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Weekend box office report: 20-22 January 2023

1. Avatar: The Way Of Water

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
  • Director(s): James Cameron
  • Writer(s): James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
  • Actors(s): Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
  • Runtime: 192 min
  • Total gross to date: £67,845,974.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,789,760.00
  • Number of cinemas: 651
  • Site average: £4,285.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -33
  • Weeks on release: 6
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
  • Metacritic: 67/100

2. M3gan

A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own.
  • Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Director(s): Gerard Johnstone
  • Writer(s): Akela Cooper, James Wan
  • Actors(s): Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng
  • Runtime: 102 min
  • Total gross to date: £4,667,263.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,354,538.00
  • Number of cinemas: 586
  • Site average: £2,311.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -42
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
  • Metacritic: 72/100

3. Babylon

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
  • Director(s): Damien Chazelle
  • Writer(s): Damien Chazelle
  • Actors(s): Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart
  • Runtime: 189 min
  • Total gross to date: £1,323,683.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,323,683.00
  • Number of cinemas: 631
  • Site average: £2,098.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Paramount
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 56%
  • Metacritic: 60/100

4. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody

A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
  • Director(s): Kasi Lemmons
  • Writer(s): Anthony McCarten
  • Actors(s): Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders
  • Runtime: 144 min
  • Total gross to date: £9,600,212.00
  • Weekend gross: £766,245.00
  • Number of cinemas: 602
  • Site average: £1,273.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -30
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 44%
  • Metacritic: 51/100

5. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical

Based on the hit award-winning musical and the beloved novel by Roald Dahl, Matilda tells the story about Matilda, a intelligent little girl who is stuck with her nasty parents and her sadist school headmistress. With her kind teacher, revolting classmates, and her huge imagination, she tries to change her destiny.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
  • Director(s): Matthew Warchus
  • Writer(s): Dennis Kelly, Tim Minchin, Roald Dahl
  • Actors(s): Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch
  • Runtime: 117 min
  • Total gross to date: £25,804,997.00
  • Weekend gross: £661,450.00
  • Number of cinemas: 647
  • Site average: £1,022.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -23
  • Weeks on release: 9
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.1/10
  • Metacritic: 72/100

6. A Man Called Otto

Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Director(s): Marc Forster
  • Writer(s): Fredrik Backman, Hannes Holm, David Magee
  • Actors(s): Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller
  • Runtime: 126 min
  • Total gross to date: £3,638,506.00
  • Weekend gross: £577,305.00
  • Number of cinemas: 640
  • Site average: £902.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -27
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 69%
  • Metacritic: 51/100

7. Empire Of Light

A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Director(s): Sam Mendes
  • Writer(s): Sam Mendes
  • Actors(s): Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Total gross to date: £2,759,699.00
  • Weekend gross: £445,127.00
  • Number of cinemas: 680
  • Site average: £655.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -74
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 45%
  • Metacritic: 54/100

8. Tar

In the murky depths of Los Angeles' world-famous La Brea Tar Pits there lies an ancient secret - a creature that, awakened by underground construction, turns a night of somber packing for Barry Greenwood and his co-workers into a desperate fight for survival.
  • Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
  • Director(s): Aaron Wolf
  • Writer(s): Timothy Nuttall, Aaron Wolf
  • Actors(s): Timothy Bottoms, Graham Greene, Aaron Wolf
  • Runtime: 96 min
  • Total gross to date: £1,012,527.00
  • Weekend gross: £364,363.00
  • Number of cinemas: 247
  • Site average: £1,475.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -7
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 3.8/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 29%

9. Strange World

The legendary Clades are a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest and most crucial mission.
  • Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
  • Director(s): Don Hall, Qui Nguyen
  • Writer(s): Qui Nguyen
  • Actors(s): Jake Gyllenhaal, Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Union
  • Runtime: 102 min
  • Total gross to date: £3,828,252.00
  • Weekend gross: £88,256.00
  • Number of cinemas: 400
  • Site average: £221.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -31
  • Weeks on release: 9
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 72%
  • Metacritic: 65/100

10. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
  • Director(s): Ryan Coogler
  • Writer(s): Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole, Stan Lee
  • Actors(s): Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira
  • Runtime: 161 min
  • Total gross to date: £34,345,903.00
  • Weekend gross: £85,259.00
  • Number of cinemas: 157
  • Site average: £543.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -40
  • Weeks on release: 11
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 84%
  • Metacritic: 67/100

11. Varisu

Vijay Rajendran is a happy to-go lucky man. Things change when his father becomes terminally ill, and he is left to manage his business empire.
  • Genre: Action, Drama
  • Director(s): Vamshi Paidipally
  • Writer(s): Vamshi Paidipally, Hari, Ahishor Solomon
  • Actors(s): Joseph Vijay, Rashmika Mandanna, Shaam
  • Runtime: 169 min
  • Total gross to date: £808,037.00
  • Weekend gross: £84,089.00
  • Number of cinemas: 85
  • Site average: £989.00
  • Country of origin: Ind
  • Distributor: Ahimsa Entertainment
  • Change from last week: -87
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.1/10

12. The Amazing Maurice

A streetwise cat and his gang of rats come up with the perfect money making scheme.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Toby Genkel, Florian Westermann
  • Writer(s): Terry Rossio, Terry Pratchett, Robert Chandler
  • Actors(s): Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis
  • Runtime: 93 min
  • Total gross to date: £743,901.00
  • Weekend gross: £82,949.00
  • Number of cinemas: 178
  • Site average: £466.00
  • Country of origin: UK/Ger
  • Distributor: Sky Cinema
  • Change from last week: 0
  • Weeks on release: 6
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 74%
  • Metacritic: 53/100

13. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime The Movie: Scarlet Bond

Corporate worker Mikami is stabbed by a random killer, is reborn to an alternate world. But he is reborn as a slime. He is Thrown into this new world with the name Rimuru, he begins his quest to create a world that's welcoming to ...
  • Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
  • Director(s): Yasuhito Kikuchi
  • Writer(s): Fuse
  • Actors(s): Tia Lynn Ballard, Ben Balmaceda, Bryson Baugus
  • Runtime: 114 min
  • Total gross to date: £62,612.00
  • Weekend gross: £62,612.00
  • Number of cinemas: 86
  • Site average: £728.00
  • Country of origin: Jpn
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.8/10
  • Metacritic: 41/100

14. Holy Spider

In Holy Spider, we follow family man Saeed as he embarks on his own religious quest - to "cleanse" the holy Iranian city of Mashhad of immoral and corrupt street prostitutes. After murdering several women, he grows ever more desperate about the lack of public interest in his divine mission.
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Director(s): Ali Abbasi
  • Writer(s): Ali Abbasi, Afshin Kamran Bahrami, Jonas Wagner
  • Actors(s): Mehdi Bajestani, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Arash Ashtiani
  • Runtime: 118 min
  • Total gross to date: £60,731.00
  • Weekend gross: £60,731.00
  • Number of cinemas: 38
  • Site average: £1,598.00
  • Country of origin: Den/Ger/Swe/Fra/Jor/Ita
  • Distributor: MUBI
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.3/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 84%
  • Metacritic: 66/100

15. Na Twoim Miejscu

Normal married couple with one adorable child find fighting about everything the norm until one day they wake up in the other's body - oops - and get to see what it is to be married to themselves.
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Director(s): Antonio Galdamez
  • Writer(s): Anna Bielak, Lukasz Swiatowiec
  • Actors(s): Paulina Galazka, Miron Jagniewski, Oliwier Grzegorzewski
  • Runtime: 110 min
  • Total gross to date: £57,884.00
  • Weekend gross: £57,884.00
  • Number of cinemas: 145
  • Site average: £399.00
  • Country of origin: Pol
  • Distributor: Magnetes
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:

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