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Weekend box office report: 21-23 January 2022

1. Spider-Man: No Way Home

Peter Parker's secret identity is revealed to the entire world. Desperate for help, Peter turns to Doctor Strange to make the world forget that he is Spider-Man. The spell goes horribly wrong and shatters the multiverse, bringing in monstrous villains that could destroy the world.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
  • Director(s): Jon Watts
  • Writer(s): Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Stan Lee
  • Actors(s): Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Runtime: 148 min
  • Total gross to date: £87,470,305.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,335,488.00
  • Number of cinemas: 655
  • Site average: £3,566.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -27
  • Weeks on release: 6
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 8.2/10
  • Metacritic: 71/100

2. Belfast

Belfast, 15 August 1969. Surrounded by sporadic violence and growing danger, nine-year-old Buddy finds himself confronted with the ugly reality of sectarian conflict. And, as the suffocating stranglehold of increasing turmoil tightens around his once-peaceful working-class neighbourhood, Buddy tries his best to understand The Troubles--after all, someone must be responsible for forcing people to flee their homes. Now, Buddy's family must come face to face with a nearly impossible, life-altering decision: stay or start packing?
  • Genre: Biography, Drama
  • Director(s): Kenneth Branagh
  • Writer(s): Kenneth Branagh
  • Actors(s): Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Total gross to date: £2,322,572.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,322,572.00
  • Number of cinemas: 704
  • Site average: £3,299.00
  • Country of origin: UK
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.3/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
  • Metacritic: 75/100

3. Scream

A year after her mother's death, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and her friends started experiencing some strange phone calls. They later learned the calls were coming from a crazed serial killer, in a white faced mask and a large black robe, looking for revenge. His phone calls usually consist of many questions, the main one being: What's your favorite scary movie? Along with much scary movie trivia, ending with bloody pieces of innocent lives scattered around the small town of Woodsboro.
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery
  • Director(s): Wes Craven
  • Writer(s): Kevin Williamson
  • Actors(s): Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
  • Runtime: 111 min
  • Total gross to date: £4,753,247.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,251,812.00
  • Number of cinemas: 606
  • Site average: £2,066.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Paramount
  • Change from last week: -49
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • Metacritic: 65/100

4. Nightmare Alley

Stan burns down his home and takes a job as a carny with a traveling carnival. Stan is disturbed at how any man could sink to the level of performing as a geek. Clem explains that he seeks out alcoholic or drug-addicted men with troubled pasts, and lures them in with promises of a "temporary" job and opium-laced alcohol. He then uses their dependence until they sink into madness and depravity, thus creating a new geek. Stan also works with clairvoyant act "Madame Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete. He and Zeena warn Stan not to ever use these skills otherwise people get hurt. Meanwhile Stan becomes attracted to fellow performer Molly and approaches her with an idea for a two-person act away from the carnival.
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Director(s): Guillermo del Toro
  • Writer(s): Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan, William Lindsay Gresham
  • Actors(s): Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette
  • Runtime: 150 min
  • Total gross to date: £550,868.00
  • Weekend gross: £550,868.00
  • Number of cinemas: 568
  • Site average: £970.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Mex
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
  • Metacritic: 70/100

5. Clifford The Big Red Dog

As middle schooler Emily Elizabeth struggles to fit in at home and at school, she discovers a small red puppy who is destined to become her best friend from a magical animal rescuer. When Clifford becomes a gigantic red dog in her New York City apartment and attracts the attention of a genetics company who wish to supersize animals, Emily and her clueless Uncle Casey have to fight the forces of greed as they go on the run across New York City and take a bite out of the Big Apple. Along the way, Clifford affects the lives of everyone around him and teaches Emily and her uncle the true meaning of acceptance and unconditional love. Based on the beloved Scholastic character, Clifford will teach the world how to love big.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Walt Becker
  • Writer(s): Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Blaise Hemingway
  • Actors(s): Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall, Izaac Wang
  • Runtime: 96 min
  • Total gross to date: £8,498,573.00
  • Weekend gross: £460,618.00
  • Number of cinemas: 597
  • Site average: £772.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: eOne Films
  • Change from last week: -12
  • Weeks on release: 7
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.9/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 58%
  • Metacritic: 55/100

6. The King's Man

In the early years of the 20th century, the Kingsman agency is formed to stand against a cabal plotting a war to wipe out millions.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  • Director(s): Matthew Vaughn
  • Writer(s): Matthew Vaughn, Karl Gajdusek, Mark Millar
  • Actors(s): Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans
  • Runtime: 131 min
  • Total gross to date: £7,148,973.00
  • Weekend gross: £389,508.00
  • Number of cinemas: 438
  • Site average: £889.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -37
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.3/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 41%
  • Metacritic: 44/100

