Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: December 10-12 2021
1. West Side Story £1,297,786 (new release)
2. Clifford the Big Red Dog £1,293,354 (new release)
3. House of Gucci £779,974 (£7,340,675, 3 weeks)
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4. Encanto £635,387 (£4,217,850, 3 weeks)
5. Ghostbusters: Afterlife £585,505 (£10,130,382, 4 weeks)
6. Eternals £152,585 (£14,768,694, 6 weeks)
7. Home Alone £122,999 (£965,764, 159 weeks)
8. No Time To Die £270,149 (£96,327,994, 11 weeks)
9. Elf £118,474 (£251,686, 3 weeks)
10. A Boy Called Christmas £112,037 (£453,837)
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The UK box office took an Omicron-sized hit (not literally, obviously) at the weekend. The two big new releases hauled in a little more than £1m each – a fraction of what might have been expected under normal circumstances (remember those?). Spielberg’s well-received bash at West Side Story promised to clean up among musical enthusiasts looking forward to an end-of-year feast of hollering and hoofing. But new Covid fears meant that audiences stayed away worldwide, though the fact that In the Heights and Dear Evan Hansen also flopped might suggest that audiences are also tiring of musicals. West Side Story needed to take at least $300m to break even, but has so far earned just $16m and is likely to end up as one of Disney’s biggest box office disasters. Snuffling at its heels is boilerplate family flick Clifford the Big Red Dog. Everything else in the chart suffered a drop in takings of more than 50%, with Ghostbusters: Afterlife finally crawling over the £10m mark after four weeks on release. Sadly for Mr. Bond, No Time To Die now has no chance of winding up as the biggest 007 film of all time, though it has enjoyed an exceptional run.
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