# List of 2022 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 2022.

## Films

| Week | Weekend End Date | Film | Total weekend gross (Pound sterling) | Weekend openings in the Top 10 |
| 1 | 2 January 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | £6,055,345 | The King's Man (#2), Titane (#9) |
| 2 | 9 January 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | £4,477,415 | Licorice Pizza (#3), The 355 (#7) |
| 3 | 16 January 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | £3,215,166 | Scream (#2) |
| 4 | 23 January 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | £2,335,488 | Belfast (#2), Nightmare Alley (#4) |
| 5 | 30 January 2022 | Sing 2 | £6,867,533 | Parallel Mothers (#6) |
| 6 | 6 February 2022 | Sing 2 | £5,149,645 | Jackass Forever (#2), Moonfall (#4), Belle (#9) |
| 7 | 13 February 2022 | Uncharted | £4,705,948 | Death on the Nile (#3), Marry Me (#6) |
| 8 | 20 February 2022 | Uncharted | £3,775,359 | Dog (#4) |
| 9 | 27 February 2022 | Uncharted | £3,084,101 | The Duke (#3), Cyrano (#7), The Godfather (#10) |
| 10 | 6 March 2022 | The Batman | £13,531,855 | Ali & Ava (#9) |
| 11 | 13 March 2022 | The Batman | £7,406,390 | BTS Permission To Dance On Stage Seoul: Live Viewing (#3), Radhe Shyam (#9) |
| 12 | 20 March 2022 | The Batman | £3,351,288 | Jujitsu Kaisen 0 (#2), The Nan Movie (#4), The Phantom of the Open (#5), X (#7) |
| 13 | 27 March 2022 | The Batman | £1,664,503 | RRR (#2), Ambulance (#3), The Worst Person in the World (#7) |
| 14 | 3 April 2022 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | £4,986,334 | Morbius (#2), The Bad Guys (#3) |
| 15 | 10 April 2022 | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore | £5,884,934 | The Outfit (#7) |
| 16 | 17 April 2022 | The Lost City | £2,743,211 | The Northman (#4), Operation Mincemeat (#5), Beast (#7), K.G.F: Chapter 2 (#8) |
| 17 | 24 April 2022 | Sonic The Hedgehog 2 | £1,637,442 | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (#7) |
| 18 | 1 May 2022 | Downton Abbey: A New Era | £3,072,762 | Acharya (#10) |
| 19 | 8 May 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | £19,765,718 | Turandot - Met Opera 2022 (#9) |
| 20 | 15 May 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | £5,690,351 | Everything Everywhere All at Once (#3), Little Mix Live - The Final Show (For Now...) (#5), Firestarter (#9) |
| 21 | 22 May 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | £2,968,358 | Benediction (#10) |
| 22 | 29 May 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | £15,931,497 | The Bob's Burgers Movie (#5), F3 (#10) |
| 23 | 5 June 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | £10,325,500 | Men (#3), Vikram (#6) |
| 24 | 12 June 2022 | Jurassic World Dominion | £12,121,728 | Ante Sundaraniki (#10) |
| 25 | 19 June 2022 | Jurassic World Dominion | £5,717,881 | Lightyear (#3), Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (#4) |
| 26 | 26 June 2022 | Elvis | £4,023,572 | The Black Phone (#5), Jug Jugg Jeeyo (#6), George Michael Freedom Uncut (#9) |
| 27 | 3 July 2022 | Minions: The Rise of Gru | £10,424,758 | Nitram (#10) |
| 28 | 10 July 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | £12,283,719 | London Nahi Jaunga (#8), Brian and Charles (#9), Dr Who: Classic Movie Double Bill (#10) |
| 29 | 17 July 2022 | Thor: Love and Thunder | £4,063,773 | The Railway Children Return (#6) |
| 30 | 24 July 2022 | Minions: The Rise of Gru | £3,086,374 | Where the Crawdads Sing (#3), Prima Facie - NT Live 2022 (#6) |
| 31 | 31 July 2022 | DC League of Super-Pets | £2,694,626 | Dirty Dancing (#7) |
| 32 | 7 August 2022 | Bullet Train | £2,858,197 | Westlife: Live from Wembley Arena (#8) |
