Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: September 1-3 2023
1. The Equalizer 3 £2,783,302 (new release)
2. Barbie £1,641,410 (£92,585,022, 7 weeks)
3. Oppenheimer £960,504 (£55,413,089, 7 weeks)
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4. Sound of Freedom £760,060 (new release)
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem £618,912 (£9,148,597, 5 weeks)
6. Elemental £559,291 (£17,933,102, 9 weeks)
7. Meg 2: The Trench £534,668 (£12,474,467, 5 weeks)
8. Blue Beetle £495,507 (£3,993,395, 3 weeks)
9. Haunted Mansion £394,331 (£3,978,483, 4 weeks)
10. Cobweb £325,904 (new release)
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So finally it was a macho action threequel that deposed Barbie after six weeks at the top of the chart. Denzel Washington vehicle The Equalizer 3 opened with a franchise-best £2.8m. Also doing well is the controversial, independently distributed thriller Sound of Freedom, starring The Passion of the Christ‘s Jim Caviezel, which has been embraced by the US Christian far-right and those crazy QAnon conspiracy theorists. Saturday’s National Cinema Day, during which tickets were discounted to £3, generated nearly £5m, with the chief beneficiaries being family flicks such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and Elemental, which both climbed back up the chart.
Image credit: Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
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