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$0As the UK goes back into lockdown in 2020 what were the big movies at the box office over the last 30 years.
Each week we present a rundown of the UK box office chart headlines on this same week from last year to 1990.
No. 1 movie: - Joker which had been at the top for 5 weeks and with a total gross of £51.6 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
Highest Debut: - Doctor Sleep directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson which entered the box office at number 4.
Longest run: - Downton Abbey which had been on the box office for 8 weeks.
No. 1 and highest debut: - Spectre starring Daniel Craig and Christoph Waltz and directed by Sam Mendes
No. 1 and top total grossing: - Minions which had taken £47.1 Million over 16 weeks of release.
No. 1 and Highest debut: - Saw 3D starring Tobin Bell and Costas Mandylor and directed by Kevin Greutert
Longest run: - Made In Dagenham which had been on the box office for 5 weeks.
Top total grossing: - Despicable Me which had taken £15.1 Million after 3 weeks of release.
No. 1 movie: - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit which had been at the top for 3 weeks and with a total gross of £25.8 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
Highest Debut: - Saw II directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and starring Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith which entered the box office at number 3.
Longest run: - Pride And Prejudice which had been on the box office for 7 weeks.
No.1 movie: - Dinosaur which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
Highest debut: - Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 directed by Joe Berlinger and starring Kim Director and Jeffrey Donovan which entered the box office at number 3.
Longest run: - Hollow Man which had been on the box office for 5 weeks.
Top total grossing: - Billy Elliot which had taken £11.4 Million after 5 weeks of release.
No.1 movie: - Pocahontas which had been at the top for 3 weeks.
Highest debut: - To Die For directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Nicole Kidman and Matt Dillon which entered the box office at number 3.
No. 1 and top total grossing: - Batman Forever which had taken £21 Million over 15 weeks of release.
No. 1 movie: - Ghost which had been at the top for 5 weeks and with a total gross of £21.9 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
Highest Debut: - Young Guns II directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland which entered the box office at number 2.
Longest run: - Hardware which had been on the box office for 5 weeks.
With Avengers: Endgame at the top of the UK box office there are 6 new films looking to challlenge it this weekend at your local multiplex.
First up at cinemas this week is new movie The Curse Of La Llorona from Michael Chaves who is directing for the first time.
It stars Linda Cardellini who last starred in Green Book and Roman Christou who is making a feature film debut.
Next on the new release schedule is Hotel Mumbai, this new movie stars Amandeep Singh and Suhail Nayyar.
The film is brought to us by new director Anthony Maras.
Also out this week is Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile which is directed by Joe Berlinger who directed Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 in 2000.
It stars Lily Collins and Zac Efron.
Also this week there is Long Shot from director Jonathan Levine who also directed The Night Before in 2015.
The film features Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen in starring roles.
The long list of new releases continues with Tolkien which is directed by Dome Karukoski who directed Tom Of Finland in 2017.
It stars Lily Collins and Nicholas Hoult.
Finally there is A Dogs Journey from director Gail Mancuso making their directorial debut, the film stars Dennis Quaid and Betty Gilpin.
-Check back on Monday to see where these films end up on the weekends box office chart.
Come back next week when there are 5 new releases. -
Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood kept pleasing audiences this weekend as sully proved to popular for all the new films and stayed at the top.
A second weekend gross of $22 million easily outstrips all the new film and allows the films total gross to reach $70 million after 10 days of play.
There was going to be a fight for the highest new film of the week, 2 old franchises against a true life docudrama, in the end it wasn't that close and a new film in the Blair Witch series is the top new film.
Billed as a true sequel to 1999's original The Blair Witch Project the film called simply Blair Witch lands at number 2 with $9.6 million, far lower than the origin which was a true sleeper hit.
Highest total grossing and longest run on the box offie this week is Suicide Squad which has grossed in the US $313 million over 7 weeks.
Its been an interesting week in the UK with the release of the latest James Bond movie Spectre, most unusual of all is that the film got its release after its UK premiere on Monday night rather than the usual Friday.
This opening meant that its weekend figures, although fantastic, were not a true reflection of the usual take on a debut weekend.
To cut a long story short Spectre has done amazingly well, it has the largest UK opening of any film, beating Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban 10 year record by nearly double, it also has the biggest single day gross for any film in the UK, Tuesday and in fact Wednesday.
The films weekly take, from its opening on Monday through to Sunday was £41.3 million, not only the highest ever but also higher than the previous Bond outing Skyfall, which is the highest grossing film ever in the UK.
Its Friday to Sunday total is just shy of £20 million which puts it just behind Skyfall, but that film opened on a Friday, its hard not to believe that Spectre wouldn't have beaten all these figure had it opened on the traditional Friday.
Spectre thus makes its debut at the top of the UK box office with an incredible weekly gross and with no film daring to compete with it, it is also the only new entry on the box office this week, and with very few new film in the coming weeks it will stay a while.
All thats left now is for it to become the top grossing film ever in the UK, it needs over £102 million to achieve this, but with the debut it is entirely possible.
Historical box office
A year ago - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles held onto the top of the box office for another week which meant Ouija had to make to with a number 2 debut.
Five years ago - The Saw franchise continued it Halloween releases and debuted at number 1 with Saw 3D, Despicable Me fell to number 2.
Ten years ago - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit made it another week at the top of the box office with Saw II debuting at number 3.
Fifteen years ago - Disneys Dinosaur went back to the top of the box office meaning What Lies Beneath fell to number 2, highest new film was Book of Shadows Blair Witch 2.
Twenty years ago - To Die For made its debut at the top of the box office leaving Clueless to fall into second place.
Twenty five years ago - Ghost extended its run at the top of the box office by another week with the highest new film at number 4 in the shape of Goodfellas.
Despite it being Halloween new horror film Ouija could not make it's way to the top of the UK box office and instead the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went back to the top in their third week of release.
Taking nearly £1.5 million for the weekend the Turtles have now spent 3 weeks on release and have taken a total of £11.7 million. The return of the Turtles for a new generation has been a massive success and has so far taken $434.5 million across the world.
Highest new film this week is Ouija which has taken £1.4 million, arguably because of the Halloween weekend and people looking for a fright, the film could disappear quite quickly.
Last weeks top film, Fury, falls to number 3 this week with £1.2 million. It was in reality a very tight top 3 this week with only about £200,000 separating the top films.
Historical charts
A year ago - Thor: The Dark World took the top spot on it's opening weekend knocking Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 into the runner up spot.
Five years ago - In the wake of his death the documentary about Michael Jacksons concerts that never happend This Is It took the top spot knocking Pixars Up down the two.
Ten years ago - Shark Tale hung onto the top spot for a second week with the highest new film coming in at 4 in the shape of Finding Neverland.
Fifteen years ago - Halloween took the box office by storm with The Blair Witch Project climbing to the top spot on it's second week of release, the highest new film was Vampires right down in seventh place.