Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix the historical drama Napoleon~2023 hits the top on its debut with a weekend gross of £5.2 Million.

Ridley Scott's last movie House of Gucci took £2.5 Million on its debut but that was during he COVID19 pandemic!.

Joaquin Phoenix last movie, Beau Is Afraid, took £231,370 earlier this year.

Last weeks top movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes falls a single place to number 2 this weekend with a 50% drop from last week.

Also new this weekend is the latest Disney movie that has DNA closely attached to the companies smash hit Frozen~2023, Wish this weekend lands at number 3 with £2.4 Million.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 24th - 26th November 2023

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £2,689,642 over the weekend, a 50% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £10,124,336 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is a sequel to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 which took £19,323,711 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie is a new entry at number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £2,432,228 over its debut weekend

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £485,099 over the weekend, a 61% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £6,564,314 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is a sequel to Captain Marvel which took £29,494,637 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.

Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix stars in the new movie directed by Ridley Scott which is based on the story of Napoleon Bonaparte and the movie has been given a 15 age rating in the UK for strong bloody violence, injury detail, sex

Joaquin Phoenix brought to the screen his version of Joker in 2019 but he has also starred in Secret Witness and Reservation Road, the movie also stars Vanessa Kirby who has starred in Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs and Shaw and The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.

Director Ridley Scott is one of the most celebrated directors in Hollywood at the moment and has directed movies such as White Squall and Prometheus.

Movie Synopsis

Historical epic action drama depicting Napoleon Bonaparte's military rise to power and his tumultuous relationship with his beloved wife Josephine.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: Napoleon~2023
• BBFC age rating: 15 Certificate
• Reason: strong bloody violence, injury detail, sex
• Release date: 22nd November 2023
• Runtime: 157 minutes (2 hours 37 minutes)
• The movie is being released into movie theatres
• Directed by:
  • Ridley Scott
• Starring:
  • Joaquin Phoenix
  • Vanessa Kirby
  • Ben Miles

BBFC movie page

Lady GaGa has today, 4th August 2022, revealed, via a short video, that she will be in the sequel movie Joker: Folie a Deux.

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— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) August 4, 2022

The follow up to the 2019 Joker~2019 movie is one again set to be directed and written by Todd Phillips and star the Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker.

The new movie is set for release on 4th October 2024 and will be based mainly in Arkham City, the mental institution in Gotham City within the Batman Universe.

GaGa is set to play Harley Quinn, a role made famous by Margot Robbie in the recent Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn movies, but this movie is set in a different universe, or Multiverse you could say!

Filming will start soon, once Todd Phillips has finished the script, ready for its 2024 release.

Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 24th December 2021, there are 3 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Spider-Man: No Way Home from the top of the UK box office.

Here are this weeks new releases

• The Matrix Resurrections
• Don't Look Up
• The King's Man

The Matrix Resurrections

• The movie is directed by Lana Wachowski, it is the directors 8th movie.
• Lana Wachowski also directed Jupiter Ascending in 2015 which grossed £4.4 Mil. in the UK and grossed $183.9 Mil. globally.
• It stars Keanu Reeves who also starred in Thumbsucker (2005).
• The film also stars Carrie-Anne Moss who last appeared in The Clockwork Girl (2014).
• Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss have starred in 4 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Animatrix (2003) and The Matrix (1999).
• UK box office prediction: 2

Don't Look Up

• The movie is directed by Adam McKay, it is the directors 10th movie.
• Adam McKay also directed Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy in 2004 which grossed £1.5 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Leonardo DiCaprio who also starred in The Aviator (2005).
• The film also stars Jennifer Lawrence who last appeared in X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019).

The King's Man

• The movie is directed by Matthew Vaughn, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Matthew Vaughn also directed Kingsman: The Golden Circle in 2017 which grossed £24.9 Mil. in the UK and grossed $410.9 Mil. globally.
• It stars Ralph Fiennes who also starred in Quiz Show (1995).
• The film also stars Gemma Arterton who last appeared in Summerland (2020).
• They also appeared together in and Clash of the Titans (2010).
• UK box office prediction: 4

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

Next week there are 6 new movies released

• The Lost Daughter, Friday, 17th December
• Malibu Road, Thursday, 9th September
• Titane, Friday, 31st December
• Si Hai, Friday, 24th December
• Spaceman, Friday, 24th December
• Perfect Blue, Friday, 24th December

As the hunger for Tenet starts to slow down across the globe it remains at the top of the global box office with a narrow lead over the Chinese movie The Eight Hundred which sits at 2.

With a reflection on how movie studios are once again concerned about the release of their films waiting for an audience there is no new films on the top end of the global box office with the highest debut Infidel at 7 with $1.3 Million.

World box office quickview

• Number 1 - Tenet
• Highest debut - Infidel
• Longest run - Onward (28 weeks)
• Highest total gross - The Eight Hundred ($425,000,000)

Here is a rundown of the global top 5 movies.

Tenet

The buzz is starting to slow down now but Warner Bros. is seeing the movies box office run as a long term thing rather than short term, this weekend the film took $25.4 Million.

The film has now taken $217.2 Million worldwide after 4 weeks of release.

The Eight Hundred

The Chinese movie that has taken nearly half a billion dollars in its native alone has started to get a release across the rest of the world and this week takes $17.7 Million.

Altohugh its not expected the movie will be as successful outside of China it will be one of the top films of the year (because of COVID-19) and so far had a total global gross of $425 Million.

Mulan

With the Disney movie going direct to VOD in much of the world the box office taking have been severely effected, altohugh tepid reviews wont have helped as the movie takes $10.9 Million this week largely from China.

This pushes the movies total global gross to $57 Million, Disney have not given and VOD data for America or Europe so its hard to compare.

In comparison over the last few years the Disney live action remakes have largely grossed over a Billion collars worldwide.

After We Collided

This sleeper hit from director Roger Kumble is at number 4 this weekend with a weekend gross of $3.8 Million giving the movie a $28.5 Million total after 4 weeks of release.

The New Mutants

At number 5 is the Disney mutant movie which has been given such a hard time, taking $3.5 million over the weekend it has a $35 million total after 4 weeks.

Although not really a fair comparison the last X-Men movie X-Men: Dark Phoenix took $252.4 Million worldwide!