£7.6 Million 
$97.7 Million 
$140.7 Million Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 8th October 2021, there are 2 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace No Time to Die 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.
The power of IT at the UK box office was far too strong this weekend and easily remains at the top of the box office while Judy Dench stars in the highest new entry.
Warner Bros. continue to market the horror film IT to great effect as the film takes £6 million which is only a 40% drop from its debut last weekend.
This brings the movies total gross to an excellent £21.1 million from 10 days of release which is putting the film on for about £35 million total take in the UK.
Highest new film of the week is Victoria and Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears, it stars the legendary Judi Dench as Queen Victoria.
The film takes £1.8 million for the weekend which places it at number 2 on this weeks chart.
Also new this week is Mother! which makes its debut at number 3, and despite good reviews and plenty of publicity takes a quite disappointing £800,000.
American Assassin is also making its debut, it enters the box office at number 4 and The Jungle Bunch is a new entry at number 6.
For the fifth straight weekend the longest running film is Despicable Me 3, now with 12 weeks on the box office, while Dunkirk is the highest total grossing movie with £55 million.
Historical charts
A year ago - Bridget Joneses baby hit the top spot on its debut while Sausage Party fell from the top to number 4 with an all new top 3.
Five years ago - The Sweeney hit the top of the chart on its debut while Dredd fell to number 5, a heavy fall in its second weekend.
Ten years ago - Run Fatboy Run remained at the top for a second weekend while Superbad was the top new film at number 2.
Fifteen years ago - Signs hit the top on its debut while falling to number 2 after a week on top was The Bourne Identity.
Twenty years ago - Spending its third weekend at the top was The Full Monty while Air Force One was the top new film at number 2.
Twenty five years ago - Lethal Weapon 3 was the top film for a fifth weekend while the top new film Housesitter at number 2.
After a couple of weeks of very little excitement at the Uk box office this week explodes with the release of Warner Bros. IT which dominates the chart and easily enters at the top.
IT enters the Uk box office with just over £10 million which puts in in the top 100 for UK best opening films and it is the only film on the top 10 to gross over a million.
The hype that has been put into the marketing of the film has been huge and it has paid off, and with favourable reviews, and Stephen King being a favourite in the UK the film was bound to do well.
With nothing of note coming out this weekend coming IT is bound to continue at the top at least for the next week.
American Made falls from the top to number 2 this week with a gross of just over half a million, this brings the films total gross to £4.3 million after 3 weeks of play.
Once again Despicable Me 3 is the longest running film of the chart with 11 weeks and once again Dunkirk os the highest total grossing film with an excellent £55 million, it is now the 19th highest grossing film ever in the UK.
Historical charts - A year ago - Sausage Party spent a second weekend at the top with the Ben Hur remake the highest new film at number 2.
Five years ago - Dredd was the top film of the week making its debut at number 1 while Total recall fell from the top to number 4.
Ten years ago - Comedy Run Fatboy Run found itself at the top of the UK box office on its debut while The Bourne Ultimatum fell to number 3 after 3 weeks at the top.
Fifteen years ago - The Bourne Identity was the top new film of the week at number one while Insomnia fell from the top to number 2 after a week.
Twenty years ago - The Full Monty stayed at the top for a second weekend while the highest new film of the week was Austin Powers International Man of Mystery which made its debut at number 2.
Twenty five years ago - Alien 3 remained at the top of the UK box office while the top new film was Knight Moves starring Christopher Lambert at number 3.
A quiet time of year with no major blockbusters newly released on home video has Mechanic Resurrection climbing to the top of the chart and Dog Eat Dog the highest new film at number 17!
Its unusual for films to climb to the top of the video charts, and when they do they are usually big box office hits, so to have Mechanic Resurrection do the feat us unusual, but from an entry at number 2 last week it climbs.
Jason Statham must have a strong following as the film which was released on 26th August 2016 entered the box office at number 10 with just over half a million on its debut.
The film only laster 2 weeks before falling from the chart and it took £1.1 million during its cinema run.
Sausage Party falls from the top of the chart where it made its debut last week to number 3 this week.
Highest, and only, new entry is the Nicholas cage film Dog Eat Dog, a minor hit that was released November 2016 it didn't chart and took £1,152.
After last weeks almost static home video chart this week we have 5 in the top 10 alone with Sausage Party leading the way by landing at number 1 with £2.7 million on its debut.
Sausage Party was released in the UK on 2nd September 2015 where it landed at number 1, a good debut for an 18 rated animated movie.
After a couple of weeks at he top it then took a sharp decline down the box office spending just 5 weeks in cinemas in total.
Despite this relatively short box office run it actually did really well and ended up with a total gross of £7.5 million.
Also new this week, at number 2 is Mechanic Resurrection a number 10 film from August, Bad Moms at number 3 a number 2 film from August and finishing off the top 5 is Brotherhood a number 2 films from early September.
Also making their debut this week are The Purge Election Year at number 8 a number 5 film from August and finally War Dogs at 13 a number 4 film from August.