Fresh from a record setting performance at cinemas, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick has taken the number 1 spot in the UK’s official home entertainment charts following its release through digital retailers.
Paramount Home Entertainment will also be giving the film a Blu-ray, 4K Ultra High-Definition Blu-ray and DVD release on October 31st.
The critically acclaimed sequel to the 1986 classic has secured the biggest Number 1 debut of 2022 so far, and one of the biggest on record in the history of the Official Film Chart.
In addition, the original Top Gun rebounds to Number 3 on the chart, and a special combination package featuring the original and its sequel is another new entry this week at Number 8.
Elsewhere, Dog Soldiers, a 2002 British action-horror starring Sean Pertwee and directed by future Games of Thrones and Thor: The Dark World director Neil Marshall, marks a new entry at Number 9, following a special re-release to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
And finally, former Number 1 hit Uncharted scales back up the chart, vaulting six places to crash back into the Top 10.
The Official Film Chart Top 10 – 31st August 2022
| LW | Pos | Title | Label |
| NEW | 1 | TOP GUN – MAVERICK | PARAMOUNT |
| 1 | 2 | DOWNTON ABBEY – A NEW ERA | UNIVERSAL PICTURES |
| 8 | 3 | TOP GUN | PARAMOUNT |
| 2 | 4 | FANTASTIC BEASTS – THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| 3 | 5 | SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 | PARAMOUNT |
| 5 | 6 | SING 2 | UNIVERSAL PICTURES |
| 4 | 7 | THE BATMAN | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| NEW | 8 | TOP GUN/TOP GUN MAVERICK | PARAMOUNT |
| NEW | 9 | DOG SOLDIERS | SECOND SIGHT |
| 16 | 10 | UNCHARTED | SONY PICTURES HE |