US release: 5th April 2019
Canada release: 9th September 2018
Australia release: 8th June 2019
£2.2 Thousand $428.9 Thousand
$0The Marvels takes over at the top of the UK box office this weekend but with the third lowest of the MCU with only Captain America: The First Avenger (£2.9 Million) and The Incredible Hulk 2008, (£3.2 Million), if that can be considered an MCU movie?
This is clearly bad news for the Disney owned property, but despite the bad critical reviews the movie has had a good reception from the public who have on the whole liked the movie.
The question still has to be asked, has the public got MCU fatigue after more than 10 years of 3 or 4 movies a year?
Trolls Band Together falls to number 2 after its second visit to the top, the movie has taken £14 Million to date.
Also new on the top 5 this weekend is Tiger 3 which comes in with previews at number 5 with £425,668.
Highest new movie this weekend
The new movie from Pixar and Disney, Lightyear makes its debut at number 3 this weekend as Jurassic World Dominion and Top Gun Maverick prove too strong to remove from the top 2.
Also new this weekend in the top 5 is Good Luck to You Leo Grande while at the lower end of the box office top 15 is Veetla Vishesham at number 13 with £14,003 and the re-release of the Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me which is new at 14 with £12,843.
Second weekend at the top for the Jurassic World sequel movie as it takes £5.7 Million over the weekend, a large 53% drop over its debut last weekend.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of £21.7 Million after 10 days of release and gives it the 8th top movie of 2022.
So far this is the lowest grossing movie of the Jurassic World series, although it is still tracking to be one of the top 5 movies of 2022 in the UK.
Despite the fact the movie was delayed over a year, and the 36 years between the two movies no one could have imagined how successful this sequel to Top Gun was going to be.
This weekend the movie takes £4.2 Million on its fourth weekend, this is a small 24% over the previous week.
The movie has now taken an incredible £57.3 Million in the UK and is showing no signs of slowing down.
The sequel movie is currently the 25th top movie in the UK, comparing it to the top movie of all time in the UK Star Wars: The Force Awakens that movie has taken £108.4 Million on its fourth weekend, so this is tracking about half that, although the 2015 Star Wars sequel had a massive built in audience, this is slow burning and using word of mouth.
The movie is the top film of 2022 in the UK where is could stay until the end of the year.
Top new movie of the weekend is the first Pixar movie to get a cinema release since the CGI animated studio released Onward at the start of 2020 as the world locked down to COVID-19.
This Buzz Lightyear origins movie from the Toy Story series of films makes its debut to £3.7 Million, with mixed reviews clearly damaging its box office performance.
Onward from 2020 make a similar debut but that was a world that was starting to shutdown with the public getting nervous about spending time in rooms with lots of people.
Another new movie this weekend making its debut at number 4 as Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack star in Sophie Hyde's new movie.
The film makes its debut on the UK box office with £238,640.
The MCU sequel movie falls to number 3 this weekend with £169,578 on its 7th weekend, this gives the movie a total UK gross of £41 Million and its the 2nd top movie of 2022.
The box office had a slow start to the year with the shut-downs due to the ongoing global pandemic, but when they did re-open the public were slow to go back and there were many films released earlier in the year which under performed.
As the year progressed the public gained confidence in sitting in dark rooms with strangers and the year ended with the biggest movie of the year as Marvels MCU was the big outright winner.
Here is a breakdown of the top 5 movie of 2021 at the North American box office.
The Marvel/MCU/Sony movie was released late into December but beat expectations and has become the top movie of the year in North America through expectation, hype and the fact that it is every Spider-Fan's perfect movie.
The film hit the top of the 2021 list on its opening weekend and has so far taken over $500 Million, and as the movie is only 3 weeks old there is clearly more to come.
Another Marvel/MCU movie but this time very much a Disney product, and the movie can just at the point in late summer when the public was ready to go back to cinemas, and as many had not been in a cinema for over a year they flock to see the first Asian American superhero.
