While the ninth Fast movie continues to do well across the globe before the release of Black Widow next week and hence stays at the top animated feature The Boss Baby 2 makes a new entry at number 3.

Also making a new entry this weekend is The Forever Purge which is at number 4 and Chinese movie The Pioneer makes its debut at 7 with over $10 Million.

Global box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Fast & Furious 9 (3rd Weekend total)
• Highest debut - The Boss Baby 2 (@3)
• Longest Run - Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (15 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Fast & Furious 9 ($491.506 Million)

Global box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th July 2021

Fast & Furious 9

The ninth movie in The Fast Saga remains at the top of the global box office for a second consecutive weekend with $47.8 Million from 51 countries, a rather large 56% drop from last weekend.

The movie has now been on release globally for 7 weeks and has taken $491.5 Million, the movie should break half a billion by next weekend.

1921

The Chinese movie jumps up to number 2 this weekend as its release in more countries, this week its count is 4 and it takes $21.6 Million, an expected 46% increase from last weekend.

After 2 weeks of release the movie has taken $45.7 Million globally.

The Boss Baby 2

The animated sequel makes its global debut this weekend at number 3 with a debut gross of $18.8 Million.

Released in only 9 countries so far the movie will stick around for a while as it opens across the globe.

The Forever Purge

Also making a debut this weekend is the fifth movie in The Purge series which enters at 4 with $16.3 Million from 23 territories.

Cruella

Closing out the top 5 this weekend is Disney's hit movie which takes $11.5 Million from 44 countries, a slender 19% drop and after 6 weeks the movie has taken $204.3 Million.

For home video enthusiasts today is a very sad day as Pioneer have announced they will stop making laserdisk players this month (June 2009).

Initially brought to market in 1978 under the name of DiscoVision the 12 inch disks were going to revolutionise home entertainment and bring that cinema quality high definition picture to the home.

Although the technology inside the huge players was far superior to that of it's magnetic tape (VHS and Beta) equivalents the lack of storage (60 minutes on each side) and high price stopped them from becoming a mainstream purchase.

American video enthusiasts took to the devices as did the Japanese, but Europe never really embraced the devices. VHS had a strong hold, and by the time people realised that their £15 film on the fragile tape was a bad idea and looked for alternatives the 5 inch DVD was hitting the market.

Here is a list of the top selling films on the Laserdisk format: -

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2. The Lion King
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4. True Lies

Despite it's hard life the format has laser 30 years and sold a quite respectable 360 million units. Disks didn't shift that many, Star Wars was one of the biggest sellers with 100,000 sold and The Lion King not far behind, although exact sales data is hard to find.