Director Kenneth Branagh follows up Murder on the Orient Express~2017 and Death on the Nile~2020 with another Agatha Christie novel, this time A Haunting In Venice which has been given a 12A age rating in the UK for moderate threat, violence, suicide references
Kenneth Branagh himself stars in the movie movie as Hercule Poirot and this his co-stars are the likes of Kelly Reilly who has been in 1320~2011 and Last Orders as well as Michelle Yeoh who has starred in Butterfly and Sword and Master Z: The IP Man Legacy.
Kenneth Branagh has helmed 23 movie to day with movies including All Is True and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein.
Movie Synopsis
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a murder while attending a Halloween seance at a haunted palazzo in Venice, Italy.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 3rd February 2023, there are 9 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 UK box office.
Check out other new releases from around the world.
Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
J.J. Abrams epic end to the Skywalker Saga remains at the top for a second weekend over the Christmas period while the animated movie Spies In Disguise makes its debut inside the top 5.
Second week of release for the Lucasfilms/Disney end of saga release and it retains its place at the top of the box office with a weekend gross of $166.3 Million from 53 countries.
This pushes the films total gross to $724.7 Million after 2 weeks of release, the movie should make it to over a Billion but it will have its work cut out to beat the $1.3 Billion of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Director Jake Kasdan's Jumanji sequel remains at number 2 this week with a weekend gross of $96.9 Million from 63 countries.
this takes to films total global gross to $471.4 Million after 3 weeks of release, the movie may struggle to get over a Billion in total gross as did Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle 2 years ago.
Disney's sequel to one of its highest grossing animated movies takes $58.7 Million this week from 54 countries and is at number 3.
The film now has a total gross of $1.2 Billion after 6 weeks of release and has now surpassed to total gross of the first Frozen movie.
Disney inherited this Will Smith and Tom Holland starring movie in its buyout of 20th Century Fox and the film lands at number 4 this week with $29.2 Million from 33 countries.
Including previews this gives the film a total gross to date of $38 Million.
The sequel movie from China takes $28.8 Million this week from 12 countries putting it at number 5 on the global box office and its total sites at $111.8 Million after 2 weeks of release.
There was never going to be any doubt that Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker was going to be big on its release, the question was how big, and actually it has disappointed a bit.
The final instalment in the Star Wars Skywalker saga hits the top of the global box office in its debut weekend with $375 Million from 57 countries.
This is perhaps a disappointing debut for such a high profile film like Star Wars and Disney may perhaps have been looking for a bigger debut, it is the lowest debut of the sequel trilogy.
The film got a closer to Christmas release and traditionally at this time of year films take longer to get to their total gross.
The Karen Gillan and Dwayne Johnson sequel movie falls to number 2 this week with a weekend gross of $58.7 Million from 53 countries which brings its total gross to $311.9 after 3 weeks.
The fourth in the IP Man series of films, and supposedly the last, hit the global box office at number 3 this week with $51.5 Million from 7 countries.
With previews the film has taken $52.2 Million so far.
Disney's sequel smash hit takes $43.9 Million from 49 countries as it falls to number 4 on the box office.
The film now has a total gross of $1.1 Billion after 5 weeks of release as it fast approaches the global gross of the first Frozen movie.
The Chinese hit film falls to number 5 with $23.9 Million from 2 countries for a 2 week total of $77.4 Million.
No surprise to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens remain at the top of the video sales chart this week.
Destined to be one of the top selling films of the year, the home video release of the top film ever in the UK is still selling is large quantities.
Highest new film of the week is the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co starring film Sisters.
Sisters was released at the UK box office the same weekend as The Force Awakens, and did quite well considering with an opening weekend of £1.2 million.
The film did only hang around for 4 weeks in total and during that time took a small £2.6 million.
Despite the good reviews the film did do that well, but it was in a time when the world was gripped in Star Wars fever and nothing else really mattered.
Also new this week are 2 other new releases: Joy is new at 3, Exposed is new at number 7, IP Man 3 enters at number 10 and Krampus is new at number 12.