Last weekend Weapons was at the top of the North American box office, there are 2 new releases this weekend, will any of them top the US box office this weekend?

As well as the movies released in cinemas this weekend this list also includes a number of the top movies released on streaming platforms.

Check out other new releases from around the world.

Here are this weeks new releases

• The Conjuring: Last Rites
• Shadow Force

The Conjuring: Last Rites

• The movie is directed by Michael Chaves, it is the directors 4th movie.
• Michael Chaves also directed The Curse of La Llorona in 2019 which grossed $54.7 Mil. in the US.
• It stars Patrick Wilson who also starred in The Phantom of the Opera (2004).
• The film also stars Vera Farmiga who's last movie was Origin (2024).
• Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga have starred in 7 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in The Nun II in 2023, The Conjuring in 2013, Annabelle Comes Home in 2019, The Nun in 2018, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It in 2021, The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case in 2016 and The Commuter in 2018.
• Michael Chaves directed Patrick Wilson in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and The Nun II
• Michael Chaves directed Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and The Nun II
• This movie is released in movie theatres.

Shadow Force

• The movie is directed by Joe Carnahan, it is the directors 9th movie.
• Joe Carnahan also directed Copshop in 2021.
• It stars Kerry Washington who also starred in The School For Good and Evil (2022).
• The film also stars Omar Sy who's last movie was The Book of Clarence (2024).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 6 new movies released

• Ballerina - Friday, 6th June
• Spinal Tap II - Friday, 12th September
• Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - Friday, 12th September
• Dreams (Sex Love) - Friday, 12th September - limited release
• The Long Walk - Friday, 12th September
• Demon Slayer - Kimetsu No Yaiba - : The Movie Infinity Castle - Friday, 12th September - streaming

As Avatar: The Way of Water stays at the top of the UK and Northern Ireland box office for a seventh weekend the Indian movie Pathaan makes an impressive start to its box office run with a debut at 2.

Meanwhile Plane is new at number 3 and The Fabelmans is new at 4 with The Wandering Earth 2 new at 9 with £385,959 and Billie Eilish Live At the O2 is new at 10 with £329,407.

Also new is Unwelcome at 14 with £118,322 and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed at 15 with £88,108.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 27th - 29th January 2023

The James Cameron directed sequel movie remains at the top of the UK box office for a 7th weekend, which makes it equal with Toy Story 2 and Gladiator.

One more week at the top and it equals Tenet as the longest pandemic movie, if it can get to 13 weeks then it will equal Camerons own Titanic, but its unlikely!

This weekend the movie ass £2.1 Million to its total for a total of £70.8 Million.

• The movie remains at number 1 on this weeks UK box office
• It has spent 7 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £2,116,615 over the weekend, a 24% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of £70,884,535 over 7 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is the 15th top grossing movie of all time in the UK.
• The movie is a sequel to Avatar which took £65,070,599 at the box office after 7 weeks of release.

Highest new movie this weekend

Making its debut at number 2 this weekend is the new movie from Indian director Siddharth Anand which takes £1.9 Million on its opening weekend.

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It grosses £1,967,854 over the weekend on its debut
• The movie is the 8th top grossing film so far in 2023

Also making its debut this weekend is the new movie starring Gerard Butler which enters the box office at number 3 with £1.1 Million.

The stars last movie Copshop opened in September 2021 to £198,225 for a 3 week run.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,161,382 over the weekend on its debut
• The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2023

The latest movie from director Steven Spielberg finally gets a UK release and opens to just over a million pound.

The movie is nominated for a number of Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director which could help its box office journey, but it may get the Director Oscar but little else.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,067,384 over the weekend on its debut
• The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2023

Falling to number 5 this weekend the new horror movie franchise takes £749,354 on its 3rd weekend of release.

Compared to Smile from the end of 2022 that movie took £1.4 Million on its 3rd weekend.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £749,354 over the weekend, a 45% drop from last weeeknd
• It has a total gross of £5,980,325 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023

Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings remains at the top of the US box office for a third straight weekend giving Disney the top 2 movies of the year.

Highest new entry os the weekend is the Clint Eastwood directed and starring Cry Macho which debuts at number 3 while also making a debut this week is Copshop at number 6 with $2.3 Million.

US box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (3rd Weekend)
• Highest debut - Cry Macho (@3)
• Longest run - Black Widow (11 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Black Widow ($183.3 Million)

US box office top 5 breakdown weekend 17th - 19th September 2021

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

A third weekend at the top of the US box office for the newest Marvel character which takes $21.7 Million this weekend, a very good 39% drop over last weekend.

This gives the movie a $176.8 Million total US box office gross after 3 weeks of release and is the second highest grossing movie of 2021 in North America.

