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Cinemas across the globe started closing down in the middle of March and didn't open again in the UK until early July, so the summer box office period of May till early September has been greatly effected.
Most of the Spring and Summer potential blockbusters got their release dates moved, at least once, including Mulan, A Quiet Place Part II, Tenet and Ghostbusters: Afterlife and some of them got a direct to VOD release, including Mulan!
Tenet did finally get a cinema release at the tale end of August and was just about the biggest film of the summer and when the movie theatres finally opened the box office continued where it left off with the Pixar movie Onward still at the top.
What you will also see in the list of top 10 movies for the summer is evidence that movie theatres used old catalogue titles to try and entice movie goers back hence Jurassic Park and Dirty Dancing showing up.
Here is a breakdown of the top 5 film of the summer box office 2020.
Christopher Nolan potential big summer blockbuster had its difficulties on its way to the box office but it finally got a release on 28th August and was hailed as the saviour of the cinema.
The movie had a good start to its box office career and took £5.3 Million on its debut and took £10 Million over the Summer period.
In comparison the top film of summer 2019 was the The Lion King remake which took over £71 Million.
Disney's Pixar movie Onward was the top film on weekend of 13th March when cinemas closed and when they came back it was still the top movie, it has remained in the top 3 for every UK box office since.
Over the summer the movie took was has tuned out to be quite an impressive £1.6 Million.
After the top 2 potential blockbusters we start to get movies which would not have been big movies, but due to the lack of big blockbusters they got a lot of exposure, maybe still not taking as much as they would have done but having good box office runs.
This Russell Crowe movie was the first new movie to get released after the closures and benefitted from that, it has a big star name and got a decent amount of hype and exposure.
The movie took £1.4 Million over the summer period.
Another movie which has had a decent box office run that would not have without the lack of blockbusters is director Alexs Stadermann likeable animation which took just over a Million pound over the summer.
Perhaps the most controversial movie of the summer, the sequel movie was at the start of the summer the biggest movie to go direct to VOD that would have had a good box office run.
The cinema chains, especially the American company AMC which owns the ODEON chain in the UK objected to this move, this was at a time when the world didn't know how long the closures would last.
Despite the release onto VOD the movie still took a very respectable £745K at the UK box office, this is no where near tens of million it has taken on digital.
This week we have a couple of new entries at the top two positions on the home entertainment chart in the shape of 1917 and Onward which pushes Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker down to number 3.
Top new film of the week is Sam Mendes World War 2 drama which also takes over at number 1 from the last Star Wars Movie.
The film was a smash hit at the UK box office at the beginning of the year where it entered the chart at number 1 and stayed for 4 weeks.
the film has currently taken £43.7 Million in the UK and is the top grossing movie so far in 2020, it also took $159.2 Million in the US and $368.2 Million globally.
Pixars last movie had a tough time at the box office, it was a new franchise for the animation studio so had to prove itself then 2 weeks after release all cinemas closed due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Pixar tried to make the best of things by offering the movie for rent for £20, we dont know how successful this was but the movie is not available to buy and with schools closed the movie makes a number 2 debut.
After 3 weeks at the top that last of the Star Wars sage movies falls to number 3 this week.
Second week on the chart for Taika Waititi's satirical World War 2 movie as it falls to number 4.
It may not have been the bog hit at the cinemas Warner Bros. was hoping for but the Margot Robbie movie spends its 3rd week on the home entertainment chart and is at number 5 this week.
Here is the full home entertainment chart for week 13th May 2020.
News hit yesterday that Phil Lord And Chris Miller had left as directors of the untitled Han Solo movie.
Today news hits that Ron Howard will finish off directing the movie, so what does this mean.
Lucafilms have worked with the director before with the fantasy hit Willow from 1988.
He is a very good director and has great vision and know how to tell a story, this might mean re-writes of the story, and more importantly is will mean a very different sytle.
Production was half way through but Ron Howard will want to put his stamp on the film, he is not a director for hire and I think there will be many re-shoots and we will get a very different movie.
Better? Who know, we never will, but it is good news.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard will assume directorial duties on the untitled Han Solo film. https://t.co/Ki04TAoKEe pic.twitter.com/7LvRyTUt6t
— Star Wars (@starwars) June 22, 2017