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$0The long running Scream series of movies which started with Scream~1997 in 1997 has reached its 6th movie and this week it proves that its still alive and well as Scream VI debuts on the US box office with a series high.
Adam Driver stars in 65 which makes its debut at number 3 on this weeks US box office while also new this weekend is Champions~2023 at number 7 with $5 Million.
Highest new movie this weekend
Ghostface hits New York this weekend in the 6th movie in the long running Scream~1997 series and does so with a series high debut of $44.5 Million.
The series which was started by horror master director Wes Craven in the mid '90 is showing no signs of slowing down and the success of this episode which guarantee more movies, even if the original stars disappear one by one from the franchise.
After making its debut at the top last weekend the Creed II sequel drop one place, but still manages a decent $27 Million which takes the movies total over the $100 Million milestone.
Making its debut at number 3 this weekend is a new take on the Dinosaur movie, this time its more of a horror movie than the mega successful Jurassic Park series.
The movie take a decent $12 Million on its debut.
The latest in the MCU movies falls to number 4 this weekend with $7 Million taking its total to $197.9 Million after 4 weeks of release.
The Elizabeth Banks directed movie about a cocaine fueled bear falls to number 5 this weekend as the movie total gross goes past the $50 Million mark after 3 weeks of release.
After one of the funnier moment from the movies director at the Oscars this weekend it will be interesting to see if this has a positive impact on the movies box office.
Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 12th 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
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
To coin a phrase from a much loved movie, 'There Can Be Only One', this was true back in the midsts of time when Betamax had a fight with VHS and the same is true now, but unlike back then it looks like the better format this time has won.
So what's all this about, it's about the next generation DVD high definition format wars that has been taking place over the last year or so, two competing camps headed by Sony and Toshiba have been trying to bring a high definition successor to the DVD to market and both have been rallying to get the support of the studios to release their films on the two formats.
The various studios have been one by one taking sides, Sony of course have a large catalogue of film, from themselves and their buy out of Columbia pictures, also with large catalogues are Disney (along with Buena Vista) who have taken the Blu-Ray route and Paramount and Universal. Paramount and Universal pledged their support for HD-DVD back last year to much controversy and large amounts of money allegedly changing hands.
Warner have been on the fence about this and have been releasing films on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray, until now, Warner have now announced that they are to go Blu-ray exclusive on all their films, starting in May.
Clearly this has sent a huge shudder through the HD-DVD ranks as Paramount/Universal are now the only major studio to be backing HD-DVD, and my money is on them making a u-turn sometime this year.
To add salt to the wound New Line have also announced their allegiance to Blue-ray which means that a certain fantasy trilogy by Peter Jackson* won't be long before it's making it's way to high-def.
In figures just released Blu-ray is now outselling HD-DVD by 70% so the writing was on the wall before Warner made the announcement and in truth they have just made a good business decision to go with the stronger format.
This looks to have resolved the format was once and for all, this time next year HD-DVD should be a thing of the past and go in the Betamax hall of fame.