Last weekend saw Spider-Man: No Way Home at the top of the UK box office, with 5 new releases can any of them do enough to top the box office chart this weekend?

Here are this weeks new releases

• Sing 2
• Flag Day
• Amulet
• Detective Chinatown 3
• Parallel Mother's

Sing 2

• The movie is directed by Garth Jennings, it is the directors 4th movie.
• Garth Jennings also directed Sing in 2017 which grossed £28.8 Mil. in the UK and grossed $634.1 Mil. globally.
• It stars Matthew McConaughey who also starred in The Paperboy (2013).
• The film also stars Reese Witherspoon who last appeared in A Wrinkle In Time (2018).
• Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon have starred in 2 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Sing (2017) and Mud (2013).
• The BBFC UK age rating is
• Box Office Prediction: No. 1

Flag Day

• The movie is directed by Sean Penn, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Sean Penn also directed Into the Wild in 2007 which grossed £742.2K in the UK.
• It stars Dylan Penn who also starred in Condemned (2015).
• The film also stars Sean Penn who last appeared in Licorice Pizza (2021).
• The BBFC UK age rating is
• Box Office Prediction: No. 8

Amulet

• The movie is from director Romola Garai
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Carla Juri who also starred in Six Minutes to Midnight (2021).
• The film also stars Alec Secareanu who last appeared in Ammonite (2020).
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Detective Chinatown 3

• The movie is directed by Sicheng Chen, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Sicheng Chen also directed Detective Chinatown 2 in 2018 which grossed £57K in the UK and grossed $544.2 Mil. globally.
• It stars Baoqiang Wang who also starred in Assembly (2008).
• The film also stars Haoran Liu who last appeared in Embrace Again (2021).
• Baoqiang Wang and Haoran Liu have starred in 4 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Detective Chinatown (2015), Detective Chinatown 2 (2018), My People, My Homeland (2020) and Buddies In India (2017).
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Parallel Mother's

• The movie is directed by Pedro Almodovar, it is the directors 23rd movie.
• Pedro Almodovar also directed Bad Education in 2004 which grossed £1.2 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Penélope Cruz who also starred in The Greek Labyrinth (1993).
• The film also stars Milena Smit who is making a feature film debut.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

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

Next week there are 3 new movies released

• Moonfall, Friday, 4th February
• Jackass Forever, Friday, 4th February
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Friday, 4th February

This weekend, Friday 14th January 2022, there are 3 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home, for the number 1 spot?

Here are this weeks new releases

• Scream
• Embrace Again
• Save the Cinema

Scream

• The movie is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett also directed Devil's Due in 2014 which grossed £1.8 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Neve Campbell who also starred in Drowning Mona (2000).
• The film also stars Courteney Cox who last appeared in Friends 25th: The One With the Anniversary (2019).
• Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox have starred in 4 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Scream 2 (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Scream (1996) and Scream 4 (2011).
• UK box office prediction: Number 1

Embrace Again

• The movie is directed by Xiaolu Xue, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Xiaolu Xue also directed My People, My Country in 2019 which grossed £135.3K in the UK and grossed $450.1 Mil. globally.
• It stars Bo Huang who also starred in Crazy Alien (2019).
• The film also stars Ling Jia who last appeared in Hi, Mom (2021).
• They also appeared together in My People, My Homeland (2020).

Save the Cinema

• The movie is directed by Sara Sugarman, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Sara Sugarman also directed Very Annie Mary in 2001.
• It stars Samantha Morton who also starred in John Carter (2012).
• The film also stars Tom Felton who last appeared in Braking For Whales (2019).
• UK box office prediction: Number 8

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

Next week there are 3 new movies released

• Belfast, Friday, 21st January
• Nightmare Alley, Friday, 21st January
• A Journal For Jordan, Friday, 21st January

With the 2020 box office collapsing in March due to the global pandemic the Chinese market was the first an quickest to recover and it dominated the global scene over the whole year.

The top grossing movie of the year was The Eight Hundred wich was released in August and did big business in China.

Chinese films accounted for 6 of the top 20 movies of the year and 7 of the movie were released in 2019 with a holdover in 2020.

Tenet which was the first big movie released during the pandemic made it into the top 5 movies of the year despite being considered a flop.

Many movies have had there releases moved to 2021 and cinemas did not have the massive tentpole pictures that would have pulled in over a Billion dollars in revenue, in fact its the first time in over a decade there has been no movie taking over $1 Billion.

