Box office races are often tight and this weekend was one of those time as Beetlejuice Beetlejuice just about hangs on to the top spot as Transformers: One makes a decent debut at 2.

The Tim Burton directed movie just about hangs on to the top spot with a weekend gross of nearly $26 Million which pushes the movies total gross to $226.7 Million.

Transformers: One being the top new movie comes in at 2 with $24.6 Million, a decent opening gross for an animated movie thats not Disney.

US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 20th - 22nd September 2024

• The movie remains at number 1 on this weekends US box office
• It has spent 3 weeks at the top of the US box office.
• It grosses $25,937,144 over the weekend, a 49% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $226,785,526 after 3 weekends of release
• The movie is the 6th top grossing film so far in 2024
• The movie is a sequel to Beetlejuice which took $66,952,176 at the box office after 3 weekends of release.

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weekends US box office chart.
• It grosses $24,613,970 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $24,613,970 after 1 weekends of release

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $5,798,035 over the weekend, a 49% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $21,352,625 after 2 weekends of release

• The movie is a new entry at number 4 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $4,449,065 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $4,449,065 after 1 weekends of release

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weekends US box office
• It grosses $3,819,848 over the weekend, a 0% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of $627,204,473 after 9 weekends of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2024
• The movie is the 14th top grossing movie of all time in the US.
• The movie is a sequel to Deadpool 2 which took $316,242,407 at the box office after 9 weekends of release.

Babylon set in the 1920's Hollywood is given an 18 age rating in the UK for strong sex, nudity, drug misuse

The movie stars a powerhouse of the current Hollywood A listers including Brad Pitt, this years Bullet Train and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Margot Robbie, The Suicide Squad and The Wolf of Wall Street as well as starring alongside Brad Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

The movie is directed by Damien Chazelle who is best known for directing the Oscar Winning La La Land and Whiplash, so no pressure on this movie!

Movie Synopsis

Decadence, depravity, and outrageous excess lead to the rise and fall of several ambitious dreamers in 1920s Hollywood.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: Babylon
• BBFC age rating: 18 Certificate
• Reason: strong sex, nudity, drug misuse
• Release date: 20th January 2023
• Runtime: 189 minutes (3 hour 09 minutes)
• Directed by:
  • Damien Chazelle
• Starring:
  • Brad Pitt
  • Margot Robbie
  • Olivia Wilde

BBFC movie page

New at the top of the UK video chart this week is the Clint Eastwood directed American Sniper starring Bradley Cooper.

The film was release on 16th January 2015 at Uk cinemas in a flurry of Oscar hype at number 2 to the tune of £2.5 million, but as the hype got greater the film hit the top spot the following week.

In a run lasting 7 weeks the film grossed a very reasonable £13.4 million at the UK box office, in America it took and incredible $350 million making it one of Eastwoods biggest films.

In the UK the film is the 329th highest grossing of all time and worldwide with a gross of $539 million it's the 121st highest grossing.

There was a whole flurry of new releases this week, with almost the whole top 5 changing, last weeks top film, Big Hero 6, fell to number 3 this week.

Other new film then are: Shaun The Sheep Movie at number 2, Ex Machina at number 4, Whiplash at number 5, Forbidden Kingdom at number 14 and The Gambler down at number 18.

Sunday February 22nd 2015 and its the annual awards ceremony that ends the movie award ceremonies that dominate the start of the year.

This year Birdman starring Michael Keaton won the big award of best film but missed out the the best Actor award the The Theory of Everything Eddie Redmayne.

Below is a lost of the top winners on the night.

Best Picture - Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Director - Alejandro G. Iñárritu for Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best actor - Eddie Redmayne for The Theory Of Everything

Best Actress - Julianne Moore for Still Alice

Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette for Boyhood

Best Supporting Actor - JK Simmons for Whiplash

Adapted Screenplay - The Imitation Game

Original Screenplay - Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Animated Feature - Big Hero 6

Staying put this week, Tak3n makes it 2 weeks at the top of the UK box office despite a challenge from the new Clint Eastwood film.

Liam Neeson has become the action hero of the moment with Taken 3 taking another £3.3 million from the weekend which brings it's total to £12.2 million after 10 days.

The threequel is keeping well in line with the previous film in the series but it already double that of the first films full UK cinema run.

Debuting strong at number 2 is American Sniper which enters the Uk box office with a first weekend gross of £2.5 million, Oscar nomination are boosting it's potential and it could end up one of Eastwood's highest grossing films.

The theory of Everything, Into the Woods and Paddington wound out the top five.

Other new films this week are: Whiplash at 7, Wild at 9, The Merry Widow Met Opera 2015 at 10 and Testament of Youth at 11.

Historical charts

A year ago - The Wolf of Wall Street was the first new number 1 film of the year debuting in the top spot and knocking 12 Years A Slave into second place.

Five years ago - Avatar stayed on top for yet another week and the highest new film was Up In The Air right down at 5.

Ten years ago - Highest new film and new number 1 for the week was Closer which knocked White Noise from the top to number 3.

Fifteen years ago - Sleepy Hollow kept it's hold on the top of the box office where it entered the previous week, Angelas Ashes was the highest new film of the week at 2.