
£1.3 Million
$1.2 Million
$13 Million This weekend, Friday 1st April 2022, there are 4 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, The Batman, for the number 1 spot?
Here are this weeks new releases
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Sony pictures continue their series of movies starring villains from the Spider-Man universe with Morbius which gets a 15 age rating in the UK.
The movie stars Jared Leto who has previously been seen in the Super Villain movies as the Joker in Suicide Squad from 2016 and was also seen in The House of Gucci last year, it also stars Tyrese Gibson last seen in Fast & Furious 9.
The movie is directed by Daniel Espinosa who directed the critically acclaimed movie Child 44 in 2015.
Movie Synopsis
Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but when his experiment goes wrong, he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
Looking back at the historical UK box office chart headlines over the last 30 years.
The number one film was Shazam! which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
The top new film of the week was Kalank directed by Abhishek Varman and starring Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt which entered the box office at number 4.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Captain Marvel which had taken £37.9 Million over 7 weeks of release.
The number one film was Fast & Furious 7 which had been at the top for 3 weeks and with a total gross of £32 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
The top new film of the week was Child 44 directed by Daniel Espinosa and starring Xavier Atkins and Mark Lewis Jones which entered the box office at number 4.
The film with the longest run was Shaun The Sheep Movie which had been on the box office for 7 weeks.
Another film making its debut at the top was Dear John starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried and directed by Lasse Hallström
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Alice In Wonderland which had taken £41.4 Million over 7 weeks of release.
Making its debut at the top was The Interpreter starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn and directed by Sydney Pollack
The film with the longest run was Hostage which had been on the box office for 6 weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was Hitch which had taken £16.4 Million after 6 weeks of release.
Making its debut at the top was Pokémon: The First Movie starring Veronica Taylor and Philip Bartlett and directed by Michael Haigney and Kunihiko Yuyama
The film with the longest run was American Beauty which had been on the box office for 12 weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was Toy Story 2 which had taken £42.6 Million after 10 weeks of release.
Making its debut at the top was Muriels Wedding starring Toni Collette and Bill Hunter and directed by P.J. Hogan
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book which had taken £7.4 Million over 9 weeks of release.
The number one film was Look Who's Talking which had been at the top for 3 weeks.
The top new film of the week was The Hunt For Red October directed by John McTiernan and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin which entered the box office at number 2.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Honey I Shrunk The Kids which had taken £9.4 Million over 11 weeks of release.
Disney and Jon Favreau live action version of the classic Rudyard Kipling book makes in incredible showing at the box office this week.
Making it debut at the top with a £9.9 million weekend the film has become the 63rd highest opening weekend in the UK ever, in 2016 Batman V Superman and Deadpool opened higher.
With such a strong opening the film is sure to follow in the footsteps of Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland and be a massive live action film for Disney.
Falling from the top in dramatic style this week is The Huntsman: Winters War which drops to, a second weekend of £0.6 million brings the total to £4.4 million.
Highest total grossing movie on the box office this week is former number 1 film Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice which has now grossed £35.3 million after 4 weeks of play.
Historical chart
A year ago - Fast and Furious 7 retained its hold on the top and with a strong top 4 Child 44 was the top new film at 4.
Five years ago - Scream 4 took over at the top on its debut weekend leaving Rio to fall to number 2.
Ten years ago - Ice Age: The Meltdown stayed at the top for another weekend leaving Scary Movie 4 to enter the chart at number 2.
Fifteen years ago - Bridget Jones's Diary made its debut at the top while Rugrats In Paris The Movie fell to number 3.
Twenty years ago - Broken Arrow was new at the top while Toy Story fell into the runner up position after 3 weeks at the top.
Twenty five years ago - Highlander II The Quickening was the top new film of the week with Quigley Down Under falling into number 3.
The Divergent Series Insurgent gets dethroned from the top after 3 weeks and gets replaced by Disney's live action Cinderella on its debut.
Cinderella hit UK cinemas on 27th March this year, it entered the box office at number 1 and had an incredible 11 run on the official chart then another 11 outside.
The film took an excellent £21.1 million at the UK box office making it the 163rd highest grossing film ever in the UK.
Globally the film has to date taken $542 million which makes is the 125th highest grossing film of all time.
Insurgent falls from the top to number 3 although it did have an unprecedented 3 weeks at the top.
Also new this week is: Child 44 which enters at number 2, Two by Two which is new at number 5, A Little Chaos which is new at 8 and The Falling which is new at 18.