With The Super Mario Bros. Movie currently at the top of the UK box office can this weeks new cinema releases challlenge it for the UK box office crown?

Check out other new releases from around the world.

• Polite Society
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Peter Pan & Wendy
• Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

Polite Society

• The movie is from director Nida Manzoor.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Priya Kansara who is making a feature film debut.
• The film also stars Ritu Arya who was last seen in Red Notice (2021).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

• The movie is directed by Hettie Macdonald, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Hettie Macdonald also directed White Girl in 2008.
• It stars Jim Broadbent who also starred in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1985).
• The film also stars Penelope Wilton who was last seen in Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).
• They also appeared together in Iris in 2002.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Peter Pan & Wendy

• The movie is directed by David Lowery, it is the directors 9th movie.
• David Lowery also directed Pete's Dragon in 2016 which grossed £4.3 Mil. in the UK and grossed $143.7 Mil. globally.
• It stars Alexander Molony who is making a feature film debut.
• The film also stars Ever Anderson who was last seen in Black Widow (2021).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.

Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

• The movie is directed by George Tillman Jr., it is the directors 9th movie.
• George Tillman Jr. also directed Faster in 2011 which grossed £157.2K in the UK and grossed $35.6 Mil. globally.
• It stars Khris Davis who also starred in Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).
• The film also stars Jasmine Mathews who was last seen in The Man From Toronto (2022).
• 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 is 1 new movie released

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 - Friday, 5th May

Black Widow and Space Jam 2 fought it out for the top spot this weekend with the Marvel MCU movie coming out on top and remaining at number 1 for a second weekend.

Space Jam: A New legacy made its debut at number 2 while The Forever Purge and The Croods: A New Age also made new entries inside the top 5.

Continuing the new releases Escape Room: Tournament of Champions just missed a place on the top 5 making its debut at 6 with £278,097 and documentary feature Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) was new at 10 with £62 Thousand.

UK box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Black Widow (2nd weekend)
• Highest debut - Space Jam: A New Legacy (@2)
• Longest run - Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (9 weeks)
• Highest total gross - Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (£18.6 Million)

UK box office top 5 breakdown 16th - 18th July 2021

Black Widow

The Scarlett Johansson starring movie remains at the top of the UK box office for a second weekend with £1.8 Million, a quite large 74% drop from last weekend.

This gives the movie a total UK gross of £11.2 Million after 2 weeks of release and its the fourth top grossing movie of 2021 so far.

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Making its debut at number 2 this weekend is the sequel movie to 1996's Space Jam which took £1.3 Million over the weekend.

Compared to the original its far lower as the 1996 original took £4.6 Million on it's debut weekend, its a little unfair considering the global pandemic, but I would have thought this movie would have taken less regardless.

The Forever Purge

The fifth movie in the long running series makes its debut at number 3 with £720,032.

The highest grossing movie in the series is 2018's The First Purge which took £1.7 Million on its debut.

The Croods: A New Age

Another sequel hitting the box office this weekend is the animated sequel starring Nicolas Cage which makes its debut at number 4 with £696,563.

The original movie, The Croods was released in 2013 and took £5.3 Million on its debut, even considering the pandemic this is a disappointing debut for the sequel.

Fast & Furious 9

The ninth Fast movie falls to number 5, from 2, on its 4th weekend of release with a gross of £446,126, a large 59% drop.

This movie seems to be sinking faster than expected and after 4 weeks has taken £14.14 Million, although it is currently the second top grossing movie of 2021.

One again there was little in the way of new release which means the top 5 movies more or less stayed the same as the previous week.

The Liam Neeson starring The Marksman remained at the top and and The Croods: A New Age and <>Wonder Woman 1984 swapped places, and thats it really!

There was one new entry one he chart, Our Friend starring Dakota Johnson and Jason Segel limped in at number 8 with $250,000 over the weekend.

US box office Quickview

• Number 1 - The Marksman (2nd weekend)
• Highest debut - Our Friend (@8)
• Longest run - The War With Grandpa^*
• Highest total gross - The Croods: A New Age ($41,835,455)^*
^*Not including re-releases

Here is a rundown of the US top 5 movies 22nd - 24th January 2021

The Marksman

Remaining at the top for a second weekend is the Liam Neeson action movie directed by Robert Lorenz which takes $2.03 million, a 37% drop.

The movie has taken $6.09 Million after 2 weeks of release.

The Croods: A New Age

The animated sequel movie directed by Joel Crawford takes $1.82 Million, an 11% drop from last weekend.

The movie has taken $41.83 Million over a 9 week release.

Wonder Woman 1984

Sinking a bit faster than Warner would have expected the DC Universe sequel movie takes $1.6 Million over the weekend, a 38% drop.

The film which came out on HBO Max and cinemas over christmas has now taken $37.7 Million after 5 weeks.

News of the World

Starring Tom Hanks the movie has Oscar buzz and take $810,000 this weekend, 23% down from last weekend, giving the movie a total of $9.65 Million over 5 weeks.

Monster Hunter

Starring Milla Jovovich the video game movie adaptation takes $810,000 over the weekend, down 12% from last weekend, the movie now has $10.18 Million over 6 weeks of release.

Deadline are reporting that director Stephen Daldry has left the screen adaptation of hit stage show Wicked.

The film has been in development since at least 2016, but due to scheduling conflicts and other problems it is still in pre-production hell.

The movie was originally scheduled for release on December 20th 2019, ironically the same release date as Cats, another stage to screen adaption which was hit with a very harsh critical panning.

Universal, who own the screen rights, will still go ahead with the adaptation, but they wanted to proceed faster than Daldry was moving ahead with development, and as Deadline reports there is currently no sound stage in the UK free for production to start, and the director was keen to film in England.

There is no need to worry as there are a number of high profile directors ready to take over, including Steven Spielberg who is keen to adapt another stage show after he directed West Side Story, which has been delayed until December 2021.

Source Deadline.

The Super Bowl is throwing up some anticipated movies during its many commercial breaks and here Disney Marvel throw a new Captain Marvel 30 second TV spot at us.

Some new footage and Samuel L. Jackson gets some good screen time.

The 8th March 2019 can't come soon enough but in the mean time check out the 30 second below.

HIGHER. FURTHER. FASTER. Watch the brand new Marvel Studios' @CaptainMarvel spot that aired during the Big Game. See it in theatres March 8. Get tickets now: https://t.co/hpP3Z4abbw pic.twitter.com/fGc036rVv5

— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) February 3, 2019