With Moana 2 currently at the top of the UK box office can this weeks new cinema releases challlenge it for the UK box office crown?

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.

• Kraven the Hunter
• Queer
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
• Carry-On

Kraven the Hunter

• The movie is directed by J.C. Chandor, it is the directors 5th movie.
• J.C. Chandor also directed All Is Lost in 2013 which grossed £231.6K in the UK.
• It stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson who also starred in The Illusionist (2006).
• The film also stars Russell Crowe who's last movie was The Exorcism (2024).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Queer

• The movie is directed by Luca Guadagnino, it is the directors 8th movie.
• Luca Guadagnino also directed Call Me By Your Name. in 2017 which grossed £1.2 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Daniel Craig who also starred in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

• The movie is directed by Kenji Kamiyama, it is the directors 4th movie.
• Kenji Kamiyama also directed Napping Princess in 2017 which grossed £34K in the UK.
• It stars Brian Cox who also starred in The Campaign (2012).
• The film also stars Luke Pasqualino who's last movie was Medusa Deluxe (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Carry-On

• The movie is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, it is the directors 11th movie.
• Jaume Collet-Serra also directed Orphan in 2009 which grossed £2.1 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Taron Egerton who also starred in Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015).
• The film also stars Jason Bateman who's last movie was Air (2023).
• This movie is released on streaming platforms.

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

Next week there are 2 new movies released

• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl - Wednesday, 18th December
• Mufasa: The Lion King - Friday, 20th December

The new movie from celebrated director M. Night Shyamalan, Knock at the Cabin, is given a 15 age rating in the UK for strong threat, violence, language, suicide

The movie stars Dave Bautista who is most famous for playing Drax in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and was seen in last year hit movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, it also stars Jonathan Groff from the Frozen~2013 movies and Hamilton.

Director M. Night Shyamalan is most famous for his genre bending movie The Sixth Sense but is also known for Lady in the Water and The Village.

Movie Synopsis

While vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand they make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. Confused, scared and with limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: Knock at the Cabin
• BBFC age rating: 15 Certificate
• Reason: strong threat, violence, language, suicide
• Release date: 3rd February 2023
• Runtime: 100 minutes (1 hour 40 minutes)
• The movie is being released into movie theatres
• Directed by:
  • M. Night Shyamalan
• Starring:
  • Dave Bautista
  • Jonathan Groff
  • Ben Aldridge

BBFC movie page

Frozen releases its grip on the Blu-ray/DVD charts this week to allow Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues to enter the chart at the top on its debut week of release.

Anchorman 2 which stars Will Farrell was, after much hype, released at the box office on 20th December last year, not performing as well as expected the film entered the box office at 2, behind The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, with a £4.5 million weekend gross. It spent 5 weeks on the chart taking £14 million in UK grosses.

Last week's top film, Frozen, falls just a single place to 2 this week.

Other new releases this week are - American Hustle (3) - Mandela Long Walk to Freedom (5) - All Is Lost (11)