US release: 18th February 2022
United Arab Emirates release: 10th February 2022
Denmark release: 10th February 2022
£24.1 Million 
$148.6 Million 
$401.7 Million This week there are 28 new films released in countries around the globe looking to hit their box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top global movie, Now You See Me: Now You Don't, for the number 1 spot?
As well as many movies released in cinemas around the globe this list also includes a number of the top movies released on streaming platforms.
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Here are the top new release this week in countries across the world!Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Barbie spends a fourth weekend at the top of the UK box office which means it now ties with Avatar: THe Way of Water and The Super Mario Bros Movie as the longest number 1 of 2023.
The movie is now by far the top grossing movie of 2023 with £78.2 Million and it probably wont be beaten going in the end of the year.
Oppenheimer still sits at number 2 behind Barbie but with a gross of £45.7 Million it is the third top movie of 2023.
Based on the Playstation video game Gran Turismo is the top new movie of the weekend at 4 with just over £1 Million, but this is a far cry from the £4.7 Million of Uncharted from 2022 which was also based on a Playstation video game.
Highest new movie this weekend
Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 26th August 2022, there are 4 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Nope from the top of the UK box office.
Here are this weeks new releases
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
With the impending explosion at the box office holdovers filled a majority of this weeks top 15 with the highest debut coming in at 8 as Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 takes £123,160.
Coming in at 9 is the encoure versions of the one day event movie Twenty One Pilots Cinema Experience which took £114,873 and just below at 11 is Benediction which took £100,635, and finally in the top 15 is the event movie Lucia Di Lammermoor: Met Opera 2022 which took £78,828.
The MCU hit movie remains at the top of the UK box office for a third weekend with a weekend gross of £3 Million taking its total to £35 Million after 3 weeks.
This weekend gross is a 48% drop over last weekend and although the movie has not grossed anywhere near that of the previous MCU movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home it has already far outgrossed the £23 Million of the first Doctor Strange from 2016.
The movie is the second top grossing movie of 2022 and should move into first place by next weekend replacing The Batman.
After the excellent word of mouth and reviews of the Michelle Yeoh starring movie it jumps up the box office with a weekend gross of £839,974 taking its total UK gross of £1.9 Million after 2 weeks.
The weekend gross is an amazing 19% increase over its debut weekend and although next weeks releases will effect the movies takings this has long box office run written all over it.
Falling to number 3 this weekend is the sequel movie based on the stately home in England with took £757,303 over the weekend, a 22% drop.
The movie has now taken £12 Million in the UK after 4 weeks and although it running behind that of Downton Abbey from 2019 this is still not a bad post COVID total and should seal the movie a third outing.
The little blue hedgehog this week spends its 8th weekend on the box office with a weekend take of £423,552, a small 19% drop over last weekend, especially good considering the age of the movie.
The movie has taken £24 Million in total and is the 5th top movie of 2022, and it has now beaten Uncharted to become the top grossing video game adaptation in the UK, an honor Uncharted recently took from the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
The Sandra Bullock action comedy spends a 6th weekend on the box office, and goes back up the chart into the top 5 with £357,144, a 3% increase.
The movie has now taken an excellent £9.8 Million in the UK and will pass the £10 Million milestone by next weekend.
Following in the footsteps of Venom and its sequel Sony release their latest movie in the Marvel Spiderverse with Morbius which tops the box office on its debut.
With a new comic book inspired movie there was nothing else of note released, The Contractor~2022 starring Chris Pine was another movie making its debut, at number 12 with $535,000.
US box office top 5 weekend breakdown 1st - 3rd April 2022
Another new comic book character comes to the big screen in an origins story, this time its the less known about Morbius from the Spider-Man comic books which is owned by Sony Pictures.
With the Venom movies being a sizeable hit for the studio this must have seemed like a good prospect to increase the universe, but a critical panning and mad word of mouth could see this stall at a single film.
The movie takes a reasonable $39.1 Million on its debut, but with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 out next weekend, and getting better reviews, the movie could sink fast.
It is the 10th top movie of 2022 after a single weekend of release.
After a single weekend at the top of the US box office the action comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum falls to number 2 with a weekend gross of $14.8 Million, a 51% drop.
This gives the movie a total North American gross of $54.8 Million after 2 weekends of release, its the 8th top movie of 2022.
Still hanging onto a spot on the top 3 the Robert Pattinson Caped Crusader movie falls to number 3 this weekend with $10.8 Million, a 47% drop.
The movie has been on the chart now for 5 weeks and has taken a total of $349 Million, it is the top movie of 2022.
The Ruben Fleischer directed video game adaptation remains at number 4 this weekend with a gross of $3.6 Million, a small 28% drop over last weekend, giving the movie a total gross of $138.9 Million and the 3rd top movie of 2022.
Remaining at number 5 for a second weekend is the Japanese animated movie which takes $1.9 million on its 3rd weekend of release, a 57% drop.
The movie has now taken $29.6 Million in North America and is the 11th top movie of 2022!