Last weekend saw Spider-Man: No Way Home at the top of the UK box office, with 3 new releases can any of them do enough to top the box office chart this weekend?

Here are this weeks new releases.

• Belfast
• Nightmare Alley
• A Journal For Jordan

Belfast

• The movie is directed by Kenneth Branagh, it is the directors 21st movie.
• Kenneth Branagh also directed In the Bleak Midwinter in 1995 which grossed £346.8K in the UK.
• It stars Caitriona Balfe who also starred in Le Mans '66 (2019).
• The film also stars Judi Dench who last appeared in Off the Rails (2021).
• UK Box Office prediction: 3

Nightmare Alley

• The movie is directed by Guillermo del Toro, it is the directors 12th movie.
• Guillermo del Toro also directed Hellboy in 2004 which grossed £3 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Bradley Cooper who also starred in American Sniper (2015).
• The film also stars Cate Blanchett who last appeared in Don't Look Up (2021).
• UK Box Office prediction: 5

A Journal For Jordan

• The movie is directed by Denzel Washington, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Denzel Washington also directed John Q in 2002 which grossed £779.2K in the UK.
• It stars Michael B. Jordan who also starred in Creed II (2018).
• The film also stars Chante Adams who last appeared in Voyagers (2021).

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

Next week there are 3 new movies released

• Detective Chinatown 3, Tuesday, 25th January
• Sing 2, Friday, 28th January
• Parallel Mother's, Friday, 28th January

Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 2nd July 2021, there are 6 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Fast & Furious 9 from the top of the UK box office.

Freaky

• The movie is directed by Christopher Landon, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Christopher Landon also directed Happy Death Day 2U in 2019 which grossed £1.3 Million in the UK.
• It stars Vince Vaughn who last starred in Arkansas (2020).
• The film also stars Kathryn Newton who last appeared in The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021).

Violet Evergarden: The Movie

• The movie is directed by Taichi Ishidate, it is the directors 4th movie.
• Taichi Ishidate also directed Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memories Doll in 2019.
• It stars Yui Ishikawa who last starred in Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (2021).
• The film also stars Daisuke Namikawa who last appeared in Robot Carnival (1987).

Voyagers

• The movie is directed by Neil Burger, it is the directors 8th movie.
• Neil Burger also directed Interview With the Assassin in 2002.
• It stars Tye Sheridan who last starred in The Night Clerk (2020).
• The film also stars Lily-Rose Depp who last appeared in Crisis (2021).

French Exit

• The movie is directed by Azazel Jacobs, it is the directors 4th movie.
• Azazel Jacobs also directed Mommas Man in 2008 which grossed £2.1 Thousand in the UK.
• It stars Michelle Pfeiffer who last starred in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019).
• The film also stars Lucas Hedges who last appeared in Waves (2020).

The Tomorrow War

• The movie is directed by Chris McKay, it is the directors 4th movie.
• Chris McKay also directed The Lego Batman Movie 2 in 2022.
• It stars Chris Pratt who last starred in Onward (2020).
• The film also stars Yvonne Strahovski who last appeared in Angel of Mine (2019).

Another Round

• The movie is directed by Thomas Vinterberg, it is the directors 9th movie.
• Thomas Vinterberg also directed The Commune in 2016 which grossed £25.1 Thousand in the UK.
• It stars Mads Mikkelsen who last starred in Chaos Walking (2021).
• The film also stars Thomas Bo Larsen who last appeared in The Wave (2016).
• Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Bo Larsen have starred in 6 movies together.
• They also appeared together in Torremolinos 73 (2003).

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

Next week there is 1 new movie released

• Black Widow, Wednesday, 7th July

Godzilla Vs. Kong has a second high grossing weekend and retains the top spot on the US box office and with no studios releasing any big movies the top new film is Voyagers at number 5.

As confidence grows in the industry with the success Warner Bros. is having with the bog monster movie more hits are coming in the weeks ahead and studios are starting to reschedule their much delayed potential blockbusters.

Here is the US box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Godzilla Vs. Kong (2nd Week)
• Highest debut - Voyagers (@5)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age (20 weeks)
• Highest total gross - The Croods: A New Age ($56.71 Million)

Here is a breakdown of the top 5 movies at the US box office 9th - 11th April 2021.

Godzilla Vs. Kong

Warner Bros. must be finally pleased that one of their movies is re-starting the US box office after the closures of the global pandemic, they tries with Tenet at the end of the summer last year which failed but the big monster fight movie is hitting the right spot.

On its second weekend of release the movie takes a remarkable $13.38 Million, although this is a drop of 72% over last weekend, a higher drop than you would normally see for a big grossing debut.

The film has taken a very good, for the pandemic era, $69.5 Million since its release and is the top grossing movie in America for 2021.

Nobody

Another film which is enjoying success is the former number one movie which climbs back to number 2 this weekend with $2.65 Million, only 14% down from last weekend.

This gives the movie a $15.6 Million total gross from 3 weeks of release.

The Unholy

Despite the poor reviews for this Evan Spiliotopoulos directed film, and falling to number 3 this weekend, this horror movie is enjoying some surprise success.

This weekend the film takes $2.4 Million, a 25% drop from last weekend, which takes its gross to $6.73 Million on its second weekend of release.

Raya and the Last Dragon

Disney's latest animated feature is still doing well on the box office and after 6 weeks of release it takes $2.14 Million, up 4% from last weekend, for a total of $35.24 Million.

Voyagers

Highest new movie of the week lands at number 5 as director Neil Burger scores a top 5 movie with an debut gross of $1.35 Million.