Released globaly this week there are 16 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Alien: Romulus from the top of the global box office.

As well as many movies released in cinemas around the globe this list also includes a number of the top movies released on streaming platforms.

Check out other new releases from around the world.

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Kill~2023
• Longlegs
• Strange Darling
• Spring Garden
• Hellboy: The Crooked Man
• It Ends With Us
• Kinds of Kindness
• Starve Acre
• Firebrand

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

• The movie is directed by Tim Burton, it is the directors 22nd movie.
• Tim Burton also directed Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985 which grossed $40.9 Mil. in the US.
• It stars Michael Keaton who also starred in Multiplicity (1996).
• The film also stars Jenna Ortega who's last movie was Miller's Girl (2024).
• Tim Burton directed Michael Keaton in Batman, Beetlejuice, Dumbo, and Batman Returns
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• Released this week in:
  Argentina / Australia / Bangladesh / Brazil / Cambodia / Canada / Ecuador / Estonia / Finland / Hong Kong / Hungary / Iceland / India / Ireland / Italy / Latvia / Mexico / Netherlands / Norway / Philippines / Poland / Portugal / Romania / Singapore / South Korea / Spain / Sweden / Taiwan / Turkey / Ukraine / United Kingdom / United States

Kill

• The movie is from director Nikhil Nagesh Bhat.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Lakshya who also starred in Kill (2024).
• The film also stars Raghav Juyal who's last movie was Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres on limited release.
• Released this week in:
  Argentina / Brazil / India / Mexico

Longlegs

• The movie is directed by Oz Perkins, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Oz Perkins also directed Gretel and Hansel in 2020.
• It stars Maika Monroe who also starred in The 5th Wave (2016).
• The film also stars Nicolas Cage who's last movie was Arcadian (2024).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• Released this week in:
  Romania / Turkey / Vietnam

Strange Darling

• The movie is from director JT Mollner.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Willa Fitzgerald who also starred in Freak Show (2018).
• The film also stars Kyle Gallner who's last movie was The Passenger (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• Released this week in:
  Greece / Latvia / Ukraine

Spring Garden

• The movie is from director Ku Born.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Jo Yun-hie who also starred in Spring Garden (2024).
• The film also stars Kim Joo-ryung who's last movie was Memories of Murder (2003).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• Released this week in:
  Brunei / Malaysia / Thailand

Hellboy: The Crooked Man

• The movie is directed by Brian Taylor, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Brian Taylor also directed Gamer in 2009.
• It stars Jack Kesy who also starred in The Throwaways (2015).
• The film also stars Jefferson White who's last movie was Civil War (2024).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• Released this week in:
  Brazil / Turkey

It Ends With Us

• The movie is directed by Justin Baldoni, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Justin Baldoni also directed Five Feet Apart in 2019 which grossed $45.7 Mil. in the US.
• It stars Blake Lively who also starred in The Age of Adaline (2015).
• The film also stars Justin Baldoni who's last movie was Con Man (2018).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• Released this week in:
  Denmark / Singapore

Kinds of Kindness

• The movie is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, it is the directors 11th movie.
• Yorgos Lanthimos also directed The Killing of a Sacred Deer in 2017.
• It stars Emma Stone who also starred in Marmaduke (2010).
• The film also stars Jesse Plemons who's last movie was Civil War (2024).
• They also appeared together in Bugonia in 2025.
• Yorgos Lanthimos directed Emma Stone in The Favourite, Poor Things, and Bugonia
• Yorgos Lanthimos directed Jesse Plemons in and Bugonia
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• Released this week in:
  Chile / Poland

Starve Acre

• The movie is directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Daniel Kokotajlo also directed Apostasy in 2018.
• It stars Matt Smith who also starred in Patient Zero (2018).
• The film also stars Morfydd Clark who's last movie was Saint Maud (2019).
• They also appeared together in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in 2016.
• This movie is released in movie theatres on limited release.
• Released this week in:
  Ireland / United Kingdom

