This weekend, Friday 11th August 2023, there are 6 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Barbie, for the number 1 spot?

Check out other new releases from around the world.

• Haunted Mansion
• Gran Turismo
• L'immensità
• The Last Voyage of Demeter
• Heart of Stone
• Marry My Dead Body

Haunted Mansion

• The movie is directed by Justin Simien, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Justin Simien also directed Dear White People in 2014 which grossed £10.1K in the UK.
• It stars LaKeith Stanfield who also starred in The Photograph (2020).
• The film also stars Tiffany Haddish who was last seen in Back On the Strip (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Gran Turismo

• The movie is directed by Neill Blomkamp, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Neill Blomkamp also directed Elysium in 2013 which grossed £8.7 Mil. in the UK and grossed $286.1 Mil. globally.
• It stars David Harbour who also starred in Tilda (2011).
• The film also stars Orlando Bloom who was last seen in Needle In a Timestack (2021).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

L'immensità

• The movie is directed by Emanuele Crialese, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Emanuele Crialese also directed Golden Door in 2006 which grossed £156.8K in the UK.
• It stars Penélope Cruz who also starred in The Girl of Your Dreams (1998).
• The film also stars Vincenzo Amato who was last seen in Red Notice (2021).
• Emanuele Crialese directed Vincenzo Amato in Golden Door
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Last Voyage of Demeter

• The movie is directed by André Øvredal, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• André Øvredal also directed Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark in 2019 which grossed £2.1 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Corey Hawkins who also starred in The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
• The film also stars Aisling Franciosi who was last seen in God's Creatures (2022).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.

Heart of Stone

• The movie is directed by Tom Harper, it is the directors 8th movie.
• Tom Harper also directed The Aeronauts in 2019 which grossed £1.8 Mil. in the UK and grossed $3.5 Mil. globally.
• It stars Gal Gadot who also starred in Criminal (2016).
• The film also stars Matthias Schweighofer who was last seen in Oppenheimer (2023).
• This movie is released on streaming platforms.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Marry My Dead Body

• The movie is directed by Wei-Hao Cheng, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Wei-Hao Cheng also directed Who Killed Cock Robin? in 2017.
• It stars Greg Han Hsu who also starred in Behind the Blue Eyes (2023).
• The film also stars Po-Hung Lin who was last seen in Day Off (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 3 new movies released

• Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback - Wednesday, 16th August - streaming
• Blue Beetle - Friday, 18th August
• Strays - Friday, 18th August

Legendary have today officially announced that the Denis Villeneuve directed Dune will get a sequel, currently called Dune Part Two.

This is only the beginning... - - Thank you to those who have experienced @dunemovie so far, and those who are going in the days and weeks ahead. We're excited to continue the journey! pic.twitter.com/mZj68Hnm0A

— Legendary (@Legendary) October 26, 2021

Dune hit UK and US cinemas this weekend and has hit the top spot on both box office charts on its debut, in the UK it took nearly £6 Million while in the US it took over $40 Million.

A sequel has been touted for a while and with the success in cinemas, and no doubt its success on the HBO Max streaming service a sequel became inevitable.

The movie has been out globally for some time and has to date taken over $220 Million.

No release date has been given yet but a 2023 release is most likely. Legendary have given a very quick teaser image though.

With the sad passing of legendary 80's movie director John Hughes this week I find myself for the second time in a couple of months reflecting on my childhood, I grew up watching John Hughes movies as I did listening to Michael Jackson music.

John Hughes was a director and writer who was tapped directly into the teenage angst of the 1980/90, like almost no other writer of the time, he demonstrated on screen and in words exactly what the teens at the time were thinking and trying to tell their parents.

It doesn't matter if it was Ferris Bueller's rebelling against the school and deciding to have a day off in Ferris Buellers Day Off, or 5 kids stuck in detention for the crime of simply growing up in The Breakfast Club, the anguish a young person can go through when the object of their affection fancies someone else in Some Kind Of Wonderful or Pretty in Pink, these movies spoke to us and often spoke for us.

My personal favourite film of his is The Breakfast Club, as with all his films it has what is now considered a typical movies 80s soundtrack, but the moment you see Judd Nelson punch the air and hear Simple Minds chant "hey hey hey" you know it's an iconic figure that will last.

Weird Science and Ferris Buellers Day Off are further examples of classic teen movies much loved by the kids of the generation directed and written by Hughes himself, but it's the films he attached his name to as producer or writer which further show proof of his genuine understanding of the teen psyche.

Although it's been nearly 20 years since his name was really in the spotlight with a big movie his legendary status has survived and he will be sorely missed.