US release: 3rd July 1991
Canada release: 3rd July 1991
Mexico release: 3rd July 1991
£22.3 Million 
$205.9 Million 
$520.9 Million The long in production sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time, Avatar has a name, and as rumoured its Avatar: The Way of Water.
The movie will see the return of directing for James Cameron who has not directed since Avatar in 2009, his previous movies include Titanic 1998 and Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991.
As Disney own this property since their 20th Century Fox acquisition the first trailer for the movie will debut with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which is due in cinemas next week.
Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.
Animation aimed at a more adult audience lands at the top of the box office chart this week as Sausage Party makes its UK debut at number 1.
With lead vocals from Seth Rogan the innuendoes fly fas in this 15 rated comedy as its grosses a good, but not great, £2.6 million.
Finding Dory has had a fantastic run at the box office, 2 spells at the top but this week falls down to number 3.
Its not a sad story thought and an excellent 6th week gross of £1.5 million brongs the films total gross in the UK to a fantastic £38 million, it has not out grossed Finding Nemo in the UK.
Also making their debut on the box office chart this week are Brotherhood at number 2 with £1.9 million and Cafe Society at number 9 with £0.5 million.
Highest grossing film on the box office this week is Finding Dory and longest run is The BFG which has spent 7 weeks on the top 10.
Next week sees the release of Ben-Hur (a remake) and Captain Fantastic as well as Don't Breathe the current American number 1.
Historical Charts
A year ago - Straight Outta Compton kept its grip at the top of the UK box office with No Escape the highest new film at 3.
Five years ago - The Inbetweeners Movie remained at the top and with a strong top 4 the highest new film was the Indian film Bodyguard at number 5.
Ten years ago - You, Me and Dupree remained at the top and with 3 new releases in the top 5 Little Man was the highest of them.
Fifteen years ago - Heath Ledger starred in A Knights Tale which made its debut at the top while Planet of The Apes fell to number 2 on its 3rd week.
Twenty years ago - There was no moving for Independence Day which kept its vice grip on the top while top new film Phenomenon landed at number 2.
Twenty five years ago - Mega hit Terminator 2: Judgment Day was still at the top of the box office while top new film Dying Young landed at number 3.
For the second weekend Disney and Pixar hold on to the top with Finding Dory which returned to number 1 last week after a 2 week drop to number 2.
The fishy tale of the forgetful fish is having a fantastic UK box office run with a £1.5 million 5th weekend bringing its total gross to £35.8 million.
With another week to go of the School summer holidays Dory could well make another weekend at the top of the box office.
Not far behind if the highest new entry of the week, comedy Bad Moms, starring Mila Kunis of Family Guy fame.
The film takes £1.4 million from the weekend, only £400,000 behind the top film.
Also new this week is War Dogs at number 4, The Purge Election Year at number 5 and Lights Out at number 8.
Highest total grossing movie this week is Finding Dory while the longest running movie on the box office is Star Trek Beyond and The BFG with 6 weeks each.
Historical Charts
A year ago - Suprise hit Straight Outta Compton made its debut a the top knocking off Paper Town which fell right down to number 8.
Five years ago - Staying at number one was The Inbetweeners Movie on its second week while the highest new film was One Day in at number 2.
Ten years ago - You, Me and Dupree was the new film at the top of the box office while Snakes On A Plane fell to number 2.
Fifteen years ago - Planet of The Apes didn't move off the top spot while highest new film of the week was Heartbreakers at number 3.
Twenty years ago - There was no moving Independence Day from the top of the box office, even for Arnold Schwarzenegger which took Eraser in at number 2.
Twenty five years ago - Arnold Schwarzenegger was at the top of the box office for a second weekend with Terminator 2: Judgment Day and with a static top 3 Pump Up The Volume was the highest new film at 4.
Many people doubted it could be done, but it was only a matter of time, and now it's gone and done it, Avatar is now the second highest grossing film ever globally, and it took less than 3 weeks to do it.
This now means that director James Cameron, who remember has previously brought us The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, has the top 2 highest grossing films of all time globally, not bad going for a director who took 12 year to follow up the biggest film ever.
All that's left is for Avatar top Camerons current top global grosser Titanic, and with Avatar having a gross of over $1.1 Billion and Titanic having a world gross of $1.8 Billion it only has a gap of $700 Million to make up before is outdoes Titanic, at this rate it will do it in a couple of weeks.
For home video enthusiasts today is a very sad day as Pioneer have announced they will stop making laserdisk players this month (June 2009).
Initially brought to market in 1978 under the name of DiscoVision the 12 inch disks were going to revolutionise home entertainment and bring that cinema quality high definition picture to the home.
Although the technology inside the huge players was far superior to that of it's magnetic tape (VHS and Beta) equivalents the lack of storage (60 minutes on each side) and high price stopped them from becoming a mainstream purchase.
American video enthusiasts took to the devices as did the Japanese, but Europe never really embraced the devices. VHS had a strong hold, and by the time people realised that their £15 film on the fragile tape was a bad idea and looked for alternatives the 5 inch DVD was hitting the market.
Here is a list of the top selling films on the Laserdisk format: -
Despite it's hard life the format has laser 30 years and sold a quite respectable 360 million units. Disks didn't shift that many, Star Wars was one of the biggest sellers with 100,000 sold and The Lion King not far behind, although exact sales data is hard to find.
Check out the wikipedia page and an article on the demise at hometheatermag.com.