about holding onto the number 1 spot despite the challenge from Halloween.

A Star Is Born

The Bradley Cooper directed movie is proving to be a big pull with British audiences as the movie manages to stay at the top of the box office for a second week, on its third week of release.

Pulling in £2.8 million for a film in its third week of release is very good, this brings the films total gross to £14.8 million.

Halloween

Halloween

Highest new movie of the week is the sequel movie Halloween which is released 40 years after the original John Carpenter directed film and is being billed as a true sequel.

Starring original star Jamie Lee Curtis the film takes an excellent £2.6 million over the weekend, missing the number one spot by just over 200,000 pound.

Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween

Being October the Halloween based films are coming thick and fast and a more kid friendly film makes its debut at number 3 with a sequel to the 2015 film Goosebumps starring jack Black.

The original took £2.6 million on its debut and this sequel comes in just lower with £2.1 million.

Johnny English Strikes Again

The inept spy hangs around for a third week taking £1.6 million boosting its total UK gross to £10.9 million, this is lower than the other 2 films in the series at this stage of release.

Venom

Venom

Sony's Marvel anti-hero movie spends most likely its last week on the top 5 taking £1.5 million takings its UK gross to £16.6 million.

The film is the highest total grossing movie on the box offie this week.

Christopher Robin

The Disney movie makes a reappearance on the box office this week and by doing so becomes the longest running film on the top 15 with 9 weeks.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. A Star Is Born - £2,883,000
  2. Halloween - £2,656,097
  3. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween - £2,119,165
  4. Johnny English Strikes Again - £1,681,394
  5. Venom - £1,568,433
  6. Smallfoot - £1,427,000
  7. First Man - £1,324,867
  8. Hunter Killer - £368,082
  9. Samons Et Dalila: Met Opera 2018 - £176,888
  10. The House With a Clock In Its Walls - £175,353
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