
£47.5 Million
$442.9 Million
$930.4 Million Alex Garland's hit movie Civil War remains at the top of the North American box office for a second weekend with a gross of $11.1 Million.
This gives the movie a total North American box office gross os $44.8 Million after 2 weekends of release.
Teen horror movie Abigail is the top new movie this weekend as it enters at 2 with $10.2 Million.
Also new on the top 5 this weekend are The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Spy X Family Code: White at 4 and 5 respectively.
Highest new movie this weekend
Alex Garlands new directorial movie Civil War makes its debut at the top of the North American box office this weekend.
The movie which stars Kirsten Dunst has been well received by critics and is set to become one of the directors top movies in North America.
Last weeks top movie, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire falls to number 2 this weekend after 2 weeks at number 1 and has taken $158 Million so far which makes it the 3rd top movie of 2024.
Highest new movie this weekend
Highest new movie this weekend
Staying at the top for a second weekend is Avatar: The Way of Water while coming in second on its debut is Puss In Boots: The Last Wish at number 2.
Also new this week is I Wanna Dance With Somebody at number 3 and Babylon at number 4 while Corsage is new at 13 with $32,000 and Living is ew at 15 with $21,233.
Two weeks at the top now for the James Cameron directed sequel movie which takes $64 Million over the Christmas weekend, and bearing in mind that Christmas Day fell on Sunday this weekend this is a 52% drop.
Comparing this to the first Avatar movie, in 2009 that movie took $75 Million on its second weekend so the sequel is tracking just over $10 Million below.
After 2 weeks the movie has taken $261 Million at the North American box office which is about $50 Million higer than Avatar at this stage.
The movie is already, after 10 days of release, the 8th top movie of 2022.
Highest new movie this weekend
Making its debut at number 2 this weekend is the sequel movie to Puss in Boots which itself is a spin off from the Shrek series of movies.
The movie makes its debut with a gross of $12.4 Million, which is considerably lower than the $34 Million of the 2011 first movie.
The Shrek series started way back in 2001 and was an instant hit with a $42 Million opening for the first movie, Shrek 2 opened in 2004 with $108 Million.
The bio-pic about superstar Whitney Houston and her rise to fame and premature death makes it debut at number 3 this weekend.
A $4.7 Million debut is disappointing and lower than expectations, Oscar buzz might give the movie a bit of a push but the future is looking like a quick release on streaming.
Another movie with an all star Oscar potential cast fails to perform at the box office this weekend as the new Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie double header lands at number 4.
A $3.6 Millon debut for a movie costing $80 Million is not a great result and the studio must be looking at way to increase the exposure of this movie.
Falling to number 5 this weekend is the Sata Claus meets Home Alone which takes $3.5 Million on its 7th weekend of release, a 30% drop over last week.
The movie has now taken $41 Million on its box office run as the movie hits streaming on Christmas eve.
As expected this week there was no stopping Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as it very easily and without competition took to the top of the charts on it;s debut weekend.
Grossing £8.7 million from Thursday to Sunday it took more than the rest of the box office combined.
Dawn well and truly out preformed it predecessor Rise of the planet of the Apes which took £5.8 million on it's debut weekend in August 2011, it went on to gross £20.5 in total.
Dawn should go on to out-gross that film and could come close to £25 - 30 million in the UK.
Also worth a mention this weekend is two even movies that got themselves inside the top 5 on the box office chart, Monty Python Live (Mostly) made number 4 with £1.8 million which Andre Rieu took him Maastricht concert to number 5 with £830,000.
Other new film to debut this week are: - Pudsey The Dog The Movie at 7
This time last year Monsters University held on to the top spot which mean The Worlds End debuted at 2.
Five years ago Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince made it's debut at the top of the box office knocking the previous number 1, Ice Age: Dawn of The Dinosaurs, to number 2.
Ten years ago say Spider-Man 2 make it's cinematic debut at the top of the box office knocking Shrek 2 into the number 2 spot.
Fifteen years ago was an historical time in cinema as the much anticipated, and to an extent much hated, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace made it's UK debut at the top, 2 months after it's US debut. The Mummy fell to number 2.