This weekend, Friday 19th July 2019, there are 3 new films released in the UK looking to hit the box office, but can it challenge Spider-Man: Far From Home for the top spot?

The Lion King

First up at cinemas this week is the live action version of The Lion King from Disney, a Dramatic movie directed by Jon Favreau who also directed Chef in 2014 which grossed £1.5 Million.

It stars Donald Glover who last starred in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and Seth Rogen who last appeared in Long Shot (2019).

Tell It To The Bees

Next on the new release schedule is Tell It To The Bees, this new Romance stars Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger.

The film is brought to us by new director Annabel Jankel.

The Wedding Guest

Next up this week is The Wedding Guest which is directed by Michael Winterbottom who directed Go Now in 1995.

It stars Dev Patel and Radhika Apte.

Check back on Monday to see where these films end up on the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Come back next week when there are 3 new releases hitting cinemas. -

• The Current War is out Friday, 26th July
• Horrible Histories: The Movie gets released on Friday, 26th July
• The Intruder you can see from Friday, 26th July

Only a month to go now until the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story and today we get a full length trailer.

Its time to get excited because suddenly this film looks good, and as well as a Solo story it looks like its a Chewie story and a Millennium Falcon story.

The film will be shown at Cannes this year then to the world on May 25th, watch the trailer below.

For many fans The Lord of the Rings is the greatest trilogy of films ever and when Peter Jackson announced that we would not direct the prequel, The Hobbit, the fan based moaned, then he announced that Guillermo del Toro would be directing and the fans cheered, then the series lost del Toro and the fans are sad again.

What's happened? It seems because of the legal problems with the rights to the film with MGM and Warner it's taken so long to get the ball rolling on the film del Toro has simply run out of time and had to leave.

Jackson and his staff are naturally all on board still and fighting to get the film made but the loss of the director is a massive blow, del Toro's films like Hellboy and Pans Labyrinth have proved that the director is more than capable of handling the film and in actual fact would have given the production the perfect style to accompany Jacksons originals.

Where will the films go now? Who knows, Sam Rami has been connected, will be interesting to see where it goes with him, Spidey trilogy shows he can miss on occasions but Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell can show he has style, but maybe, just maybe Jackson will take the helm himself.

This is a big blow for the production and puts things on rocky ground; del Toro will still help with the script, which is something. Let hope a director can be found who can deliver, Neill Blomkamp anyone?

Not long to go now before the new Harry Potter and the Half Blood prince hits cinemas and today MSN have an exclusive one a number of character poster.

All the main characters have their poser posters present and correct from Harry himself, though Dumbledore to Snape.

The sixth film in the series it has ben delayed from a Christmas 2008 release to a summer 2009 release, so Warner have had plenty of time to get this film right which is out on 17th July.

Check out the posters at MSN.com