Released in the US this weekend, Friday, 13th January 2023, there are 4 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Avatar: The Way of Water from the top of the North American box office.

Check out other new releases from around the world.

• House Party
• The Seven Faces of Jane
• Plane
• Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

House Party

• The movie is from director Calmatic.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Tosin Cole who also starred in Second Coming (2015).
• The film also stars Jacob Latimore who was last seen in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

The Seven Faces of Jane

• The movie is from director Julian Acosta and Xan Cassavetes.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Gillian Jacobs who also starred in The Lookalike (2014).
• The film also stars Joel McHale who was last seen in Becky (2020).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.

Plane

• The movie is from director Jean-François Richet.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Gerard Butler who also starred in The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
• The film also stars Mike Colter who was last seen in Im Charlie Walker (2022).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

• The movie is directed by Guy Ritchie, it is the directors 15th movie.
• Guy Ritchie also directed Rocknrolla in 2008 which grossed $5.7 Mil. in the US and grossed $25.7 Mil. globally.
• It stars Aubrey Plaza who also starred in Dirty Grandpa (2016).
• The film also stars Cary Elwes who was last seen in Best Sellers (2021).
• They also appeared together in Best Sellers in 2021.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 2 new movies released

• Detective Knight: Independence - Friday, 20th January - streaming
• The Son - Friday, 20th January

Kung Fu Panda 3 continues to dominate the world box office this week with a world gross of $44 million over the week, made even more impressive as its only from 8 countries.

The Jack Black voiced animated tale has now taken just shy of $200 million over its 2 week run, and with much of the world still to go it could go onto $500 million with ease.

Highest new film of the week across the world is A Violent Prosecutor, the Chinese film took $19.5 million from its single country of release, albeit the second largest cinema going country.

The Force Awakens is still pulling in the audiences in 47 countries and this week gets closer to taking over Titanic as the second highest grossing film over, its total gross is now $2.08 billion.

Here is the full World Box office this week:

1. Kung Fu Panda 3 - $44,000,000
2. The Revenant - $31,100,000
3. A Violent Prosecutor - $19,500,000
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $13,890,000
5. Alvin And The Chipmunks The Road Chip - $13,120,000
6. Hail, Caesar! - $11,439,000
7. The 5th Wave - $11,392,000
8. Dirty Grandpa - $8,550,000
9. The Hateful Eight - $8,500,000
10. Les Tuche 2 - $8,500,000

At the world box office this week King Fu Panda 3 makes an impressive debut at the top of the box office from 7 countries.

making a world wide debut of $116 million the film leads the pack by quite a considerable margin with the US being the top market the film was released in.

Falling a single place this week is The Revenant which falls to number 2 with $36 million, this brings the Oscar nominated films world gross to $274.7 million, and Oscar is still to come.

Highest total grossing film is still Star Wars: The Force Awakens which this weeks adds $23.3 million bringing its total gross now to over $2 Billion, only the third film ever to do so.

Avatar was the first with Titanic following, interestingly both these film took a second release to do it, although with Titanic it was years later unlike Avatar which was a year later.

Here is the full world wide box office top 10:

1. Kung Fu Panda 3 - $116,700,000
2. The Revenant - $36,700,000
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $23,382,000
4. The 5th Wave - $20,000,000
5. Ride Along 2 - $13,445,520
6. Alvin And The Chipmunks The Road Chip - $13,235,000
7. Dirty Grandpa - $13,075,000
8. The Finest Hours - $11,927,000
9. The Boy - $11,394,000
10. The Big Short - $9,800,000