
£14 Million
$73.1 Million
$142.3 Million With Civil War currently at the top of the North American box office can this weeks new cinema releases challlenge it for the US box office crown?
Check out other new releases from around the world.
Here are this weeks new releasesCheck back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Dev Patel turns his hand to directing in Monkey Man which has been given an 18 age rating in the UK for strong bloody violence
The movies stars Patel himself who has previously been seen in Hotel Mumbai and Only Yesterday, it also stars Sharlto Copley who has been seen in movies like Elysium and The A-Team.
THe movie is a directorial debut for Dev Patel having previously directed a couple of shorts, Roborovski in 2021 and Home Shopper in 2018.
Movie Synopsis
A man seeks vengeance against the men who attacked his village and murdered his mother in this intense action thriller.
>BBFC certificate breakdown.
Event cinema has become a regular part of the UK and Ireland box office in recent years, and the one woman show Prima Facie - NT Live 2022 has just overtaken the one woman show Fleabag: NT Live 2019 as the top grossing event.
Prima Facie: NT Live 2022 stars Jodie Comer as a young brilliant barrister and has been received with fantastic reviews.
The movie is still playing in cinemas and has taken £4.47 to date while Fleabag: NT Live 2019 starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge was released in September 2019 and spent 32 weeks on the chart taking £4.46 Million.
In an intersting turn of events this weeks, 26th August 2022, the number one movie at the UK box office is an event cinema itself with the ever popular Andre Rieu taking his summer concert Andre Rieus 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days Are Here Again to the top.
Courtesy of comscore.com
Jodie Comer has done it! As of yesterday, PRIMA FACIE - NT LIVE has become the highest-grossing Event Cinema release of all time in the UK & Ireland. A remarkable achievement.#PrimaFaciePlay now stands on £4.47m to date, moving ahead of FLEABAG - NT LIVE's total of £4.42m. pic.twitter.com/Iec3dLptF3
— Comscore Movies UK & Ireland (@CsMoviesUK) September 2, 2022
You may have missed this but yesterday, June 8th, is considered by fans of the series as Ghostbusters day, marked on that day as the original movie was released on this day in North America.
Jason Reitman, director of Ghostbusters: Afterlife and son of the original director Ivan Reitman, during a celebration marking the event, announced officially that a fourth (or fifth depending how you count!) is in the works.
The movie will be code named Firehouse, and who knows this could be the title eventually, after in infamous HQ of the Ghostbusters in the original movie, which can be seen being bought by Ernie Hudsons character Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
“The last time we saw Ecto-1, it was driving back into Manhattan: the home of Ghostbusters. That’s where our story begins. The code name is FIREHOUSE.” -@JasonReitman, @GilKenan #GhostbustersDay pic.twitter.com/P3QRild2Vs
— Ghostbusters (@Ghostbusters) June 9, 2022
At an event on Wednesday Reitman said he has just started working on a script with Gil Kenan, his co-writer on Afterlife.
Here are the highlights of the announcement
No word yet on any other returning characters but Dan Aykroyd praised Afterlife a lot so an appearance from him is likely and Bill Murray seems to have buried him Ghostbusters demons so thats also likely.
Sigourney Weaver appeared in a weird cameo in Afterlife so its likely she may return, and Annie Potts could do with wrapping her story up, and even a cameo from Rick Moranis would be a treat.
No word on release or production dates but no doubt were looking at something like June 2024 which would nicely tie in with the 40th anniversary of the original Ghostbusters.
Now where is that sequel to the 2016 Ghostbusters~2016 movie we are all waiting for!
As promised yesterday Pixar and Disney have released the first trailer for their upcoming Italian inspired movie Luca.
The movie is set in the Northern part of Italy and is set in and around around the ligurian culture and its people.
The story is based around two young friends who have a deep secret that when water touches them they turn into sea monsters, it is based on Northern Italian folklore which the director grey up hearing.
The movie is directed by Enrico Casarosa who was an artist on Pixar's Coco and you can tell in this trailer as it just spills with the same style and feeling of that movie.
The movie is voiced by Jacob Tremblay and Jack Dylan Grazer in starring roles and is released on June 18th - the trailer doesn't say if it will be theatrical or Disney+!