US release: 14th September 1979
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$0Continuing the legacy of the Rocky movies, Creed III tops the UK box office this weekend as it makes its debut in cinemas.
Also making its debut on this weeks box office chart is Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village which comes in at number 6 with just over £500,00 and Heaven In Hell at number 10 with £146,318 and finally Close~2022 at number 11 with £128,208.
Highest new movie this weekend
Making its debut at the top of the UK box office is the third installment of the Creed franchise of movie, which itself is a spin off from the Rocky series of movies.
The series has got better and better with each movie and this one which is a directorial debut for star Micheal B Jordan makes its debut with kist over £5 Million.
Dropping to number 2 this weekend after a couple of weeks at the top is the sequel to Ant-Man and the Wasp which adds £1.4 Million to its UK total.
5 weeks on and the Puss in Boots sequel falls to number 3 with a weekend gross of £1.1 Million giving the movie a fantastic total of £22 Million.
Dropping to number 4 this week after making its debut at number 3 is the Elizabeth Banks directed movie about a bear who accidentally takes an overdose of cocaine.
The British romantic comedy starring Lily James and directed by Shekhar Kapur falls to number 5 this weekend after making its debut last weekend at number 4.
19th January 2023
Continuing the legacy of the Evil Dead, Evil Dead Rise, the next film in the series, is given an 18 age rating in the UK for strong bloody violence, gore.
The movie starts Alyssa Sutherland who was last seen in Blood Vessel in 2019 and Lily Sullivan who starred in I Met a Girl in 2020.
It is directed by Lee Cronin who has previously directed The Hole in the Ground in 2019.
Movie Synopsis
A woman finds herself in a fight for her life when an ancient book gives birth to bloodthirsty demons that run amok in a Los Angeles apartment building.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Horror movie Nope makes its debut at the top of the US box office with a weekend gross of $44 Million, and its the only new release of the week.
Highest new movie of the weekend
Director Jordan Peele has become one of the big names in horror movies these days, and after the acclaimed Get Out from 2017 and Us~2019 from 2019 a new movie from the director of much anticipated.
His new movie lands at the top of the US box office this weekend with a gross of $44 Million, which is higher than Get Out but less than the $71 Million debut of Us~2019.
After a couple of weekend at the top of the US box office the latest MCU movie falls to number 2 with a weekend gross of $22 Million, a large 53% drop over last weeeknd.
This gives the movie a total US gross of $276 Million after 3 weeks of release, it also makes it the 6 top movie of 2022.
Slipping to number 3 this weekend is the sequel movie to Minions which takes $12.7 Million, a 34% drop over last weekend.
The animated movie which is part of the Despicable Me universe has now taken $297.8 Million in North America and is the 5th top movie of 2022.
Last weekends highest debut falls to number 4 this weekend with $10.3 Million, a 40% drop giving the movie a 2 weekend total gross of $38.3 Million.
Falling to number 5 on its 9th weekend of release is the legacy sequel to the 1986 movie Top Gun which takes $10 Million on its 9th weekend of release.
The movie has performed far beyond anyones expectations and with a total US gross of $635 Million is the top grossing movie of 2022.
The movie has also this weekend gone into the top 10 all time movies in North America where it sits at number 9 having removes Star Wars: The Last Jedi from 2017 out of the top 10 and ever gone as far as grossing movie than 2012's Avengers Assemble (Avengers in the North America).
It's 35 years since
The legacy of the original has been immense and still to this day the Star Wars series of 6 films is one of the highest grossing movie series of all time, behind only Harry Potter and James Bond.
The disappointment of the new trilogy of films angered fans more because a few years previously Lucas had messed with the loved original trilogy adding new special effects and scenes, fans preferred the original theatrical release, especially the changed Jaba The Hut scene and the now infamous Gredo shoots first scene.
Despite all this