£2.7 Million
$25.1 Million
$137.3 MillionThis weekend, Friday 5th July 2019, there are 5 new films released in the UK looking to hit the box office, but can it challenge Toy Story 4 for the top spot?
First up at cinemas this week is Spider-Man: Far From Home, a Sci-Fi movie directed by Jon Watts who also directed Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017 which grossed £29.7 Million.
It stars Tom Holland who last starred in Avengers: Endgame and Samuel L. Jackson who last appeared in Shaft.
Next on the new release schedule is Midsommar, this new Mystery movie stars Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor.
The film is brought to us by 2 time director Ari Aster.
Next up this week is Escape Plan: The Extractors which is directed by John Herzfeld who directed Two Of A Kind in 1983.
It stars Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista who were last seen together in Escape Plan 2 which grossed £6,737.
Also this week there is Anna from director Luc Besson who also directed The Messenger in 1999.
The film features Sasha Luss and Helen Mirren in starring roles.
The long list of new releases continues with The Queens Corgi which is directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen directing together.
It stars Rusty Shackleford and Jo Wyatt.
-Check back on Monday to see where these films end up on the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Come back next week when there are 2 new releases hitting cinemas. -
Gone Girl gives up it's reign at the top of the box office this week allowing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to debut at the top.
Reboots being the name of the game, Michael Bay produces a new take on the Turtles story of which the first film was released back in 1990.
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman and starring Megan Fox the new spin makes £4.7 million on it's opening weekend, there is no data for the opening weekend of the 1990 version, but an animated version came out in 2007 called TMNT which tool just less than a million pond on it's debut.
Gone Girl is still doing very well at the box office and this weeks falls into second place with a weekend gross of £2.3 million pound to bring it's total gross in the UK to £14.2 million which places it between Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Terminator Salvation as the top UK films.
Other new film at the UK are The Best of Me at 5, The Judge (a little disappointingly) at 9 and Northern Soul at 10, event feature The Metropolitan Opera Le Nozze Di Figaro 2014 is at 11.
Historical charts.
One year ago - Last year animated film Turbo was debuting a the top of the box office knocking Prisoners right down to fourth with Captain Phillips and Escape Plan also debuting in second and third.
Five years ago - Up remained at the top for another week while Couples Retreat was the highest new film debuting at two.
Ten years ago - Shark Tale made it's debut at the top of the box office knocking the previous number one, Bride and Prejudice down to fourth.
Fifteen years ago - Deep Blue Sea made a debut at the top of the box office chart meaning that American Pie took a tumble into second place.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire tops the DVD and Blu-ray sales chart this week on its debut week on sale.
Released at cinemas at the end of November last year this film proved that The Hunger Games series had become a phenomenon.
Spending 9 weeks on the box office it grossed £33.8 million dollars and is the 58th top film ever at the UK.
It also grossed $828.3 million worldwide and is the 33rd highest grossing film ever.
Last week best selling disk, Gravity, fell to 3 this week after Escape Plan enter in the runner up position.