US release: 4th June 2021
£9.4 Million $65.5 Million
$202 MillionLast weekend saw Sing 2 at the top of the UK box office, with 6 new releases can any of them do enough to top the box office chart this weekend?
Here are this weeks new releases
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
The UK box office didn't get started in 2021 until 24th May so the summer season is the first season of the year to get any results from ticket sales after the last box office chart being 25th December 2020 and Wonder Woman 1984 topping that chart.
The top movie of the summer got off to a flying start which was Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway and it took £4 Million the weekend cinemas re-opened.
The sequel movie directed by Will Gluck and starring James Corden as Peter was the top movie in the country for the first weekend audiences were allowed back into cinemas and it hung around for 12 weeks and has to date taken over £20 Million.
The much delayed Black Widow finally got a release on 23rd July 2021 and topped the box office for 3 weeks.
The movie starring Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh was on the UK top 15 for 15 weekend and has to date grossed over £18 Million and is the second top movie of 2021.
The Fast Saga was back this year with Fast & Furious 9 which was released at the end of June and topped the box office for a couple of weeks.
The movie has taken over £16 Million in the UK and is the third top movie of summer 2021.
There was a lot of hype around the James Gunn adaptation of The Suicide Squad which was released in late July and topped the box office on its release and the following weekend.
A 6 week UK box office run saw it gross £13 Million and is the fourth top in the UK over the summer of 2021.
A bit of a sleeper hit was the fifth top movie of the summer as Ryan Reynolds Free Guy which topped the box office in mid August for 3 weeks and has taken over £13 Million so far.
The movie is still on the box office as we go into the autumn and only got knocked off the top of the UK box office this last weekend by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
The top 10 movies of Summer 2021 looks like this.
Sequel movie The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard makes its debut at the top this weekend knocking A Quiet Place PArt II down to second place in a fairly quiet marketplace that is recovering from the effects of the pandemic.
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Us box office top 5 breakdown weekend 18th - 20th June 2021
Making its debut at the top of the US box office is the sequel movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson which debuts with a weekend gross of $16.7 Million since its Wednesday release.
The movie took just over $11 Million on the Friday to Sunday frame which would have also taken it to the top.
This is naturally lower than the original movie which was released in August of 2017 and took over $21 Million on its debut.
Falling from the top slot this weekend is the John Krasinski horror movie sequel which takes $9.4 Million this weekend, a very slim 19% down from last weekend.
The movie has been on the box office for 4 weeks now and is the top grossing movie of 2021 and the top grossing movie of the period during the pandemic with a total of $125.2 Million.
The Peter Rabbi sequel movie has perhaps been a bit of a flop in the US and this week sits at number 3 with a weekend gross of $6.1 Million, a 41% down from last weekend.
The movie is now at $20.3 Million after 2 weeks of release.
Staying at number 4 this weekend is the horror franchise movie which takes $5.1 Million, down 49% giving the movie a $53.6 Million total after 3 weeks of release.
Finally on the top 5 is Disney's movie about Cruella De'vil which stays at 5 with $5.1 Million, only 24% down from last weekend, giving it a $64.7 Million total after 4 weeks.
Horror movie A Quiet Place Part 2 makes a significant jump this weekend and goes back to the top of the global box office while Fast 9 also increases its country count and jumps back to number 2
Also making an impact is The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard which gets a wide release and hits the top 5 while the top new movie is Man In Love at number 9 with a debut total of $6 Million.
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Top 5 breakdown from this weekends global box office 18th - 20th June 2021
Released in 46 countries the horror movie directed by John Krasinski goes back to the top of the global box office with a gross of $25.1 Million, a 9% drop over last weekend.
The movie has been on the chart now for 4 weeks and has taken a global total of $221.9 Million.
The Fast franchise movie has had a slow global release with America and Europe still to come, but this weekend manages $19 Million from 23 countries a 69% increase over last weekend.
After 5 weeks of release the movie has taken $292 Million, but with some big territories getting a release this weekend it will likely go back to the top next week.
After a quiet release last weekend the sequel movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson jumps up to number 3 this weekend with $18.1 Million from 22 countries, an increase of over 100%.
The movie has taken $23 Million globally to date.
Falling from the top to number 4 this weekend is the franchise horror movie which takes $17.5 Million from 57 countries, a 47% drop, giving the movie a global total of $142.8 Million after 4 weeks.
The Disney movie has done surprisingly well considering its also on the Disney+ streaming service and this weekend is at 5 with $17 Million, a 20% drop, increasing its total to $159.9 Million after 4 weeks.
After making its debut at the top of the UK box office last weekend, A Quiet Place Part II remains there for a second weekend and is the only movie to gross over £1 Million.
New action movie Nobody is the top new movie which makes its debut at 5 and Oscar winning movie The Father makes its chart debut at number 6 with £397,418.
UK box office top 5 breakdown for weekend 11th - 13th June 2021
Director John Krasinski horror movie spends a second weekend at the top of the Uk box office chart with a gross of £1.3 Million, a 63% drop from its debut last weekend.
This gives the movie a total gross of £6.4 Million after 2 weeks of release which is almost identical to the sequels first movie from 2018.
The sequel movie from director Will Gluck remains at number 2 this weekend with £798,985, a 61% drop from last weekend.
The movie has been on the box office now for 4 weeks and has taken £13.9 Million, only Tenet from last year has taken more during the pandemic but this is on course to beat that movies £17.5 Million.
Disney's prequel movie continues to do well at the box office and this weekend stays at number 3 with £732,285, only 43% lower than last weekend.
The movie has now taken £5.9 Million over 3 weeks of release.
The Conjuring sequel movie stays at number 4 this weekend with £664,829, only 36% down from last weekend, giving the movie a £6.7 Million total after 3 weeks.
Highest new movie of the week is at number 5 with this movie from the writer of John Wick Derek Kolstad and directed by Ilya Naishuller.
The movie takes £574,399 on its debut, a little lower than expected maybe, but with the good weather in the UK and people still unsure about spending a long time in small spaces with strangers this is to be expected.