US release: 15th December 2017
Australia release: 15th December 2017
China release: 15th December 2017
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$0Director Taika Waititi brings his new film Jojo Rabbit to the big screen and it has been given a 12A age rating in the UK.
As described on the BBFC website JOJO RABBIT is a comedy drama in which a ten-year-old Hitler Youth member begins to question the Nazi ideology after discovering a Jewish girl living in his home.
The film is bound to contain plenty of director Waititi satirical sense of humour, although the subject matter might not appeal to a larger audience.
The BBFC have given the film its 12A rating in the UK for discrimination, violence, bloody images, sex references, strong language and the film has a runtime of 108 minutes (1 hours 48 minutes) and it is released on 3rd January 2020 however the film will be shown at the London Film Festival on October 5th 2019.
Disney hit the top spot again across the world with dumbo which may have fallen short of expectations but still has a decent global debut
Tim Burton once again brings his directorial style to a Disney film has he brings life to the 1941 classic animation in a retelling of the story.
Making its debut at the top the movie takes $116 million from 54 countries.
Jordan Peel's seminal horror films falls from the top inti second place this week with a take of $56.2 million over the weekend from 62 countries.
This brings the films total global gross to $174.5 million after 2 weeks of release.
The Marvel super hero movie is at three this week with a weekend gross of $46.9 million from 55 countries.
The Brie Larson starring movie is almost at the magic billion mark and stand at $991 million currently.
The romantic drama is at number 4 this week with $12.4 million from 40 countries, this pushes the films total gross to $50.6 million.
This Luan Zhang directed movie is only released in China so far and yet is number 5 this week with $11 million which pushes its total to $32.4 million.
Big Hero 6 takes the crown as the biggest selling video in the UK this week, removing single week winner Into The Woods from the top, although it's not all bad news as Disney are behind both films.
Big Hero 6 was released in the UK on 30th January 2015 and hit the top spot on it's debut week with a UK gross os £4.2 million.
It remained at the top of the box office for a couple of weeks before being knocked off by Fifty Shades of Grey.
The film spent a total of 10 weeks on the top 15 and in that time took a total of £20 million which makes it the 179th highest grossing film in the UK.
Across the world it took $652 million making it the 82nd highest grossing film ever.
Into the Woods falls to number 2 this week.
Other new film this week are: Testament of Youth at number 5 and Wild at number 9.
Staying put this week, Tak3n makes it 2 weeks at the top of the UK box office despite a challenge from the new Clint Eastwood film.
Liam Neeson has become the action hero of the moment with Taken 3 taking another £3.3 million from the weekend which brings it's total to £12.2 million after 10 days.
The threequel is keeping well in line with the previous film in the series but it already double that of the first films full UK cinema run.
Debuting strong at number 2 is American Sniper which enters the Uk box office with a first weekend gross of £2.5 million, Oscar nomination are boosting it's potential and it could end up one of Eastwood's highest grossing films.
The theory of Everything, Into the Woods and Paddington wound out the top five.
Other new films this week are: Whiplash at 7, Wild at 9, The Merry Widow Met Opera 2015 at 10 and Testament of Youth at 11.
Historical charts
A year ago - The Wolf of Wall Street was the first new number 1 film of the year debuting in the top spot and knocking 12 Years A Slave into second place.
Five years ago - Avatar stayed on top for yet another week and the highest new film was Up In The Air right down at 5.
Ten years ago - Highest new film and new number 1 for the week was Closer which knocked White Noise from the top to number 3.
Fifteen years ago - Sleepy Hollow kept it's hold on the top of the box office where it entered the previous week, Angelas Ashes was the highest new film of the week at 2.