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This year the sequel movie Pegasus 3 lands at the top with a weekend gross of over $152 Million, and over $300 Million since its release.
China alone made up the top 3 releases on the global box office this weekend accounted for nearly $250 Million of this weeks total takings.
Wuthering Heights~2025 fell from the top to number 4 this weekend and has taken just over $150 million after 2 weeks of release.
Highest new movie this weekend
Chinese release The Volunteers: Peace At Last tops the global box office due to an early in the week release and takes a very respectful over $51 Million at the Chinese box office on its debut.
Dominating the global box office though is Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl which tops the box office in many countries and takes $46 Million from its weekend only release to promote the launch of the superstar singers new album.
Last weeks top movie, One Battle After Another, falls to number 4 this week and has taken just over $100 Million globally, and is the only hold over movie on the top 5 this week.
Highest new movie this weekend
The Chinese box office showed its strength again this week as the top new movie globally is Green Snake which only got a release in the single terretory.
Also making its debut this week is the new movie from M. Night Shyamalan, Old, which comes in at 3 while outside the top 5 is Snake Eyes which is new at 6 with $17.3 Million.
Global box office QuickView
Global box office top 5 breakdown weekend 23rd - 25th July 2021
Released only in China the Luo Jie directed movie makes its debut at the top with $29.7 Million.
The Chinese box office has continued to do well during the pandemic and this movie continues that run of global hits.
Falling to number 2 this week is the latest Marvel movie which takes $26.1 Million, a large 54% drop, from 49 countries.
The movie now has a total global gross of $314.9 Million after 3 weeks of release and is the 5th top grossing movie globally of 2021.
The new movie from celebrated director M. Night Shyamalan makes its global debut this week at 3 with $23 Million from 24 countries.
Falling to number 4 this week is the Space Jam sequel which takes $22.1 Million, a big 59% drop over last week, from 67 countries.
The movie has now taken $93.9 Million after 3 weeks of release and should break the $100 Million before next weekend.
Another movie which is only released in China and has been a big global hit, this week taking $17.3 Million, a 60% drop over last weekend.
The movie has taken $175.6 Million after 3 weeks of release.
The Chinese box office is far outpacing any other country at the moment and can be seen as a model of how to re-open your box office as two movies gross over $150 Million each.
Sequel movie My People, My Homeland and animated feature Legend Of Deification were so far ahead in the weekend takings not nothing else had a look in and the third place movie, Tenet, took a fraction over the same period.
Here is a quick look breakdown of the weeks top 15.
Here is a breakdown of the top 5 movies globally at the box office 2nd - 4th October 2020.
The follow up to My People, My Country land on the Chinese box office at number 1 and hence lands on the global box office at the top with a weekend gross of $157.5 Million on its debut.
The movie directed by a whole host of directors and if it does as well at the previous movie could take near to $500 Million.
Called Jiang Ziya this animated fantasy tale hit the number 2 spot in China on its release being narrowly beaten by My People, My Country, but still the Teng Cheng and Li Wei directed movie took $151.7 Million to debut second globally.
Falling to number 3 this weekend as the Christopher Nolan movie starts to slow down across the globe, this weekend it took $14.2 Million.
This pushes the movies total gross after 6 weeks to $307.1 Million.
Disneys mutant movie goes back into the top 5 this weekend taking $1.95 Million at number 4.
This pushes the movies total global gross to $42.1 Million after 7 weeks of release.
The Halloween favourite gets a re-release in America, where it debuted at number 2, and makes its global debut at number 5 with $1.95 Million, 27 years after the movie first debuted.
After 4 weeks at the top of the global box office Christopher Nolans Tenet is replaces, this week at least, by the Chinese release Leap which makes its debut at the top.
The Chinese box office is, at the moment, by far the highest grossing market and it is responsible for the high grosses of Tenet, Mulan, The Eight Hundred and now Leap.
Here is a quicklook breakdown of the top 15.
Weekly breakdown of the top 5 global movies 25th - 27th September 2020.
Making its debut at the top is this Chinese movie from director Peter Ho-Sun Chan and starring Li Gong which takes $24.7 Million over the weekend on its debut.
The movie is only released in China at the moment and with Tenet still to open in some territories it will be interesting to see what to top looks like in the coming weeks.
Moving from the top to number 2 after 4 weeks is the 'saviour of cinema' which quite frankly has struggles over its release so far, even in China.
This weekend the movie took $19.2 Million which brings its 5 week global total to $284.9 while it looks to cross the $300 Million mark which it could do by next weekend.
As the movie starts to open in other territories outside China the movie falls to number 3 with $8.3 Million giving the hit movie a total gross of $441.6 Million.
This new global total means that after 7 weeks of release it is the highest grossing movie globally in 2020, beating out the previous holder Bad Boys For Life.
Starring Gerard Butler this movie has had a hard time so far, a couple of moves of release date in the UK and US has meant that the movie will most likely go to VOD in many major markets.
Of the countries it has been released in it has taken $3.3 Million and is this week a re-entry on the global box office at number 4 and after 8 weeks on the chart has taken $17.6 Million.
Disney's animated remake has had a hard time of it really, after being days away from a full on cinema release it was pulled because of the pandemic, had its release date moved a couple of time then went to Disney+.
It did get a cinema release in some countries, after complains for many people, and this weekend is at 5 with a weekend gross of $3.3 Million taking its total to $64.4 Million after 5 weeks of release.