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$0 Superstar Taylor Swift releases an extended trailer for her latest album and it becomes the top grossing movie of the weekend as Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl takes £3.4 Million on limited release this weekend.
The movie which includes behind the scenes footage from the making of the album and interviews with the pop star follows in the footsteps of her live concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour from 2023.
After making its debut at the top last week One Battle After Another falls to number 2 this week and has taken just over £6 Million to date.
Highest new movie this weekend
As the big new movies dry up the box office sees a load of older movies rebounding on the box office which includes the movie of the year Top Gun: Maverick going back to the top of its 15th weekend of release.
Spider-Man: No Way Home gets a re-release and is the top new movie of the weekend, despite it being a re-release, and lands at number 3 while Jaws enters the box office with a weekend gross of $2.6 Million.
The top movie of the weekend which has never been released before is Honk For Jesus Save Your Soul which makes its debut at number 14 with $1.4 Million.
Climbing back to the top of the US box office as the summer comes to a close is the top movie of the season which takes $6 Million, a 21% increase over last weekend.
Interestingly the is the same behaviour as the form Top Gun movie, which in the summer of 1986 hot the top on its release and then spent another week at the summit as the season came to a close.
The sequel movie has now taken an amazing $699 Million and it is the top movie of 2022, and by next weekend is should have overtaken Black Panther and enter the top 5 North American movies of all time.
The Brad Pitt starring fast train movie stays at number 2 this weekend with a gross of $5.7 Million, a small 2% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross in North America of $86.2 Million after 5 weeks of release.
Although only released last December the last Spider-Man movie has been given a re-release with 20 minutes or so extra footage which takes $5.3 Million over the weekend.
This is the 24th weekend it has spent on the chart and it pushes the movies total gross to $811.6 Million.
THe movie is the 7th top movie of 2022 and is also the 3rd top movie of all time in North America.
The animated feature from the DC superhero universe goes back into the top 5 at number 4 with a weekend gross of $5 Million, an 18% increase.
The movie has taken a total of $80 Million in North America after 6 weeks of release.
Falling from the top where it made its debut last weekend is the horror movie from director Jessica M. Thompson which takes $4.8 Million on its second weekend of release, a 29% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of $13 Million.
In a fascinating weekend for the UK box office a 10 week old movie, Minions: The Rise of Gru goes back to the top, a 15 week old movie, Top Gun: Maverick goes back into the top 5 and a 2021 movie and one of the top grossing movies in the UK is the top new release, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Adding to this the second highest new movie is E.T. The Extra Terrestrial celebrating its 40th anniversary, yes 40 years since the release of the once global highest grossing movie of all time!
Less impressive this weekend is the debut releases for Three Thousand Years of Longing which is new at 10 with £307,176, Fall~2022 new at 13 with £220,270 and The Forgiven~2021 new at 15 with £182,772.
Going back to the top of the UK box office, once again, is the sequel movie to Minions which 5 weeks after it was last at the top, and 10 weeks after it was first at the top it takes £1.06 Million to return to the top, a 46% jump over last weekend.
With no high profile new releases now in the last couple of weeks, and the end of the school summer holidays, and the bargain price of £3 per ticket on Saturday this is perhaps not too much of a surprise.
The movie has now taken £44 Million in the UK and is the second top movie of 2022, it is also the 61st top movie of all time.
Interestingly the movie is behind the first Minions movie but it has been consistently about £1 Million behind.
Also doing well at the end of the school summer holidays and jumping back up to number 2 this weekend is the animated movie based on DC superhero pets which takes £1 Million on its 6th weekend, which is 41% up from last weekend.
The movie has taken a total of £14 Million in the UK over its 6 weeks of release.
The movie which simply wont go away is the top movie of 2022 in the UK which this weekend takes £600,258, a modest 7% increase over last weekend.
The movie has now taken a total of £81.6 Million over its 15 weeks of release and is the 9th top movie of all time in the UK.
The only film this weekend on the top 5 this drops week on week is the Brad Pitt fast train heist movie which takes £554,100 on its 5th weekend of release, a 7% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £9.2 Million.
Highest new movie of the weekend
Getting a re-release to celebrate National Cinema Day is the 2021 Spider-Man release from Marvel and Sony with a little help Disney.
The movie takes a quite incredible £469,309 on its return to the box office, incredible because the movie is the 4th biggest movie of all time in the UK and it was only in cinemas earlier this year, and although there is 20 minites extra footage it does not change the story and makes it a 3 hour movie!
Still the movie has now spent 16 weeks on the chart and taken an amazing £96.9 Million, it is also the 8th top movie of 2022.
The first trailer for director Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling has been released with the first footage from the highly anticipated movie.
The trailer features Florence Pugh predominantly but also has a good amount of co-stars Harry Styles and Chris Pine in the intriguing trailer.
Florence Pugh was of course last seen in Black Widow while Chris Pine is most famous for playing James T. Kirk in the JJ Abrams Star Trek series of movies, Olivia Wilde while an established actress, and appears in this movie, directed the critically acclaimed Booksmart from 2019.
What starts off as what seems like an interesting movie about everyday life in America suddenly twists into a story that suggest there is an interesting mystery involved, and no one is what they seem!
Lets hope all is revealed when its released on 23rd September 2022.
A trailer has been released by Warner Bros. for their new Wizarding World movie Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
This trailer highlights the role Albus Dumbledore has in the movie, and also gives a little more footage of Mads Mickelson as Gellert Grindelwald, the role he took over from Johnny Depp.
Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.