US release: 30th September 2022
Slovakia release: 29th September 2022
Canada release: 30th September 2022
£531 Thousand $11.6 Million
$4.8 MillionThe latest animated movie from Illumination which has brought classics like Despicable Me and The Super Mario Bros Movie hits the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend.
Migration takes an excellent £3.5 Million on its debut which is the 10th highest debut for the studio.
The new Matthew Vaughn movie Argylle makes a good attempt at the box office top spot but falls just short ending up at number 2 this weekend.
The movie which stars Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard enters at number 2 with a gross of just over £2 Million.
Last weeks top movie Mean Girls~2024 falls to number 3 this weekend after 2 weeks at the top with a total gross of £6.8 Million.
Highest new movie this weekend
Barbie spends a fourth weekend at the top of the UK box office which means it now ties with Avatar: THe Way of Water and The Super Mario Bros Movie as the longest number 1 of 2023.
The movie is now by far the top grossing movie of 2023 with £78.2 Million and it probably wont be beaten going in the end of the year.
Oppenheimer still sits at number 2 behind Barbie but with a gross of £45.7 Million it is the third top movie of 2023.
Based on the Playstation video game Gran Turismo is the top new movie of the weekend at 4 with just over £1 Million, but this is a far cry from the £4.7 Million of Uncharted from 2022 which was also based on a Playstation video game.
Highest new movie this weekend
As we go into October the horror movies start to flood the cinemas and the box office and this week we see the critically acclaimed movie Smile~2022 hit the top.
Coming in also on the top 5 is new comedy BROS which has surprised many by making its debut at 5 while Ponniyin Selvan: I is new at 6 with $4 Million, Vikram Vedha~2022 is new at 12 with $986,172 and finally The Good House is new at 15 with $797,309.
Highest new movie this weekend
Making a mark on the horror genre is the new movie from director Parker Finn which after the reviews and he success of this movie, and the low budget, it will spawn a number of sequels.
The movie makes its debut at the top of the US box office with a very good $22 Million opening.
The troubled movie directed by Olivia Wilde and starring Florence Pugh falls to number 2 this weekend with a gross of $6.84 Million, a fairly hefty 65% drop over its debut last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of $12 Million after 2 weeks of release.
Three weeks in for the Viola Davis starring movie wich this weeks falls to number 3 with $6.82 Million, a 38% drop over last week.
It only just missed out on the number 2 spot with just over $20,000 separating this and Dont Worry Darling.
The movie has a total gross of $46.5 Million after 3 weeks of release.
The 2 week special release of the 2009 movie in 4K drop to number 4 this weekend with a gross of $5 Million, a 52% drop over last weekend.
The movie in its special release format has taken $18.9 Million on its re-release but the movie has taken $779.8 Million since it was released.
Making its debut at number 5 this weekend, despite all the hype and critical acclaim is the Nicholas Stoller directed movie which makes its debut at number 5 with $4.8 Million.
The movie expands into more theatres next weekend which could give it a big boost.
Warner Bros. have announced that the much anticipated Zack Snyder version of the DC universe Justice League will get a release on HBO Max in 2021.
It has become movie folk law that the version of Justice League that was released in 2017 was directed by Zack Snyder but due to personal reason he left the project before reshoots and editing and Joss Wehdon finished the movie.
When released the film was met with muted reviews, with some fans even hating the movie.
Since then there has been first rumours then evidence, then sort of confirmation that a version of the movie exists that was finished by Snyder himself.
A social media campaign has been going since to #releasethesnydercut appearing in the trending box on twitter on regular occations.
HBO Max is a new streaming service coming on May 27th, and here we are a week before the launch and Warner Bros. announces the almost legendary film will show on the service in 2021.
The news was given during an on-line participation by Snyder on Man Of Steel and it was received with massive appreciation from fans.
This is an interesting move and perhaps not a good one, with cinemas across the globe closed and wondering if they will ever recover this could have been a nice shot in the arm the industry may need.
Instead it will go to the platform which is in the short term going to damage the cinema industry, I hope we never get to a point when we don't have movie theatres to go to.
As expected the anticipation for Avengers: Endgame spilled over this weekend and the Marvel film broke records all over the place on its debut weekend leaving every other film on release to mop up the tiny remainder of box office cash.
The Marvel film was expected to open big but perhaps no-one expected it to open quite this big as the much hyped and anticipated film broke the box office opening weekend record, set by Avengers: Infinity War, and became the first film to ever open with over a billion dollars on global takings.
The film took an unprecedented, and benchmark setting, $1.2 Billion from 55 countries over its first weekend, which including previews did extend to 5 days, but still to enter the Billion dollar club so quick is a new record.
The film is already the 13th highest grossing film of all time globally, and by next weekend will most likely be in the top 5 which will take a gross of $1.67 Billion or higher.
All eyes will be on the film in the coming weeks to see if can beat the 10 year old record of Avatar and beat that films $2.7 Billion total gross.
Last weeks top film falls to number 2 this week with a global weekend gross of $15.4 Million from 72 countries which pushes its total global gross to $86.9 Million.
The superhero movie from DC and Warner Bros fell to 3 and took $10.9 Million from 81 countries this weekend to push its total to $346.3 Million after 4 weeks of release.
The other Marvel film on the global box office this weekend is at 4 this week with $10.1 Million from 46 countries and pushes its total global gross to $1.1 Billion after 9 weeks.
Just for the record Avengers: Endgame beats this total in its first 5 days of release.
Still on the box office and doing well is the Tim Burton movie which this week is at 5 taking $9.6 Million from 52 countries for a $327.6 Million total from 5 weeks of release.
Second highest new film of the week is at number 11 in the shape of this Chinese animation with takes $1.7 Million from just 1 country.