US release: 23rd October 1998
United States release: 23rd October 1998
United Kingdom release: 12th November 1998
£0 $11.2 Million
$0The Railway Children Return is a sequel to The Railway Children released in 1970 which has been given a PG rating in the UK.
The movie stars Jenny Agutter who also appeared as a young child in the original movie as well as starring in movies like An American Werewolf in London, it also stars Tom Courtenay who has appeared in movies like Dad's Army from 2016 and Let Him Have It from 1991.
The movie is directed by Morgan Matthews who also directed Williamsfrom 2017 as well as many other documentaries for television.
Movie Synopsis
A group of children are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
This weekend, Friday 20th December 2019, there are 3 new films released in the UK looking to hit the box office, but can it challenge Jumanji: The Next Level for the top spot?
First up at cinemas this week is Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, an movie directed by J.J. Abrams who also directed Super 8 in 2011 which grossed £7 Million in the UK and grossed $260,095,986 globally.
It stars Adam Driver who last starred in The Report (2019).
The film also stars Daisy Ridley who last appeared in Ophelia (2019).
Next on this weeks new release schedule is Cats.
This new movie stars Taylor Swift who's last film was The Giver (2014)
It also stars Francesca Hayward who appeared in Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III: ROH London 2019/20 (2019).
The film is brought to us by Tom Hooper.
Next up this week is The Courier which is directed by Zackary Adler who directed Rise Of The Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story in 2017.
It stars Olga Kurylenko and Gary Oldman.
Check back on Monday to see where these cinema releases end up on the Weekend Box Office Chart.
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Based on the best-selling comic book, Bloodshot gets its first trailer, and its full of blood and bullets.
The film follows a soldier who was killed in action and is brought back to life in a secret government experiment to create the perfect killing machine.
The film stars Diesel along side Guy Pierce and it is directed by Dave Wilson who is a special effects artist for which there is clearly a lot of in the movie.
The film is due for release on 21st February 2020.
There have been a number of takes on the Predator story from the original John McTiernan directed classic and its sequel to the not that terrible team up with the Alien franchise and then the last effort was the Nimród Antal directed Predators
Now we get the Shane Black directed The Predator which today gets its first teaser trailer, and it looks like were going back to basics.
Its not clear from the trailer any elements of the story but we get a young boy opening a box and we get a soldier being interrogated, how do the two get connected?
Check out the trailer for yourself below.
Still selling enough tickets to keep it on top for a third week is Dunkirk which holds off a strong debut from The Emoji Movie.
War film Dunkirk from director Christopher Nolan keeps pulling in the punters and stays on top for an incredible third weekend with a gross of £4.6 million.
This brings the films total to £28 million with no sign of slowing down yet, and with a weak load of new releases next week we could see a fourth weekend on top.
Coming in at number 2 this week is The Emoji Movie which takes a very good £2.7 million on its debut.
With the summer holidays in full swing this is a timely release and it could mean the film stays in the upper reaches of the chart for a while to come.
Big budget movie Valerian and The City of A Thousand Planets from Luc Besson should have been a massive hit but we have a bit of a flop on our hands as the film debuts at number 3 with £1.8 million.
With 6 weeks on the chart Baby Driver is this week longest running film and with nearly £40 million in total grosses Despicable Me 3 is the highest total grossing film.
Historical charts
A year ago - This time last year the excellent Suicide Squad debuted at the top knocking off Finding Dory after a single week at the top.
Five years ago - Ted from Seth Mcfarlane made its debut at the top knocking The Dark Knight Rises down to number 2 after a couple of weeks on top.
Ten years ago - The Simpsons Movie held on to the top of the box office while top new film Evan Almighty made its debut at number 4.
Fifteen years ago - Men in Black II made its debut at the top knocking off Austin Powers in Goldmember from the top after a single week.
Twenty years ago - The first Men in Black film made its debut at the top of the UK box office knocking The Lost World: Jurassic park down to number 3 after 2 weeks on top.
Twenty five years ago - Far and Away with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman was the top film of the week, it knocked Universal Soldier down to 2 after a week on top.