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$0 With the studios clearing their new release schedule for the second weekend of the MCU title Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 the movie stays at the top of the UK box office with a gross of just over £5 Million.
This pushes the movies total gross to nearly £25 Million which is just below the gross of the previous movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.
With The Super Mario Bros. Movie remaining in second place the top new movie of the weekend is Love Again~2023 at number 3 with £340,785.
Also new this weekend is Book Club 2: The Next Chapter which makes its debut at 4 with £299,370, which is less than half the £720,858 debut of Book Club.
Outside the top 5 there is a new entry for the cinema even Eurovision Grand Final Live, the popular music content which got broadcast in cinemas for the first ever time and took £237,787 on its single day showing.
Finally The Eight Mountains was new at 12 with £72,025 and Machine Gun Kelly: Mainstream Sellout Live From Cleveland was a debut at 13 with £57,624.
Highest new movie this weekend
Horror sequel Halloween Kills makes its debut at the top of the North American box office this weekend and in doing so is the third movie in a row to achieve a $50 Million plus debut.
Also new this weekend is The Last Duel which makes its debut inside the top 5 at number 5 this weekend, a higher debut was perhaps expected from this start studded period movie!
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US box office top 5 breakdown weekend 15th - 17th October 2021.
The long running movie series that started with the John Carpenter directed Halloween in 1979 has been a regular box office hit maker over the last 40+ years.
The latest sequel, which is part of a 'final' trilogy directed by David Gordon Green makes its debut at the top this weekend with a fantastic gross of $50.3 Million.
This marks the third movie in as many weeks to make its debut with a gross over $50 Millin since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, showing real signs that people are willing to go back to the cinema.
Whats just as impressive is that the movie which stars Jamie Lee Curtis is also available to stream without extra fee on Paramount+.
The latest James Bond movie, and the last for Daniel Craig, falls to number 2 this weekend after making its debut at the top last week, with a gross of $24.2 Million, a large 57% drop over last week.
The movie isn't proving to be as big a hit in North America as it has in other parts of the world, and in the US after 10 days of release has grossed $99.5 Million, it will pass the $100 Million mark before next weekend.
The movie is to date the 9th top movie of 2021, but it has some very stiff competition in the coming months.
The superhero sequel movie falls to number 3 this weekend with $16.5 Million, a 48% drop over last week, which gives the movie a total US gross of $168 Million afer 3 weeks.
The movie is tracking very similar to the 2018 original Venom which ended up with $213 Million after 13 weeks.
This means the movie is the 4th top movie of 2021 and looking towards a $200 Million total, altohugh again with tough competition in the coming months that will take its audience away this could be a milestone too far.
The animated sequel falls to 3 this weekend with $7.1 Million, a small 28% drop, giving the movie a total of $42 Million over 3 weeks of release.
The new movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon and Adam Driver lands, rather disappointingly at number 5 this weekend with a debut gross of $4.8 Million.
With cinemas across the UK still closed due to the ongoing pandemic all new releases at the moment are getting released onto streaming, all this weeks film were once set for a cinema release but then got moved to online platforms.
Here are the highlights of this weeks movies to stream either on Disney+ or Amazon Prime Video.
As predicted with the surge in COVID-19 cases in the US, the big movie of the holiday season, Wonder Woman 1984, will debut on steaming and cinema on the same day.
The Patty Jenkins directed movie will get the duel release in the US with no word yet on if the Boxing Day release in the UK is changing or a streaming option will be in place as well.
The movie has been changed from earlier in 2020 to later in 2020 a couple of time finally settling for a Christmas release.
With COVID-19 cases on the increase in the US and the UK on a lockdown until early December Warner Bros. have decided to dual release it.
With a vaccine almost imminent this could be perhaps the last big film to get this type of release, altohugh with Universal seemingly a fan of short release windows who know, but thats a story for another day.
Can we say cinemas as we know and love it has died yet?
**UPDATE** It looks like the UK release has been brought forward and will be released in cinemas on December 16th.
For the first time ever, #WonderWoman1984 will release in theatres and stream exclusively on @HBOmax* on December 25. - - *Available on HBO Max in the US only at no extra cost to subscribers. pic.twitter.com/bU1Lmg5YDA
— Wonder Woman 1984 (@WonderWomanFilm) November 19, 2020
— Gal Gadot (@GalGadot) November 19, 2020
Directed by Steven Spielberg Ready Player One is about a world where everyone is addicted to VR.
Set for release on the 30th march 2018 Warner Bros. have released the first poster for the film.
Check it out below.
A better reality awaits. Tune in tomorrow at 9:45a PT for a special live stream event with @erniecline. #ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/X7M4IahKAC
— Ready Player One (@readyplayerone) December 9, 2017