US release: 11th March 1956
Portugal release: 4th April 1956
Denmark release: 24th September 1956
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$0 This weekend, Friday 26th January 2024, there are 6 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Mean Girls, 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.
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.
Based around the true story from 2012 when the bones of Richard III where discovered in a carpark in Leicester, The Lost King has been given a 15 age rating in the UK for infrequent strong language, discrimination
The movie stars Sally Hawkins who was recently seen in the Oscar nominated Spencer and also played Mary Brown in Paddington and Paddington 2, it also stars Steve Coogan (who also wrote it) of Alan Partridge fame for which a movie was made in 2013, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
The movie is directed by veteran british director Stephen Frears who has directed classics such as My Beautiful Laundrette and The Queen.
Movie Synopsis
Philippa Langley is a writer who finds herself suffering a midlife malaise after a divorce and some health challenges. She happens upon the Richard III Society, a group of amateur historians bent on rehabilitating the damaged reputation of Richard, and soon becomes obsessed with finding his long-lost remains.
BBFC certificate breakdown.