Here are the top 5 movies by gross across the globe in 2020.

The Eight Hundred

A massive hit in China the action war epic is directed by Hu Guan and took $161 Million on its full opening weekend.

Over its full global release the movie took $441.8 Million making the top grossing global movie of the year.

Bad Boys For Life

After a lengthy gap Will Smith and Martin Lawrence re-teamed as the Miami cops and the movie was a global smash.

Released at the start of the year its release just missed the cinemas closures due to COVID-19 and took $418.2 Million.

1917

Sam Mendes released his Oscar nominated was movie in America in late 2019 but got its global release in early 2020 and its the 3rd top movie of 2020 with $375.4 Million.

My People, My Homeland

Directed by 7 of Chinas top directors this anthology movie took $101 Million durings its Chinese opening.

Globally the movie is the 4th highest grossing of the year with $371.1 Million.

Tenet

In America this movie was moved to an August release with studios hoping that cinemas would have re-opened after 4 months of closures, but the global pandemic had other ideas and although countries has started to re-opened cinemas had limited capacity.

The movie did relatively well in global cinemas but with mixed reviews it was not the film Warner Bros. had hoped, but a top five of the year is not bad with a gross of $362.6.

Japan led the way on the global stage this weekend as the animated movie Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train topped the global box office with a record breaking Japanese debut.

China also did well again this weekend as its box office continued to do well in what can be seen as a post COVID-19 re-opening.

Here is the global box office Quickview

• Number 1 - Demon Slayer: The Movie Mugen Train (1 week)
• Highest debut - Demon Slayer: The Movie Mugen Train (@1)
• Longest run - Greenland (11 weeks)
• Highest total gross - My People, My Homeland ($360,270,102)

Here is a breakdown of the global top 5 16th - 18th October 2020

Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train

Breaking the record for the biggest ever opening for a film in Japan the animated movie took nearly $44 Million on its debut.

A great opening for the Haruo Sotozaki directed movie and a great sign that cinema is open again, in Japan at least.

My People, My Homeland

With Chinese cinema doing well over the last couple of weekends its current number 1 movie falls to number 2 on the global box office with $19.1 Million.

After 3 weeks the movie has now taken $360.2 Million globally.

Honest Thief

Getting a release in the US and topping the chart there has given the Liam Neeson movie a massive boost and the film jumps from 18 to number 3 with $4.7 Million globally, up 91% from last weekend.

The film has taken $6.3 Million in total after 2 weeks of release.

Tenet

The Christopher Nolan movie has had a troubled time at the cinema but despite that its at number 4 this weekend with $4,4 Million.

The film has a global take of $334 Million after 8 weeks of release.

The War With Grandpa

The Tim Hill directed comedy falls to number 5 this week with $2.6 Million over the weekend pushing its total gross to $11.1 Million after 5 weeks of release.

The two big Chinese hits My People, My Homeland and Legend Of Deification are still the biggest films across the globe this weekend but The Wars With Grandpa and Greenland make good ground as they open in more countries.

Here is the global box office top 15 Quickview.

• Number 1 - My People, My Homeland (2 weeks)
• Highest debut - NONE
• Longest run - Trolls World Tour (24 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Tenet ($323,500,000)

This weeks global top 5 breakdown 9th - 11th October 2020.

My People, My Homeland

This Chinese smash sequel from directors Hao Ning and Sicheng Chen stays at the top for a second weekend with $41.1 Million, 73% down from last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross globally of $312.1 Million.

Legend of Deification

Remaining at number 2 for a second weekend is the animated tale from directors Teng Cheng and Li Wei which takes $11.3 Million, a 93% drop from last weekend.

The movie has now taken $163.2 Million globally, but its only been released in China so far!

Tenet

Loosing momentum but still at number 3, Christopher Nolans movie takes $9.8 Million over the weekend, a 31% drop, for a total of $323.5 Million.

The War With Grandpa

The Robert De Niro starring movie gets a US release this week and goes back up to number 4 with $9.8 Million, 86% up from last weekend, giving it a total global gross of $5.4 Million.

Greenland

The latest Gerard Butler movie is getting a direct to VOD release in many parts of the world but where it is out its doing well and goes up to number 5 this weekend with $2.8 Million, up 83%.

The movie has taken $29 Million globally after 10 weeks of release.