Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 9th January 2026, there are 4 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Avatar: Fire and Ash from the top of the UK box office.

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.

• Hamnet
• Soulm8te
• Greenland 2: Migration
• Giant

Hamnet

• The movie is directed by Chloé Zhao, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Chloé Zhao also directed The Rider in 2018 which grossed £36.3 K in the UK.
• It stars Jessie Buckley who also starred in Misbehaviour (2020).
• The film also stars Paul Mescal who's last movie was Gladiator II (2024).
• They also appeared together in The Lost Daughter in 2021.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Soulm8te

• The movie is directed by Kate Dolan, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Kate Dolan also directed You Are Not My Mother in 2022 which grossed £10.4 K in the UK.
• It stars Valerie Hanna who also starred in A Grim Becoming (2014).
• The film also stars Claudia Doumit who's last movie was Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019).
• This movie is released on streaming platforms.

Greenland 2: Migration

• The movie is directed by Ric Roman Waugh, it is the directors 10th movie.
• Ric Roman Waugh also directed In the Shadows in 2001.
• It stars Gerard Butler who also starred in Fast Food (1999).
• The film also stars Morena Baccarin who's last movie was Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
• They also appeared together in Greenland in 2020.
• Ric Roman Waugh directed Gerard Butler in Angel Has Fallen, Greenland, and Kandahar
• Ric Roman Waugh directed Morena Baccarin in and Greenland
• This movie is released in movie theatres on limited release.

Giant

• The movie is directed by Rowan Athale, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Rowan Athale also directed The Rise in 2013 which grossed £1.5 K in the UK.
• It stars Pierce Brosnan who also starred in The Foreigner (2017).
• The film also stars Amir El-Masry who's last movie was Club Zero (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• 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 3 new movies released

• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - Wednesday, 14th January
• The Rip - Friday, 16th January
• Rental Family - Friday, 16th January

Check out the new trailer and poster for upcoming movie Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 which can seen in full if you scroll down this page.

Movie breakdown

• The movie is directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield
• It stars Scott Chambers (The Hippopotamus) and Ryan Oliva (Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2) among others.
• The movie also stars Tallulah Evans, Simon Callow and Eddy MacKenzie
• The release date in the UK is 14th February 2024
• While the North American release date is set for 26th March 2024

Synopsis for Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

A destructive rage grows as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, and Owl find their home and their lives endangered after Christopher Robin reveals their existence. Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, they decide to embark on a murderous rampage through the town of Ashdown and get their revenge on Christopher once and for all.

Check out the Salty Popcorn movie page for more information on this upcoming film.

Last weekend Fast X was at the top of the North American box office, there are 5 new releases this weekend, will any of them top the US box office this weekend?

Check out other new releases from around the world.

• The Little Mermaid
• Kandahar
• The Machine
• About My Father
• Exhibition On Screen: Tokyo Stories 2023

The Little Mermaid

• The movie is directed by Rob Marshall, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Rob Marshall also directed Mary Poppins Returns in 2018 which grossed $171.8 Mil. in the US and grossed $349.5 Mil. globally.
• It stars Halle Bailey who also starred in The Line (2023).
• The film also stars Jonah Hauer-King who was last seen in Once Upon a Time In Staten Island (2021).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Kandahar

• The movie is directed by Ric Roman Waugh, it is the directors 8th movie.
• Ric Roman Waugh also directed In the Shadows in 2001.
• It stars Gerard Butler who also starred in Hunter Killer (2018).
• The film also stars Ali Fazal who was last seen in Death On the Nile (2022).
• Ric Roman Waugh directed Gerard Butler in Greenland
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

The Machine

• The movie is directed by Peter Atencio, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Peter Atencio also directed Night of the Dog in 2005.
• It stars Mark Hamill who also starred in The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia (1981).
• The film also stars Martyn Ford who was last seen in Fast & Furious 9 (2021).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

About My Father

• The movie is from director Laura Terruso.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Robert De Niro who also starred in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000).
• The film also stars Leslie Bibb who was last seen in The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Exhibition On Screen: Tokyo Stories 2023

• The movie is directed by David Bickerstaff, it is the directors 14th movie.
• David Bickerstaff also directed Exhibition On Screen: Lucian Freud a Self Portrait 2020 in 2020.
• It stars who is making a feature film debut.
• The film also stars who is making a feature film debut.
• and have starred in 5 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Vacation Guide to the Solar System in , Fantastic Four in 2025, Superman: Legacy in 2025, The Lego Batman Movie 2 in and Paddington In Peru in .
• This movie is released in movie theatres.

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

Next week there are 7 new movies released

• Reality - Monday, 29th May - streaming
• Shin Kamen Rider - Wednesday, 31st May
• Hunted - Thursday, 1st June
• Lachrymose Primrose - Thursday, 1st June
• Montreal Girls - Friday, 2nd June
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Friday, 2nd June
• The Boogeyman - Friday, 2nd June

This weekend, Friday 8th July 2022, there are 2 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Minions: The Rise of Gru, for the number 1 spot?

Here are this weeks new releases

• Thor: Love and Thunder
• Brian and Charles

Thor: Love and Thunder

• The movie is directed by Taika Waititi, it is the directors 7th movie.
• Taika Waititi also directed What We Do In the Shadows in 2014 which grossed £127.8K in the UK.
• It stars Chris Hemsworth who also starred in Red Dawn (2013).
• The film also stars Natalie Portman who was last seen in Lucy In the Sky (2019).
• Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman have starred in 3 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Avengers: Endgame in 2019, Thor in 2011 and Thor: The Dark World in 2013.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Brian and Charles

• The movie is from director Jim Archer.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars David Earl who also starred in Cemetery Junction (2010).
• The film also stars Chris Hayward who was last seen in SOS: Save Our Skins (2014).
• 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 2 new movies released

• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - Friday, 15th July
• The Railway Children Return - Friday, 15th July

This week on DVD and Blu-ray the Ben Stiller starring franchise film Night At The Museum Secret of The Tomb makes it's debut of the top selling film of the week.

The film was released on the 19th December 2014 and made it's debut at number 3 in a busy week of the christmas period, it was on the chart for a total of 7 weeks.

During it's theatrical run in the UK it took £11 million in box office takings which is below either of it's predecessors in the series.

The film did however do well overseas and is the 243rd highest grossing film ever worldwide.

Last weeks top film, Paddington, which went back to the top for a week falls to number 2 this week.

Other new films on the video chart this week are: What We Do In The Shadows which is new at 6, Black Sea which is new at 10 and The Signal which is new at number 12.