Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: December 17-19 2021
1. Spider-Man: No Way Home £31,899,232 (new release)
2. Clifford the Big Red Dog £766,122 (£2,380,042, 2 weeks)
3. West Side Story £587,305 (2,933,993, 2 weeks)
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4. Encanto £360,891 (£4,760,942, 4 weeks)
5. House of Gucci £289,041 (£8,074,049, 4 weeks)
6. Ghostbusters: Afterlife £166,200 (£10,474,223, 5 weeks)
7. Pushpa: The Rise – Part 1 £121,892 (new release)
8. A Boy Called Christmas £90,793 (£580,407, 4 weeks)
9. Elf £86,030 (£423,112, 4 weeks)
10. The Nutcracker – Bolshoi Ballet 2021 £85,417 (new release)
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Just one film accounted for around 93% of all cinema tickets sold at the weekend, so the cinemas might as well not have bothered showing anything else. Spider-Man: No Way Home took a hugely impressive £31.9 million over its opening five day ‘weekend’. This ranks as the fourth-highest opening in UK box office history, while the opening day was the biggest-ever opening Wednesday. Not bad going for a film released in the middle of a global pandemic with further restrictions looming. That said, many of these tickets were booked well in advance – long before anyone had learned how to pronounce ‘omicron’. The previous big superhero release, Eternals, fell out of the chart altogether with a massive 87% drop in takings. But, hey, that’s showbiz.
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