Superstar Timothée Chalamet takes his latest film to the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend as bio-pic
A Complete Unknown is the new number 1 movie.
Directed by James Mangold the movie takes £2.6 Million on its debut at the top.
Last weeks top movie, the blockbuster Disney movie Mufasa: The Lion King drop down just one place to number 2 with a weekend gross of £1.6 Million.
The movie has now taken £26.2 Million in the UK over a 5 weekend release window.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - A Complete Unknown (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - A Complete Unknown (@1)
- Longest run - Paddington In Peru (11 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Wicked (£59,598,435)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Conclave (-21%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £11,427,880
- Also new this weekend
- Wolf Man
- Sankranthiki Vasthunnam
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 17th - 19th January 2025
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £2,616,302 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of January
- The movie is the 9th top grossing film so far in 2025
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,626,697 over the weekend, a 26% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £26,210,183 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2025
- The movie is a sequel to The Lion King which took £65,977,991 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Remains At Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,080,662 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £22,287,279 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2025
- The movie is a sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which took £20,231,802 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,075,989 over the weekend, a 46% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £10,899,059 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2025
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £862,842 over the weekend, a 36% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £6,810,954 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2025
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- A Complete Unknown - £2,616,302
- Mufasa: The Lion King - £1,626,697
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - £1,080,662
- Nosferatu - £1,075,989
- We Live In Time - £862,842
- Babygirl - £742,029
- Wolf Man - £654,326
- Moana 2 - £589,363
- Wicked - £542,988
- A Real Pain - £435,918
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Robert Hyde
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
