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UK Box Office Weekend 16th - 18th March 2018: Peter Rabbit and Tomb Raider shove Black Panther off the top

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Peter Rabbit
After a very good 4 weeks at the top of the Uk box office Black Panther givers up this week and falls down to number 2 leaving Peter Rabbit and Tomb Raider to fight it out.

The Will Gluck directed Peter Rabbit starring the voice of James Cordon easily made it to the top in the end with a weekend gross of £7 million.

Also making its debut is Alicia Vikander in the reboot of Tomb Raider which make a decent weekend gross of £3 million.

In comparison the Angelina Jolie first outing from 2001 took £3.8 million on its debut, with inflation the reboot is a bit of a let down.

Black Panther may have fallen to number 3 this week but a £1.8 million 5th weekend takes the film total UK gross to £42 million, its global gross is now nearly $1.2 billion.

The Greatest Showman continues to do really well and a 12 weekend gross of just over £1 million brings the films total gross to nearly £39 million.

Red Sparrow finished off the top 5 this week.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Peter Rabbit - £7,273,207
  2. Tomb Raider - £3,081,916
  3. Black Panther - £1,881,691
  4. The Greatest Showman - £1,059,983
  5. Red Sparrow - £588,634
  6. Game Night - £540,977
  7. Lady Bird - £293,131
  8. The Shape of Water - £289,641
  9. Finding Your Feet - £285,202
  10. My Generation - £259,990
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