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$0Illumination, the Universal animation arm, scores another massive hit with their video game adaptation The Super Mario Bros. Movie which makes its debut with the highest gross ever by an animated feature, take that Disney!
Director and star Ben Affleck takes his new movie Air to number 2 this weekend with a debut gross of $20 Million which is the directors second best gross after The Town which took $23 Million on its debut.
John Wick: Chapter 4 falls to number 3 this week while Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves falls from its debut of number 1 last week to number 4 this week, it seems to be hitting a similar audience to The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Scream VI falls to number 5 while Paint about the famous painter Bob Ross is new at number 9 with $750,000
Highest new movie this weekend
It was the Chinese new year this last weekend and the global box office saw a wave of the hits with the sequel to 2021's The Battle At Lake Changjin, The Battle At Lake Changjin II topping the list.
Also worthy of a comment is that the whole top 5 this week are new entries which meant that Spider-Man: No Way Home gets pushed down to number 6 on its 8th weekend of release.
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Global box office top 5 weekend breakdown 4th - 6th February 2022
The Chinese only release of The Battle At Lake Changjin was the top grossing movie of 2021 when it was released in early October, that was until Spider-Man: No Way Home came in and spoiled the party.
The sequel gets its release this weekend in just 2 countries and knocks the Spider-man movie from the top with a debut weekend of $153.4 Million, although this is lower than the $232 Million debut of the previous movie.
The future looks good for the film and with the longevity the previous movie had this could be around for a number of weeks to come.
To top of a very good weekend for the movie it had instantly become the second best global movie of 2022.
Directed by Xing Wenxiong action comedy makes it debut at number 2 this week with a gross of $111.5 Million from a single country release.
On its debut weekend the movie has become the fourth top movie of 2022.
Making its debut at number 3 is this new movies from director Muye Wen which takes $45.5 Million on its opening weekend from just one country of release.
The movie is the 8th top movie of 2022.
The latest movie in the long running animated Boonie Bear series, this time from director Huida Lin, makes its debut at 4 with $38.9 Million from its single country of release.
The movie has just snuck into the top 10 movies of 2022 at number 10.
To finish off the top 5 is the new sequel to the long running Jackass series which stars Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O.
What is reported to be the last movie, maybe because of the age of the principle cast, the movie makes its debut with $28.7 Million from just 10 countries.
The US box office got off to a good start for the first quarter of the year by which time the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence movie Bad Boys For Life was the surprise top movie, then in March everything changed.
When the pandemic hit hard cinemas closed for 4 months and although there were weekly charts it was mainly from drive in theatres and studios started shifting release dates hoping things would get back to normal by the end of the year.
Tenet opened in August and it was considered Warner Bros. opened it too early and the movie despite taking $58 Million was considered a flop.
Studios have moved their films around even more since cinemas started to re-open and have gone into 2021 or been moved to streaming, but Warner Bros. again have tested the water at the end of the year with Wonder Woman 1984 which got a release on Christams day 2020 at cinemas and on HBO Max.
Disney has bypassed cinema all together on 2 of their potential biggest movie with Mulan going direct to Disney+ (for a premium price) and the Pixar movie Soul released on Christmas Day.
As it stands the top 20 movies in the US took a reasonable $1.6 Billion but compared to 2019 the top 20 took $5.8 Billion.
Here is 5 top grossing movies at the US box office in 2020.
Starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence who return as the Miami cop duo in the third in the Bad Boys series.
The movie was a surprise box office hit on its release on 17th January and took $204.5 Million at the US box office making the top movie of the year.
Released on the 10th January (wide, it cam out in 2019 on limited to catch the Oscar deadline) the movie is based during World War one and is film as if it was a continuous single shot.
Despite not winning the best movie Oscar the film took $158 Million at the US box office and is the second best movie of 2020.
The last movie in the Skywalker Saga was released in 2019 where it took $362.1 Million and was the 6th top movie.
