Original Gladiator Tops This Week’s Official Film Chart

Maximus Decimus Meridius is on top again, 24 years after its original release, Gladiator takes its place at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart.

Starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix, the 2000 film has seen a resurgence in sales over the last few weeks as fans of the film flock to the cinema to see its sequel, Gladiator II, starring Paul Mescal. Gladiator’s impressive performance this week follows an influx of digital sales, with 95% of its sales this week made on digital formats. We’ll be controversial the original is far BETTER than the new version!

Alien: Romulus holds strong in second place on digital s only, around 2,500 sales behind Gladiator, finishing ahead of this week’s highest new entry, The Wild Robot (3).

The Wild Robot is DreamWorks’ latest sci-fi adventure; an adaptation of a New York Times bestseller, it follows the journey of a robot, Roz, that is stranded on an uninhabited island after a shipwreck and has to learn and bond with the island’s animals to survive.

Last week’s Number 1 Deadpool & Wolverine slips to Number 4, fresh out of a seven-week run at the top, but does finish ahead of festive favourite The Grinch (2018) which returns to the Top 5 at Number 5.

Our second-highest new entry is none other than all-time Sci-Fi classic The Terminator, which celebrates its 40th anniversary with a 4K Steelbook release and its first entrance into the Official Film Chart (6).

Rounding out the rest of this week’s Top 10 is Despicable Me 4 (7), former chart-topping sequel Dune: Part Two (8), body horror The Substance (9), and our second Christmas classic of the week, 2004 animated adventure The Polar Express (10).

FindAnyFilm.com  is a great site to head to for Film and TV fans to discover all the legal ways to buy the entertainment they want on disc and digital formats.

Also you should head to the British Association for Screen Entertainment site which incorporates data from retailer of the Entertainment Retailers Association. All results are  published on OfficialCharts.com  posted 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. For actual reviews, do check out our reviews link to read our latest reviews.

You can buy any of the titles featured in the Top 10 via Find Any Film. Always check out the full Top 40 chart can be viewed on OfficialCharts.com to see what’s available to buy.