
US release: 25th December 2015
£16.7 Million
$150.4 Million
$242.8 Million With Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness currently at the top of the UK box office can this weeks new cinema releases challlenge it for the UK box office crown?
Here are this weeks new releases
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore makes its debut at the top of the US box office with the lowest debut for the series so far.
Father Stu is also new at number 5 this weekend while Indian movie K.G.F: Chapter 2 is also new at 9 with $2.8 Million.
Finally Dual starring Karen Gillan makes its debut at number 12 with $125,000 over the weekend.
US box office top 5 weekend breakdown 15th - 18th April 2022
This third in the Wizarding World series of movies makes a soft debut at the top of the US box office chart this weekend with $43 Million.
Compared to the last movie in the series Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald this is $20 Million lower and compared to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is it $30 Million lower.
The Fantastic Beasts series has never hit the heights of Harry Potter, but with the controversy and difficult production of this series many critics are declaring this should be the last one and quit while your ahead.
Falling into second place this weekend is the blue video game hedgehog which takes $30 Million on its second weekend of release, a hefty 58% drop over last weekend.
The movie has taken a nice $119.6 Million after 2 weeks of release which is higher than Sonic the Hedgehog from 2020.
The movie is the 4th top movie of 2022 to date.
Falling a single place to 3 this weekend is the Sandra Bullock starring action comedy which takes $6.5 Million this weekend, 29% down.
This takes the movies total gross to $78.5 Million total after 4 weeks and its the 7th top movie of 2022.
Jumping up the box office to number 4 this weekend after being available in many more cinemas is the Michelle Yeoh starring alternate reality movie which takes $6.1 Million on its 4th weekend, a 2% increase over last week.
This gives the movie a very respectable $17.6 Million total, which could climb higher as it expands to more cinemas and is getting good critical word of mouth.
Finally in the top 5 is another new movie as Mark Wahlberg joins in Daddy's Home 2 co-star Mel Gibson in this comedy which takes $5.7 on its debut weekend.
No Surprise on this weeks UK box office, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the top film of the weekend, in fact it is more of a case of did it manage to do better than Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
With less anticipation it didn't do as well at Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but it did better than last years offshoot Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, although the reviews are no where near as good.
An opening weekend of £28 million is the 3rd highest in the UK ever with only the previous Star Wars movie and Spectre doing better, time will tell what the final gross will be but with mixed reviews it will most likely be around the £90 million mark and be a top 5 all time movie in the UK.
Paddington 2 falls from the top to number 2 while Daddy's Home 2 is at number 3.
Wonder is still doing well at number 4 with Justice League falling to number 5 this week.
As the year comes to a close the last blockbuster of the year, The Force Awakens, is making a challenge for top film of the year, despite its late release.
This week Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes $286,822,000 which brings its total to just over $1 billion, it has taken about 10 days to do this, the fastest ever.
It needs to beat the year total of Jurassic World to become the top film of the year, $1.6 billion byt the end of the week may prove too much.
Highest new film of the week is Daddys Home which takes $43.2 million from 5 countries on its debut and sits at number 4.
Star Wars is also the top total grossing film on the chart this week and the only film on the chart to have a total gross over $1 billion.
Here is the full world top grossing box office.