Because of the pandemic the movie managed to be the 3rd best film of 2020 after taking $153 Million.
After going through a strange redesign for its main character Sonic when fan feedback was not too good about his look in the trailer the movie moved to February 14th release date.
The film was a surprise hit and took $146.2 Million at the US box office making it the 4th top movie of 2020.
The sequel movie the 2017 smash hit Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle was released in 2019 where it took $175.4 Million and was the 11th top film in that year.
In 2020 the movie took $142.5 Million and is the 5th top grossing of the year.
It's the last chart of 2020 and after many delays this year Wonder Woman 1984 makes its debut in cinemas and tops the US box office.
Also making high debuts over the festive holiday are Tom Hanks in News Of The World and Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman, both films are getting Oscar attention.
Further down the box office a new live action Pinocchio (not Disney) enters at 7.
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This weeks top 5 US box office breakdown 25th - 27th December 2020.
After being delayed a number of times due to cinema closures forced on by the COVID-19 pandemic the Wonder Woman sequel directed by Patty Jenkins finally got a release in cinemas on Christmas day, it also got a release on HBO Max the same day.
With this in mind the movie has turned into a success and with a total opening weekend of $16.7 Million it is the bigest opening since cinemas closed.
The future then looks good for the superhero movie, and with only 10% of US homes having HBO Max for many it might be the only way to watch the film.
Tom Hanks stars in the new movie from director Paul Greengrass which this week makes its debut at number 2 with $2.4 Million.
Unlike the Wonder Woman movie it is only available to see in cinemas and most like will be for the next few weeks.
The animated sequel falls to number 2 this week with a weekend gross of $1.7 Million, 14% down from last week.
This puts the movies total gross at $30 Million after 5 weeks of release and is the second best movie during the pandemic.
After making its debut at the top of the box office last weekend the Paul W.S. Anderson directed movie fallt hard to number 4 this weekend with $1.12 Million, 49% down from last week.
The movie has taken $4.21 Million after 2 weeks of release.
Finally on the top 5 is director Emerald Fennell new movie which stars Carey Mulligan in what is being touted as an Oscar worthy performance.
The film took $680,000 on its debut week of release and entered at number 5.
A weekly Rundown of the UK box office chart headlines over the last 30 years.
The number one film was Captain Marvel which had been at the top for 2 weeks and with a total gross of £23.7 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
The top new film of the week was Fisherman's Friends directed by Chris Foggin and starring Tuppence Middleton and James Purefoy which entered the box office at number 2.
The film with the longest run was Green Book which had been on the box office for 7 weeks.
The number one film was The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which had been at the top for 3 weeks.
The top new film of the week was Run All Night directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Liam Neeson and Ed Harris which entered the box office at number 2.
The film with the longest run was The Theory Of Everything which had been on the box office for 11 weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was Fifty Shades Of Grey which had taken £33.8 Million after 5 weeks of release.
The number one film was Alice In Wonderland which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
The top new film of the week was Shutter Island directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo which entered the box office at number 2.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Avatar which had taken £89.9 Million over 13 weeks of release.
Making its debut at the top was Hitch starring Will Smith and Eva Mendes and directed by Andy Tennant.
The film with the longest run was Million Dollar Baby which had been on the box office for 8 weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was Meet The Fockers which had taken £27.9 Million after 7 weeks of release.
The number one film was Toy Story 2 which had been at the top for 5 weeks and with a total gross of £38.7 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
The top new film of the week was The Insider directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe which entered the box office at number 7.
The film with the longest run was East Is East which had been on the box office for 19 weeks.
The number one film was Disclosure which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
The top new film of the week was Nell directed by Michael Apted and starring Jodie Foster and Liam Neeson which entered the box office at number 3.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Forrest Gump which had taken £16.4 Million over 23 weeks of release.
The number one film was The War Of The Roses which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
The top new film of the week was Weekend At Bernies directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman which entered the box office at number 3.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Back To The Future Part II which had taken £10.4 Million over 17 weeks of release.