Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 19th November 2021, there are 3 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Eternals from the top of the UK box office.

Here are this weeks new releases

• Ghostbusters: Afterlife
• The Battle At Lake Changjin
• King Richard

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

• The movie is directed by Jason Reitman, it is the directors 9th movie.
• Jason Reitman also directed Tully in 2018 which grossed £494.4K in the UK and grossed $15.6 Mil. globally.
• It stars Finn Wolfhard who also starred in How It Ends (2021).
• The film also stars Mckenna Grace who last appeared in Malignant (2021).
• Uk box office prediction: number 1

The Battle At Lake Changjin

• The movie is directed by Kaige Chen and Dante Lam, it is the directors 19th movie.
• Kaige Chen and Dante Lam also directed My People, My Country in 2019 which grossed £135.3K in the UK and grossed $450.1 Mil. globally.
• It stars Jing Wu who also starred in My Country, My Parents (2021).
• The film also stars Jackson Yee who last appeared in Hero (2021).

King Richard

• The movie is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Reinaldo Marcus Green also directed Good Joe Bell in 2020.
• It stars Will Smith who also starred in Bad Boys For Life (2020).
• The film also stars Aunjanue Ellis who last appeared in If Beale Street Could Talk (2019).
• Uk box office prediction: number 3

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 4 new movies released

• Encanto, Wednesday, 24th November
• House of Gucci, Friday, 26th November
• Pirates, Friday, 26th November
• A Boy Called Christmas, Friday, 26th November

The new Bond movie No Time To Die has climbed to number 1 on its second weekend of release replacing last weeks top movie The Battle at Lake Changjin.

With the Bond movie spreading to even movie countries this weekend and no big new releases there were no new movies on the top 10 global box office.

Global box office QuickView

• Number 1 - No Time To Die (1st week)
• Highest debut - There were no new movies this weekend
• Longest run - The Paw Patrol Movie (9 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ($401 Million)

Global box office top 5 weekend breakdown 8th - 10th October 2021.

No Time To Die

The 25th Bond movie goes wider this week with a release in countries like America where it made its debut at the top, and hit the top of the global box office with a weekend gross of $145.5 Million from 67 countries, an 18% increase from last weekend.

The movie has turned into one of the biggest Bond movie of all time and to far has taken $313.2 Million, and its the 8th top movie of 2021 globally.

The Battle At Lake Changjin

The Chinese hit movie falls from the top to number 2 this weekend with a gross 53% lower than last weekend at $108.3 Million, the movie is still only released in China.

This pushes the movie total gross to $632 Million and its the 4th top movie of 2021 globally.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

The Venom sequel remains at number 3 this weekend with $56.8 Million from 14 countries, a 45% drop, giving the movie a total global gross of $185.5 Million after 2 weeks.

My Country, My Parents

Remaining at number 4 this weekend is the second hit Chinese of the weekend with $19 Million from 3 countries, a massive 78% drop, this gives the movie a total global gross of $181.8 Million after 2 weeks.

The Addams Family 2

The sequel animated movie stays at number 5 this weekend with $14.5 Million from 13 countries, a 19% drop, giving the movie a total of $35.7 after 2 weeks.

This weekend might go down in history as the weekend where cinema across the globe came back to life after the pandemic as globally there were 5 massive new releases which out performed expectations and created an all new box office top 5.

At the top is the Chinese movie The Battle At Lake Changjin which was only released in China and yet out grossed all in its path, then there was the new Bond movie No Time To Die which is the second top movie of the weekend.

The North American champion Venom: Let There Be Carnage makes its debut at three, while the Chinese movie My Country, My Parents is at 4 and finally The Addams Family 2 is new at 5.

Last weeks top movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings falls to number 6 this weekend.

Global box office QuickView

• Number 1 - The Battle At Lake Changjin (1st Weekend)
• Highest debut = The Battle At Lake Changjin (@1)
• Longest run - The Paw Patrol Movie (8 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ($386.9 Million)

Global box office top 5 breakdown 1st - 3rd October 2021.

The Battle At Lake Changjin

Released only in China the highly anticipated war movie starring Jing Wu and directed by Kaige Chen, Dante Lam and Hark Tsui takes 40% of this weeks global top 10 with a debut gross of $232.9 Million.

This is one of the biggest debut weekends in China and is a real sign that the Chinese public are going back to the movies, it out preforms No Time To Die by over $100 Million.

Very impressively the movie is already the 8th top movie globally of 2021.

No Time To Die

The long delayed 25th James Bond movie finally makes its debut and lands at number 2 on the global box office with a very impressive $119.1 Million from 54 locations.

The movie is still to open in many bog markets including North America and China, so this is just the start of its long box office run helping to bring people back to cinemas.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Getting a release in just 2 territories this week the superhero villain movie from the Spider-Man universe lands on the global box office at 3 with $103 Million.

$90 Million of this was in North America where is landed at number 1, the movie is still to be released in most of the world but the sequel movie has made an impressive start.

My Country, My Parents

Another movie which has only been released in China this weekend the threequel has been over shadowed by the number 1 movie The Battle At Lake Changjin but still gets an impressive debut at number 4 with $90.6 Million.

The Addams Family 2

Completing an all new top 5 the sequel animated movie, like most of this weeks top 5, is only released in 1 country and land at 5 with $18 Million.