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This weekend has a couple of big hitters making their way to streaming services that have been delayed for months due to the lockdown in the UK.

Godzilla Vs. Kong and Chaos Walking are both potential blockbusters that have missed out on a place in movie theatres due to the over crowding that is happening later in the year due to delayed films.

Chaos Walking

• The movie is directed by Doug Liman
• Doug Liman also directed Locked Down in 2021.
• It stars Tom Holland who last starred in Cherry (2021).
• The film also stars Daisy Ridley who last appeared in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

The Mauritanian

• This new release stars Tahar Rahim who's last film was The Kindness of Strangers (2019)
• It also stars Nouhe Hamady Bari who is making a feature film debut.
• The film is brought to us by veteran director Kevin Macdonald.

Godzilla Vs. Kong

• The movie is directed by Adam Wingard who directed Death Note in 2017.
• It stars Alexander Skarsgård and Millie Bobby Brown.

Minari

• Also this week there is Minari from director Lee Isaac Chung who also directed Abigail Harm in 2012.
• The film features Alan S. Kim and Yeri Han in starring roles.

Next weeks there are 0 new movies

Action movie Nobody tops this weeks North American box office which is written by Derek Kolstad who also wrote the original John Wick movie.

Nobody is the only new entry on the top 15 this weekend as the rest of the charts more or less remain the same with little to no movement although worthy of mention is Minari which jumps up 11 to 9, Promising Young Woman that jumps up 15 to 12 and News of the World which re-enters the top 15 at 15.

US box office QuickView

• Number 1 - Nobody (1st weekend)
• Highest debut - Nobody (@1)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age (18 weeks)
• Highest total gross - The Croods: A New Age ($56 Million)

US box office top 5 breakdown 26th - 28th March 2021

Nobody

Making its debut a the top this weekend is the latest movie from director Ilya Naishuller which stars Bob Odenkirk as an ordinary clean living American who has a deadly secret.

THe movie takes a very good $6.8 Million over the weekend which is by means the top movie of the pandemic era but is very good all the same.

Raya and the Last Dragon

Disneys his animated feature falls to number 2 this weekend after 3 weeks at the top with a gross of $3.76 Million, down only 27% from last weekend.

The movie has been on the box office for 4 weeks now and has taken $28.56 Million.

Tom and Jerry

The animated cat and mouse duo fall to number 3 this weekend with $2.5 Million, a 34% drop over last weekend.

The movie has done far better than expected during the pandemic, as have many kids movies, and has taken $37.1 Million after 5 weeks.

Chaos Walking

Another movie which has done better than you'd have thought falls to number 4 this weekend with $1.2 Million, 37% down from last weekend, this gives the movie a total of $11.49 Million after 4 weeks.

The Courier

Finally on the top 5 is the Benedict Cumberbatch starring movie which on its second weekend of release takes $1.05 Million, down 44%, giving the movie a $3.48 Million total.

Long overdue for a release the Doug Liman directed Sci-Fi movie finally gets a release in the Uk on April 2nd and is given a 12 age rating in the UK by the BBFC.

The movie stars Tom Holland of Spider-Man fame and Daisy Ridley of Star Wars fame and follow a young woman who crash lands her space ship on a planet where you can visually see the thoughts of men.

Chaos Walking is a young adult science fiction series written by novelist Patrick Ness, the first was published in 2008 and was called The Knife of Never Letting Go.

Story synopsis

In Prentisstown, Todd has been brought up to believe that the Spackle released a germ that killed all the women and unleashed Noise on the remaining men.

After discovering a patch of silence out in the swamp, his surrogate parents immediately tell him that he has to run, leaving him with only a map of New World, a message, and many unanswered questions. He soon discovers the source of the silence: a girl, named Viola.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: Chaos Walking
• BBFC age rating: 12 Certificate
• Reason: moderate violence, threat, injury detail.
• Release date: April 2nd 2021
• Runtime: 109m (1 hour 49 minutes)
• Director: Doug Liman

Raya and the Last Dragon continues to show its dominence on the box office as its stays at the top for another weekend while Benedict Cumberbatch is the star of The Courier which enters the chart at number 3.

With cinemas in North America starting to re-open, including two of the biggest markets New York and Los Angeles, the box office is starting to show signs of the recovery with most movies showing very little drop or significant increases with their week on week gross.

US box office Quickview

• Number 1 - Raya and the Last Dragon (3rd weekend)
• Highest debut - The Courier (@3)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age (17 weeks)
• Highest total gross - The Croods: A New Age ($55.24 Million)

Here is the top 5 North American box office breakdown 19th - 21st March 2021

Raya and the Last Dragon

Disney rule the box office for a third weekend with their latest animated feature which takes $5.15 Million this weekend, only a 10% drop from last weekend.

North America is stating to see an increase in the number of cinemas open and the hold is no real surprise.

The movie, which is also available on Disney+ Premium Access, has now taken $23.43 Million in total at the box office.

Tom & Jerry: The Movie

The surprise hit the season remains at number 2 this weekend with $3.8 Million, a 7% drop from last weekend.

Kids movies on the hole have done very well during the global pandemic and this week the cat and mouse live action movie has taken $33.7 Million in total grosses over 4 weeks.

The Courier

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the highest new movie of the weekend at number 3 taking a debut gross of $2.12 Million.

Chaos Walking

The Doug Liman directed movie starring Tom Holland falls to number 4 this weekend with a gross of $1.92 Million, a 14% drop from last weekend.

Considering the bad reviews the movie got it has done surprisingly well and after 3 weeks of release it has grossed $9.69 Million.

The Croods: A New Age

Finally on the top 5 is the longest running movie of the chart which takes $620,000 over the weekend, which is incredibly a 13% increase on last weeks gross!

The movie has done amazingly well and after 17 weeks of release, all inside the top 5, it has taken $55.24 Million.

With nothing moving inside the top 5 this wekend the Disney movie Raya and the Last Dragon spends week number 2 at the top of the North America box office.

With the rest of the top 5 staying the same to top new movie is at number 6 in the shape of Indian movie Jathi Ratnalu which makes its debut with $470,00.

US box office Qucikview

• Number 1 - Raya and the Last Dragon (2nd weekend)
• Highest debut - Jathi Ratnalu (@6)
• Longest run - The Croods: A New Age (16 weeks)
• Highest total gross - The Croods: A New Age ($54,303,725)

US box office top 5 breakdown 12th - 14th March 2021

Raya and the Last Dragon

Second weekend at the top for Disney's latest movie which takes $5.5 Million, a very respectable 36% lower than last weekend.

This takes the movie to $15.83 Million after 10 days of release, not bad considering the movie is on Disney+ (with a premium price tag).

Tom and Jerry

The live action, cartoon mix which has proved to be a pandemic hit takes $4.1 Million this weekend, 38% down on the previous weekend.

This gives the movie a total US gross is $28 Million after 3 weeks of release.

Chaos Walking

Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley star in the movie staying put at number 3 this week which takes $2.25 Million on its second weekend of release, a quite large 41% lower than last weekend.

The movie has now taken $6.91 Million from its 2 weekends of release.

Boogie

Staying put at number 4 is the Eddie Huang directed movie about a basketball prodigy which takes $730,000 over the weekend, 39% down.

The movie has not taken $2.27 Million after 2 weekends of release.

The Croods: A New Age

Longest running and highest total grossing movie of the week sits at number 5 this week with $520,000, 33% down, for a total of $54,3 Million after 16 weeks on the box office.