It’s an awesome week for the Merc with the Mouth this week as Deadpool & Wolverine earns the biggest week of sales in two years, making its Official Film Chart debut.

Racking up 212,000 sales on digital downloads only, this is the biggest week of sales for a film since Top Gun: Maverick earned 351,000 in its debut week during the summer of 2022.

Deadpool & Wolverine – the release of which led *NSYNC’s Bye Bye Bye to return to the Official Singles Chart – is the Marvel Studios sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018), starring Ryan Reynolds once again as Deadpool, while Hugh Jackman reprises his starring role as Wolverine in a new universe.

Meanwhile, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes re-enters the chart at Number 2 following its release on disc. The film previously spent four weeks at Number 1 on its original digital release.

Inside Out 2 lifts one place to Number 3, while Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire leaps ten to Number 4 as we gear up for Halloween in a few short weeks. Family favourite Despicable Me 4 finishes the week at Number 5, while Joker returns to the Top 10 at Number 6 following the release of Joker: Folie à Deux in cinemas.

The second new entry of the week is 1986 psychological thriller The Hitcher (7), which received a 4K UHD restoration and re-release.

Rounding out this week’s Top 10 is disaster film Twisters (8), Bad Boys: Ride or Die (9) and last week’s chart-topper, The Bikeriders (10).

The Official Film Chart Top 10 – 9^th October 2024

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Karen Woodham

Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.

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