
US release: 23rd August 2019
£7.5 Million
$69 Million
$128.3 Million As cinemas in the UK close their doors for a second time in 2020 due to a government enforced lockdown to control the COVID-19 pandemic this weeks new releases are slim and share a same date release with a home digital release. There are 3 new releases looking to take your, last week saw Two By Two: Overboard! spend a second week at the top of the UK box office.
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Each week we present a rundown of the UK box office chart headlines on this same week from last year to 1990.
Making its debut at the top was Angel Has Fallen starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman and directed by Ric Roman Waugh
The film with the longest run was Casino Royale which had been on the box office for 25 weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was The Lion King which had taken £69.1 Million after 6 weeks of release.
Also making its debut at the top was Paper Towns starring Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne and directed by Jake Schreier
The film with the longest run was Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back which had been on the box office for 34 weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was Minions which had taken £44.2 Million after 9 weeks of release.
Another film making its debut at the top was The Expendables starring Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham and directed by Sylvester Stallone
The film with the longest run was Inception which had been on the box office for 6 weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was Toy Story 3 which had taken £61.7 Million after 5 weeks of release.
The number one film was Charlie And The Chocolate Factory which had been at the top for 4 weeks.
The top new film of the week was Bewitched directed by Nora Ephron and starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell which entered the box office at number 2.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was War Of The Worlds which had taken £30.1 Million over 8 weeks of release.
Making its debut at the top was X-Men starring Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart and directed by Bryan Singer
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Gladiator which had taken £30.1 Million over 15 weeks of release.
Making its debut at the top was Die Hard With A Vengeance starring Bruce Willis and Jeremy Irons and directed by John McTiernan
The film with the longest run was The Brady Bunch Movie which had been on the box office for 11 weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was Batman Forever which had taken £16.6 Million after 6 weeks of release.
The number one film was Die Hard 2: Die Harder which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
The top new film of the week was Wild At Heart directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern which entered the box office at number 3.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Pretty Woman which had taken £12.2 Million over 13 weeks of release.
Although it remains at the top for a second weekend IT Chapter Two fell hard and had a serious challenge from highest new entry Hustlers which makes its debut at the US box office.
After making its debut on the box office chart last weekend the horror sequel remains at the top this weekend despite dropping 55% from last weekend for a take of $40.7 Million.
This takes the Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy starring movies total gross to $153.8 after 2 weeks of release.
The film is unlikely to reach the $327 Million of the first movie.
Coming in as the highest new entry of the week is this comedy drama starring Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez and directed by Lorene Scafaria based on a New York Magazine article.
The film does better than expected with a debut gross of $33.2 Million.
The Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman sequel movie is at 3 this week and takes $4.4 Million on its fourth weekend taking its total to $60.3 Million.
The R rated comedy is at number 4 this week with $4.2 Million pushing its total to $73.3 Million after 5 weeks on release.
Making a slow climb down the box office, and the longest run on this weeks chart at 9 weeks is Disney's animated remake which is at number 5 this week and adds $3.5 Million and pushes its total to $533.9 Million.
It Chapter Two brings to and end a quiet couple of weeks at the UK box office as it enters the top of the box office while Polish Political drama Polityka enters inside the top 5.
Its been 2 years since the original IT scared audiences on its debit weekend to the tune of £10 Million, the sequel has not quite reached that mark but the £7.3 Million has given the UK box office a boost.
Whereas the first film relied on its young cast and the thought of Pennywise the clown to carry the film this film brings in some big hitting stars like Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader.
The first film went on to £32 Million in the UK and hung around till the end of October (Halloween), expect this to not quite do as well as its predecessor but hang around until late October.
Quentin Tarantino's (who lets face it is the real star of this movie) 9th film falls to number 2 this week and is easily his most successful film to date as this weekend it take £1 Milllion.
This pushes the movies total gross to £18.5 Million after 4 weeks of release.
The third film in the Fallen series starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman falls to number 3 this week with £695,622 taking its total to £5.9 Million.
Highest total grossing film on the box office this week and a £686,991 weekend puts its total at an incredible £73.1 after 8 weeks of release.
Entering the box office at number 5 this week is a Polish Political drama starring Iwona Bielska and Marcin Bosak and directed by Patryk Vega.
The film takes a very respectable £517,255 on its debut from a limited run of 236 screens making an average of nearly £2,000 per screen.
Pixars mega hit has the longest run on the UK box office this weekend as the film notches up its 12th weekend with a total UK gross of £64.5 Million.
After a very quiet couple of weekends on the US box office a monster of a film gets release this weeks in the shape of IT Chapter Two, but it comes in quite a bit below the original IT from 2 years ago, it still dominates the box office.
Following on 2 years from 2017's IT the follow up takes over at the top of the US box office with ease, but whereas the first film opened to a massive $126 Million Chapter Two comes in at $91 Million.
The fan base is still there, and unlike other sequels this isn't a sequel as much as it completes the Stephen King book which interwinds between the two stories throughout.
With favourable reviews the film should see itself do well over the autumn (fall) and in the build up to Halloween where it is bound to get re-promoted.
The threequel movie starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman falls to number 2 after a couple of weeks at the top with a weekend gross of $6 Million.
THe movie now has a total US gross of $53.4 Million after 3 weeks on the box office.
Falling to number 3 this week is the R rated teen movie which takes $5.3 Million on its 4th weekend for a new total US gross of $66.8 Million.
Disneys remake has been a smash hit for the mouse studio and after 8 weeks the film is still inside the top 5, this week taking $4.1 Million.
THe movies total US gross now sits at an amazing $529.1 Million, it is the 12th highest grossing movie in the US ever and could still enter the top 10 before the end of its run.
The faith based movie fell out of the top 5 last week but bounces back this weekend as the film climbs to number 5 with $3.7 Million takings its total to $24.7 Million on its 3rd week.
The, maybe last, Spider-Man movie in Disney's MCU has been a mega smash for Sony who own the movie copyright to the character and this week it spends its 10th week on the chart and has a total US gross of $388.1 Million.