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$0Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 5th April 2024, there are 5 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Kung-Fu Panda 4 from the top of the UK box office.
Check out other new releases from around the world.
Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 6th October 2023, there are 6 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace The Creator from the top of the UK box office.
Check out other new releases from around the world.
Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
A couple of new releases bookend the UK box office this weekend with Avatar: The Way of Water making its debut at the top and The Nutcracker and the Magic Flute new at number 12 with £16,691.
Highest new movie this weekend
Director James Cameron and Disney finally release the long awaited sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time Avatar at the Uk box office.
The movie comes 13 years after the film visit to Pandora, and this movie takes place 10 years after the events of that movie.
The first Avatar took £8.5 Million on its opening weekend and over 18 weeks took over £93 Million and overtook Titanic as the top grossing movie in the UK, it has since been taken by a number of movie and Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the top grossing movie.
This sequel takes £11.6 Million on its debut which makes it the 77th top opening in the UK ever and the 9th top opening in the UK for the month of December.
THe original Avatar was a bit of a slow burner, and with the Christmas season upon us this movie could have good legs until Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is released on 17th February 2023.
After spending an incredible 3 weeks at the top the musical version of the classic Roal Dahl novel falls to number 2 with £1.3 Million, a 34% drop.
The movie has taken an amazing £12.8 Million over its 4 weeks of release.
In comparison the 1997 movie, adjusted for inflation, took £3.7 Million on its 4th weekend for a total of £37.8 Million.
Looking ahead to the movies total gross and if it can become the top grossing movie released in 2022, Top Gun: Maverick took £15.9 Million on its debut weekend and spent 23 weeks on the box office.
Falling to 3 this week is the sequel movie to Black Panther which takes a bit of a hit this weekend with Avatar: The Way of Water being a movie in direct competition, it takes £377,598 over the weekend, a 53% drop.
The movie has taken £31.6 Million over its 6 weeks of release, far lower than the original movie which has taken £44.8 Million at this point.
The movie about Santa Claus being a bad ass drops to number 3 this weekend with £330,606, a 42% drop over last weekend.
The movie as been on the box office fir 3 weeks now and has taken £2.6 Million.
Falling to number 4 is the latest Disney movie which takes £193,659 this weekend, a 37% drop, for a £2 Million total over 4 weeks of release.
We're fast approaching the Christmas period and despite it still only being early in December the UK public are clearly in the mood as they take The Grinch to the top of the box office on its debut weekend.
Taking the box office on its debut weekend with a gross of £5.09 million the Dr Seuss favourite only just beat out last weeks top film Bohemian Rhapsody
The last time The Grinch appeared on the box office was back in 2000 in the shape of Jim Carey in a live action version directed by Ron Howard which took £3 million on its debut weekend which is about £5.2 million when adjusted for inflation.
Both films have hence sold in the same ball park as far as tickets are concerned, time will tell is this new animated version will out gross the 2000 film.
After a very successful couple of weeks at the top of the box office the Queen bio-pic falls to number 2 with a weekend gross of £4.5 million, not far behind The Grinch.
This boosts the films total Uk gross to £28.9 million and its the 10th best film of the year to date.
Acclaimed director Steve McQueen brings his latest movie which lands at 3 on its debut weekend with a gross of £2.4 million.
The film starring Viola Davis and Liam Neeson is getting a lot of positive buzz and Oscar talk to expect it to hang around until the new year and awards season.
The Bradley Cooper film is starting to fall down the chart after a very successful run and this week is at 4 with £1.2 million boosing its total to £25.4 million.
Finishing off the top 5 this week is last weeks highest new film which falls hard in its second weekend, the Diney film takes £1.1 million for a £3.14 million total.
Supervillain movie Venom goes back to the top with its excellent release in China where is grossed $102 million on its opening weekend.
Sony's film starring Tom Hardy gets its Chinese release this with a $102 million opening which gives the film a $123.5 million week after 6 weeks of release which pushes the film back to the top of the global box office.
The film has now taken a total of $673 million globally and is still released in 67 countries.
Continuing the success already gained the film about Queen and Freddy Mercury takes $94 million this week from 79 countries which boosts its total global cume to and excellent $285 million.
Materialising in animated form this time the Dr. Seuss story enters the global box office at number 3 with $78.8 million from just 24 countries.
With Christmas fast approaching the film with open in many more territories over the coming weeks which will massive boosts the films cume.
Taking a bit of a tumble this week the Disney film drops to 4th with a $23 million weekend from 46 countries to boosts its total gross to $96.6 million.
Closing out the top 5 and another new entry is this JJ Abrams presented film which takes $19.3 million from 53 countries.