As Avatar: The Way of Water stays at the top of the UK and Northern Ireland box office for a seventh weekend the Indian movie Pathaan makes an impressive start to its box office run with a debut at 2.
Meanwhile Plane is new at number 3 and The Fabelmans is new at 4 with The Wandering Earth 2 new at 9 with £385,959 and Billie Eilish Live At the O2 is new at 10 with £329,407.
Also new is Unwelcome at 14 with £118,322 and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed at 15 with £88,108.
The James Cameron directed sequel movie remains at the top of the UK box office for a 7th weekend, which makes it equal with Toy Story 2 and Gladiator.
One more week at the top and it equals Tenet as the longest pandemic movie, if it can get to 13 weeks then it will equal Camerons own Titanic, but its unlikely!
This weekend the movie ass £2.1 Million to its total for a total of £70.8 Million.
Highest new movie this weekend
Making its debut at number 2 this weekend is the new movie from Indian director Siddharth Anand which takes £1.9 Million on its opening weekend.
Also making its debut this weekend is the new movie starring Gerard Butler which enters the box office at number 3 with £1.1 Million.
The stars last movie Copshop opened in September 2021 to £198,225 for a 3 week run.
The latest movie from director Steven Spielberg finally gets a UK release and opens to just over a million pound.
The movie is nominated for a number of Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director which could help its box office journey, but it may get the Director Oscar but little else.
Falling to number 5 this weekend the new horror movie franchise takes £749,354 on its 3rd weekend of release.
Compared to Smile from the end of 2022 that movie took £1.4 Million on its 3rd weekend.
Upcoming movie Cyrano based on the Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac has been given a 12A age rating by the BBFC in the UK.
The movie stars Peter Dinklage who is fresh from starring in Game of Thrones and Haley Bennett who last appeared in the excellent Hillbilly Elegy.
The movie is directed byJoe Wright who directed The Woman In the Window in 2021.
Movie Synopsis
On one side, the passion of a teacher seeking to pass on the beauty of the texts to his pupils, on the other the commitment of a director to his troupe. An in-depth look at the recreation of "Cyrano de Bergerac", Edmond Rostand's masterpiece, by the Theatre de Carouge, Geneva.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Cinemas are back open in the UK after nearly 5 months of being closed and there are a whole host of new releases this week to mark the occasion.
Most of these new movies came out on Monday, and many of them have been delayed from last year, and some of them are already available on streaming so there is a nice mixed bag.
Here is a rundown of this weeks new movies in the UK.
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
This weekend, Friday 9th October 2020, there are 3 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Tenet, for the number 1 spot after 6 weeks?
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
With Tenet spending a 5th weekend at the top of the UK box office can Eternal Beauty or Summer Of 85 replace it, there is still a chance that After We Collided could jump the one place to the top on its 4th weekend of release.
Here are the new releases this weekend that are looking to enter the box office.
Check back on Monday to see if these new releases enter the UK Weekend Box Office Chart.