AmazonMGM studios, who recently got the rights to the James Bond, 007 series have announced that Dune~2020 director Denis Villeneuve will helm and produce the next movie in the long running series.

The Last movie, No Time To Die was released in 2021 after a year delay due to the COVID 19 cinema closures and it saw the end of the Broccoli era and the Daniel Craig series of movies.

Since then online retailer Amazon has bought MGM Studio who co-owned the rights to the series and have taken full controll of the movie rights.

Getting director Villeneuve in to direct and produce potentially means that Amazon are taking the series in much darker direction.

Its still early days yet and a script needs to be written, as well as a title announcement etc., and there has been no announcement yet of who will even play the title character after the departure of Craig in the last movie.

No idea of a release window as the director is in production of the third Dune movie Dune Messiah currently.

Via Variety

It has not been a bad year for the box office and cinemas in the UK in 2024, but it also hasn't been a great year and box office grosses on the whole have been down compared to 2023 and are actually at their lowest sine the pandemic of 2020.

Despite there being some well hyped movies like Deadpool & Wolverine and Wicked~2024 there has not been an event for cinemas goers like the Barbie and Oppenheimer of 2023 or the Top Gun Maverick of 2022.

Inside Out 2 was the top movie of 2024 with over £58 Million from last summer with Deadpool & Wolverine not too far behind with nearly £58 Million.

Late entry Wicked~2024 which is still on release made it to 3 with £53 Million and Despicable Me 4 took £48 Million at 4 with Dune Part 2 rounding out the top 5 at number 5.

Here is the full top 10 grossing movies of 2024.

1. Inside Out 2 - £58.2 Million
2. Deadpool & Wolverine - £57.5 Million
3. Wicked~2024 - £53 Million
4. Despicable Me 4 - £48.3 Million
5. Dune Park 2 - £39.6 Million
6. Moana 2 - £33.7 Million
7. Paddington in Peru - £33 Million
8. Gladiator II - £30.3 Million
9. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - £26.3 Million
10. Kung-Fu Panda 4 - £21.9 Million

Animated sequel movie Inside Out 2 remains at the top of the UK box office for a 4th weekend taking an amazing £5 Million.

This gives the movie a total UK gross of over £40 Million which pushes is past Dune Part Two to become the top grossing movie of 2024 to date.

The top new movie of the weekend is director Ti West's third movie in his X trilogy starring Mia Goth Maxxxine.

The movie lands at number 4 on this weeks box office with a debut gross of £388,042.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 5th - 7th July 2024

• The movie remains at number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,617,243 over the weekend, a 45% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £6,185,363 over 2 weeks of release

• The movie goes up the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £446,578 over the weekend, a 31% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £11,073,525 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2024
• The movie is a sequel to Bad Boys For Life which took £14,371,453 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie remains at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £374,066 over the weekend, a 36% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £3,153,510 over 3 weeks of release

Pixar are getting their biggest hit in a while with the sequel animated movie Inside Out 2 which this week spends a second weekend at the top of the UK box office.

The movie takes nearly £8 Million on its second weekend of release in the UK which boosts its total gross to £23.2 Million.

The movie now becomes the second top grossing movie of 2024 and will possibly take over at the top grossing movie in the coming weeks, Dune Part Two is currently the top 2024 movie with £39.4 Million.

Top new movie of the weekend is The Bikeriders which lands at number 2 with just over £1 Million, it has a fight with Bad Boys Ride or Die which is at 3 this weekend.

Also worth a mention is Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death - The Two Episode Finale which is new at number 4 with the last 2 episodes of the current season being broadcast in cinemas.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 21st - 23rd June 2024

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It grosses £1,085,530 over its debut weekend

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,009,386 over the weekend, a 46% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £9,067,223 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 17th top grossing film so far in 2024
• The movie is a sequel to Bad Boys For Life which took £11,287,270 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £282,961 over its debut weekend

Popcorn buckets have become big business in cinemas and special ones to commemorate a movie are the thing at the moment.

There have been some classics like the Ghostbusters themed ones which look like ghost traps, or the Dune Part ii one which looked like ... well use your imagination!

Ryan Reynolds today announced the new one for Deadpool and Wolverine and it looks like he is fulfilling a few fantasies with this one!