US release: 26th July 2013
United States release: 26th July 2013
United Kingdom release: 20th September 2013
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$0The Flash only spends a single weekend at the top of the UK box office as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse goes back to the top on its 4th weekend of release.
The top new movie of the weekend is No Hard Feelings which makes its debut at 3 while Asteroid City makes its debut one place lower at 4.
This is the first weekend since 22nd July 2022 where the full top 5 has taken over £1 Million, that weekend we had Minions the rise of Gru at the top, Thor Love and Thunder in second, Where the Crawdads Sing at 3, Elvis at 4 and the summer hit Top Gun Maverick at 5.
Highest new movie this weekend
Last weekend The Little Mermaid was at the top of the UK box office, there are 4 new releases this weekend, will any of them top the UK box office this weekend?
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Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Star Wars Celebration is in full swing at the movie (it runs from April 7th - 9th) and of the more exciting news it has been announced that three new movies for the Star Wars series are in production.
The movies are directed by James Mangold, Dave Filoni, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the last being of some interest as it will bring back the character of Rey from the sequel trilogy series played once again by Daisy Ridley.
The movie will cover the entire (fictional) history of the series with one showing how the Jedi came to be and learn to use the Force, one being set in the time-line of the TV show The Mandalorian which is after the events of Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi and finally Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will direct a movie set 15 years after the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker showing how Rey rebuilt the Jedi Order.
There has been no mention so far of the Taika Waititi Star Wars Film, which is simply called Untitled Taika Waititi Star Wars Film on IMDB.com, so who knows if that is still going ahead.
This plan does seem to be a more positive one for a film series that has totally lost its way since Disney took it over, and Rogue One A Star Wars Story aside has not produced movie which compliment the rich history of the much loved movies.
The TV shows on the other hand have been popular with the previously mentioned The Mandalorian being the best so far.
Time will tell if these movies get made, but the movie path and directors of recent years for the Kathleen Kennedy helmed Lucasfilms has been sketchy to say the least!
The star studded movie Babylon about Hollywood in the 1920's has been given an 18 age rating in the UK for strong sex, nudity, drug misuse
The movie stars Brad Pitt who also starred in last years Bullet Train and an Oscar winning role in Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood, it also stars Margot Robbie who starred as Harley Quinn in The Suicide Squad and will appear as Barbie later in 2023.
The movie is directed by Damien Chazelle who brought us First Man in 2018 and La La Land in 2017 which won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2018 for Emma Stone.
Movie Synopsis
Decadence, depravity, and outrageous excess lead to the rise and fall of several ambitious dreamers in 1920s Hollywood.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Sequel movie Avatar: The Way of Water remains at the top of the UK box office for a third weekend as Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody comes in at number 2 on its debut.
Spending a third week on top of the UK box office is the sequel movie to Avatar which takes £7.6 Million, a 35% increase on its Christmas weekend total.
The movie has now taken a magnificent £44.9 Million at the UK box office after 3 weeks of release.
It is £12 Million ahead of Avatar at the same point of its run and for many years that was the top grossing movie of all time in the UK.
The movie is the 3rd top grossing film of 2022, but is fast catching Top Gun: Maverick and will likely be the top grossing movie released in 2022 before the end of its run.
Highest new movie this weekend
The bio-pic of Whitney Houston starring Naomi Ackie and directed by Kasi Lemmons got released on Boxing Day this year and lands at number 2 on the UK box office.
The movie takes £3.3 Million on its debut despite getting quite a panning from critics.
The movie is looking for Oscar glory which if it achieves could boost the gross quite a but especially around the February window, and even more so if it wins!
Falling to number 2 this weekend is the musical version of the Roald Dahl story of Matilda which takes £2 Million over the New Year weekend, a 45% increase over last weekend.
The former number 1 movie has now taken £20.8 Million over its 6 weeks of release.
The sequel movie to Black Panther climbs back up the box office to number 4 this weekend with a gross of £436,156, a 54% increase over last weekend.
The movies weekend gross being so low and the movie still climbing to number 4 is a reflection of the current state of the box office and shows how much Avatar: The Way of Water is taking from the box office.
The movie has taken a total of £33.2 Million in the UK and is well below that of the first movie which had taken nearly £50 Million 8 weeks into its run.
Disney's latest animated movie, which had been considered a relative flop at the box officem, climbs to number 5 this weekend with a gross of £280,777, a 49% increase.
The movie has grossed a total of £3.1 Million at the UK box office which is about half that of Disney's previous movie Encanto.