Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: July 29-31 2022
1. DC League of Super-Pets £2,694,626 (new release)
2. Minions: The Rise of Gru £1,992,011 (£33,515,009, 5 weeks)
3. Thor: Love and Thunder £1,908,179 (£30,826,602, 4 weeks)
4. Elvis £1,102,167 (£20,865,626, 6 weeks)
5. Top Gun: Maverick £981,129 (£76,140,349, 10 weeks)
6. Where the Crawdads Sing £855,842 (£3,767,061, 2 weeks)
7. Dirty Dancing (Secret Cinema 2022) £565,780 (£2,397,073, 4 weeks)
8. Jurassic World: Dominion £288,009 (£33,954,059, 8 weeks)
9. NT Live 2022: Prima Facie £249,182 (£2,544,143, 2 weeks)
10. The Railway Children Return £190,167 (£1,821,313, 3 weeks)
Chart copyright Comscore
With the school holidays in full swing, it comes as no surprise to find a family animation double-whammy dominating the top ten. The faintly desperate DC League of Super-Pets ousted Minions: The Rise of Gru, but the little yellow fellas are certainly demonstrating staying power, having topped the chart twice. Although some kind of sporting event took its toll on overall takings at the weekend, Thor: Love and Thunder reached £30m (overtaking Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man: Homecoming) while Elvis gyrated his way past £20m. Further down the chart, event cinema hit Prima Facie from NT Live has now taken a hugely impressive quarter of a million quid. Trade journal Screen Daily reports that 2022’s overall box office takings have already surpassed those for the whole of 2021. That’s not really saying much, as cinemas were closed for several months last year. But the strength of the bounce-back bodes well for the autumn.
Main pic: Warner Brothers
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