Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: April 29-May 1 2022
1. Downton Abbey: A New Era £3,072,762 (new release)
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 £1,349,144 (£21,859,488, 5 weeks)
3. The Lost City £1,204,261 (£7,406,098, 3 weeks)
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4. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore £1,198,420 (£18,325,387, 4 weeks)
5. The Bad Guys £723,039 (10,180,547, 5 weeks)
6. The Northman £590,925 (£3,429,338, 3 weeks)
7. Operation Mincemeat £537,119 (£3,851,826, 3 weeks)
8. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent £300,083 (£1,096,301, 2 weeks)
9. The Batman £104,933 (£40,669,782, 9 weeks)
10. Acharya £92,624 (new release)
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“I am going upstairs to take orf my hat.” Er, sorry. Just reliving one of the highlights of TV’s most boring costume drama series. The big-screen Downton Abbey sequel, A New Era, was the only major new release at the weekend and was propelled to the top of the chart on a tidal wave of forelock-tugging hype. But despite showing in virtually every cinema in the country (it had the second-widest release of all time), the film’s opening haul was 40% lower than that of its predecessor. By contrast, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, which was bounced into second place, is now £2.5m up on the total take of the first Sonic film. Further down the chart, the highest-grossing release in the top ten, The Batman, finally crawled over the £40m mark after nine weeks on release.
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