7. Encanto

Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal-every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional family's last hope.
  • Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
  • Director(s): Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Charise Castro Smith
  • Writer(s): Charise Castro Smith, Jared Bush, Byron Howard
  • Actors(s): Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo
  • Runtime: 102 min
  • Total gross to date: £7,081,957.00
  • Weekend gross: £223,672.00
  • Number of cinemas: 459
  • Site average: £487.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: 0
  • Weeks on release: 9
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10
  • Metacritic: 75/100

8. Licorice Pizza

LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film tracks the treacherous navigation of first love.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • Director(s): Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Writer(s): Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Actors(s): Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn
  • Runtime: 133 min
  • Total gross to date: £1,959,533.00
  • Weekend gross: £198,977.00
  • Number of cinemas: 444
  • Site average: £448.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Can
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -49
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
  • Metacritic: 90/100

9. West Side Story

West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy "Romeo and Juliet". The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs--the white Jets led by Riff and the Latino Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Sharks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway--whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending.
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
  • Director(s): Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
  • Writer(s): Ernest Lehman, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins
  • Actors(s): Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
  • Runtime: 153 min
  • Total gross to date: £7,062,805.00
  • Weekend gross: £198,132.00
  • Number of cinemas: 370
  • Site average: £535.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -45
  • Weeks on release: 7
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
  • Metacritic: 86/100

10. The Matrix: Resurrections

Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
  • Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
  • Director(s): Lana Wachowski
  • Writer(s): Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon
  • Actors(s): Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
  • Runtime: 148 min
  • Total gross to date: £7,311,802.00
  • Weekend gross: £160,146.00
  • Number of cinemas: 304
  • Site average: £527.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -46
  • Weeks on release: 5
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 63%
  • Metacritic: 63/100

11. House Of Gucci

House of Gucci is inspired by the family empire behind the Italian fashion house of Gucci. When Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga), an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately...murder.
  • Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
  • Director(s): Ridley Scott
  • Writer(s): Becky Johnston, Roberto Bentivegna, Sara Gay Forden
  • Actors(s): Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino
  • Runtime: 158 min
  • Total gross to date: £9,649,006.00
  • Weekend gross: £102,014.00
  • Number of cinemas: 153
  • Site average: £667.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -41
  • Weeks on release: 9
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 62%
  • Metacritic: 59/100

12. Ghostbusters: Afterlife

When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
  • Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
  • Director(s): Jason Reitman
  • Writer(s): Gil Kenan, Jason Reitman, Dan Aykroyd
  • Actors(s): Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard
  • Runtime: 124 min
  • Total gross to date: £11,494,268.00
  • Weekend gross: £59,197.00
  • Number of cinemas: 214
  • Site average: £277.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Can
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -34
  • Weeks on release: 10
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 63%
  • Metacritic: 45/100

13. The 355

When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, wild card CIA agent Mason "Mace" Brown will need to join forces with rival badass German agent Marie, former MI6 ally and cutting-edge computer specialist Khadijah, and skilled Colombian psychologist Graciela on a lethal, breakneck mission to retrieve it, while also staying one-step ahead of a mysterious woman, Lin Mi Sheng, who is tracking their every move. As the action rockets around the globe from the cafes of Paris to the markets of Morocco to the wealth and glamour of Shanghai, the quartet of women will forge a tenuous loyalty that could protect the world-or get them killed.
  • Genre: Action, Thriller
  • Director(s): Simon Kinberg
  • Writer(s): Theresa Rebeck, Simon Kinberg
  • Actors(s): Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Bingbing Fan
  • Runtime: 122 min
  • Total gross to date: £854,519.00
  • Weekend gross: £58,137.00
  • Number of cinemas: 196
  • Site average: £297.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -64
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 24%
  • Metacritic: 40/100

14. A Journal For Jordan

Based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed to Iraq who begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy revisits the story of her unlikely, life-altering relationship with King and his enduring devotion to her and their child. A sweeping account of a once-in-a-lifetime love, the film is a powerful reminder of the importance of family.
  • Genre: Drama
  • Director(s): Denzel Washington
  • Writer(s): Virgil Williams, Charles Monroe King, Dana Canedy
  • Actors(s): Michael B. Jordan, Chanté Adams, Jalon Christian
  • Runtime: 131 min
  • Total gross to date: £50,511.00
  • Weekend gross: £50,511.00
  • Number of cinemas: 194
  • Site average: £260.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Can
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.9/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 39%
  • Metacritic: 42/100

15. Jewels - Bolshoi Ballet 2022 (Ballet)

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  • Director(s):
  • Writer(s):
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  • Runtime:
  • Total gross to date: £48,195.00
  • Weekend gross: £48,195.00
  • Number of cinemas: 137
  • Site average: £352.00
  • Country of origin: Rus
  • Distributor: Trafalgar
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:

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