US release: 11th December 1955
Belgium release: 4th November 1955
France release: 18th November 1955
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$0 The summer cinema season came to a bit of a grinding halt this weekend with no big new releases to draw cinema goers.
After a couple of new big film last weekend underperforming this weekend the John Krasinski directed movie IF~2024 goes back to the top of the box office with a weekend gross of £1.5 Million, a tiny 4% drop over last week.
This pushes last weeks top movie The Garfield Movie dropping down to number 2 with £1,3 Million, which means that there are to family oriented movies at the top.
Furiosa drops to number 4 this weekend and making its debut at 2 last week with under a million pound and a 51% drop.
THe highest new entry is at number 6 with the 20th anniversary re-release of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, while the top new movie is Haikyu The Movie: Decisive Battle At the Garbage Dump at 7 with £270,095.
Based on the stage show musical of the same name, Matilda The Musical is given a PG rating in the UK for mild threat, comic violence
The movie stars Andrea Riseborough as Mrs. Wormwood who was previously seen in Amsterdam~2022 and The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, it also stars veteran British actor Emma Thompson who is known for the likes of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Nanny McPhee
The movie is directed by Matthew Warchus who is known for directing Pride in 2014 as well as many event movie stage productions.
Movie Synopsis
Matilda, an extraordinary girl armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand against her oppressive parents and head teacher to change her story with miraculous results.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Although the anticipation for the new Disney film Moana is quite high its not enough to knock off the three time champion Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Fantastic Beast stays put at the top of the Uk box office for its third straight week with an amazing weekend gross of £4.4 million, this brings the films total gross to £37.8 million.
There should be one more weekend at the top for Beast before the Galaxy Far Far Away comes blasting in, but that should be enough to cement the film as one of the years top films.
The film still has a way to go before beating the lowest grossing Potter film which was 2004's Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban which made £45.6 million.
Highest new film of the week then come in at 2, Moana from Disney makes £2.2 million on its UK debut.
Compared to Frozen from Disney which came out at the same time of year in 2013 this is half its debut gross of £4.7 million hence we probably wont see this scaling those heights.
Also new this week is Sully at number 3 with £1.7 million, Pitbull. Niebezpieczne Kobiety at number 5 with £0.4 million, The Edge of Seventeen at 9 with £0.27 million and Bleed For This at number 10 with £0.25 million.
Highest total grossing movie this week is Fantastic beasts and longest run on the box office is Trolls which has been around now for 7 weeks.
Historical Charts
A year ago - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 stayed at the top for a third weekend while the top new film was Christmas With The Coopers at number 5.
Five years ago - Arthur Christmas went to the top of the box office for the first time on its fourth week of release while Happy Feet Two was the top new film.
Ten years ago - Bond stayed at the top for a third week in Casino Royale while the top new film was Flushed Away at number 2.
Fifteen years ago - Spending a third week at the top was Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone while top new film was Zoolander at number 2.
Twenty years ago - The Long Kiss Goodnight was at the top on its debut weekend, it knocked The First Wives Club down to number 2.
Twenty five years ago - Point Break made it 2 weeks at the top while top new film was Hot Shots! at number 3.
JK Rowling unleashes her vision of the Wizarding World beyond the mega successful life of Harry Potter in the shape of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them which enters the top with great but not excellent opening weekend.
A £15 million debut is nothing to be sniffed at, and it is the 20 top opening in the UK ever, but only 2005's Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire scored a lower opening of the Potter series.
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban from 2004 was the biggest Potter opening with £23.8 million on its debut and is the 3rd top opening ever in the UK.
Fantastic Beasts has some big shoes to fill and with the very favourable reviews it could be a long and slow burner, but in less than 4 weeks Star Wars does the same and expands its universe which will have a knock on effect.
Arrival entered the box office at number 1 last week and falls to number 2 this week with £1.5 million which brings its total to £5.7 million after 10 days of play, its should overtake Prisoners as director Denis Villeneuve top film.
Only one other new entry this week, Andre Rieu Christmas With Andre, and event cinema, at number 4, it took just over £1 million.
Bridget Jones's Baby was once again the longest running film on the chart at 10 weeks and the top total grossing move with £47 million.
Historical charts
A year ago - The last Hunger Games film, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, made its debut at the top knocking off Spectre after a 3 week sting at number 1.
Five years ago - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 made its debut at the top of the box office knocking off Arthur Christmas.
Ten years ago - Casino Royale made its debut at number 1, it knocked off 2 week champ Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Fifteen years ago - The Wizarding Word started its cinematic transition with Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone making its debut at the top, its knocked The Others down to 2.
Twenty years ago - The First Wives Club took over at the top of the box office, Michael Collins fell to number 2.
Twenty five years ago - making its debut at the top was What About Bob, Dead Again fell to number 3 after 3 weeks at the top.
Its been an interesting week in the UK with the release of the latest James Bond movie Spectre, most unusual of all is that the film got its release after its UK premiere on Monday night rather than the usual Friday.
This opening meant that its weekend figures, although fantastic, were not a true reflection of the usual take on a debut weekend.
To cut a long story short Spectre has done amazingly well, it has the largest UK opening of any film, beating Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban 10 year record by nearly double, it also has the biggest single day gross for any film in the UK, Tuesday and in fact Wednesday.
The films weekly take, from its opening on Monday through to Sunday was £41.3 million, not only the highest ever but also higher than the previous Bond outing Skyfall, which is the highest grossing film ever in the UK.
Its Friday to Sunday total is just shy of £20 million which puts it just behind Skyfall, but that film opened on a Friday, its hard not to believe that Spectre wouldn't have beaten all these figure had it opened on the traditional Friday.
Spectre thus makes its debut at the top of the UK box office with an incredible weekly gross and with no film daring to compete with it, it is also the only new entry on the box office this week, and with very few new film in the coming weeks it will stay a while.
All thats left now is for it to become the top grossing film ever in the UK, it needs over £102 million to achieve this, but with the debut it is entirely possible.
Historical box office
A year ago - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles held onto the top of the box office for another week which meant Ouija had to make to with a number 2 debut.
Five years ago - The Saw franchise continued it Halloween releases and debuted at number 1 with Saw 3D, Despicable Me fell to number 2.
Ten years ago - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit made it another week at the top of the box office with Saw II debuting at number 3.
Fifteen years ago - Disneys Dinosaur went back to the top of the box office meaning What Lies Beneath fell to number 2, highest new film was Book of Shadows Blair Witch 2.
Twenty years ago - To Die For made its debut at the top of the box office leaving Clueless to fall into second place.
Twenty five years ago - Ghost extended its run at the top of the box office by another week with the highest new film at number 4 in the shape of Goodfellas.