The movie took $224.5 Million during its 13 week box office run and took over from Black Widow when it did become the top movie of 2021 for a few weeks.
Sony had a good year in 2021, and although this is not directly a MCU movie it has enough connection to be closely associated, and the sequel movie did better than expected in its early autumn release.
Taking an excellent $212.4 Million over a 12 week span the movie is still currently showing in some cinemas in North America so its total could end up higher.
One of the first major releases in North America once cinemas began to open again, the solo outing for Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow didn't do as well as expected, but it got a Disney+ streaming release at the same time as its cinemas release.
Taking $183.6 Million over its 14 week cinematic run the movie was briefly the top movie of the year.
One of the first movie to get delayed at the very start of the pandemic which closed nearly all North American cinemas the 9th instalment in the Fast & Furious series finally got a release in June of this year, a year after its original scheduled release.
A 15 week run in cinemas gave the movie a total US gross of $173 Million, which even taking the delay into consideration is poor for a movie in this franchise.
Here is the top 10 movies in North America during 2021
Spider-Man: No Way Home got its debut in the UK and Ireland on Wednesday, it has scored a massive £7.6 Million (including Ireland) on its opening day.
This is bigger than the opening gross for the last Bond movie No Time To Die which took £4.8 Million on its first day.
To date it is the UK's top movie of 2021 with over £96 Million, and it is the third top movie of all time behind Stat Wars: The Force Awakens and fellow Bond movie Skyfall.
No Time To Die was released in a time when the public was just beginning to get confidence in going back to public place safely which could have effected the movies opening day, although with COVID-19 cases going up in the UK again the opening day for Spider-Man: No Way Home is very impressive.
With this in mind it looks like we are heading for the biggest opening weekend in the UK and Ireland in the last few year, it will be inserting to see if it can top the 2021 list at the same time?
#SpiderManNoWayHome scores an astonishing �7.2 million at the UK box office (�7.6 million UK & Ireland) on its opening day. - By comparison the figure for #NoTimeToDie - which is now just shy of �100 million - was �4.5 million (�4.8 million UK&I).
— Cinema UK (@Cinema-UK) December 16, 2021
At the box office this weekend the summer kicked off properly with the sequel movie A Quiet Place Part II which makes its debut a the top of the UK box office.
Last weeks top movie The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It drops down to number 4 while Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway and Cruella continue to do well.
Also new this weekend is Dream Horse at number 5 while further down the chart is Felix and the Hidden Treasure at number 11 with £43,011 on its debut.
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Uk box office top 5 breakdown 4th - 6th June 2021
Directed by John Krasinski and starring his real life wife Emily Blunt this is the sequel to 2018's A Quiet Place and lands at the top of the UK box office on its debit.
The movie took £3.5 Million which is good considering that cinemas are still on limited capacity and the public are only just getting used to going back to the cinema after such a long time away.
Interestingly the first movie took only £2.6 Million on its debut and has to content with a debut at number 2, so in the face of the pandemic the sequel has done better!
This sequel movie was always going to do well at the box office, it was just the feel good film the country needed after the year or lockdown and star James Cordon is a massive pull in the UK.
The movie takes £2 Million this weekend which is almost identical to its weekend gross from last weekend and the film stays firm at number 2.
After 3 weeks of release the movie has taken £12.6 Million and is the top movie of 2021 so far.
Disney's villain origin movie which has had some good reviews stays put at number 3 this weekend with £1.28 Million, a slim 12% drop from last weekend.
The movie has been on the box office now for 2 weekends and has a total UK gross of £4.5 Million.
Falling hard from the top spot in the horror movie from The Conjuring Universe which takes £1.03 Million this weekend, a 62% drop giving it a total of £5.3 Million after 2 weekends.
Making its debut at number 5 this week is the new movie from director Euros Lyn which stars Toni Collette and takes £209,389 on its debut.