This weekend, Friday 14th January 2022, there are 3 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home, for the number 1 spot?

Here are this weeks new releases

• Scream
• Embrace Again
• Save the Cinema

Scream

• The movie is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett also directed Devil's Due in 2014 which grossed £1.8 Mil. in the UK.
• It stars Neve Campbell who also starred in Drowning Mona (2000).
• The film also stars Courteney Cox who last appeared in Friends 25th: The One With the Anniversary (2019).
• Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox have starred in 4 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Scream 2 (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Scream (1996) and Scream 4 (2011).
• UK box office prediction: Number 1

Embrace Again

• The movie is directed by Xiaolu Xue, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Xiaolu Xue also directed My People, My Country in 2019 which grossed £135.3K in the UK and grossed $450.1 Mil. globally.
• It stars Bo Huang who also starred in Crazy Alien (2019).
• The film also stars Ling Jia who last appeared in Hi, Mom (2021).
• They also appeared together in My People, My Homeland (2020).

Save the Cinema

• The movie is directed by Sara Sugarman, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Sara Sugarman also directed Very Annie Mary in 2001.
• It stars Samantha Morton who also starred in John Carter (2012).
• The film also stars Tom Felton who last appeared in Braking For Whales (2019).
• UK box office prediction: Number 8

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

• Belfast, Friday, 21st January
• Nightmare Alley, Friday, 21st January
• A Journal For Jordan, Friday, 21st January

The Scream franchise is back and the new movie has been given an 18 age rating by the BBFC for showing in UK cinemas.

The movie has most of the original stars return to the franchise, Neve Campbell is back once more as Sidney Prescott and Courteney Cox reprises her role of reporter Gale Riley, Gale Weathers from the original movie.

The movie is co-directed byMatt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett who both have a good pedigree in the horror genre with films like Devil's Due and V/H/S.

Movie Synopsis

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, Calif., a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: Scream
• BBFC age rating: 18 Certificate
• Reason: strong bloody violence
• Release date: 14th January 2022
• Runtime: 114m (1 hour 44 minutes)
• Director:
  • Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
  • Tyler Gillett
• Starring:
  • Neve Campbell
  • Courteney Cox
  • David Arquette

BBFC movie page