Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 24th December 2021, there are 3 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Spider-Man: No Way Home from the top of the UK box office.

Here are this weeks new releases

• The Matrix Resurrections
• Don't Look Up
• The King's Man

The Matrix Resurrections

• The movie is directed by Lana Wachowski, it is the directors 8th movie.
• Lana Wachowski also directed Jupiter Ascending in 2015 which grossed £4.4 Mil. in the UK and grossed $183.9 Mil. globally.
• It stars Keanu Reeves who also starred in Thumbsucker (2005).
• The film also stars Carrie-Anne Moss who last appeared in The Clockwork Girl (2014).
• Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss have starred in 4 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), The Animatrix (2003) and The Matrix (1999).
• UK box office prediction: 2

Don't Look Up

• The movie is directed by Adam McKay, it is the directors 10th movie.
• Adam McKay also directed Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy in 2004 which grossed £1.5 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Leonardo DiCaprio who also starred in The Aviator (2005).
• The film also stars Jennifer Lawrence who last appeared in X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019).

The King's Man

• The movie is directed by Matthew Vaughn, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Matthew Vaughn also directed Kingsman: The Golden Circle in 2017 which grossed £24.9 Mil. in the UK and grossed $410.9 Mil. globally.
• It stars Ralph Fiennes who also starred in Quiz Show (1995).
• The film also stars Gemma Arterton who last appeared in Summerland (2020).
• They also appeared together in and Clash of the Titans (2010).
• UK box office prediction: 4

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 6 new movies released

• The Lost Daughter, Friday, 17th December
• Malibu Road, Thursday, 9th September
• Titane, Friday, 31st December
• Si Hai, Friday, 24th December
• Spaceman, Friday, 24th December
• Perfect Blue, Friday, 24th December

Making it a third week on the trop Fast and Furious 7 retains the top of the box office taking £3.03 million for the weekend, bringing it's total to a fantastic £32 million.

Furious 7 should overtake Fifty Shades of Grey as the highest grossing film of the year by next weekend, it continues to dominate across the globe as well and had now taken over $1 Billion.

Without much doubt this will be the last week it spends a the top as the next is the successful Marvel universe films is released this Thursday.

Highest new film of the week enters the box office at number 4 in the form of Child 44 which grosses just over half a million pound.

Also new this week is the Alan Rickman directed A Little Chaos which enters at 7.

Historical charts

A year ago - The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was the highest new film of the week at the top which removed Rio 2 which fell to number 2.

Five years ago - Debuting at the top was Roman tearjerker Dear John, it removed Clash of The Titans with fell to number 2.

Ten years ago - Nicole Kidman starred in The Interpreter which debuted at the top of the box office sending The Amityville Horror down to number 2.

Fifteen years ago - Pok�mon The First Movie was the highest new film which made its debut at the top, Erin Brockovich fell from the top to the number 2 spot.

Twenty years ago - Muriels Wedding was the top new film of the week with Dumb and Dumber falling down to number 2 from the top spot.

It's proving to be the runaway hit of moment as Fast and Furious 7 speeds ahead of the rest of the field as it produces another £5.4 million over the weekend.

This gives Furious 7 a total UK gross after 2 weekends of £26.2 million, the film is fast catching the years highest grossing movie, Fifty Shades of Grey, which has taken £34.6 million.

With little in the way of new releases next week Furious 7 could well stay at the top until the release of Avengers Age Of Ultron at the end of April.

Highest new film of the week is American teen comedy/drama The DUFF, new at 4 with £891,691, not a great start!

The other new films this week maybe underperformed and all entered at the lower end of the chart, John Wick at 6, Woman In Gold at 7 and Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 at 8.

Historical chart

A year ago - Captain America: The Winter Soldier was holding still at the top of the box office with The Quiet Ones the highest new film down at 5.

Five years ago - Clash of The Titans was still the top film in the UK while the highest new film was all the way down at 8 in the shape of Whip It.

Ten years ago - The Matthew McConaughey film Sahara was the highest new film and entered at the top of the box office knocking The Ring Two down to number 2 after a week on top.

Fifteen years ago - Julia Roberts starred in the Oscar winning Erin Brockovich which entered at the top of the box office knocking Lake Placid down to number 2.

The creators of Ice Age have done it again with a new franchise as the Brazilian flightless bird Rio takes the top spot from the hopping rabbit.

It was a slow weekend at the box office with only the top film taking over a million pound and that film is new entry Rio which debuts at the top with £1,515,853, there was little else to challenge the film with the only other new release entering at nine and ten with The Roommate and Mars Needs Moms. Staying firm in second place is Source Code which raked in £848,366 taking its total gross to £2,990,826.

Limitless also hold its position from last week staying in third place with a weekend gross of £737,417 which brings its total to a fairly good £5,744,993.

Four and five and taken up by last weeks rabbit fest falling quite hard with £611,367 taking its total to £2,623,612 and at five Sucker Punch seems to be suffering from not being a summer blockbuster taking £346,399 over the weekend to a total of £1,633,285. This weeks box office is well down on this time last year when Clash of the Titans was riding high on the charts and the top five was full of high earning films How to Train Your Dragon, Kick-Ass, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang and Alice in Wonderland.