US release: 19th August 2022
Egypt release: 10th August 2022
United Arab Emirates release: 11th August 2022
£2 Million $31.8 Million
$45.8 MillionIt was a very slow weekend with no major new releases at the UK box office, and for the first time since the end of 2020 as cinemas started to close due to the COVID pandemic where no film in over the weekend took over a Million pound.
The top movie of the weekend, and the highest debut, is the event cinema Andre Rieues 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again from the famous violinist which easily beast the new Idris Elba movie Beast~20221 which makes its debut at 2.
Further down the box office there is a new entry for The Invitation which has been on limited release and makes its debut at 12 with £261,791 and Official Competition which also on limited release is new at 15 with £101,916.
Highest new movie of the weekend
Violinist Andre Rieu brings his summer concert from Maastricht to cinemas once again which gives the popular musician the highest debut and number one movie of the weekend.
In what is a very quiet period for cinemas and new releases the event cinema concert takes £798,706 on its debut.
This is of course not the first time Rieu has hit the box office but it is the first time one of his cinema events has hit the top of the box office.
The last time a concert hit the top was during the pandemic in the shape of Michael Ball & Alfie Boe: Back Together which took £175,778 in October 2020.
This has done better that last years summer concert which took, Andre Rieus 2021 Summer Concert: Together Again, which took £420,056 exactly a year ago.
The new movie starring Idris Elba makes its debut at number 2 this weekend with a debut gross of £600,259.
This is perhaps a little on the disappointing side for a film starring such a big name, the last film Elba was in was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and he has a cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness both of which are among the biggest movies of the year.
Elba stars in another movie released this weekend, Three Thousand Years of Longing, which has not gone down that well in the US so it will be interesting to see next week how well it does in the UK.
The animated feature from the DC Universe of movies stays at number 3 this weekend with a gross of £598,985, a 26% drop.
The movie has now taken £12.2 Million in the UK after 5 weekends of release.
The Brad Pitt starring movie falls to number 4 this weekend with £593,044, a 29% drop which gives the movie a total gros sof £8.1 Million after 4 weeks of release.
Falling from the top to this weeks number 5 the Jordan Peele horror movie takes £576,643, a 50% over its gross last weekend.
The movie has now taken £5.9 Million in the UK after 3 weeks of release.
Still no sign of the US closedown ending anytime soon so the American box office is once more relying on mainly drive-in movie theatres for its figures.
This week the Dave Franco directed The Rental tops the box office with ease and is the widest release since the pandemic closed 99% of movie theatres.
Here is a rundown of the top 5 box office films in America 24th - 26th July 2020.
Directed by Dave Franco this horror suspense movie takes the top spot with ease, last weeks Beauty And The Beast live action doesn't even feature on this week chart.
The movie takes $403.8K over its debut weekend giving the actor turned director a sizeable hit even under these strange circumstances.
Re-released movies are going to be a mainstay of the box office for the foreseeable future as studios keep on changing their release schedule and this week this 1984 classic is a 'new' entry at number 2.
The Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita starring movie takes $225K over the weekend with a total gross since release of $91 Million.
Climbing from last weeks number 5 to 3 is this old Richard Donner favourite which takes $176K over the weekend pushing its total in the US to $62.5 Million.
Steven Spielberg classic Dinosaur movie for 1993 stays put at 4 this week with $173K, the films has now taken $403.5 Million wince its release.
Highest new film of the week with this Scott Wiper directed movie which takes a modest $150K over the weekend.
The movie starrs among other Vinnie Jones and Ron Perlman.
Cinemas in the US are starting to close down again rather than re-open and release dates are starting to get changed and removed altogether from schedules so its drive-in movie showings which once again shine.
Disney's live action remake of Beaty And The Beast from 2017 is this weeks top film and with nothing in the way of new release there is nothing to report on that front, in fact the whole top 5 this week are all re-released.
Here is the top 5 movies in the US 17th - 19th July 2020
Originally released in mid-March of 2017 Disney continued their live action re-make succes with this tale as old as time, it made over $500 Million on its initial run.
This week it takes $467K which pushes the movies total to $504 Million.
Released May of 2009 the movie is credited with really kicking off the Marvel Cinematic Universe from Disney and succeeded where Hulk had failed previously.
This week the movie is at number 2 with $430K which brings the movies total gross to $318.6 Million.
The 2019 Oscar winning movie is at number 3 this week with a gross of $240K which boosts its total in the US to $216.4 Million.
This movie from director Steven Spielberg never seems to lose popularity and once again appears in the top 5 27 years after first release with $210K giving it a $403.5 Million total.
An '80 classic movie is at number 5 with a weekend take of $202K for a total US gross of $62.5 Million.
Last week saw Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker at the top of the UK box office, can any of this weeks new releases do enough to top the chart this weekend?
First up at cinemas this week is Little Women, a Dramatic movie directed by Greta Gerwig who also directed Lady Bird in 2018 which grossed £5.1 Million in the UK.
It stars Saoirse Ronan who last starred in Mary Queen Of Scots (2019).
The film also stars Emma Watson who last appeared in Beauty And The Beast (2017).
Next on this weeks new release schedule is Spies In Disguise.
This new movie stars Will Smith who's last film was Gemini Man (2019)
It also stars Tom Holland who appeared in The Current War (2019).
The film is brought to us by new director Nick Bruno and Troy Quane.
Next up this week is Playing With Fire which is directed by Andy Fickman who directed Parental Guidance in 2012.
It stars John Cena and Keegan-Michael Key.
Check back on Monday to see where these cinema releases end up on the Weekend Box Office Chart.
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Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs And Shaw finally gets a Chinese release and flies back to the top of the global box office while a quiet overall weekend has Angel Has Fallen the highest new film.
The Fast & Furious franchise movie gets a release in China, where these films have always done well, and takes $101 Million on its debut pushing the film back to the top of the global box office.
The films total weekend gross is $128 Million from 69 territories after 4 weeks of release which pushes its total gross to $588 Million, it will end its box office run as the third top grossing film of the franchise.
Disneys mammoth remake rises back to number 2 this weekend with a gross of $38 Million from 57 countries after 7 weeks of release.
The film has followed suit with other Disney remakes of animated movies and takes over a billion, this remake has gone one better than Beauty And The Beast and gone over $1.5 Billion and become the highest grossing remake to date.
Tarantino's celebrated look at late 60's Hollywood falls to 3 this week with a gross of $33 Million from 56 countries after 5 weeks of release.
The film which will be one of the highest grossing non-Disney films by the end of the year has taken $239.7 Million to date.
Highest new film of the week is the Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman starring movie which is the third in the Fallen series which takes $29.6 Million from 31 countries which is in the same ball park as the previous film London Has Fallen.
The Chinese produces animated movie takes $22.9 Million on its 5th weekend of release from 2 countries.
The Film has now taken an amazing $648.5 Million, with most of that from just a single territory.