This weekend, Friday 8th August 2025, there are 4 new films released in North America and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie,
The Fantastic Four: First Steps, for the number 1 spot?
As well as the movies released in cinemas this weekend this list also includes a number of the top movies released on streaming platforms.
Check out other new releases from around the world.
Here are this weeks new releases
- Freakier Friday
- Weapons
- The Pickup
- North Star
- The movie is directed by Nisha Ganatra, it is the directors 8th movie.
- Nisha Ganatra also directed Late Night in 2019.
- It stars Jamie Lee Curtis who also starred in Knives Out (2019).
- The film also stars Lindsay Lohan who's last movie was Mean Girls (2024).
- They also appeared together in Freaky Friday in 2003.
- This movie is released in Movie Theatres.
- The movie is directed by Zach Cregger, it is the directors 4th movie.
- Zach Cregger also directed Miss March in 2009.
- It stars Josh Brolin who also starred in Avengers: Endgame (2019).
- The film also stars Julia Garner who's last movie was The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025).
- They also appeared together in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For in 2014.
- This movie is released in Movie Theatres.
- The MPAA age rating is
- The movie is directed by Tim Story, it is the directors 17th movie.
- Tim Story also directed Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain in 2011 which grossed $7.7 Mil. in the US and grossed $7.7 Mil. globally.
- It stars Eddie Murphy who also starred in Coming 2 America (2021).
- The film also stars Pete Davidson who's last movie was The Home (2025).
- This movie is released on Streaming Platforms.
- The MPAA age rating is
- The movie is from director Kristin Scott Thomas.
- This movie is a directorial debut.
- It stars Scarlett Johansson who also starred in Isle of Dogs (2018).
- The film also stars Sienna Miller who's last movie was Horizon: An American Saga (2024).
- This movie is released in Movie Theatres.
Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.
Next week there are 2 new movies released
- Nobody 2 - Friday, 15th August
- Americana - Friday, 15th August
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Robert Hyde
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
