£1.1 Million
$14.7 Million
$0This week was the first sign of things may be starting to get back to normal service on the cinema industry and Tom & Jerry: The Movie has the second biggest opening weekend since the spread of the pandemic forced the closure of cinemas a year ago.
There is little else going on this week but the coming months are starting to look better, New York cinemas have started to re-open with limited capacity and on the other side of America California will start to re-open cinema doors soon.
Of not this week is the small amount most films have dropped from last weekend, a sure sign that cinemas are starting to open up, and that people are starting to attend.
US box office Quickview
Here is the US box office top 5 breakdown 26th - 28th February 2021
Warner Bros. have by far been the studio leading to way during the last year as far as releases is concerned, Tenet and Wonder Woman 1984 didn't pay off as much as they had hoped but this live action version of the classic cartoon seems to have hit the spot.
Directed by Tim Story and starring Chlo� Grace Moretz alongside animated versions of the famous cat and mouse the movie takes an incredible $14.11 Million on its opening weekend.
The movie is also available on HBO Max, but if it follows in the steps of fellow kid pic The Croods: A New Age it could be around a while.
Falling from its second spell at the top of the US box office the animated sequel takes $1.25 Million this weekend, down just 27% from last week.
This gives the movie a total gross of $52.43 Million after 14 weeks of release.
Falling to number 3 this week is the John Lee Hancock directed movie which takes $930,000 over the weekend, a drop of just 23%, the movie has taken a very good $12.91 Million over 5 weeks of release.
Director Patty Jenkins sequel remains at 4 and takes $705,000 this weekend, down 12% from last week giving the movie a $43.61 Million total gross after 10 weeks.
Liam Neeson stays put at number 5 this weekend with $701,002, down just 10%, giving the movie a $12.34 Million total from 7 weeks of release.
Peter Rabbit follows in the footsteps of the previous top film Black Panther and makes is 4 weeks at the top in a row.
The film this weeks takes £3.2 million which brings the film total to £32.2 million.
Staying at number 2 this week is Ready Player One which looses ground on Peter Rabbit this week taking £2.4 million from the weekend.
This pushes the Spielberg directed film to a total UK gross of £11.5 million after 2 weekends of release.
Highest new film of the week is A Quiet Place directed by John Krasinski and starring himself and his wife Emily Blunt.
The critically acclaimed film takes £2.7 million on its opening weekend.
Love, Simon is a new entry at number 4 this week and Isle of Dogs from Wes Anderson falles to number 5 this weekend.
7th July 2015
All change yet again at the top of the UK video chart with sequel movie The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel makings its debut.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was released at UK cinemas on 27th February of 2015 and made it's debut at number 1 with a weekend gross of £3.7 million.
A successful run saw the film stay at the top for a total of 3 week, but it's chart run didn't last much longer and it only lasted 6 weeks on the top 15.
The film took £15.5 million at the Uk box office making it the 278th highest grossing film ever. Compared to it's predecessor The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel it was about £5 million behind.
Last weeks top film, Fifty Shades of Grey, fell to the runner up spot this week.
Other new film of the video chart include Jupiter Ascending which enters at number 3, Last Knights which enters at number 5 and It Follows which enters at number 8.
This week sequel movie The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel makes its debut at the top of the UK box office chart.
The original cast returns for the sequel to the 2012 movie with the help of American star Richard Gere who is added to the cast to give it an �American' appeal.
The film takes £3.7 million on it's debut weekend which is far better than the £2.2 million of the original, that film had long lasting appeal, time will tell if this follows.
Falling into the runner up spot after 2 weeks at the top is Fifty Shades Of Grey, a third weekend gross of £2.5 million brings the total to £30.4 million making it by far not the best grossing film of 2015 to date.
Worth mentioning, if the chart were based on the full week ticket sales and not just the weekend, Fifty Shades of Grey would have retained it's position at the top with £5 million.
Other new films to enter the box office this week are: Focus at 3, The Boy Next Door at 7 and It Follows at 8.
Historical charts
A Year ago - The Logo Movie was still riding high at the top of the box office which Liam Neeson starred in the highest new film at 2 Non-Stop.
Five years ago - Avatar was still the top film in the UK while the highest new film was The Crazies which entered at number 3.
Ten years ago - Robert De Nero starred in the chiller Hide and Seek which entered at the top knocking Meet The Fockers down to number 2.
Fifteen years ago - There was no moving Toy Story 2 which spent another week at the top while the highest new film of the week was The Talented Mr. Ripley which entered at number 3.