Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: December 24-26 2021
1. Spider-Man: No Way Home £4,619,518 (£51,107,711, 2 weeks)
2. The Matrix: Ressurections £2,686,785 (new release)
2. Clifford the Big Red Dog £349,836 (£3,828,936, 3 weeks)
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4. West Side Story £212,271 (3,853,713, 3 weeks)
5. 83 £182,518 (new release)
6. Encanto £157,054 (£5,465,843, 5 weeks)
7. Elf £80,750 (£630,022, 5 weeks)
8. It’s a Wonderful Life £65,247 (£335,416, 4 weeks)
9. Home Alone £64,247 (£1,222,988, 161 weeks)
10. A Boy Called Christmas £58,466 (£796,587, 5 weeks)
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Caution is needed when interpreting the Christmas box office results. On the face of it, Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s 76% drop in takings looks pretty disastrous. But of course cinemas were closed on Christmas Day, while new restrictions were introduced in Wales and Scotland on Boxing Day. None of which stopped the film sailing past the £50m mark in just two weeks. Globally, the Covid-defying superhero flick now ranks as Sony’s biggest hit of all time. Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix: Resurrections had to settle for second place and seems to have under-performed everywhere so far. That said, the swivel-eyed anti-vaxxer/conspiracy theorist crowd seem to imagine that the Matrix franchise is a documentary series, so the film may yet find its audience. In the battle of the Christmas re-releases, Will Ferrell man-child comedy Elf narrowly pipped the sentimental evergreen It’s a Wonderful Life, which may or may not tell us something about our times.
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