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$0Maverick director Steven Spielberg releases his much anticipated, and much delayed, remake of West Side Story which should have been an easy number 1 movie but it was released the same weekend as children's favourite Clifford the Big Red Dog and and the two had a mighty battle for the top spot!
Also new this week is a re-entry for the Christmas favourite Home Alone which gets another holiday release this year and enters at number 7 this week with £122,299.
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UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 10th - 12th December 2021
Director Steven Spielberg brings his latest movie to the big screen, his first since 2018's Ready Player One, and it narrowly hits the top of the weekend box office on its debut weeekend.
The movie which is baed on the 1957 Broadway show of the same name takes £1.297 Million over the weekend.
The movie had a tight fight with Clifford the Big Red Dog and in the end there was less than half a million pound separating them.
Landing at 2 this week is the children's classic animated TV show which here gets the big screen treatment with a large CGI dog.
The movie is directed by Walt Becker and stars Britains own Jack Whitehall, it took £1.293 Million over its debut weekend.
The Ridley Scott directed true life drama falls to 3 this week taking £779,973 on its 3rd weekend of release, a 48% drop over last weekend which gives it a UK total gross of £7.3 Million.
The Disney animated feature falls to 4 this week with £635,387, a 50% drop over last week, giving the movie a 3 week total of £4.2 Million.
Finishing off the top 5 this week is the Ghostbusters sequel which takes £585,505 on its 4th weekend of release, a 45% drop, giving it a £10.1 Million total.
Marvel's Eternals spends a second weekend at the top of the global box office with little competition from new releases or older movie as the film pushes towards the $300 Million global mark.
Top new movie of the weekend is the Chinese only release Be Somebody which is new at 3 while right behind it is Clifford The Big Red Dog which is new at number 4.
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Global Box Office top 5 breakdown weekend 12th - 14th November 2021
Marvel's latest big screen adventure remains at the top of the global box office for a second weekend with a take of $75.5 Million from 50 countries, a 53% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken $281.3 Million over its 2 weeks of release as it heads towards the $300 Million mark which it should do by next weekend.
The 25th Bond movie spends another weekend in the top 5, this week staying put at number 2 with a weekend gross of $28.5 Million from 73 countries, a very slim 14% drop over last weekend.
This gives the movie a total global gross of $708.6 Million after 7 weeks of release, it is getting close to the $1 Billion mark but will fall short.
The movie is the fourth top movie of 2021 and by next weekend should take Fast & Furious 9 to be the top non Chinese movie of the year.
Highest new movie of the weekend comes in at number 3 and has only been released in China, it has a debut weekend gross of $19.8 Million.
Also released in just 1 country, this time America, the popular animated series getting the big screen live action treatment makes its debut at 4 with $16.4 Million.
The sci-fi classic from director Denis Villeneuve falls to number 5 this weekend with $12.3 Million from a massive 77 countries, a 34% drop over last weekend.
The smash hit movie has taken $351.2 Million over 9 weeks of release and is the 9th top movie of 2021 so far, although with a few potential blockbusters still to come it might struggle to keep its top 10 position.
A new poster has been released for upcoming movie The Batman which can seen in full if you scroll down this page.
The poster features Robert Pattinson as the title character, and there is a new treatment for the logo which also features Zoe Kravitz who plays Cat Woman.
Check out the movie page for more information on this upcoming movie.
Black Adam is the next superhero to get the movie treatment in the DC Extended Universe and Warner Bros. showed the forst footage from the 2022 movie at #DCFanDome this weekend.
Ladies & gents� - Enjoy your WORLD EXCLUSIVE first look?? - - He is ruthless. - He is unstoppable. - He is the reason the hierarchy of power in the DC UNIVERSE is about to change. - - He is #BLACKADAM - - The Man in Black has come around...#DCFanDome@SevenBucksProd@flynnpictureco pic.twitter.com/nv4oRmaLlq
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) October 16, 2021
The movie stars Dwayne Johnson as the title character Black Adam who is the antihero from the Shazam! movie, which is also getting a sequel in 2022.
A little known fact is that Dwayne Johnson was an executive producer on the first Shazam! movie.
Alongside Johnson the film stars Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Shahi and Aldis Hodge among many others.
There is no UK release date yet but the movie hits US cinemas on 29th June 2022 so expect a similar release time line.
With many studios removing their theatrical movies from their original release dates to new ones because of the cinema closures, Disney have not rescheduled any of their films and today announce that Artemis Fowl will go direct to Disney+.
The film was originally set for release on 9th August 2019 before being moved to 29th May 2020, but unlike many of the studios schedule, like Mulan, Disney have decided to give the Kenneth Branagh directed adaptation of the Eoin Colfer book to their streaming service, there is no date yet when it will appear there.
This is a very interesting move from one of the most powerful studios in the world, and lets hope not, but could show the way forward for studios in this difficult time.
Maybe we will see a time when the big, potential $1 Billion movies, will get moved to other release windows, but the smaller films will go straight to streaming so there is not a massive back catalogue of films to get out in cinemas.
Time will tell, and with no sign of cinemas reopening there is no way to tell if some bigger movies will get the home entertainment treatment as well.