Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: July 7-9 2023
1. Elemental £3,049,002 (new release)
2. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny £3,046,227 (£13,162,996, 2 weeks)
3. Insidious: The Red Door £2,279,084 (new release)
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4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse £964,566 (27,743,603, 6 weeks)
5. The Little Mermaid £490,836 (£25,970,521, 7 weeks)
6. Asteroid City £460,880 (£3,812,359, 3 weeks)
7. No Hard Feelings £348,815 (£3,223,224, 3 weeks)
8. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken £296,930 (£1,565,193, 2 weeks)
9. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts £284,081 (£7,675,492, 5 weeks)
10. The Flash £241,260 (£8,603,917, 4 weeks)
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It was a close-run thing, but Pixar animation Elemental deposed Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny after just one week at the top. The big winner, however, was Disney, which distributes both films (as well as fifth-placed The Little Mermaid). Elemental‘s opening was actually down on that of the previous Pixar flick, Lightyear, but it’s poised to do a roaring trade over the summer holidays. The fifth film in the Insidious franchise, Insidious: The Red Door, also opened strongly, becoming the third film in the chart to take more than £1m over the weekend. That puts it ahead of the previous instalment, The Last Key, and underlines the fact that one should never underestimate the popularity of horror – even in direct competition with blockbusters. The sixth Insidious is reportedly already in production. Further down the chart, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken took a big tumble from third to eighth place in its second week on release, perhaps because of the intense competition in the family animation market.
Image credit: Disney
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