Avatar: The Way of Water spends a 6th weekend at the top of the North American box office as Puss In Boots: The Last Wish goes back up to number 2.

Highest new movie of the weekend is Missing~2023 at number 4 while there is also a new entry for That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime The Movie: Scarlet Bond at number 8 with $1.4 Million and The Son at 15 with $239,855.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 20th - 22nd January 2023

James Cameron proves that the first Avatar wasn't a one off as the sequel nears the $600 Million mark after adding $20 Million on its 6th weekend of release.

• The movie remains at number 1 on this weeks US box office
• It has spent 6 weeks at the top of the US box office.
• It grosses $20,000,000 over the weekend, a 36% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of $598,276,353 over 6 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is the 13th top grossing movie of all time in the US.
• The movie is a sequel to Avatar which took $551,741,499 at the box office after 6 weeks of release.

Going back up the box office is the sequel movie from the Shrek universe of movies as the Antonio Banderas starring movie takes $11.5 Million on its 5th weekend of release.

• The movie goes up the chart to number 2 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $11,500,000 over the weekend, a 14% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of $126,460,470 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Puss In Boots which took $135,430,092 at the box office after 5 weeks of release.

A new franchise in the horror genre is born as the Gerard Johnstone directed movie takes $9.8 Million over the weekend as M3GAN 2 gets an announcement.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $9,800,000 over the weekend, a 45% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of $73,287,510 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

A spiritual successor to the 2018 movie Searching which is the top new movie at number 4 with a $9.3 Million debut.

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks US box office chart.
• It grosses $9,300,000 over the weekend
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Searching which took $388,769 at the box office after 1 weeks of release.

Tom Hanks proves he is still a box office draw as his latest movie spends a 4th weekend inside the top 5 with a remake of the Swedish movie A Man Called Ove

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks US box office
• It grosses $9,000,000 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of $35,346,249 over 4 weeks of release
• The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2023

As the year 2023 rolls on into January there are movie new releases this weekend, but none were good enough to topple Avatar: The Way of Water from the top of the UK box office.

The highest new movie of the weekend is A Man Called Otto which is new at 4, also in the top 5 is the latest cinema event Andre Rieu: In Dublin 2023.

Further down the chart is Till which is new at 6 with £327,496, the action movie The Enforcer~2022 is new at 12 with £71,836 and finally there is a re-entry at 15 for Shrek, the 2001 animated hit movie which take £44,199.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 6th - 8th January 2023

The sequel movie to Avatar takes £5.8 Million on its 4th weekend of release which is a small 25% drop over last weekend.

The movie has taken a UK total of £57.2 Million, which almost by default makes it the top movie of 2023, and although its not the top movie released in 2022 it is catching Top Gun: Maverick and has grossed almost the same at that movie 4 weeks into its box office run.

The original movie has taken £41 Million 4 weeks into its run so this movie is well ahead of that and is set to out gross the 2009 film.

The bio-pic of Whitney Houston remains at number 2 for a second weekend with a gross of £1.3 Million, a 58% drop over its debut last weekend.

This gives the movie a total gross of £6.2 Million after 2 weekends of release.

The musical version of the Roald Dahl story Matilda remains at number 3 this weekend with a gross of £1.1 Million, a drop of 42%.

The movie has been a massive hit in the UK with a 3 week run at the top and after 7 weeks, all inside the top 3, the movie has taken £23.9 Million.

Highest new movie this weekend

Highest new movie of the weekend is the latest from Tom Hanks which is a remake of the Swedish movie A Man Called Ove from 2015.

THe movie takes £1.1 Million on its debut weekend of release in the UK.

No stranger to the box office, Andre Rieu's latest live concert offering where he is performing live in Dublin lands at number 5 this week.

The event movie takes £715,986 in screenings starting from Saturday 7th which is about on par with the violinists last concert Andre Rieu's 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again which took £798,706 in August of 2022.