
US release: 3rd June 1988
£2.9 Million
$115 Million
$151.9 Million As happens every year over the Lunar New Year, the Chinese box office goes mad and all the big new movies get released and boost the global box office.
This year the sequel movie Pegasus 3 lands at the top with a weekend gross of over $152 Million, and over $300 Million since its release.
China alone made up the top 3 releases on the global box office this weekend accounted for nearly $250 Million of this weeks total takings.
Wuthering Heights~2025 fell from the top to number 4 this weekend and has taken just over $150 million after 2 weeks of release.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal goes behind the camera to bring her version of the Frankenstien story The Bride~2025 to the big screen which has been given a 15 age rating in the UK for strong bloody violence, gore, sexual violence, sex, very strong language
The movie stars Jessie Buckley in the title trole which has also starred in Judy and is still in cinemas in Hamnet, the movie also features Christian Bale who has been seen in Velvet Goldmine and Public Enemies.
Director Maggie Gyllenhaal has previously directed one other movie, The Lost Daughter.
Movie Synopsis
Frankenstein's monster seeks the help of a scientist to create him a female companion, which ignites an intense romance, a police chase and a social movement.
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Director Emerald Fennell brings her vision of the classic British novel Wuthering Heights~2025 to the big screen and scores a blockbuster movie in the process.
The movie makes its debut at the top of the North American box office this week with a debut gross of nearly $36 Million.
Last weeks top movie, Send Help falls to number 4 this weekend making just shy of $9 Million, a slim 1% drop from last weekend and is proving to be a massive hit movie.
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After the global success of The Lego Movie in 2014 directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller bring the novel Project Hail Mary to the big screen which has been given a 12A age rating in the UK for moderate threat, rude humour, drug references, implied strong language
The movie stars Ryan Gosling who has previously been seen in The Fall Guy and The United States of Leland, the movie also stars Ken Leung wh0 has starred in Year of the Fish and The Squid and the Whale.
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have also had success on the big screen with the adaptation of the TV show 21 Jump Street and its sequel 22 Jump Street.
Movie Synopsis
A girl hops her mind into a robotic beaver in order to communicate with the animal world and save their habitat from developers.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Coming from veteran horror director Sam Raimi this weeks new number 1 movie is Send help which tops the United Kingdom box office with a little over £1.5 Million.
Cinema is going through a period where there is no major blockbuster released at getting into released so when a movie likes this which got very little hype makes it to the top of the box office its worth celebrating.
Sam Raimi of course is no stranger to big buget blockbusters having direct the Toby Maguire Spider-Man trilogy and the MCU movie Doctor Strage and the Multiverse of Madness.
Falling from the top this weekend is Hamnet which has been on the box office for 5 weeks and has taken over £16.5 Million to date.
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