Last weekend Transformers: Rise of the Beasts was at the top of the North American box office, there are 3 new releases this weekend, will any of them top the US box office this weekend?

Check out other new releases from around the world.

• The Flash
• Extraction 2
• Elemental

The Flash

• The movie is directed by Andy Muschietti, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Andy Muschietti also directed Historias Breves 3 in 1999.
• It stars Ezra Miller who also starred in Every Day (2010).
• The film also stars Ben Affleck who was last seen in Hypnotic (2023).
• Ezra Miller and Ben Affleck have starred in 4 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Suicide Squad in 2016, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, Zack Snyder's Justice League in 2021 and Justice League in 2017.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Extraction 2

• The movie is directed by Sam Hargrave, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Sam Hargrave also directed Extraction in 2020.
• It stars Chris Hemsworth who also starred in Avengers: Endgame (2019).
• The film also stars Olga Kurylenko who was last seen in The Princess (2022).
• Sam Hargrave directed Chris Hemsworth in Extraction
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Elemental

• The movie is directed by Peter Sohn, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Peter Sohn also directed The Good Dinosaur in 2015 which grossed $123.1 Mil. in the US and grossed $329.1 Mil. globally.
• It stars Leah Lewis who also starred in Fred 3: Camp Fred (2012).
• The film also stars Mamoudou Athie who was last seen in Jurassic World: Dominion (2022).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

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

Next week there are 8 new movies released

• Seize the Carp - Monday, 19th June - streaming
• Phels High - Tuesday, 20th June
• The Magnificent Raiders of Dimension War One - Wednesday, 21st June
• He Killed In Ecstasy - Wednesday, 21st June
• God Is a Bullet - Friday, 23rd June
• Past Lives - Friday, 2nd June
• Asteroid City - Friday, 23rd June
• No Hard Feelings - Friday, 23rd June

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.