Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 9th December 2022, there are 4 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Matilda: The Musical from the top of the UK box office.

Check out other new releases from around the world.

• Emancipation
• Nocebo
• The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
• The Silent Twins

Emancipation

• The movie is directed by Antoine Fuqua, it is the directors 17th movie.
• Antoine Fuqua also directed King Arthur in 2004 which grossed £6.8 Mil. in the UK and grossed $203.6 Mil. globally.
• It stars Will Smith who also starred in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000).
• The film also stars Ben Foster who was last seen in Medieval (2022).
• This movie is released on streaming platforms.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Nocebo

• The movie is directed by Lorcan Finnegan, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Lorcan Finnegan also directed Vivarium in 2019.
• It stars Eva Green who also starred in Based On a True Story (2017).
• The film also stars Mark Strong who was last seen in Cruella (2021).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie

• The movie is from director Masato Jinbo.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Felecia Angelle who also starred in My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2020).
• The film also stars Bryn Apprill who was last seen in Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2019).
• Felecia Angelle and Bryn Apprill have starred in 3 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in The Boy and the Beast in 2015, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo in 2012 and Genocidal Organ in 2017.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Silent Twins

• The movie is from director Agnieszka Smoczynska.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Letitia Wright who also starred in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).
• The film also stars Tamara Lawrance who was last seen in Boxing Day (2021).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 2 new movies released

• The Amazing Maurice - Friday, 16th December - streaming
• Avatar: The Way of Water - Friday, 16th December

This weekend at the US box office Black Panther: Wankanda Forever remained on top for another week while the top new movie was the Christmas themed Violent Night at 2.

Lower down the box office I Heard the Bells was new at 6 with $1.8 Million and HIT: The 2nd Case is new at 12 with $600,000.

New at 13 this weekend is The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie with $502,000 and finally Top Gun: Maverick is back in cinemas and takes $700,000 over the weekend to push its US gross to $717.3 Million.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th December 2022

Spending a 4th weekend at the top of the North American box office is the sequel Marvel movie which takes $17.5 Million, a 61% drop over last weekend.

This gives the Black Panther sequel a total US gross of $393.7 Million and is now the 3rd top movie of 2022 in North America having just taken Jurassic World: Dominion.

The movie is well below Black Panther which by this point in its box office run had taken over $500 Million but it only has just over $17 Million to go before beating Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness to be the top Marvel movie, and superhero movie, of 2022.

Highest new movie this weekend

Highest new entry of the weekend goes to the Christmas themed movie about a bad ass Santa who saves a family being held for ransom in their house.

The movie directed by Tommy Wirkola and starring David Harbour lands at number 2 this weekend with a gross of $13.3 Million.

Not bad for a Christmas horror based movie, in comparison Krampus from 2015 landed at the same time of year with a debut gross of $16.2 Million.

Disney's latest animated movie is struggling on the box office and this week falls to number 3 with $4.9 Million, a large 74% drop over last weekend.

The movie has taken just $25 Million on its 2 week run at the box office, Encanto released the same time of year in 2021 had taken $57.9 Million 2 weeks into its run.

Jumping back up the chart to number 4 this week is the Ralph Fiennes starring fine dining movie which takes $3.5 Million, a modest 35% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a total North American box office total of $24.7 Million after 3 weeks of release.

Finally on this weeks to 5 is the J.D. Dillard directed flying movie which drops to number 5 with $2.7 Million, a 69% drop over last week.

The movie has taken $13.8 Million after 2 weeks of release.