US release: 18th December 1981
Australia release: 23rd April 1982
Spain release: 1st May 1982
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$16.2 Million 
$0 This weekend, Friday 28th April 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, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 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.
Matilda: The Musical is the top movie of the weekend, making its debut at the top and knocking Black Panther: Wakanda Forever down to number 2.
Also new this weekend is the Disney animated feature Strange World which enters at number 3 and She Said which is new at number 4.
Outside the top 5 Bones and All is new at number 6 with £318,246 while the live stage broadcast of Tim Minchin: Back is new at 8 with £155,353 including previews, also a live stage broadcast A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story is new at 11 with £113,203 and finally Table For Six is new at 14 with £69,732.
Highest new movie this weekend
Starring Alisha Weir as Matilda and Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull this is an adaptation of the stage music with music by Tim Minchin.
The movie lands at the top of the UK box office this weekend with a debut gross of £4.1 Million.
In a crazy comparison, the original Matilda which came out in 1996 would have taken £19 Million on its debut, adjusted for inflation, for a total of nearly £50 Million!
After a couple of weeks at the top of the UK box office the latest Marvel sequel movie falls to number 2 with a weekend gross of £2.6 Million, a large 56% drop over last weekend.
The movie is tracking below Black Panther which by its third weekend of release had taken over £35 Million, which means it will end up lower than the first movies £50 Million total.
The sequel has taken £27 Million after 3 weeks of release.
The new Disney animated feature has proved to be a bit of a non event as it lands at number 3 this weekend with a debut gross of £833,043.
This is way below the usual Disney standard and in comparison, Encanto, which came out when cinema attendance was still low due to the pandemic, made its debut with £1.7 Million at the same time of year in 2021.
This movie is going on to Disney+ and skipping cinemas in many countries, and will most likely be on the streaming platform before too long in the UK.
Starring Carey Mulligan, this movie about the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse case lands at number 4 on this weeks UK box office.
The movie takes £444,806 on its debut weekend of release.
Falling to number 5 on its second weekend the Ralph Finnes starring movie takes £429,522 on its second weekend, a drop of 54%.
This gives the movie a total UK gross of just over £1 Million after 2 weeks at the box office.
Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 24th September 2021, there are 3 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
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Daniel Radcliffe, for the immediate future anyway, is always going to be Harry Potter, for 10 years he lived and breathed the character and to millions of adoring fans he is the image of the boy wizard, which is why it is an achievement that while watching The Woman in Black Harry Potter hardly crossed my mind.
The story, set in an Edwardian era, centers around Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) who is a solicitor sent to clear up the paperwork of a recently deceased woman. Kipps himself has a 4 year old child and is a widow, his wife having died during child birth.
Kipps arrives in the village of Crythin Gifford where he is to spend the next couple of days working before his son arrives to join him for a holiday. During his train journey Kipps meets the local wealthy man who he befriends and then is given a lift in his car (noted as being the first car in the village) to the inn where he is booked in to stay.
The welcome Kipps gets from everyone else is far from friendly, and as he goes about his business the next day he is more or less told to leave town. What ensues from there is a traditional ghost story with scares and jumps at every opportunity.
As I first mentioned Radcliffe, fresh from the Potter franchise where he IS the boy wizard, manages to detach himself from that completely, not sure if it's the side burns or the fact that his character spends a lot of time alone and doesn't say a lot, or maybe it's the low budget film not being laden with special effect but it's a good move.
I'm showing my age now but I remember the Hammer Horror films of the 70's and 80's which at the time were scary as hell, and the TV show had me hiding behind the sofa more than Doctor Who did, and this film, which is produced by Hammer and filmed in the UK captures the spirit of the old Hammer perfectly.
The film is jumpy if a little corny in places, not too long and has a story which is acceptable for a horror film of this type. I started the question things when a seemingly normal guy decides to spend the night in the creepiest looking house in England that is cut from mainland during for large part of the day and he'd already experienced minor paranormal activity (I'd never have gone anywhere near the house in the first place) and some of the jumpy scenes were far too predictable and came off as amusing but on the whole it's an enjoyable scary horror harking back to the glory days of Hammer.
Good: Decent screenplay from Jane Goldman and some genuinely scary moments. Well directed by James Watkins and a good supporting cast.
Bad: Does get predictable and some of the scares are funny. Too many unanswered things happen and the ending although good could have been better.
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