Released in the US this weekend, Friday, 9th February 2024, there are 6 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Argylle from the top of the North American box office.
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Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Last weekend The Little Mermaid was at the top of the UK box office, there are 4 new releases this weekend, will any of them top the UK box office this weekend?
Check out other new releases from around the world.
Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Disney and Marvel release their new movie this weekend and as is the norm these days at the cinema Thor: Love and Thunder makes its debut at the top.
Also new this weekend is London Nahi Jaunga at number 8 with a debut gross of £92,117 while Brian and Charles is new at number 9 with £71,890.
There was a double bill cinema event this weekend of Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A D, currently the only feature films in the 60 year history of Doctor Who, which took £64,730.
Finally at number 15 there is Quaid E Azam Zindabad making a debut with £14,447.
The fourth film in the Thor series of movie from the grander Marvel Cinematic Universe which is once again directed by Taika Waititi as was Thor: Ragnarok.
The movie makes its debut at the top of this weeks box office with £12.2 Million which is lover than the last two Marvel movies, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Spider-Man: No Way Home but in the same ballpark as the last Thor movie.
The road ahead looks good for the movie with no new competition until Bullet Train in early August, although with middle of the road reviews the current releases, especially Minions: The Rise of Gru could see its number 1 run cut short.
Giving way to Thor: Love and Thunder the Minions sequel drops to number 2 on its second weekend of release, at least for this weekend.
The movie takes £4.3 Million, a large 58% drop over its debut last weekend, this gives it a total gross of £18.4 Million.
This places the movie on the top 10 movies of 2022 at number 10.
Director Baz Luhrmann's bio-pic of the King of Rock 'N' Roll falls to number 3 this weekend with a gross of £1.3 Million, a 55% drop over last weekend, on its 3rd weekend of release.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £13.8 Million.
The Top Gun sequel movie continues to do amazingly well on the UK box office and this weekend slips just a single place on its 7th weekend of release with just over £1 Million, a 62% drop over last weeeknd.
The movie has now taken a eye popping £70 Million in its UK box office run and is by far the top movie of 2022.
As the Dino movie starts to end its UK box office run it drop to number 5 on the chart with £560,166 over the weekend, a large 69% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £31.7 Million after 5 weeks of release, it will end up the lowest grossing of the Jurassic World series of movies.
Warner Bros. DC Universe hit movie The Batman spends a third weekend at the top of the UK box office while Japanese anime Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie is the highest debut at 2.
Also inside the top 5 there is a new entry for The Nan Movie and The Phantom of the Open which are both British produces movies.
Director Ti West's latest horror movie X is a new entry at number 7 this weekend with a debut gross of £227,501 while at the lower end of the top 15 there are new entries for Bachchan Pandey and Paris, 13th District at 14 and 15.
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UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 18th - 20th March 2022
Three weeks at the top of the UK box office for the Robert Pattinson starring Dark Knight movie which crosses the £30 Million mark this weekend with a total UK gross of £32.6 Million.
The movie took £3.5 Million over the weekend which is a steep 33% drop but it inline with other superhero movies.
It is now the top movie of 2022 in the UK having taken Sing 2 and its within reach of the UK top 100 movies ever.
The Japanese animated hot movie is the top new film of the weekend landing on the box office at number 2 with £825,529 including preview shows which brought in £307,860.
The movie was a big hit in Japan when it was released last December and the global figures for the movie are looking good where it has taken nearly $150 Million.
The video game adaptation falls to number 3 this weekend after 6 weeks on the chart with £605,722, a 43% drop over last weekend.
this gives the movie a total UK gross of £22.7 Million, it is currently the 4th top movie of 2022.
A new entry at number 4 this weekend, after a difficult production and a year long delay due to the pandemic the infamous Catherine Tate character comes to the big screen.
The movie lands with a gross of £565,340, and the movie also seems to have lost its director Josie Rourke after a series of reshoots.
Its been reported that the movie changed its narrative direction and is now more of a road movie between the character of Nan and her grandson, whereas the original cut was more of a origins movie, it seems it lost the original director credit in the process.
Another British produced movie about an ammeter golfer being entered into the Open, the movie which stars Mark Rylance makes its debut at number 5 with £456,829 of which £61,645 was from previews screens.
Another movie which has been delayed many times over the past 2 years, Death on the Nile has been given a 12A age rating in the UK by the BBFC.
The movies is directed by and stars Kenneth Branagh who is directing his 21st movie, the movie is also an indirect sequel to his 2017 movie Murder On the Orient Express which he also starred in and directed.
It also stars a whole host of A-list names including Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer and Jennifer Saunders to name a few.
Movie Synopsis
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
BBFC certificate breakdown.