£5 Million 
$6.6 Million 
$0 At the UK box office this weekend, Friday, 9th August 2019, there are 3 new releases looking to take your attention at the local multiplex and knock Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs And Shaw from the top of the UK box office chart next week.
First up at cinemas this week is Blinded By The Light, a Comedy directed by Gurinder Chadha who also directed Bride And Prejudice in 2004 which grossed £5 Million.
It stars Viveik Kalra who is making a feature film debut and Kulvinder Ghir who last appeared in The Queens Corgi (2019).
Next on the new release schedule is Playmobil: The Movie, this new Fantasy stars Dino Andrade and Gabriel Bateman.
The film is brought to us by new director Lino DiSalvo.
Next up this week is The Sun Is Also A Star which is directed by Ry Russo-Young who directed Before I Fall in 2017.
It stars Yara Shahidi and Anais Lee.
-Check back on Monday to see where these films end up on the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Come back next week when there are 4 new releases hitting cinemas. -
Gone Girl gives up it's reign at the top of the box office this week allowing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to debut at the top.
Reboots being the name of the game, Michael Bay produces a new take on the Turtles story of which the first film was released back in 1990.
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman and starring Megan Fox the new spin makes £4.7 million on it's opening weekend, there is no data for the opening weekend of the 1990 version, but an animated version came out in 2007 called TMNT which tool just less than a million pond on it's debut.
Gone Girl is still doing very well at the box office and this weeks falls into second place with a weekend gross of £2.3 million pound to bring it's total gross in the UK to £14.2 million which places it between Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Terminator Salvation as the top UK films.
Other new film at the UK are The Best of Me at 5, The Judge (a little disappointingly) at 9 and Northern Soul at 10, event feature The Metropolitan Opera Le Nozze Di Figaro 2014 is at 11.
Historical charts.
One year ago - Last year animated film Turbo was debuting a the top of the box office knocking Prisoners right down to fourth with Captain Phillips and Escape Plan also debuting in second and third.
Five years ago - Up remained at the top for another week while Couples Retreat was the highest new film debuting at two.
Ten years ago - Shark Tale made it's debut at the top of the box office knocking the previous number one, Bride and Prejudice down to fourth.
Fifteen years ago - Deep Blue Sea made a debut at the top of the box office chart meaning that American Pie took a tumble into second place.
This week at the UK box office there was no shifting for Gone Girl as the David Fincher film retains it's hold of the top spot for a second week.
Holding on with a weekend gross of £3.06 million Gone Girl has taken £9.8 million during it's 10 days of release.
Debuting in second place is the latest teen survival movie in the shape of The Maze Runner, based on the first of James Dashner series of books.
Maze Runner takes £2.04 million from the weekend, not a bad debut although in comparison The Hunger Games took £4.9 million on it's debut while Twilight took a comparable £2.5 million.
Also new this week: Horror movie Annabelle at 3, Event film showing for one weekend One Direction Where We Are at 4, romantic comedy The Rewrite is at 9 (are we getting sick of Hugh Grant?).
Historical Charts - One year ago - Prisoners spent an incredible third week at the top of the box office and with a ver static top 5 the highest new film was The Fifth State at 6.
Five years ago - Pixars Up was debuting at the top of the box office knocking off The Invention of Lying which fell to third place.
Ten years ago - Bride and Prejudice as the new film at the top of the charts with the previous weeks number 1 dropping down to third place.
Fifteen years ago - American Pie made it's debut at the top of the box office and Big Daddy fell from the top to the number three spot.