Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: February 17-19 2023
1. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania £8,834,435 (new release)
2. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish £3,170,746 (£17,156,100, 3 weeks)
3. Magic Mike’s Last Dance £888,435 (£3,842,057, 2 weeks)
4. Avatar: The Way of Water £531,213 (£75,538,985, 10 weeks)
5. Epic Tails £332,566 (£1,150,587, 2 weeks)
6. Knock at the Cabin £270,176 (£2,757,790, 3 weeks)
7. Titanic (2023 reissue) £268,174 (£2,143,865, 2 weeks)
8. Women Talking £182,832 (£374,465, 2 weeks)
9. Plane £177,871 (£3,451,634, 4 weeks)
10. The Whale £164,701 (£1,911,687, 3 weeks)
Chart copyright Comscore
The Marvel factory continues to hurl that shit at the wall. Despite damning reviews (“atrociously lazy” reckoned The Times), the third Ant-Man movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, comfortably topped the chart and out-performed its predecessors with an £8m opening weekend. Whether punters will continue to flock remains to be seen. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was pushed into second place, despite increasing its takings slightly with a half-term boost. Also doing well from half-term was rival animation Epic Tails, presumably benefiting from all those kids who’d already seen the animated cat. Avatar: The Way of Water continues to fade slowly even as it ascends the all-time chart. It’s just overtaken Toy Story 3 to bag 12th place. The BAFTA awards came too late to register, but next week we’ll find out whether they’ve had any impact on ticket sales.
Image credit: Walt Disney
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