Film / Box Office

Box Office Chart: January 27-29 2023

By Robin Askew  Wednesday Feb 1, 2023

1. Avatar: The Way of Water £2,116,616 (£70,676,747, 7 weeks)

2. Pathaan £1,967,854 (new release)

3. Plane £1,161,382 (new release)

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4. The Fabelmans £1,067,384 (new release)

5. M3gan £749,355 (£5,980,325, 3 weeks)

6. Babylon £662,429 (£2,620,011, 2 weeks)

7. Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical £523,340 (£26,404,881, 10 weeks)

8. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody £458,930 (£10,530,284, 5 weeks)

9. The Wandering Earth II £385,959 (new release)

10. Billie Eilish: Live at the O2 £329,407 (new release)

Chart copyright Comscore

There were three new entries in this week’s top five, but none of them did well enough to depose Avatar: The Way of Water, which took another £2m at the weekend. Globally, Bollywood action epic Pathaan has overtaken the watery CGIfest, but in the UK it had to second for second place. Steven Spielberg’s much-hyped The Fabelmans (pictured), meanwhile, is at number four, behind the Gerard Butler thriller Plane. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody is slipping down the chart now, but has reached the £10m mark, underlining the popularity of music biopics. Outside the top ten, Cornish director Mark Jenkin’s well-received folk horror Enys Men now has more than a quarter of a million quid in the kitty.

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