This weekend Spider-Man: No Way Home had it's first movie with a series challenge for the top hot cinemas, but the Marvel movie was stronger and spends a fifth weekend at number 1. Therefore Scream makes its debut at the global box office at number 2 this weekend and is the only new release inside the top 10.
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Global box office top 5 weekend breakdown.
Marvel and Sony's mega smash hit movie spends a 5th weekend at the top despite strong competition Scream with a weekend gross of $54.2 Million from 64 countries, a 44% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken an incredible $1.6 Million over its 5 weeks of release, it is the top movie of 2022 so far with $256.1 being taken this year and is the 8th top movie of all time.
The horror sequel makes its debut at number 2 this weekend having been released in 51 countries, and has a debut gross of $48.6 Million.
With a total gross of $48.6 Million means the movie is the third top film of 2022 so far.
After 2 weeks at number 2 the animated sequel falls to number 3 this weekend with a gross of $16.7 Million from 55 countries, a 42% drop.
The movie now has a total global gross of $215.6 Million, $71 Million of which $71 Million was taked in 2022 making it the 2nd top movie of the year.
The prequel movie from director Matthew Vaughn falls to number 4 this weekend with $12.5 Million from 45 countries, a 25% drop over last weekend.
This puts the movies total global gross at $92 Million of which $44.6 has been taken in 2022 making it the 4th top movie of this year.
After a slow start the 4th The Matrix movie remains at number 5 this weekend with $11.9 Million from 79 countries, a 20% increase.
The movie has taken $140 Million in global grosses which $34 Million eas taken in 2022 making it the 6th top movie if the year.
IT has a good run at the US box office, and continues to do well, but it gave up the crown to Kingsman The Golden Circle this weekend.
Not a fantastic opening weekend for the British secret agent sequel but its $39 million was enough to see it open bigger than the first film.
As we enter the winter season with a number of big film on the horizon this will effect Kingsman 2�s long term appeal, but for now its on a roll.
IT falls off the top after a couple of weeks at number 1 to number 2 with a weekend gross of around $30 million.
This pushed the films total gross after 3 weeks in the US to $266 million, and it is this week top total grossing movie on the US box office.
Also new this week are The LEGO Ninjago Movie which enters at number 3, after Batman and the Lego movie maybe a little disappointing, Friend Request at number 7 and Stronger at number 9.
Longest running film on the US chart this week is Wind River which this week notches up its 8th weekend.
This week saw the release of a new Star Trek movie at the global box office and as with all the others in the �new' universe created by JJ Abrahams it is the top film globally.
Its a softer debut than Star Trek or sci-fi is used to despite good reviews and seemingly a better film then the last one but a $89.6 million debut from 38 countries is strong enough to see it dominate.
The legend of Tarzan is at 2 this week and is getting stronger across the globe as it has a staggered release, its not performing in the US but it is globally.
The film took $51 million from 62 countries for a total global gross of $260 million to date.
Biggest news of the week is the string debut for Skiptrace, the Jackie Chan action film had a big release in Asia and from 3 countries took $44 million on its debut.
Independence Day: Resurgence is the top total grossing movie on the weeks top ten global box office with $361.2 million.
Here is the global top 5.
All change at the top of the US box office chart this week as 2 strong new releases enter in the top two places in the shape of Zootopia and London Has Fallen.
Disney do it yet again with their latest animated feature as Zootopia enters strong at the top with an excellent $73.3 million debut.
For Disney (not Pixar they are a different studio who Disney distribute for) this is their highest ever debut for an animated feature (yes even stronger than Frozen!) fuelled no doubt the the excellent reviews the film has got.
Falling from the top this week is Deadpool after three weeks at the top, a $16 million weekend brings the films total to $311 million after 4 weeks of play.
Highest total grossing film, and probably it last week on the US box office, is Star Wars: The Force Awakens which has now taken a massive and record breaking $928.8 million in America.
Sales of films and TV show on a physical disk declined by 7.2% in 2011 while sales of digital media downloads rose by 12%. Despite this Blu-ray is growing with it now accounting for 18% of the market.
Rental sales for downloads are expected to get stronger and stronger as the video shop of the �90's continues to become a relic. The saviors for DVD/Blu-ray is the triple play disk set allowing for the consumer to have the Blu-ray, DVD and digital for mobile devices version of a film.
Despite this downturn in sales December saw a big increase in sales and accounted for nearly 25% of the yearly sales of physical disks, and Blu-ray saw a year on year increase of nearly 27%.
British films saw an incredible year for sales with the last 2 chapters of the Harry Potter series by far outselling everything else. The Kings Speech, The Inbetweeners and Paul also did very well with British talent attached. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was also a big seller, it was made in Britain.
Despite the recession the home video market, which includes physical and digital media was worth £2,251 billion in 2011.
Here is the top 10 films and TV sales of 2011