| 33 | 14 August 2022 | Nope | £1,859,338 | Laal Singh Chaddha (#7) |
| 34 | 21 August 2022 | Nope | £1,147,639 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (#5), Fisherman's Friends: One and All (#6), Orphan: First Kill (#10) |
| 35 | 28 August 2022 | Andre Rieu’s 2022 Maastricht Summer Concert | £798,706 | Beast (#2) |
| 36 | 4 September 2022 | Minions: The Rise of Gru | £1,056,163 | Spider-Man: No Way Home (#5), E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (#7), Three Thousand Years of Longing (#10) |
| 37 | 11 September 2022 | See How They Run | £1,163,484 | Tad the Lost Explorer and the Curse of the Mummy (#2), Jaws (#3), Brahmastra: Part One - Shiva (#4), Bodies Bodies Bodies (#7) |
| 38 | 18 September 2022 | See How They Run | £984,779 | Moonage Daydream (#10) |
| 39 | 25 September 2022 | Ticket to Paradise | £2,085,615 | Don't Worry Darling (#2), Avatar (#3) |
| 40 | 2 October 2022 | Smile | £1,860,452 | Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (#4), Ponniyin Selvan: I (#5) |
| 41 | 9 October 2022 | Smile | £1,715,678 | The Woman King (#2), Amsterdam (#5), The Lost King (#7) |
| 42 | 16 October 2022 | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | £2,783,562 | Halloween Ends (#2), The Legend of Maula Jatt (#9), Emily (#10) |
| 43 | 23 October 2022 | Black Adam | £5,655,003 | The Banshees of Inisherin (#2), Decision to Leave (#6) |
| 44 | 30 October 2022 | Black Adam | £3,488,800 | Prey for the Devil (#4), Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires (#5), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (#7), Barbarian (#8), Triangle of Sadness (#10) |
| 45 | 6 November 2022 | Black Adam | £2,006,821 | Living (#4), One Piece Film: Red (#5) |
| 46 | 13 November 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | £12,363,870 | |
| 47 | 20 November 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | £6,190,593 | The Menu (#2), Aftersun (#7), Listy Do M5 (#8), Drishyam 2 (#9), Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! (#10) |
| 48 | 27 November 2022 | Matilda the Musical | £4,135,318 | Strange World (#3), She Said (#4), Bones and All (#6), A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story (#10) |
| 49 | 4 December 2022 | Matilda the Musical | £2,531,782 | Violent Night (#3) |
| 50 | 11 December 2022 | Matilda the Musical | £2,102,866 | Elf (#6), The Nutcracker - ROH, London 2022 (#7), Home Alone (#8), The Muppet Christmas Carol (#9), The Polar Express (#10) |
| 51 | 18 December 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | £11,187,562 | It's a Wonderful Life (#8) |
| 52 | 25 December 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | £4,974,004 | Love Actually (#3) |

## Highest-grossing films
### In-Year Release

Highest-grossing films of 2022 by In-year release :
| Rank | Title | Distributor | U.K. gross |
| 1. | Top Gun: Maverick | Paramount | £83,575,590 |
| 2. | Avatar: The Way of Water | 20th Century | £76,922,252 |
| 3. | Minions: The Rise of Gru | Universal | £46,096,257 |
| 4. | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Disney | £42,082,100 |
| 5. | The Batman | Warner Bros. | £40,820,268 |
| 6. | Thor: Love And Thunder | Disney | £37,369,361 |
| 7. | Jurassic World Dominion | Universal | £35,103,831 |
| 8. | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Disney | £34,345,903 |
| 9. | Sing 2 | Universal | £32,790,416 |
| 10. | Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical | Sony | £28,570,605 |
Highest-grossing films by BBFC rating of 2022 :
| U | Minions: The Rise of Gru |
| PG | Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical |
| 12A | Top Gun: Maverick |
| 15 | The Batman |
| 18 | Smile |