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$0As the Halloween season approaches the horror movies come thick and fast and this weekend the sequel movie (of sorts) The Exorcist: Believer tops the UK box office with a debut gross of £1,7 Million.
Last weeks top movie, The Creator~2023 drops to number 2 on its second weekend of release.
For the first time in its 12 week run Oppenheimer out grosses its box office rival Barbie on this weekends chart.
Highest new movie this weekend
The year 2021 was a tough year for British Cinema, it started with cinemas being closed until the end of May, and it was only after a slow start and into June that it started to pick up, but it ended with potentially one of the biggest movies of all time.
As we go into 2022 the threat of closures due to the growing concernes of the pandemic, but currently it looks like things are set to stay open.
We get a fairly slow start to the year although the excellent Licorice Pizza which came out on January 1st is well worth a watch, but things get going in mid January when the new Scream gets a release, horror movies often do well in January and with the built in audience and all the original stars back this should be a hit.
As January continues we get Oscar Contender Cyrano with what looks to be an awards worthy performance from Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage.
Also in January is Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth and Kenneth Branagh's Belfast along with Guy Ritchie's Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre and Nightmare Alley starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett.
The hits come thick and fast as we leave January as the much anticipated Morbius and Sing 2 get a release.
We go into February and epic event director Roland Emmerich brings up Moonfall and we also get the 'does anyone really want it?' Jackass Forever.
In the middle of the month we get the much delayed Death on the Nile from Kenneth Branagh, his second film in consecutive months, and then as them month closes we get the much anticipated Uncharted starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg.
We go into spring with the March release os the overly anticipated The Batman which is directed by Matt Reeves and stars Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader.
Pixar also release their forst movie of the year Turning Red and we also get a movie delayed from the end of 2021 in the shape of sequel movie Downton Abbey: A New Era/
Finally in March we get the fourth in the John Wick series which is yet to get a full title along with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in The Lost City
We get into April and the follow up movie Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is released with Jim Carrey and Idris Elba lending his voice to villain Knuckles.
Before the summer season starts Warner Bros. release Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore which will have Mads Mikkelsen taking over the role of Grindelwald and then at the end of the month we get a surprise follow up movie with Fisherman's Friends: One and All.
All eyes will be on the start of May as the spiritual successor to Spider-Man: No Way Home is released with Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and we finally get the delayed too many times movie Top Gun: Maverick, a follow up to the classic 1986 movie starring Tom Cruise.
Then we get into summer proper as June brings Jurassic World: Dominion and the Pixar movie Lightyear where Chris Evans takes over as the voice of Buzz Lightyear.
Another movie which has been delayed, Minions: The Rise of Gru gets a release in July along with the next MCU movie Thor: Love and Thunder which will see Natalie Portman take over as Thor and Taika Waititi returns to direct this fourth instalment.
As the year goes past the halfway mark the next Jordan Peele horror movie gets a release with Nope and then superstar Dwayne Johnson becomes a superhero in Black Adam.
August brings us The Man From Toronto starring Kaley Cuoco better known as Penny from The Big Bang Theory and September takes us to Salems Lot in this adaptation of the Stephen King novel from director Gary Dauberman.
September also brings us Don't Worry Darling from Olivia Wilde and stars Florence Pugh and as we enter October the much anticipated animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part One gets released.
October is known for its horror movies and Halloween Ends brings the current trilogy to a close, and maybe even the series of movies while there is a return for another long running horror series as Paranormal Activity: The Other Side gets released.
November has a new movie from the DCEU as The Flash is another movie which shows us that DC can do multiverses as well and in the same month Marvel brings us Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
As the year comes to a close we get the big screen adaptation of Matilda from the musical rather than the book and then the DCEU is back with Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
And then finally we get the animated movie Super Mario Bros.: The Movie starring the famous Nintendo plumber in his first big screen animated movie.
There will be more announcement in time as the end of the year is a little empty at the moment, but there we have it, a year of movies to look forward to, and as you can imagine in this uncertain time, there is every possibility that some movies will be delayed, especially if there is another lockdown and cinemas close.
The Marvel movies are coming thick and fast in latter part of 2021 and this week Eternals makes its debut at the top of the UK box office as it knocks off No Time To Die.
Also new this weekend is
Spencer starring Kristen Stewart as the pate Princess Diana which makes its debut at number 6 with £492,643.
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UK box office top 5 weekend breakdown 5th - 7th November 2021
Directed by Oscar winner Chloe Zhao the latest movie from Marvel Studios lands at number 1 this weekend with a debut gross of £5.4 Million.
This is lower than this years Black Widow which came in at £6.5 Million but in the same ball park as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
The movie has a hard to ahead as there are a number of high profile movies on the horizon which could take audience away, least of all MCU stable mate Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the movie has had some unfavourable reviews.
Bond movie number 25 falls to number 2 this weekend with a gross of £1.9 Million, a 44% decline from last weekend where it went back to the top of the chart.
The movie has taken £89.8 Million over its 6 weeks of release and it is the top movie of 2021 by some margin, and I suspect it will stay there as none of the holiday movie release will have the strength to take nearly £100 Million.
The movie is the 5th top movie of all-time in the UK and as soon as it takes Avatar it will be all Bond in the top 5 except for the top movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and I dont see it breaking that movies £123 Million gross.
Director Denis Villeneuve sci-fi noval adaptation falls to number 3 this weekend with £1.5 Million on its 3rd weekend of release, a 53% decline over last weekend.
The movie has taken £16.8 Million in the UK so far which makes it the 5th top grossing movie of 2021.
Also from the Marvel Studio stable, but the Sony side, the Venom sequel falls to number 4 this weekend with £675,819, a 55% drop.
The movie which has been on release for 4 weeks now has taken £16.2 Million in the UK and is the 8th top movie of 2021.
The animated sequel finishes off the top 5 this week with a gross of £606,181, a 55% drop, giving it a total gross of £5.8 Million.
There was another tight battle fought at the top of the UK box office this week with A Star Is Born just about holding onto the number 1 spot despite the challenge from Halloween.
The Bradley Cooper directed movie is proving to be a big pull with British audiences as the movie manages to stay at the top of the box office for a second week, on its third week of release.
Pulling in £2.8 million for a film in its third week of release is very good, this brings the films total gross to £14.8 million.
Highest new movie of the week is the sequel movie Halloween which is released 40 years after the original John Carpenter directed film and is being billed as a true sequel.
Starring original star Jamie Lee Curtis the film takes an excellent £2.6 million over the weekend, missing the number one spot by just over 200,000 pound.
Being October the Halloween based films are coming thick and fast and a more kid friendly film makes its debut at number 3 with a sequel to the 2015 film Goosebumps starring jack Black.
The original took £2.6 million on its debut and this sequel comes in just lower with £2.1 million.
The inept spy hangs around for a third week taking £1.6 million boosting its total UK gross to £10.9 million, this is lower than the other 2 films in the series at this stage of release.
Sony's Marvel anti-hero movie spends most likely its last week on the top 5 taking £1.5 million takings its UK gross to £16.6 million.
The film is the highest total grossing movie on the box offie this week.
The Disney movie makes a reappearance on the box office this week and by doing so becomes the longest running film on the top 15 with 9 weeks.
The autumn film trailers are coming thick and fast now and today Disney release a new trailer for Ralph Breaks The Internet Wreck-it Ralph 2.
The follow up to the 2013 movie Wreck-It Ralph follows the title hero and Venellope and they try to fix things on the interwebs.
With a release date of November 30th not long to wait now to see if he succeeds.
Check out the new trailer below