This weekend, Friday 27th December 2024, there are 2 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie,
Mufasa: The Lion King, 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
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Better Man
- The movie is directed by Jeff Fowler, it is the directors 3rd movie.
- Jeff Fowler also directed Sonic the Hedgehog in 2020 which grossed £19.3 Mil. in the UK and grossed $306.8 Mil. globally.
- It stars Ben Schwartz who also starred in Blue Iguana (2018).
- The film also stars Colleen O'Shaughnessey who's last movie was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022).
- Ben Schwartz and Colleen OShaughnessey have starred in 2 other movies together.
- They also appeared together in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in 2022 and Sonic the Hedgehog in 2020.
- Jeff Fowler directed Ben Schwartz in Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Jeff Fowler directed Colleen Oshaughnessey in Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- This movie is released in Movie Theatres.
- The movie is directed by Michael Gracey, it is the directors 2nd movie.
- Michael Gracey also directed The Greatest Showman in 2017 which grossed £46.7 Mil. in the UK and grossed $435.1 Mil. globally.
- It stars Robbie Williams who also starred in The Magic Roundabout (2004).
- The film also stars Jonno Davies who's last movie was Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015).
- 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 4 new movies released
- We Live In Time - Wednesday, 1st January
- Nosferatu - Wednesday, 1st January
- 2073 - Wednesday, 1st January
- Nickel Boys - Friday, 3rd January
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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.
