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US release: 9th January 2026Last weekend Thor: Love and Thunder spent a second weekend at the top of the UK box office , there is 1 new releases this weekend, can it do enough to top the UK box office this weekend? Can it make its debut inside the top 5?
Here is this weeks new releases
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Thor: Love and Thunder unsurprisingly stays at the top of the North American box office on its second weekend of release dropping by 68% from its debut last weekend.
Highest new movie of the weekend is Where the Crawdad's Sing at number 3 while there are also new entries for Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank at number 6 with $6.2 Million, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris at number 9 with $1.9 Million and Gone In the Night at number 13 with $121,000.
Spending a second weekend at the top of the US box office is the latest in the Marvel movies produced and released by Disney.
The fourth Thor movie takes $46 Million this weekend which is 68% down from the previous weekends gross.
This gives the movie a total US gross of $233 Million which makes the movie the 6th top film of 2022.
Remaining at number 2 for a second weekend is the sequel movie to Minions which takes $26 Million in its third weekend of release, a resonable 44% drop.
The movie has now taken $262.5 Million in North America and is the 5th top movie of 2022.
Highest new movie of the weekend
Highest new movie of the weekend is the adaptation of the Delia Owens released in 2018, the movie stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Taylor John Smith and is directed by Olivia Newman.
It takes $17 Million at the US box office on its debut weekend of release.
Eight weeks on for the Tom Cruise starring sequel from 1986's Top Gun which this weekend takes $12 Million, a small 23% drop for a movie 8 weeks in its box office run.
The movie has now taken an amazing $617.9 Million at the North American box office and is the top movie of 2022 where it could stay till year end.
The movie has also climbed up the all time US box office and is currently the 12 top movie ever in North America.
The Elvis Presley bio-pic from director Baz Luhrmann drops to number 5 this weekend with a gross of $7.6 Million, a 32% drop, giving the movie a total US gross of $106.2 Million after 4 weeks of release.
Based on the 2018 novel by author Delia Owens, Where The Crawdads Sing has been given a 15 age rating in the UK for sexual violence, domestic abuse.
The movie stars Daisy Edgar-Jones is was last seen in the movie Fresh~2022 from earlier this year but was also seen in the TV series War of the Worlds and Gentleman Jack, it also stars Taylor John Smith who was last seen in Blacklight.
The movie is directed by Olivia Newman who is a celebrated TV director and last directed the wresting drama movie First Match in 2018.
Movie Synopsis
Abandoned as a girl, Kya raised herself in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the marsh girl haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, she opens herself to a new and startling world. However, when one of them is found dead, Kya immediately becomes the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal many secrets.
BBFC certificate breakdown.