Firebrand

• The movie is directed by Karim Ainouz, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Karim Ainouz also directed Venice 70: Future Reloaded in 2013.
• It stars Alicia Vikander who also starred in Son of a Gun (2015).
• The film also stars Junia Rees who's last movie was Tell That to the Winter Sea (2024).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• Released this week in:
  Ireland / United Kingdom

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 33 new movies released gloabally

• Speak No Evil - From Wednesday, 11th September
• Uglies - From Friday, 13th September
• Hellboy: The Crooked Man - From Wednesday, 11th September
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - From Wednesday, 11th September
• How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies - From Thursday, 30th May
• The Critic - From Friday, 13th September
• Lee - From Friday, 13th September
• Exhuma - From Thursday, 12th September
• Spring Garden - From Thursday, 12th September
• My Penguin Friend - From Thursday, 12th September
• Harold and the Purple Crayon - From Thursday, 12th September
• The Killers Game - From Thursday, 12th September
• The Buckingham Murders - From Friday, 13th September
• The Crow - From Thursday, 12th September
• Love Lies Bleeding - From Thursday, 12th September
• Strange Darling - From Thursday, 12th September
• The Commandants Shadow - From Thursday, 12th September
• The Convert - From Thursday, 12th September
• The New Boy - From Thursday, 12th September
• The Peasants - From Thursday, 12th September
• Tuesday - From Friday, 13th September
• Project Silence - From Thursday, 12th September
• My Old Ass - From Friday, 13th September
• 200% Wolf - From Friday, 13th September
• Kinds of Kindness - From Friday, 13th September
• Kill~20231 - From Friday, 13th September
• Kill~2023 - From Wednesday, 11th September
• Janet Planet - From Monday, 9th September
• Hit Man - From Friday, 13th September
• Greedy People - From Thursday, 12th September
• Ezra - From Thursday, 12th September
• Buffalo Kids - From Thursday, 12th September
• A Legend - From Thursday, 12th September

Kung Fu Panda 3 continues to dominate the world box office this week with a world gross of $44 million over the week, made even more impressive as its only from 8 countries.

The Jack Black voiced animated tale has now taken just shy of $200 million over its 2 week run, and with much of the world still to go it could go onto $500 million with ease.

Highest new film of the week across the world is A Violent Prosecutor, the Chinese film took $19.5 million from its single country of release, albeit the second largest cinema going country.

The Force Awakens is still pulling in the audiences in 47 countries and this week gets closer to taking over Titanic as the second highest grossing film over, its total gross is now $2.08 billion.

Here is the full World Box office this week:

1. Kung Fu Panda 3 - $44,000,000
2. The Revenant - $31,100,000
3. A Violent Prosecutor - $19,500,000
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $13,890,000
5. Alvin And The Chipmunks The Road Chip - $13,120,000
6. Hail, Caesar! - $11,439,000
7. The 5th Wave - $11,392,000
8. Dirty Grandpa - $8,550,000
9. The Hateful Eight - $8,500,000
10. Les Tuche 2 - $8,500,000

At the world box office this week King Fu Panda 3 makes an impressive debut at the top of the box office from 7 countries.

making a world wide debut of $116 million the film leads the pack by quite a considerable margin with the US being the top market the film was released in.

Falling a single place this week is The Revenant which falls to number 2 with $36 million, this brings the Oscar nominated films world gross to $274.7 million, and Oscar is still to come.

Highest total grossing film is still Star Wars: The Force Awakens which this weeks adds $23.3 million bringing its total gross now to over $2 Billion, only the third film ever to do so.

Avatar was the first with Titanic following, interestingly both these film took a second release to do it, although with Titanic it was years later unlike Avatar which was a year later.

Here is the full world wide box office top 10:

1. Kung Fu Panda 3 - $116,700,000
2. The Revenant - $36,700,000
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - $23,382,000
4. The 5th Wave - $20,000,000
5. Ride Along 2 - $13,445,520
6. Alvin And The Chipmunks The Road Chip - $13,235,000
7. Dirty Grandpa - $13,075,000
8. The Finest Hours - $11,927,000
9. The Boy - $11,394,000
10. The Big Short - $9,800,000