Last weekend Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 was at the top of the North American box office, there are 3 new releases this weekend, will any of them top the US box office this weekend?

Check out other new releases from around the world.

• Fast X
• Master Gardener
• Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom

Fast X

• The movie is directed by Louis Leterrier, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Louis Leterrier also directed Grimsby in 2016 which grossed $6.9 Mil. in the US and grossed $28 Mil. globally.
• It stars Vin Diesel who also starred in Knockaround Guys (2001).
• The film also stars Jordana Brewster who was last seen in Fast & Furious 9 (2021).
• Vin Diesel and Jordana Brewster have starred in 6 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Fast & Furious 6 in 2013, Fast & Furious 9 in 2021, Fast & Furious in 2009, Fast Five in 2011, The Fast and the Furious in 2001 and Fast & Furious 7 in 2015.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Master Gardener

• The movie is directed by Paul Schrader, it is the directors 26th movie.
• Paul Schrader also directed Witch Hunt in 1994.
• It stars Joel Edgerton who also starred in The Hard Word (2002).
• The film also stars Sigourney Weaver who was last seen in Avatar: The Way of Water (2022).
• They also appeared together in Exodus: Gods and Kings in 2014.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom

• The movie is directed by Guillaume Canet, it is the directors 8th movie.
• Guillaume Canet also directed Blood Ties in 2014 which grossed $42.5K in the US and grossed $2.6 Mil. globally.
• It stars Guillaume Canet who also starred in Rivals (2008).
• The film also stars Gilles Lellouche who was last seen in The Stronghold (2021).
• Guillaume Canet and Gilles Lellouche have starred in 6 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Rock'n Roll in 2017, Tell No One in 2006, Les Infideles in 2012, Narco: The Secret Adventures of Gustave Klopp in 2004, Whatever You Say in 2002 and The Players in 2012.
• Guillaume Canet directed Guillaume Canet in Rock'n Roll
• Guillaume Canet directed Gilles Lellouche in Rock'n Roll
• This movie is released on streaming platforms.

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 11 new movies released

• Victim Suspect - Tuesday, 23rd May
• Dark Nature - Tuesday, 23rd May
• Papaw Land - Tuesday, 23rd May
• Kandahar - Friday, 26th May
• The Little Mermaid - Friday, 26th May
• About My Father - Friday, 26th May
• The Machine - Friday, 26th May
• You Hurt My Feelings - Friday, 26th May
• Being Mary Tyler Moore - Friday, 26th May
• By Invitation Only - Friday, 26th May
• The Machine - Friday, 26th May

As soon as CES started and Warner Bros. confirmed that they are going Blu-ray only we all knew it was only a matter of time before there would be only one format and this "war" would be over, and now it looks like Toshiba will announce their withdrawal from HD-DVD.

This speculation along with the Warner announcement and the many US retailers announcing either Blu-ray exclusivity or Blu-ray dominance in stores are enough to kill the format, who wants to buy a player that has little retail support.

Blu-ray is the winner and it's only a matter of days (if not hours) before it will become official. This is one in the eye for Microsoft who has reportedly pumped millions of dollars into support for the format and a big triumph for Sony who developed it.

The conspiracy around the Microsoft involvement is multilayer, but whatever the truth is I think that downloadable content for films and TV has taken a hit in the back of this move as well, people can buy a player with confidence now.

The good news for Sony now is their insistence of putting a Blu-ray player in the Playstation 3 might pay off, the gaming device is still by far one of the better players on the market and is still the cheapest certainly in the European market where the stand alone players are still not that common.

The players are sure to come down in price now and the HD-DVD format will slowly start to disappear off the shelves, for those that did buy an HD-DVD player you will soon be able to pick up the movies very cheap.