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

It had all the cast reunited from the first Fast and Furious movie and this excited movie goers so much that not only did the film make over $600 million dollars worldwide and become a DVD/Blu-ray smash hit but it was the most pirated film in 2011 according to torrentfreak.com

Fast Five starring Vin Diesel was downloaded more than 9 million times, in second place was The Hangover Part II and in third place was Thor. The argument for Pirated movies has been a long and intense once, but all 3 of these films were big hits at the cinema with each one taking over or close to half a billion dollars in box office takings.

I'm not sure what this list tells us, I'll let you make up your own minds, cinema attendances were down this year but were in the middle of a world wide financial crisis, personally I think that on the whole people who will see the film in cinemas will do and then maybe down load the movie, people who download the movie and don't see it in cinemas would never anyway. This is an interesting list so for your pleasure take a look at the top 10 most downloaded films of 2011 and by all means let me know your thoughts.

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.

New Superman film shaping up nicely, new cast, director and direction

We all remember the 2006 Superman movie directed by Brian Singer and starring Brandon Routh, yes that's right it was rubbish. Now the franchise is in new hands it looks like director Zach Synder has got the right idea.

In an interview with Hero Complex the director is looking at the film as if there had been no film before it, yay, maybe Singer should have done the same.

Singer tried to do a sequel to the Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve film and on the whole it failed, now Synder is looking at doing a �reboot� of the franchise. I know this is a term which is bantered about a lot but this is one franchise, like Batman before it, that really needs to be looked at again, or left alone completely but that's a discussion for another day, the day after this Superman hit cinemas.

On board for the new film is British star of television series The Tudors Henry Cavill who will play the very American Superman, also on board is Kevin Costner and Diane Lane who will play Clark Kent's parents. It's also been rumoured that Viggo Mortensen will play General Zod in the film which goes a long way to revealing where the story will go.

Snyder is just wrapped Sucker Punch and is going into pre-production for The Man of Steel now with an expected release date of 2012.