Snow White~2024, the latest in a now long line of Disney live action remakes tops the UK box office with a debut gross of £3.8 Million.
This makes it one of the lowest grossing remakes from Disney with Cinderella from 2015 grossing less.
Chinese smash hit animated feature Ne Zha 2 makes its debut at number 2 this weekend with a £1.2 Million debut.
The movie as blown the debut of Ne Zha from 2019 completely out the water, but the movie is the highest grossing animated movie ever globally and is now the 5th highest grossing movie ever with over $2.1 Billion (£1.6 Billion).
After 2 weeks at the top Mickey 17 falls to number 5 this week and has taken nearly £6 Million at the UK box office.
Highest new movie this weekend
This weekend, Friday 16th February 2024, there are 4 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Migration, for the number 1 spot?
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Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Long running action movie series John Wick hits its fourth installment which has been given a 15 age rating in the UK for strong violence, language.
The movie stars Keanu Reeves in the leading role of John Wick who has made a name for himself in action movies having appeared in The Matrix and Speed, the movie also stars Donnie Yen who has appeared in The Monkey King: The Legend Begins and Mulan~2020 from 2020.
The movie is directed by Chad Stahelski who directed John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum and John Wick Chapter 2.
Movie Synopsis
With the price on his head ever increasing, legendary hit man John Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Japan to Berlin.
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Check out the new, and final, trailer for upcoming movie John Wick Chapter 4 which can seen in full if you scroll down this page.
Movie breakdown
Synopsis for John Wick Chapter 4
With the price on his head ever increasing, legendary hit man John Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Japan to Berlin.
Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.
It was a very tight race for the top this weekend as new horror movie Smile~2022 and last weeks number 2 movie Don't Worry Darling battle for the top with the new horror movie just about winning.
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is also a new movie at number 4 this weekend and Indian movie Ponniyin Selvan: I also makes its debut inside the top 5.
Further down the box office Vikram Vedha~2022 is new at 13 with £137,189 and Richard III: RSC makes its debut at 15 with £60,378.
Highest new movie this weekend
As we roll into October the low budget horror movies start to roll in and first off the mark is this movie from writer/director Parker Finn which narrowly lands at the top this weekend.
The movie has been praised by critics for being a low budget horror which is genuinely scary as the movie takes £1.86 Million.
The movie got a jump on the weekend opening on Thursday which added to the movies opening gross, whereas Don't Worry Darling had to rely on Friday - Monday box office, it would have won the weekend had things all been even.
Remaining at number 2 for a second weekend is the Olivia Wilde suburbia sci-fi/drama which takes £1.83 Million on its second weekend, a fairly good 34% drop for the controversial movie.
The movie has taken £6.1 Millon over its 2 weeks of release in the UK and it should feel a bit cheated not to have been a number 1 movie!
After loosing out last weekend with Ticket to Paradise after that movie got a 3 day head start on the weekend, and then just loosing out to Smile~2022 this weekend after that movie got its Thursday previews added to its weekend gross.
The George Clooney and Julia Roberts starring romantic comedy falls from the top to number 3 this weekend with a gross of £1.3 Million, a large 52% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken a total of £5.1 Million in the UK afer 2 weeks of release.
Making its debut at number 4 this weekend is the latest movie from director Anthony Fabian which takes £807,817 on its first weekend of release.
Making its debut at number 5 this Indian movie from director Mani Ratnam has become the highest opening for an Indian movie of 2022 and the highest opening Tamil language movie of all time.
The movie lands with a debut gross of £800,116.