With
The Fantastic Four: First Steps currently at the top of the UK box office can this weeks new cinema releases challlenge it for the UK box office crown?
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
- The Pickup
- Weapons
- The movie is directed by Nisha Ganatra, it is the directors 8th movie.
- Nisha Ganatra also directed Cake in 2005.
- It stars Jamie Lee Curtis who also starred in House Arrest (1996).
- 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 Tim Story, it is the directors 17th movie.
- Tim Story also directed Kevin Hart: Laugh At My Pain in 2011 and grossed $7.7 Mil. globally.
- It stars Eddie Murphy who also starred in Trading Places (1983).
- The film also stars Pete Davidson who's last movie was The Home (2025).
- This movie is released on Streaming Platforms.
- The BBFC UK age rating is
- The movie is directed by Zach Cregger, it is the directors 4th movie.
- Zach Cregger also directed Barbarian in 2022 which grossed £1.1 Mil. in the UK.
- It stars Josh Brolin who also starred in The Dog Stars (2026).
- 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.
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
- Materialists - Friday, 15th August
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