Released in the US this weekend, Friday, 21st February 2025, there are 4 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace Captain America: Brave New World from the top of the North American 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.

• The Monkey
• Cleaner
• The Unbreakable Boy
• Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants

The Monkey

• The movie is directed by Osgood Perkins, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Osgood Perkins also directed Gretel and Hansel in 2020.
• It stars Theo James who also starred in Mr. Malcolms List (2022).
• The film also stars Tatiana Maslany who's last movie was Butterfly Tale (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Cleaner

• The movie is directed by Martin Campbell, it is the directors 21st movie.
• Martin Campbell also directed The Protégé in 2021.
• It stars Daisy Ridley who also starred in Young Woman and the Sea (2024).
• The film also stars Clive Owen who's last movie was Lui (2021).
• They also appeared together in Ophelia in 2019.
• Martin Campbell directed Clive Owen in and Beyond Borders
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

The Unbreakable Boy

• The movie is directed by Jon Gunn, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Jon Gunn also directed The Week in 2015.
• It stars Zachary Levi who also starred in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023).
• The film also stars Meghann Fahy who's last movie was Your Monster (2024).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants

• The movie is directed by Hark Tsui, it is the directors 13th movie.
• Hark Tsui also directed Knock Off in 1998.
• It stars Zhan Xiao who also starred in The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero (2025).
• The film also stars Dafei Zhuang who's last movie was Johnny Keep Walking! (2023).
• They also appeared together in The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero in 2025.
• This movie is released in movie theatres on limited release.

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

• A Complete Unknown - Wednesday, 25th December - streaming
• Last Breath - Friday, 28th February
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie - Friday, 28th February
• Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX: Beginning - Friday, 28th February
• Operation Hadal - Friday, 28th February
• Vicious - Friday, 28th February

The sequel to the 2018 animated, Oscar Winning, Spider-Man: Inside the Spider-Verse easily makes its UK box office debut at the top with a £9.3 Million gross.

The movie knock off Disney's The Little Mermaid~2023 after a single weekend at the top, despite the fact that the live action movie took a very slim 16% fall from its debut last weekend.

The Little Mermaid~2023 itself takes £4.2 Million on its decond weekend of release for a nice £16.2 Million total.

Also new this weekend is the Stephen King written The Boogeyman which makes its debut at number 5 with a gross of £492,070.

A pair of event movie make their debuts at 7 and 8 with Suga/Agust D Tour: D-Day in Japan - Live Viewing opening with a gross of £119,464 and Die Zauberflote: Met Opera 2023 with £104,668 on its debut.

As few more new entries make up the top 15 in the shape of Reality~2023 at 9 with £62,987, Indian movie Zara Hatke Zara Bachke at 10 with £56,925 and finally The Machine~2023 at 14 with £36,377.

The British half term holiday has given Mummies a re-entry at 15 this weekend.

UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th June 2023

Highest new movie this weekend

• The movie is the Highest debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
• It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
• It grosses £9,317,300 over its debut weekend
• It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of June
• The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which took £2,279,995 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 2 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £4,200,000 over the weekend, a 16% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £16,200,000 over 2 weeks of release
• The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2023

• The movie goes down the chart to number 3 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £1,104,303 over the weekend, a 51% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £13,295,382 over 3 weeks of release
• The movie is the 10th top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Fast & Furious 9 which took £13,064,613 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie goes down the chart to number 4 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £994,000 over the weekend, a 38% drop from last weekend
• It has a total gross of £34,600,000 over 5 weeks of release
• The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2023
• The movie is a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 which took £37,819,438 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.

• The movie is a new entry at number 5 on this weeks UK box office
• It grosses £493,000 over its debut weekend

Although the anticipation for the new Disney film Moana is quite high its not enough to knock off the three time champion Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Fantastic Beast stays put at the top of the Uk box office for its third straight week with an amazing weekend gross of £4.4 million, this brings the films total gross to £37.8 million.

There should be one more weekend at the top for Beast before the Galaxy Far Far Away comes blasting in, but that should be enough to cement the film as one of the years top films.

The film still has a way to go before beating the lowest grossing Potter film which was 2004's Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban which made £45.6 million.

Highest new film of the week then come in at 2, Moana from Disney makes £2.2 million on its UK debut.

Compared to Frozen from Disney which came out at the same time of year in 2013 this is half its debut gross of £4.7 million hence we probably wont see this scaling those heights.

Also new this week is Sully at number 3 with £1.7 million, Pitbull. Niebezpieczne Kobiety at number 5 with £0.4 million, The Edge of Seventeen at 9 with £0.27 million and Bleed For This at number 10 with £0.25 million.

Highest total grossing movie this week is Fantastic beasts and longest run on the box office is Trolls which has been around now for 7 weeks.

Historical Charts

A year ago - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 stayed at the top for a third weekend while the top new film was Christmas With The Coopers at number 5.

Five years ago - Arthur Christmas went to the top of the box office for the first time on its fourth week of release while Happy Feet Two was the top new film.

Ten years ago - Bond stayed at the top for a third week in Casino Royale while the top new film was Flushed Away at number 2.

Fifteen years ago - Spending a third week at the top was Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone while top new film was Zoolander at number 2.

Twenty years ago - The Long Kiss Goodnight was at the top on its debut weekend, it knocked The First Wives Club down to number 2.

Twenty five years ago - Point Break made it 2 weeks at the top while top new film was Hot Shots! at number 3.