AmazonMGM studios, who recently got the rights to the James Bond, 007 series have announced that Dune~2020 director Denis Villeneuve will helm and produce the next movie in the long running series.

The Last movie, No Time To Die was released in 2021 after a year delay due to the COVID 19 cinema closures and it saw the end of the Broccoli era and the Daniel Craig series of movies.

Since then online retailer Amazon has bought MGM Studio who co-owned the rights to the series and have taken full controll of the movie rights.

Getting director Villeneuve in to direct and produce potentially means that Amazon are taking the series in much darker direction.

Its still early days yet and a script needs to be written, as well as a title announcement etc., and there has been no announcement yet of who will even play the title character after the departure of Craig in the last movie.

No idea of a release window as the director is in production of the third Dune movie Dune Messiah currently.

Via Variety

Taking a leaf out of Disney's play book, Dreamworks have turned How to Train Your Dragon into a live action movie which has been given a PG rating in the UK for mild threat, scary scenes, violence, language.

The movie stars Mason Thames who has been seen in The Black Phone and Monster Summer, it also features Nico Parker who has starred in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and >Dumbo~2019.

The movie is directed by Dean DeBlois who brought to the big screen the animated movies Lilo and Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

Movie Synopsis

In a Viking settlement besieged by dragons, a young man finds he has an ability to befriend and tame the creatures.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: How to Train Your Dragon~2025
• BBFC age rating: PG Certificate
• Reason: mild threat, scary scenes, violence, language
• Release date: 9th June 2025
• Runtime: 126 minutes (2 hours 06 minutes)
• The movie is being released into movie theatres
• Directed by:
  • Dean DeBlois
• Starring:
  • Mason Thames
  • Nico Parker
  • Gerard Butler

BBFC movie page

The new movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts*, tops the UK box office on its debut weekend with a debut gross just shy of £6 Million.

This debut gross is not a bad opening for an MCU movie in the UK and it beats Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and gets close to Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

LAst weeks top movie A Minecraft Movie falls to number 3 this weekend after a solid 4 weeks at the top having taken over £53 Million at the UK box office.

Sinners spends a third weekend at number 3 this weekend and has taken over £10 Million so far on its UK box office run.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th May 2025

• The movie remains at number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,870,959 over the weekend, a 23% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £10,618,274 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2025

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,267,360 over the weekend, a 49% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £53,303,536 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2025

• The movie goes up the chart to number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £331,788 over the weekend, a 41% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £1,154,894 over 2 weeks of release

Sequel movie and part of the extended DC Universe movies, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom has been given a 12A age rating in the UK for moderate violence, threat, injury detail, implied strong language.

Returning once again to play the title character is Jason Momoa who has previously appeared in Braven and Waterman, it also stars Patrick Wilson who has starred in the first Aquaman movie and Matters of the Heart.

Returning to direct again is James Wan who has also directed Stygian and The Conjuring 2 The Enfield Case to name a few.

Movie Synopsis

After failing to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta wields the power of the mythic Black Trident to unleash an ancient and malevolent force.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
• BBFC age rating: 12A Certificate
• Reason: moderate violence, threat, injury detail, implied strong language
• Release date: 22nd December 2023
• Runtime: 124 minutes (2 hours 4 minutes)
• The movie is being released into movie theatres
• Directed by:
  • James Wan
• Starring:
  • Jason Momoa
  • Patrick Wilson
  • Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

BBFC movie page

The animated smash hit video game adaptation The Super Mario Bros. Movie remains at the top of the UK box office for a third straight weekend.

The top new movie of the weekend is the horror movie Evil Dead Rise which makes its debut at number 2 while The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan is a new movie at number 10 with £161,609.

Event movie Coldplay - Music of the Spheres: Live At River Plate is also new at 12 with £145,544, Good: NT Live 2023 is new at 14 with £117,421 and finally How to Blow Up a Pipeline makes its debut at 15 with £85,685.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 21st - 23rd April 2023

The animated movie remains at number 1 this weekend with £4 Million which takes its total UK gross to £41.6 Million as the movie continues to do bug business at cinemas.

• The movie remains at number 1 on this weeks UK box office
• It has spent 3 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £4,271,315 over the weekend, a 44% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £41,605,147 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

Highest new movie of the weekend is the horrow movie sequel of sorts to The Evil Dead franchise which comes in at 2 with £1.4 Million.

The last Evil Dead movie, not counting the remake from 2013, came out in 1993.

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It grosses £1,477,840 over its debut weekend
• The movie is a sequel to Army of Darkness which took £210,888 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.

Falling to number 3 this week is the board game adaptation which has taken £11 Million in the UK so far.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £768,683 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £11,913,835 over 4 weeks of release
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023

Still hanging on to a top 5 place is the sequel movie to the John Wick series which has taken £15 Million to date.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £589,976 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £15,905,053 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum which took £9,587,828 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.

The Ben Affleck directed movie falls to number 5 this weekend with a gross of half a million on its 3rd weekend of release.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £516,224 over the weekend, a 29% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £3,653,838 over 3 weeks of release