US release: 22nd December 2023
United States release: 22nd December 2023
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$0 Released in the US this weekend, Friday, 22nd December 2023, there are 8 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Wonka from the top of the North American box office.
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.
Spider-Man: No Way Home hangs onto the top of the global box office over the Christmas holiday period giving the movie 2 weeks at the top while animated sequel Sing 2 is the top new movie at number 3.
The King's Man is also new this week at number 5 while B For Busy is new at 6 with $10,283,876.
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Global weekend box office top 5 breakdown 24th - 26th December 2021
The latest Spider-Man MCU movie remains at the top of the global box office for a second weekend and is the first movie in 2021 to smash the $1 Billion mark.
The movie takes $202.9 Million globally on its second weekend from 62 countries, a 66% drop over last weekend.
The movie has now taken $1.054 Billion globally making it the top grossing movie of the year having overtaken The Battle At Lake Changjin which current sits at $902.2 Million.
Despite the pre-release hype for the movie, the fourth edition in The Matrix saga is not getting a lot of love at the box office.
After a release in a handful of countries last weekend ans making its debut at 4 the movie goes mega wide this week in 76 countries and takes $47 Million, an increase of 80% over last weekend, and jumps to number 2.
This gives the movie a total global gross of $69.8 Million, this is way lower than would have been expected from such a high profile release, but take into consideration that the movie has had tepid reviews and its on HBO Max in America.
Highest new movie of the week is the animated sequel to the 2017 animated smash movie Sing which took $634 Million globally.
The follow up takes $42.9 Million, from 39 countries, on its debut making it the top new movie of the weekend.
Falling from 2 to number 4 this week is the Chinese movie sequel to Sheep Without a Shepherd which takes $35.8 Million from a single country, a 35% drop, for a total gross of $113.5 Million after 2 weeks.
Finally on the top five is the prequel movie to director Matthew Vaughn two The Kingsman movies which is a new entry at number 5 with $10.2 Million from just 8 countries.
As the world starts to open its cinemas as the slowly starts to return to some kind of normal even during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea among a few other countries report film taking over a million at the box office.
Leading the way this week is South Korea as their new movie Deliver Us From Evil tops the chart with the Chinese release of 1917 taking the film to number 2 as a re-entry.
Here is a rundown of this week top 5 film worldwide 7th - 9th August 2020.
This murder mystery from Thailand hots the top on its debut release in its native country with a weekend gross of $13.4 Million.
The movie is directed by Won-Chan Hong and stars Jung-min Hwang and Jung-jae Lee.
After a delayed release in China Sam Mendes World War drama re-enters the global box office at number 2 with $5.6 Million.
THis puts the movies total gross worldwide at $379.4 Million since its release in December of 2019.
With the delay in the release of tenet one of Christopher Nolans previous films gets a re-release and this weeks sits at number 3 with $4.2 Million, the film has taken $699.5 Million since its 2014 release.
The Robert Downey Jr. movie took the top slot over the last coupe of week and this week slips to number 4 with a gross of $2 Millon pushing the films total to $184.4 Million.
Making a re-entry this week is the Sam Quah directed movies which is at 5 this week with a $2 Million gross taking its total global gross to $5.5 Million.
There was never going to be any doubt that Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker was going to be big on its release, the question was how big, and actually it has disappointed a bit.
The final instalment in the Star Wars Skywalker saga hits the top of the global box office in its debut weekend with $375 Million from 57 countries.
This is perhaps a disappointing debut for such a high profile film like Star Wars and Disney may perhaps have been looking for a bigger debut, it is the lowest debut of the sequel trilogy.
The film got a closer to Christmas release and traditionally at this time of year films take longer to get to their total gross.
The Karen Gillan and Dwayne Johnson sequel movie falls to number 2 this week with a weekend gross of $58.7 Million from 53 countries which brings its total gross to $311.9 after 3 weeks.
The fourth in the IP Man series of films, and supposedly the last, hit the global box office at number 3 this week with $51.5 Million from 7 countries.
With previews the film has taken $52.2 Million so far.
Disney's sequel smash hit takes $43.9 Million from 49 countries as it falls to number 4 on the box office.
The film now has a total gross of $1.1 Billion after 5 weeks of release as it fast approaches the global gross of the first Frozen movie.
The Chinese hit film falls to number 5 with $23.9 Million from 2 countries for a 2 week total of $77.4 Million.
Jumanji: The Next Level gets released across most of the world this week and jumps to the top in the process while Sheep Without A Shepherd makes its debut ar 3.
The sequel movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black expands to 45 countries this week including much of Europe and America and in the process jumps to the top of the box office with $145.8 Million.
This puts the film total global gross at $212.6 Million after 2 weeks of release.
Disney's sequel movie falls from the top to number 2 this week with a gross of $74.8 Million from 49 countries.
The movie has now passed the Billion dollar mark after 4 weeks of release and is the 6th film from Disney this year to achieve this, and there os still likely one more to come.
The Chinese film is only released in its native so far and takes $27.4 Million over the weekend.
The film got a release before the weekend and has so far taken $30.3 Million.
The murder mystery hit movie falls to number 4 this weekend with a take of $22.8 Million from 74 countries giving it a 4 week total gross of $162.2 Million.
Making its debut at number 5 this week is this Chinese language film from director Simon West which takes $16.3 Million, the movies total gross is $20.4 Million.