The Denzel Washington starring The Equalizer 3 tops the UK box office on its debut weekend of release, replacing Barbie after a 6 week run at the top.
The sequel movie to The Equalizer comes in with a debut of £2.7 Million which is the best debut of the series.
Barbie falls to number 2 this weekend as its gross increases to £92.5 Million as the movie draws closer to the &Pound;100 Million mark which would make it only the third movie in UK box office history to do so.
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This weekend the next Marvel movie made its debut at the top of the US box office with an opening gross of $106 Million, topping that of the previous 2 movies in the series.
Also new this weekend is Marlowe~2023 starring Liam Neeson which takes $1.8 Million at number 8 and Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey which is new at 11 with $1.4 Million.
Fire of Love from director Sara Dosa is new at 13 with $1.1 Million and finally 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films Live Action is new at 14 with $734,124.
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Marvels new Ant-Man movie makes its debut at the top of the US box office this weekend with over $100 Million, which is better than the previous 2 movies which took $57 Million and $75 Million respectively.
Now climbing to the 10th top movie in the US ever James Camerons sequel movie continues to dominate the box office as its total gross gets closer to the $700 Million milestone.
The Magic Mike threequel movie drops to number 3 on its second weekend on the box office chart as it drop only 35% from last weekends gross.
Another sequel movie on the box office which has done far better than expected as the Shrek universe movie drops only 4% drop last weekends gross, amazing for a movie on its 9th weekend of release.
The M. Night Shyamalan directed movie goes back up the chart 1 place with a $4 Million weekend on its third weekend of release.
Making its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend is Puss In Boots: The Last Wish which takes over from Avatar: The Way of Water after 7 weeks at the top.
Also new this weekend is Knock At the Cabin at number 3, The Whale~2022 at number 5 and BTS: Yet to Come In Cinemas at number 8 with £535,336.
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Making its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend is the sequel movie to Puss in Boots from 2011 which is part of the Shrek universe of movies.
The movie has done far better than its prequel which took just shy of £2 Million on its debut, but the Shrek movies did far better with Shrek the Third having the best debut with £16.67 Million.
After 7 weeks at the top of the UK box office the Avatar sequel drops to second place, but the movie has still taken over £70 Million so far at the UK box office.
It is more or less on track with the original movie having taken just about £1 Million more, but its well behing the top grossing movie in the UK ever, Star Wars The Force Awakens which had taken £120 Million 8 weeks into its box office run.
The movie also has the smallest from on this weeks top 15 with 39% down on last weekends gross.
The new movie from director M. Night Shyamalan lands at number 4 this weekend with just under £1 Million on its debut.
The movie has a better opening than the directors last movie, Old, which could only manage around £800,000 on its debut.
Dropping to number 4 this weekend is the action Indian movie from director Siddharth Anand wihch landed at number 2 last weekend.
Finishing off the top 5 is the Oscar nominated movie from director Darren Aronofsky which stars Brendan Fraser in his Best Actor nominated role.
The movie is on limited release and will expand as we get closer to the Oscar ceremony where Fraser is expected to walk away with the award.
This weekend at the global box office Spider-Man: No Way Home spent its 7th weekend at the top as its total global gross gets closer to the $2 Billion mark.
The highest new movie of the week was the sequel Chinese film The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure which landed at 9 with $3 Million on its debut.
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Global box office top 5 breakdown weekend 28th - 30th January 2022
Seven weeks in now for the multiverse Spider-Man movie as it starts to challenge the global box office to be the top grossing movie of all time, an honour currently held by Avatar which has taken $2.8 Billion since its release in 2009.
The movie has still to be released in China which is currently still unset and its unknown if a release will happen.
This weekend the movie takes another $32.1 Million from 64 countries which pushes the movies total to $1.7 Million, so it still has a long way to go before it even goes over the $2 Billion mark, but it is achievable.
Its quite an achievement that the movie still only has a 23% drop over last weekend, meaning that people are most likely seeing the film multiple times.
The movie is naturally the top movie of 2022 and its gross is getting to the point where it may be hard to beat with $370.9 Million taken this year.
The animated sequel is proving to be a massive hit just like its prequel Sing from 2017 as the movie takes $22,2 Million in second place where it jumped back to this week, this is an amazing 17% increase over last weekend and the movie is released in 63 countries.
The movie is edging towards the $300 Million mark as this weeks its total gross hits $267.9 Million after 6 weeks of release.
This places the movie as the second top film of 2022 globally.
The horror movie sequel falls to number 3 this week as it starts its decent down the box office with a weekend gross of $13.8 Million from 56 countries, a 39% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total gross of $106.2 Million after 3 weeks.
Director Guillermo del Toro latest movie jumps up the box office to number 6 this weekend with $6.6 Million from 42 countries, a 26% increase over last weekend, giving the movie a $22,9 Million total after 2 weeks.
Six week of release now for the prequel movie as it falls to number 5 this weekend with $5.9 Million from 47 countries, a 25% drop, giving the film a total global gross of $114.4 Million.
Disney release their new movie Encanto at the US box office this weekend and hit the top of the box office again this year while the much anticipated House of Gucci comes in at number 3 on its debut.
Also making a debut on this weeks top 5 is Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City at number 5 while further down the box office Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie Licorice Pizza makes its debut at 13 with $336,000 and For the Love of Money starring James Caan is new at 15 with $232,000.
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US box office top 5 breakdown weekend 26th - 28th November 2021
Disney release their latest animated feature in cinemas only this weekend and the movie makes its debut at the top of the US box office with a weekend gross of $27 Million.
It was the Thanksgiving week in the US so the movie was released on Wednesday before the big day and the movie has actually taken $40.5 Million since release.
The Ghostbusters sequel falls to number 2 after a week at the top with a gross of $24.5 Million, a 44% drop on its second weekend.
Despite the not so good reception from the review press audiences has enjoyed the movie and this week its total gross sits at $87.7 Million.
Director Ridley Scott brings his next movie to the big screen and had acting giants Lady Gaga and Adam Driver among other as he brings the true story of the creation of fashion empire Gucci to the big screen.
The movie takes $14.2 Million over its debut weekend of release but again it was released on the Wednesday of Thanksgiving week and has to date taken $22 Million.
Director Chloe Zhao Marvel movie falls to number 4 this weekend with a gross of $7.9 Million, a small 27% drop over last weekend, taking the movies total to $150.6 Million and it is now the 7th top movie if 2021.
Director Johannes Roberts takes over helming a Resident Evil movie from Paul W.S. Anderson, and after rebooting the franchise and sticking closer the original video game source he brings the movie to the box office at number 5.
The movie takes $5.2 Million on its debut weekend.