UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 30th - 2nd July 2023

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,531,476 over the weekend, a 23% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £25,937,583 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took £8,627,740 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie is a new entry at number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £885,056 over its debut weekend

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £799,449 over the weekend, a 32% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £2,727,037 over 2 weeks of release

The Disney live action remake of The Little Mermaid makes its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend with a gross of £5 Million.

The last live action remake to hit cinemas was The Lion King~2019 which took £15 Million on its debut in 2019.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been on release now for 8 weeks and it at number 4 this weekend with a total gross of £52.2 Million.

The new Ben Affleck movie Hypnotic is new this week at 5 with £217,252 while action movie Sisi is new at 6 with £144,567.

Further down the box office at 8 is Tomorrow X Together Again with £66,961 and The Sleeping Beauty: ROH London 2023 is at 9 with £l;64,370 and finally the last two new releases of the weekend are Godday Godday Chaa and Full Time at 12 and 13.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 26th - 28th May 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £5,012,929 over its debut weekend
• It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
• The movie is the 19th top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £2,257,834 over the weekend, a 62% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £10,203,511 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 9th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took £10,860,015 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,594,929 over the weekend, a 43% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £31,658,650 over 4 weeks of release
• The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took £36,300,000 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £292,155 over the weekend, a 46% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £52,260,294 over 8 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £217,252 over its debut weekend

Americans were spellbound by Angelina Jolie this week as she takes her Disney film Maleficent to the top.

Disney hyped the film to hell and the marketing dollars have paid off as the Sleeping Beauty villain goes right to the top in it;s debut week with a comfortable $70 million.

Falling a single place to number 2 this week is X-Men Days of Future Past which grosses $32.6 million over the weekend.

There were no other new films on the US box office this week.

New at your local cinema this week is Angelina Jolie in Maleficent, Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow and Seth McFarlane in A Million Ways Tt Die in the West.

released on Wednesday to give it a bit of a head start Maleficent from Disney has Miss Jolie as the Sleeping Beauty bad witch showing she's not as bad as you think she may have been.

Plenty of hype for this film and it will have a fight with Tom Cruise for the top, we could see a good £6 million opening.

Tom Cruise flexes his sci-fi muscle in Edge of Tomorrow, based on the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka the plot is a sort of cross between Groundhog day and the video game Halo.

Also starring Emily Blunt both are box office big hitters and this could beat Angelina to the top, but it will be tight and a £6 million or so opening could also be on the cards.

Family Guy and American Dad creator Seth McFarlane brings us his follow up to the hit Ted. A harder sell this time in the guise of A million Ways to Die in the West, a western in the Blazing Saddles stable of slapstick.

McFarlane has a big following so this could get a decent 3 or 4 million pound opening and a top 5 entry definitely and maybe come in right behind the two bigger films of the week.

Other new films out this week are - Heaven is for Real - Venus in Fur.

It's the time of year again when the Oscar hype machine will go into overdrive in the period between the nominations being announced and the ceremony itself.

This year there are two films which are ahead of the rest, and two films which are total contrasts in style. James Cameron has continued to astound everyone by getting a nomination for best picture and best director, and his film Avatar has managed nine nomination in total with the others being in the technical department.

Kathryn Bigelow's (who happens to be Camerons ex-wife) The Hurt Locker has also managed nine nominations, best picture and best director being two of then, the picture has also got a nomination for it's star Jeremy Renner as a leading actor.

The best picture category this year include 10 films (is that too many) so we have the likes of The Blind Side and Inglourious Basterds along side British hopeful An Education as well as South African sci-fi film District 9, and a first in that Up is nominated for best film and best animated film.

Best film and director is going to be a battle between Cameron and Bigelow, but the rest of the awards are an open field, so lets wait and see what heppens on March 7th at the 82nd Academy Awards Ceremony.

Heres a list of the nominations, or check out the website.

BEST DIRECTOR

James Cameron, Avatar
Katherine Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarentino, Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jason Reitman, Up In The Air

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up In The Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

BEST PICTURE

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In the Air

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Neil Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell, District 9
Neil Hornby, An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, In The Loop
Geofrey Fletcher, Precious
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boall, The Hurt locker
Quentin Tarentino, Inglourious Basterds
Joel And Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, The Messenger
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Up

Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Cinematography
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Documentary Short
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of A GM Plant
Music By Prudence
Rabbit A La Berlin

Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
INglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire

Foreign Language Film
Ajami
El Secreto
Desus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

Make-Up
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Music: Original Score
Avatar
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Music: Original Song
The Princess and The Frog – Almost There
The Princess and the Frog – Down In New Orleans
Paris 36 – Loin de Panane
Nine – Take It All
Crazy Heart – The Weary Kind

Short Film: Animated
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady And The Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Short Film: Live Action
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Achievement In Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek