It was a battle for the top this weekend with the releases of Kung-Fu Panda 4 and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire both released for the Easter weekend, but the animated take and Kung-Fu panda sequel won the box office with less than a million pound between the two.

Kung-Fu Panda 4 took just over £5 Million on its debut which is better than the previous movies £4.7 Million but not close to the original movies over £6 Million debut.

Godzilla and King Kong movies have always done well in the UK and the release of the latest blockbuster to star both monsters makes its debut at 2 this weekend.

The movie takes just over £4 Million on its debut which in comparison to the last released movie, Godzilla Minus One is far batter.

Last weeks number 1 movie, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire falls by 47% this weekend and has taken a total of £8.2 Million over 2 weeks, actually better than Ghostbusters: Afterlife!

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 29th - 31st March 2024

• The movie is a new entry at number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £4,139,394 over its debut weekend
• The movie is the 15th top grossing film so far in 2024

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £2,133,302 over the weekend, a 47% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £8,272,714 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 9th top grossing film so far in 2024
• The movie is a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife which took £7,513,854 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £556,514 over its debut weekend

Barbie is now starting to be in the running for longest ever number 1 movie, a record currently held by Titanic with 14 weeks, as the movie stays at the top for a 6th weekend.

The Greta Gerwig directed movie is also getting close to a milestone that only 2 other movies have achieved, Skyfall in 2012 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015, grossing over £100 Million at the UK box office, Barbie has so far grossed £90 Million.

Oppenheimer is one again at number 2 this weekend with a total UK gross of over £50 Million.

Top new movie of the weekend is the live concert event feature Andre Rieus 2023 Maastricht Concert Love Is All Around from the ever popular world famous violinist.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 25th - 27th August 2023

• The movie remains at number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,638,665 over the weekend, a 20% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £53,173,902 over 6 weeks of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie goes up the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £776,085 over the weekend, a 20% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £11,299,337 over 4 weeks of release
• The movie is the 17th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to The Meg which took £13,967,081 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £710,326 over its debut weekend
• The movie is a sequel to Andre Rieu: In Dublin 2023 which took £715,986 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.

The signs were strong that Spider Man: Across the Spider Verse was going to be a big movie and with a debut gross over $120 Million it surpassed expectation and is now the 7th top debuting movie in June at the North American box office.

The movie takes close to a $100 Million more than its predecessor Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took $35 Million on its debut in 2018.

The Little Mermaid~2023 spends a single weekend at the top of the box office and falls to number 2 this weekend and has taken $186.2 Million after 2 weekends of release.

Second highest new movie this weekend is the Stephen King written movie The Boogeyman which makes its debut at 3 with $12.3 Million.

Holdover movies fill out most of the top 15 until a new entry at 12 for Past Lives which takes $232,266 and at 13 there is a new entry for The Roundup: No Way Out which takes $200,000.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th June 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weekends US box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
• It has a total gross of $120,500,000 after 1 weekends of release
• The movie is the 7th highest debuting movie ever in June.
• The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took $35,363,376 at the box office after 1 weekends of release.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $40,600,000 over the weekend, a 58% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $186,207,067 after 2 weekends of release
• The movie is the 6th top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie is a new entry at number 3 on this weekends US box office
• It has a total gross of $12,300,000 after 1 weekends of release

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $10,200,000 over the weekend, a 51% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $322,711,454 after 5 weekends of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took $386,571,925 at the box office after 5 weekends of release.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $9,240,000 over the weekend, a 60% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $128,465,765 after 3 weekends of release
• The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took $141,325,725 at the box office after 3 weekends of release.

Avatar this week has become the top grossing movie released globally in 2022, it is yet to be the top grossing movie of 2022 in North America and Canada or the UK.

The James Cameron directed sequel to Avatar has taken over $1.5 Billion at the global box office, with China, Japan, Europe and Australia showing good figures for the movie.

The current tally of global grosses is

• North America and Canada $471.8 Million
• China $171.5 Million
• France $97 Million
• Germany $79.5 Million
• Korea $79.2 Million
• United Kingdom and Ireland $62.1 Million
• India $52.4 Million
• Australia $40.8 Million
• Mexico $40.6 Million
• Italy $35.7 Million
• Spain $33.3 Million
• Brazil $27.2 Million
• Japan $20.7 Million

In the UK the top grossing movie of 2022 is Top Gun: Maverick which took an amazing £83.5 Million during its summer run, the Avatar sequel still has a bit to go to catch up.

In North America and Canada the Top Gun sequel took $717 Million on its 24 week run, and with Avatar: The Way of Water still pulling in good numbers, and an increase in screen this weekend couples with little competition until Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in mid February its looking likely the movie will go ahead.

It was an interesting year at the box office in 2022, there were some big disappointments, but its looks like there were 3 Billion dollar movies as well as a couple which got close.

One of those movie will most likely go over the $2 Billion mark, the first time that has happened since Avengers: Endgame in 2019 (pre-pandemic), although Spider-Man: No Way Home came very close in 2021.

See the full list of the highest grossing global box office movies.

The sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time was always going to be a massive hit, and its taken less than 2 weeks for Avatar: The Way of Water to cross the landmark.

The movie reached the milestone on Wednesday 28th December, 12 days after its December 16th release.

Breaking it down the movies box office gross is as follows.

• American (Domestic) total = $317.1 Million
• International (everywhere elese) total = $712.7 Million
• Global total = $1.02 Billion.

This places the movie as the 49th highest grossing movie of all time, and the 53rd movie to make over $1 Billion at the global box office.

There is a strong chance that the movie will follow in the footsteps of Avatar and join the $2 Billion club which currently has 5 memebers

1. Avatar - $2.9 Billion
2. Avengers: Endgame - $2.7 Billion
3. Titanic - $2.2 Billion
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $2.06 Billion
5. Avengers: Infinity War - $2.048 Billion

Spider-Man: No Way Home from 2021 came close but even after a second outing at the box office stalled at $1.915 Billion.