US release: 6th December 2024
Latvia release: 29th August 2024
France release: 30th October 2024
£2.1 Million 
$4.8 Million 
$8.1 Million As the summer box office season gets into full flow a new movie comes from the Jurassic Universe in the shape of Jurassic World: Rebirth starring Scarlet Johnasson.
The sequel movie, the seventh in the long running Jurassic park series of movies thats close to $150 Million on its debut, very much in the same ballpark as the previous movie Jurassic World: Dominion.
Last weeks top movie, F1 falls to number 2 this weekend after a single week at the top, it has a total gross in North America of nearly $110 Million.
Highest new movie this weekend
The animated power house of Pixar bring their next feature to the big screen in the shape of Elemental which has been given a PG age rating in the UK for implied mild bad language.
The movie stars the voice talent of Leah Lewis who has previous been seen in Fred 3: Camp Fred and Madison High, it also features the voice of Mamoudou Athie who has been in Unicorn Store and The Circle.
The movie is directed by Peter Sohn who has previously directed The Good Dinosaur for Pixar.
Movie Synopsis
In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
This weekend, Friday 12th May 2023, there are 5 new films released in North America and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, for the number 1 spot?
Check out other new releases from around the world.
Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Sam Mandes critically acclaimed movie 1917 makes its UK debut at the top of the box office knocking Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker down to number 3 with Little Women climbing to 2.
The critically acclaimed movie directed by Sam Mendes makes its UK debut at the top of the box office with a opening weekend gross of £7.4 Million.
It hard to compare this to his previous films as the famed director was behind the camera for the Bond movie Skyfall which opening in the UK to £20 Million.
In comparison to his non Bond movies it is his best opening to date, and with the awards season in full flow and the film nominated and winning many awards including Oscars and Golden Globes the final gross could high.
Greta Gerwigs version of the classic novel goes up the box office this weekend to number 2 with a weekend gross of £2 million.
This puts the films total gross at £13.2 Million after 3 weeks of release.
J.J. Abrams final Star Wars movie in the Skywalker saga falls from the top to number 3 this week with a weekend take of £1.8 Million.
The film has ben on general release now for 4 weeks and has taken an excellent £54.8 Million and it is the highest total grossing movie one this weeks box office.
As good as this is it is still the lowest grossing from of the sequel trilogy which started with Star Wars: The Force Awaken and then was followed by Star Wars: The Last jedi.
Guy Ritchies return to London based gangster movies falls to 4 this weekend with £1.7 Million for a 2 week total of £5.9 Million.
Dwayne Johnson sequel movie falls to 5 this weekend with £1.69 Million for a 5 week total of £30.0 Million.
The film is running just a little lower than the previous film in the series and will most likely end up with a gross just a little lower at around the £35 Million mark.
Disneys sequel animated movie falls to number 7 this week but has he longest run on the box office with 8 weeks, it has taken a UK total gross of £51.2 Million.
It's an old trick used by the film distribution companies to keep a steady flow of cash coming in by re-releasing old films, and each time in a different way, whether it be in the VHS days of suddenly discovering some new footage and releasing longer or directors cuts, or the more modern way of an improved picture and more extras. When a new format come along, like Blu-ray it give a whole new life to old films, just askGeorge Lucas, he's made a mint from the idea.
Studios are now suggesting that with some of the older films it isn't financially viable to re-release them again on Blue-ray, as Bill Hunt from The Digital Bits website writes in his daily “My Two Cents” column on his site.
It seems that the public these days expecting so much from High Definition that the amount of time and money spent on the disk production doesn't justify the return resulting in many a catalogue title maybe never seeing a release in high definition.
I think many of us are in this situation, you bought the VHS version of your favourite film say, The Breakfast Club. That version cant be played with your current hardware (who has a VHS player anymore?) so you bought the DVD version and enjoy it over and over again, the pictures as crisp today as the day it was bought. You now decide to buy an HDTV and Blu-ray player and find the Blu-ray version of the film, but is it really worth another purchase when your current disk will still play in your new player, and maybe even improve it?
It's an old argument, and when it comes to big Hollywood blockbuster a really good HD remastered transfer will make a huge difference, and I as much as anyone else will be lining the pockets of Lucasfilms when the virtually announced Star Wars Blu-ray films are released, but relatively speaking the list of film I need in HD is probably quite small, although my Blu-ray collection is growing at an alarming rate.