The Disney live action remake of The Little Mermaid makes its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend with a gross of £5 Million.

The last live action remake to hit cinemas was The Lion King~2019 which took £15 Million on its debut in 2019.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been on release now for 8 weeks and it at number 4 this weekend with a total gross of £52.2 Million.

The new Ben Affleck movie Hypnotic is new this week at 5 with £217,252 while action movie Sisi is new at 6 with £144,567.

Further down the box office at 8 is Tomorrow X Together Again with £66,961 and The Sleeping Beauty: ROH London 2023 is at 9 with £l;64,370 and finally the last two new releases of the weekend are Godday Godday Chaa and Full Time at 12 and 13.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 26th - 28th May 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £5,012,929 over its debut weekend
• It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
• The movie is the 19th top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £2,257,834 over the weekend, a 62% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £10,203,511 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 9th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took £10,860,015 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,594,929 over the weekend, a 43% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £31,658,650 over 4 weeks of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took £36,300,000 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £292,155 over the weekend, a 46% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £52,260,294 over 8 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £217,252 over its debut weekend

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child was written as a stage show and it was promised it would always stay that way, the book that was released soon after the West End production opened was in play form not novel, but the signage for the play has just recently been changed to reflect that of the movies so does this mean that a movie version is in the works?

The original sign was not unique and in many ways reflected that of the original publications in the UK, whereas the logo used on the movies was closer to that of the original US version, and the new logo was presented on Broadway first in a full Time Square takeover and on Back To Hogwarts Day.

The change has had a lot of fans angry about this claiming that the story is seperated from the Harry Potter cannon and this marks that seperation, but why would there be this change?

The obvious conclusion is that there is a movie version on the way, Warner Bros. owns the movie rights to the series and have been a partner to Harry Potter Theatre which produces the stage show.

The rumours have been denied by everyone including J.K. Rowling who posted some cryptic tweets, but are they just not telling the absolute truth because it's not time to announce it yet?

Sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places #HarryPotter #CursedChild pic.twitter.com/TQb68Wtqiz

— J.K. Rowling (@jk-rowling) September 5, 2019

For Warner Brox. who have made Billions of dollars from the series want that money to keep rolling in, The Fantastic Beasts series had a promising start but last year Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald didn't do as well as they would have liked.

The theme park area at Universal Studios are doing well, and are keeping the franchise alive, but there needs to be a new movie for Warner Bros. that fans can sink their teeth into.

Rowling could write a whole new set of Harry Potter centric stories especially for the screen, but she will need to please the fans, and she has always stated after the books she wont revisit Harry Potter and his world again.

She keeps tight control over everything Harry Potter, but she could commission a new writer/screenplay write to come up with some new stories, The Cursed Child was written by Jack Thorne and John Tiffany with Rowling only providing the story, so this is ground she has been down before.

As much as this is something which may be explored in the future, why bother when you have a tried and tested story already there and waiting for a screen version to be produced, its Harry Potter, its already written and it would most likely take over a Billion dollars at the box office.

Also it would bring the story to the fans who either dont go to the theatre, it is a niche past time which although having the boy who lived as brought more more bums on seats to theatre in the same way the books got people reading again you are still making inaccessible to some.

I am going to stick my neck out and say there will be a movie version of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child in the long run, there is just too much of a money making opportunity there for Warner Bros., and as the film is already in 2 parts I am sure it can be dragged out to a trilogy, a 3 Billion plus grossing trilogy.

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