Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 9th January 2026, there are 4 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Avatar: Fire and Ash from the top of the UK box office.

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

• Hamnet
• Soulm8te
• Greenland 2: Migration
• Giant

Hamnet

• The movie is directed by Chloé Zhao, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Chloé Zhao also directed The Rider in 2018 which grossed £36.3 K in the UK.
• It stars Jessie Buckley who also starred in Misbehaviour (2020).
• The film also stars Paul Mescal who's last movie was Gladiator II (2024).
• They also appeared together in The Lost Daughter in 2021.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Soulm8te

• The movie is directed by Kate Dolan, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Kate Dolan also directed You Are Not My Mother in 2022 which grossed £10.4 K in the UK.
• It stars Valerie Hanna who also starred in A Grim Becoming (2014).
• The film also stars Claudia Doumit who's last movie was Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019).
• This movie is released on streaming platforms.

Greenland 2: Migration

• The movie is directed by Ric Roman Waugh, it is the directors 10th movie.
• Ric Roman Waugh also directed In the Shadows in 2001.
• It stars Gerard Butler who also starred in Fast Food (1999).
• The film also stars Morena Baccarin who's last movie was Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
• They also appeared together in Greenland in 2020.
• Ric Roman Waugh directed Gerard Butler in Angel Has Fallen, Greenland, and Kandahar
• Ric Roman Waugh directed Morena Baccarin in and Greenland
• This movie is released in movie theatres on limited release.

Giant

• The movie is directed by Rowan Athale, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Rowan Athale also directed The Rise in 2013 which grossed £1.5 K in the UK.
• It stars Pierce Brosnan who also starred in The Foreigner (2017).
• The film also stars Amir El-Masry who's last movie was Club Zero (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

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

Next week there are 3 new movies released

• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - Wednesday, 14th January
• The Rip - Friday, 16th January
• Rental Family - Friday, 16th January