No Time To Die debuts at Number 1 on the Official Film
Chart – taking this year’s crown as the Christmas Number 1 film.
The fifth and final chapter in Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond
– sound tracked by Hans Zimmer, its chart-topping theme song
written and performed by Billie Eilish – flies straight to the top
of the Official Film Chart with 74,000 sales in its first week, dominated
by digital downloads.
No Time To Die, which was finally released in cinemas in September 2021 after a total
22-month delay, Bond is forced out of his tranquil post-service life in
Jamaica when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA appears, asking for
help. He is led into a treacherous trail of a mysterious villain armed
with dangerous new technology.
Meanwhile, The Grinch (2018) is knocked from its three-week
reign at Number 1, landing all the way down at Number 4 behind noughties
Christmas offerings
Dr Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2) and
Elf (3).
2004 festive feature The Polar Express is pushed one place
to Number 5, while DC films’
The Suicide Squad
holds strong at Number 6. Paw Patrol: The Movie, Arthur Christmas and
Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings all climb one
place, landing at Numbers 7, 8 and 9 respectively.
Finally, Fast & Furious 9 returns to the Top 10 at
Number 10, marking the film’s 11th total week in the top flight.
