NINE of the top ten box office films last year were sequels or spin-offs, figures show.
Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick was at No1, with takings of £83.7million in the UK and Ireland — enough to make it into the all-time top ten.
At No2 was Avatar: The Way of Water, which took £70.9million.
Minions: The Rise of Gru was at No3, said the British Film Institute.
A sequel or spin-off has topped the box office chart almost every year since 2010.
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The exception was 2020, when the pandemic left the way clear for the First World War epic 1917.
The only standalone movie to appear in the latest top ten is the Elvis biopic.
The flick only just scraped 10th place on the list.
Total UK cinema admissions stood at 117 million.
This was up 59 per cent up on 2021, but 33 per cent lower than 2019’s pre-pandemic total.
