Oppenheimer ‘Explodes’ At Official Film Chart Number One!

Something ‘explodes’ on the chart as Oppenheimer makes one of the biggest debuts of the year on the UK’s Official Film Chart.

First off all, a big apologies for no chart last week, as you’ll know, I was on holiday. Normal service now returns!

Flying straight in at Number 1, the Christopher Nolan-directed blockbuster saw 113,800 sales in its first week across both disc and digital s. It’s one of the biggest opening weeks of the year, following Avatar: The Way of Water (175k opening week sales) and John Wick: Chapter 4 (126k).

Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer – the “father of the atom bomb” – in this biographical thriller documenting his life and career, including his direction of the Manhattan Project during World War II. The film, boosted thanks to the Barbenheimer phenomenon this summer (when cinemagoers would see Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day), became the UK’s second highest-grossing film theatrically of 2023.

Meanwhile, The Creator finishes at Number 2 following its own chart-topping debut last week, landing just ahead of our second brand new entry at Number 3, Trolls Band Together.

The animated musical adventure follow-up to Trolls World Tour – which broke records as the first film to spend six consecutive weeks at Number 1 in the UK back in 2020 – manages an impressive Top 3 debut on digital s only.

Former chart-toppers Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 (4) and Barbie (5) both drop one place, while terrifying sequel The Nun II returns to the chart following its release on disc (6).

Rounding out this week’s Top 10 is Violent Night, jumping ten places. The comedy-thriller starring David Harbour as Santa Claus previously peaked at Number 9 – will it reach new heights this festive season?

The OfficialCharts.com, the Official Film Chart can also be found on FindAnyFilm.com– the ultimate site for Film and TV fans to discover all the legal ways to buy the entertainment they want on disc and digital formats.

The chart, the result of a partnership between the Official Charts Company. Also the British Association for Screen Entertainment and incorporating data from retailer of the Entertainment Retailers Association. – is published on OfficialCharts.com every Wednesday at noon and counts movie s from services including Amazon, iTunes, Sky Store, Virgin Media Store, Rakuten TV, Talk Talk TV, as well as 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD disc sales from all high street and online retailers

You can buy any of the titles featured in the Top 10 via Find Any Film. Check out the full Top 40 chart can be viewed on OfficialCharts.com