Free Guy

Shawn Levy's runaway hit stays at number 2 this weekend with a gross of $5.2 Million, an incredible 11% drop, made even more impressive by the fact this is the movie 6th weekend of release, is this a sign people are going back to the movies?

This gives the film a total US gross of $108.5 Million after 6 weeks of release and is the 6th top grossing movie of 2021 in North America.

Cry Macho

Legendary director Clint Eastwood brings his latest movie to the big screen, and goes back to westerns in the process, his latest makes its debut on the chart at number 3 with $4.5 Million.

Eastwood has a die hard following but this latest picture has not had the praise and critical response of his past movies so once the 'fans' see the movie this could drop from the box office quickly.

Candyman

The horror movie sequel/remake remains at number 4 this weekend with $3.5 Million, a decent 28% drop on its fourth weekend of release, this gives the movie a total of $53.1 Million.

Malignant

James Wan's latest horror movie falls to number 5 on its second weekend of release with $2.6 Million over the weekend, a big 52% drop, giving the film a total US gross of $9.8 Million.

The Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings remained at the top of the UK box office for a second weekend sweeping away any challenge for the top by quite a large margin with the film at number 2 taking 7 times less than the super hero movie.

Highest new movie of the week is the bio-pic of Aretha Franklin Respect starring Jennifer Hudson which comes in at number 3 and Conjuring director James Wan brings his new movie Malignant in at number 5.

Further down the chart Copshop is new at 7 with £198,225 on its debut and director Phyllida Lloyd's new movie Herself is new at 12 with £85,649.

UK box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2nd weekend)
• Highest debut - Respect (@3)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age and Space Jam: A New Legacy (9 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Free Guy (£14.3 Million)

UK box office top 5 breakdown weekend 10th - 12th September 2021

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Marvels latest superhero movie spends a second weekend at the top of the UK box office with a fantastic hold, only dropping 38% the movie takes £3.6 Million over its second weekend.

The movie has now taken an excellent £11.8 Million on the UK box office and is the 8th top movie of 2021 so far.

The movie incredibly took over £6 Million on its first full week of release in the UK.

Free Guy

The Shawn Levy action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds holds steady at number 2 this week and again has a fantastic low drop of only 28% with a weekend gross of £690,408.

This takes the movie total UK gross to £14.3 Million over 5 weeks of release and its the 4th top movie of 2021 at the UK box office.

It could potentially take Fast & Furious 9 which is currently the 3rd top movie of 2021, but then it will most likely be taken by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings by next weekend!

Respect

Highest new entry of the weekend is a bio-pic of Aretha Franklin starring Jennifer Hudson which is naturally getting a lot of Oscar hype for Hudson's performance.

The movie takes £424,514 to land at number 3 on this weeks box office.

Candyman

The horror franchise movie remake falls to number 4 this weekend with £418,414, a 45% drop over last weekend, taking the movies total UK gross to £3.7 Million over 3 weeks of release.

Malignant

Respected horror director of The Conjuring series brings his latest fright fest to the big screen which this weekend makes its debut at number 5 on the UK box office with £409,298.

Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 10th September 2021, there are 4 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings from the top of the UK box office.

Here are this weeks new releases

• Respect
• Malignant
• Copshop
• Herself

Respect

• The movie is from director Liesl Tommy
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Jennifer Hudson who also starred in Cats (2019).
• The film also stars Forest Whitaker who last appeared in Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020).
• Jennifer Hudson and Forest Whitaker have starred in 2 movies together.
• They also appeared together in Fragments (2008).

Malignant

• The movie is directed by James Wan, it is the directors 13th movie.
• James Wan also directed Stygian in 2000.
• It stars Annabelle Wallis who also starred in The Silencing (2020).
• The film also stars Maddie Hasson who last appeared in We Summon the Darkness (2019).

Copshop

• The movie is directed by Joe Carnahan, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Joe Carnahan also directed Smokin Aces in 2007 which grossed £3 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Frank Grillo who also starred in The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021).
• The film also stars Gerard Butler who last appeared in Greenland (2020).

Herself

• The movie is directed by Phyllida Lloyd, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Phyllida Lloyd also directed Mamma Mia! in 2008 which grossed £69.2 Mil. in the UK and grossed $609.9 Mil. globally.
• It stars Molly McCann who also starred in The Racer (2020).
• The film also stars Clare Dunne who last appeared in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next weeks there are 6 new movies released

• Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Friday, 17th September
• Gunpowder Milkshake, Friday, 17th September
• The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica, Friday, 3rd December
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Friday, 17th September
• Prisoners of the Ghostland, Friday, 17th September
• Cry Macho, Friday, 17th September