Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 7th January 2022, there are 2 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 355
• Boiling Point

The 355

• The movie is directed by Simon Kinberg, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Simon Kinberg also directed X-Men: Dark Phoenix in 2019 which grossed £7.1 Mil. in the UK and grossed $252.4 Mil. globally.
• It stars Jessica Chastain who also starred in The Martian (2015).
• The film also stars Penélope Cruz who last appeared in Wasp Network (2019).
• Predicted Box office: 4

Boiling Point

• The movie is directed by Philip Barantini, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Philip Barantini also directed Villain in 2020 which grossed £2.5K in the UK.
• It stars Stephen Graham who also starred in Satans Little Helper (2004).
• The film also stars Vinette Robinson who last appeared in Frankie (2021).

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

• The Tender Bar, Sunday, 10th October
• Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Friday, 14th January
• Scream, Friday, 14th January
• Cyrano, Friday, 14th January

Last weekend saw Black Widow at the top of the UK box office for a second weekend, there are 4 new releases this weekend so can any of those in cinemas do enough to top the box office chart this weekend?

Old

• The movie is directed by M. Night Shyamalan, it is the directors 15th movie.
• M. Night Shyamalan also directed Glass in 2019 which grossed £10.7 Million in the UK and grossed $246.9 Million globally.
• It stars Gael Garcia Bernal who also starred in Wasp Network (2019).
• The film also stars Vicky Krieps who last appeared in The Last Vermeer (2019).

Settlers

• The movie is from director Wyatt Rockefeller
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Sofia Boutella who also starred in Climax (2018).
• The film also stars Ismael Cruz Cordova who last appeared in Miss Bala (2019).

Wrath of Man

• The movie is directed by Guy Ritchie, it is the directors 13th movie.
• Guy Ritchie also directed Revolver in 2005 which grossed £1.6 Million in the UK.
• It stars Jason Statham who also starred in Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs and Shaw (2019).
• The film also stars Holt McCallany who last appeared in Greenland (2020).

Riders of Justice

• The movie is directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Anders Thomas Jensen also directed Men and Chicken in 2016 which grossed £10.9 Thousand in the UK.
• It stars Mads Mikkelsen who also starred in Another Round (2020).
• The film also stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas who last appeared in Men and Chicken (2016).
• Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas have starred in 5 movies together.
• They also appeared together in Men and Chicken (2016).

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

Next weeks there are 4 new movies released

• The Suicide Squad, Friday, 30th July
• Jungle Cruise, Friday, 30th July
• The Sparks Brothers, Friday, 30th July
• Spirit Untamed, Friday, 30th July

Despite rumblings from many a commentator about maybe Colin Firth not getting an Oscar, or Natalie Portman being pipped at the post by Annette Benning, in the end the Oscar evening went as predictably as you could imagine with just about everyone predicting all the major winners.

Colin Firth and Natalie Portman got their statues, while Christian Bale and Melissa Leo (both for The Fighter) got awarded. Maybe the most unpredictable award for the night was best film and director, most thought that The Social Network and its director David Fincher might clinch it, but The Kings Speech and director Tom Hooper took home the glory.

Toy Story 3 deservedly gained the best animated feature Oscar and in maybe a surprise move Banks diod not get the best documentary Oscar, so no stunt appearance, instead that went to Inside Job, a film from director Charles Ferguson about the financial crisis of 2008.

In all I suppose it was a predictable night, but one where all the Oscars went to deserved winners, something which rarely happens. The awards season is now over, a season which I used to get very excited about, and although I still look at the winners with interest I don't get nearly as excited as I did 10 years ago, maybe Oscar is no longer relevant?

Sony and online DVD/Blu-ray rental company Lovefilm have today announced that it will be delivering movies via the internet to owners of Sony internet TV's.

In the same week that bricks and mortar video rental company Blockbuster announce that unless they have an injection of cash they will go bankrupt, one of the more successful online rental companies announce a deal that could amount to the final nail in the video shop coffin.

Movie rentals via the likes of the Playstation Network via a Playstation 3 or XBox Live via an XBox 360 have been with us for a while and proved successful, the internet TV delivers is in essence an extenuation of this.

Samsung are also in negations to offer a similar service and as people replace their TV's the replacement will most likely be internet enabled allowing the service to grow in time.

Is this another example of the physical media being a thing of the past, in the future will our film collection be in the "cloud" and we stream the movie when we want to watch it, will our film collections be Lovefilms catalogue?

I personally still like the idea of physical media, it's still fun and exciting, maybe I'm just an old fossil that needs to accept the future?

Whatever happens it looks like the video shop is going to be a thing of the past, no-one knows this more that Blockbuster Video the once king of the rental market who didn't move with the times and will go bust by the end of the year. As a former employee of the company I cant help but feel sad about that.