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

Here are this weeks new releases

• Smile
• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
• Hocus Pocus 2
• Flux Gourmet
• The Greatest Beer Run Ever
• Blonde

Smile

• The movie is from director Parker Finn.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Sosie Bacon who also starred in Charlie Says (2018).
• The film also stars Kyle Gallner who was last seen in Scream (2022).
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

• The movie is directed by Anthony Fabian, it is the directors 4th movie.
• Anthony Fabian also directed Louder Than Words in 2013.
• It stars Lesley Manville who also starred in High Hopes (1988).
• The film also stars Isabelle Huppert who was last seen in Frankie (2021).
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Hocus Pocus 2

• The movie is directed by Anne Fletcher, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Anne Fletcher also directed 27 Dresses in 2008 which grossed £6.3 Mil. in the UK and grossed $162.7 Mil. globally.
• It stars Bette Midler who also starred in The Magic 7 (2009).
• The film also stars Kathy Najimy who was last seen in Dumplin' (2018).
• Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy have starred in 2 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Hocus Pocus in 1993 and Jackie's Back! in 1999.

Flux Gourmet

• The movie is directed by Peter Strickland, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Peter Strickland also directed The Film That Buys the Cinema in 2014.
• It stars Harry Alexander who is making a feature film debut.
• The film also stars Paolo Bafico who was last seen in Asylum (2005).
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

• The movie is directed by Peter Farrelly, it is the directors 15th movie.
• Peter Farrelly also directed Green Book in 2019 which grossed £9.8 Mil. in the UK and grossed $326.8 Mil. globally.
• It stars Zac Efron who also starred in High School Musical (2006).
• The film also stars Russell Crowe who was last seen in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Blonde

• The movie is directed by Andrew Dominik, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Andrew Dominik also directed One More Time With Feeling in 2016.
• It stars Ana de Armas who also starred in No Time To Die (2021).
• The film also stars Lucy DeVito who was last seen in Dumbo (2019).
• 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 6 new movies released

• The Estate - Thursday, 6th October
• Fireheart - Friday, 7th October
• The Woman King - Friday, 7th October
• Vengeance - Friday, 7th October
• Amsterdam - Friday, 7th October
• The Lost King - Friday, 7th October

New comedy The Greatest Beer Run Ever from Apple Studios is given a 12A age rating in the UK for infrequent strong language, moderate violence, injury detail, drug misuse

It stars Zac Efron who is most famous for Disneys High School Musical and its 2 sequels but has more recently starred in The Greatest Showman and lent his voice to Scoob, it also stars Russell Crowe who has starred in many high profile movies including Thor: Love and Thunder and The Mummy (2017).

The movie is directed by Peter Farrelly who directed the Oscar minning movie Green Book and Dumb and Dumber back in 1995.

Movie Synopsis

In 1967, John "Chickie" Donohue leaves New York to track down his army buddies in Vietnam and share a few beers with them, but instead is confronted with the horrors of the war.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

• Title: The Greatest Beer Run Ever
• BBFC age rating: 12A Certificate
• Reason: infrequent strong language, moderate violence, injury detail, drug misuse
• Release date: 30th September 2022
• Runtime: 127 minutes (2 hour 07 minutes)
• Directed by:
  • Peter Farrelly
• Starring:
  • Zac Efron
  • Russell Crowe
  • Bill Murray

BBFC movie page

After 2 very successful junior years of its life happily pleasing kids on the small screen the over hyped machine know as High School Musical is this years film, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, is graduating to the big screen and getting a theatrical release, and probably bigger budget, before TV or DVD.

Disney probably didn't see this coming (or did they?) when a couple of year ago they decided to basically remake the phenomenally successful Grease for a modern day audience. It's not a direct remake, but between the 3 films there will be the essence of the Grease story in there, hidden but evident.

This isn't a bad thing of course I'm a huge fan of Grease and having an 8 year old daughter who is more than a little bit of a HSM fan I've had the "fortune" of sitting through both movies a number of times, and to be fair they are not that bad, it's good story telling with likeable characters and half decent acting, I'd rather have her watching his than a lot of the other things on telly

The trailer for the 3rd movie has just gone up at disney.co.uk, and it looks like it's more of the same, good or bad? Who knows, but it's safe to say the hype starts here.

Not sure if sleeper hits exist these days, but if they are then this sure as hell is one, Mamma Mia! is a film adaptation of a stage show and it has becomes the biggest film of the year in the UK.

With a gross of £69,130,014 it out grossed the number 2 film by nearly £20 million. Even more remarkable is that Mamma Mia! has now become the biggest film in the UK, topping Titanic's 10 year reign.

Sliding nicely into the runner up spot for the year is the Bond film Quantum of Solace with a UK gross of £50,405,045. Although a good gross the studio may see this as a little disappointing as the last Bond film, Casino Royale, tool £5 million more.

Third on the list is The Dark Knight with £48,685,166, many thought this might have come out on top, but clearly few realised the power of the chick flick during the year.

All three of the top films of the year are in fact still showing in cinemas across the country, despite 2 of them being available on DVD/Blu-ray already.

The rest of the top films of the year are filled by the like of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull at 4, Sex and the City: The Movie at 5, High School Musical 3 at 7 and Wall-E at 8.

Check out the full list here.