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<\/a><\/p>\nBox Office Mojo<\/a> tracked the weekend across UAE cinemas from Thursday 20 August to Sunday 23 August, as part of its UAE weekend box office by-year chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n The UAE box office top 10<\/p>\n RankFilmLanguageWeekend grossWeeks1Bethlehem Kudumba Unit Regional films lead the chart<\/p>\n Malayalam cinema\u2019s pull in the Gulf shaped the frame. Bethlehem Kudumba Unit debuted at number one, ahead of Khalifa, a new Malayalam title from Home Screen Entertainment that opened at number four with AED 2.7M. Tamil drama Vishwanath and Sons (Phars Film) finished the top ten on AED 299,896 in its second weekend. Four of the ten highest-grossing films were Indian-language titles.<\/p>\n Beyond the top ten, Phars Film added the Malayalam openers Irumudi (AED 208,631) and Modha Rathiri (AED 6,181).<\/p>\n The English-language openers<\/p>\n Mutiny took second place on debut with AED 3.3M ($893,750), and Insidious: Out of the Further opened at number five with AED 2.6M ($696,462). The End of Oak Street (Warner Bros) fell 66.8% to AED 899,465 in its second weekend.<\/p>\n Holds and long runs<\/p>\n Spider-Man: Brand New Day, number one in last week\u2019s UAE box office report<\/a>, added AED 2.8M in its fourth weekend, down 48.3%, taking its UAE total past AED 62.3M \u2014 the biggest run of the year so far, and the film has also crossed $2 billion worldwide<\/a>. The Odyssey eased 27.7% to AED 2.1M in its sixth weekend, its cumulative now AED 48.4M.<\/p>\n Arabic and regional titles<\/p>\n El Gawahergy (Orient Films) took AED 359,350 in its third weekend, while the Egyptian comedy Khali Balak Min Nafsak (Vox Cinemas) reached AED 6.2M in five weeks. New Arabic entry Mahmoud El Tany opened at number 11 with AED 296,973.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tNEWSLETTERS Two newsletters. Zero noise. Pick what lands in your inbox.<\/p>\n Unsubscribe anytime. We don\u2019t share your email.<\/p>\n What was the number one movie at the UAE box office this weekend?<\/p>\n Bethlehem Kudumba Unit, a Malayalam film distributed by Phars Film, topped the chart in its opening weekend with AED 6.5M ($1.78M) between Thursday 20 August and Sunday 23 August.<\/p>\n Where does the UAE box office data come from?<\/p>\n The weekly UAE box office figures are compiled by Box Office Mojo using data from Comscore and theatre distributors across the UAE.<\/p>\n What does the top 10 gross represent?<\/p>\n The top 10 gross is the combined weekend box office revenue of the ten highest-grossing films playing in UAE cinemas. This weekend\u2019s top 10 total was AED 22.2M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Kudumba Unit, a Malayalam film distributed by Phars Film, opened at number one on the UAE box…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-272689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
NewMalayalamAED 6.5M ($1,778,167)
Total gross: AED 6.5M ($1,778,167)12Mutiny
NewEnglishAED 3.3M ($893,750)
Total gross: AED 3.3M ($893,750)13Spider-Man: Brand New Day
\u2193 48.3%EnglishAED 2.8M ($774,385)
Total gross: AED 62.3M ($16,967,125)44Khalifa
NewMalayalamAED 2.7M ($721,780)
Total gross: AED 2.7M ($721,780)15Insidious: Out of the Further
NewEnglishAED 2.6M ($696,462)
Total gross: AED 2.6M ($696,462)16The Odyssey
\u2193 27.7%EnglishAED 2.1M ($562,654)
Total gross: AED 48.4M ($13,180,783)67The End of Oak Street
\u2193 66.8%EnglishAED 899,465 ($244,919)
Total gross: AED 4.5M ($1,217,873)28Awarapan 2
\u2193 72.5%HindiAED 703,655 ($191,601)
Total gross: AED 3.9M ($1,049,574)29El Gawahergy
\u2193 60%EnglishAED 359,350 ($97,849)
Total gross: AED 3.5M ($960,145)310Vishwanath and Sons
\u2193 82.1%TamilAED 299,896 ($81,660)
Total gross: AED 2.2M ($597,415)2<\/p>\n
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