US release: 4th December 2020
Sweden release: 3rd March 2020
France release: 6th September 2020
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$0One of the top music stars in the modern era Taylor Swift is performing a sell out world tour and for those who could not make it a recording is hitting cinemas, and Taylor Swift The Eras Tour has been giving a 12A age rating in the UK for infrequent strong language.
As the name would suggest the cinema experience stars Taylor Swift who has previously appeared in The Giver and Cats.
The director for the big screen is Sam Wrench who has previously been responsible for bringing to cinemas Brandi Carlile In the Canyon Haze Live and Billie Eilish Live At the O2 among others.
Movie Synopsis
A recording of a live performance by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift at the SoFi stadium in California.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
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.
Avatar: The Way of Water spends its 7th weekend at the top of the North American box office which equals that of the first Avatar movie.
The highest new movie of the weekend is the Indian movie Pathaan which makes its debut at 5 while Infinity Pool from director Brandon Cronenberg is new at 8 with $2.7 Million.
Also new this weekend is Left Behind: Rise of the Antichrist at number 9 with $2.3 Million, The Wandering Earth 2 at 10 with $1.3 Million, Billie Eilish Live At the O2 at 11 with $1.29 Million and Fear~2023 at number 12 with $1.28 Million.
Finally there is a re-entry for the 11 times Oscar nominated movie Everything Everywhere All At Once at 13 with $1 Million taking its total gross to $71 Million over 29 weeks.
James Camerons sequel movie makes it 7 weeks at the top of the North American box office, the first movie to do this since the original Avatar in 2009/10.
The movie is still tracking ahead of Avatar and will likely finish above the original movie which sets up part 3 of the movie series to probably land in the $700 Million mark easily.
The sequel movie from the Shrek franchise remains at number 2 this weekend with $10.6 Million as it proves that the franchise is still alive and well.
The movie is tracking just ahead of the original 2011 Puss in Boots
Rumors of a fifth Shrek movie and a solo Donkey movie are starting to circulate.
Tom Hanks proves he is still a box office pull as his latest movie goes back up the North American box office a $6.7 Million on its 5 week of release.
The new horror franchise from director Gerard Johnstone drops to number 4 this weekend with $6.3 Million after on its 4th weekend.
Comparing this to horror movie Smile from late in 2022 this movie is tracking just behind but is still in the same ball park.
Highest new movie this weekend
Landing at number 5 is the latest hit Indian movie to hit North America as director Siddharth Anand brings this action Drama to the big screen.
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.
The UK box office did better this week than last but its still relying on a handful of cinemas open in Scotland and Wales during the English lockdown, and The Secret Garden makes an incredible leap to the top.
Highest new movie of the week is the documentary Billie at number 2 while there is also a re-entry from War Horse Nation Theatre Live from 2014.
The only other top new movie of the week is director Andrew Cohn's The Last Shift which enters at number 14 with £501, Mogul Mowgli climbs up the chart to number 13 this week with £505 which is a 94% increase from last weekend.
Here is the top 15 Quickview.
Here is a breakdown of the top 5 UK box office films 13th - 15th November 2020.
Released 4 weeks ago and making its debut at number 3 on the box office with £154,087 the movie makes a jump to the top of the box office this week with £5,147, a 67% increase from last weekend.
The movie which stars Julie Walters and Colin Firth has now taken £607,509 at the UK box office.
Highest new movie of the week comes in at number 2 with a debut gross of £5,074 making one of the lowest highest grossing movies ever in the UK!
The Liam Neeson starring drama falls to number 3 this weekend with £3.164, up 8% from last week giving the movie a total gross of £655,650 after 4 weeks of release.
Coming out of nowhere and making a re-entry at number 4 is the cinema version of the original stage show of War Horse from 2014, Steven Spielberg directed the actual movie version of the book in 2012.
The event movie takes £2,918 over the weekend pushing its total gross since release to £2.72 Million.
Its worth noting that this is by far the highest position on the chart the movie has been.
Finally falling to number 5 this weekend is the surprise hit animated tale which this week takes £2,724, up 13% from last weekend, for a total gross of £990,229 after 4 weeks of release.