This weekend, Friday 1st August 2025, there are 4 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, for the number 1 spot?

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 Naked Gun~2025
• 40 Acres
• Together
• My Oxford Year

The Naked Gun

• The movie is directed by Akiva Schaffer, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Akiva Schaffer also directed Hot Rod in 2007 which grossed £44.2 K in the UK and grossed $14.4 Mil. globally.
• It stars Liam Neeson who also starred in Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017).
• The film also stars Pamela Anderson who's last movie was The Last Showgirl (2024).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

40 Acres

• The movie is from director R.T. Thorne.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Danielle Deadwyler who also starred in I Saw the TV Glow (2024).
• The film also stars Kataem O'Connor who's last movie was 1UP (2022).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.

Together

• The movie is from director Michael Shanks.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Dave Franco who also starred in Bad Meat (2011).
• The film also stars Alison Brie who's last movie was Somebody I Used to Know (2023).
• Dave Franco and Alison Brie have starred in 3 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in The Disaster Artist in 2017, The Lego Movie in 2014 and The Little Hours in 2017.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

My Oxford Year

• The movie is directed by Iain Morris, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Iain Morris also directed The Inbetweeners 2 in 2014 which grossed £33.4 Mil. in the UK and grossed $63.9 Mil. globally.
• It stars Sofia Carson who also starred in A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits (2016).
• This movie is released on streaming platforms.

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

• Freakier Friday - Friday, 8th August
• Weapons - Friday, 8th August

Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 23rd October 2020, there are 10 new releases looking to take your attention and where available get you into your local cinema to try and knock Tenet from the top of the UK box office after a 7 week run.

The Secret Garden

• The movie is directed by Marc Munden
• Marc Munden also directed Miranda in 2002.
• It stars Colin Firth who last starred in 1917 (2020).
• The film also stars Julie Walters who last appeared in The Queens Corgi (2019).
• Colin Firth and Julie Walters appeared in We Know Where You Live (2001) together.

Honest Thief

• This new release stars Liam Neeson who's last film was Made In Italy (2020)
• It also stars Kate Walsh who appeared in Ideal Home (2018).
• Liam Neeson and Kate Walsh appeared in Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House (2018) together.
• The film is brought to us by 2 time director Mark Williams.

Summer of 85

• The movie is directed by François Ozon and is their directorial debut.
• It stars Felix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin.

Rebecca

• Also this week there is Rebecca from director Ben Wheatley who also directed Free Fire in 2017.
• The film features Lily James and Jacques Bouanich in starring roles.

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

• The long list of new releases continues with Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery Of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan which is directed by Jason Woliner which is a directorial debut.
• It stars Sacha Baron Cohen and Irina Novak.

Max Winslow and the House of Secrets

• Max Winslow And The House Of Secrets from director Sean Olson who also directed The Contractor in 2013.
• The film stars Tanner Buchanan and Chad Michael Murray.

Pixie

• This new release stars Olivia Cooke who's last film was Life Itself (2019)
• It also stars Ben Hardy who appeared in 6 Underground (2019).
• The film is brought to us by new director Mark Williams.

A Call to Spy

• The movie is directed by François Ozon and is their directorial debut.
• It stars Sarah Megan Thomas and Stana Katic.

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

Next weeks there are 6 new movies

• The Witches, Monday, 26th October
• The Craft Legacy, Wednesday, 28th October
• Malibu Road, Wednesday, 28th October
• Relic, Friday, 30th October
• The Courier, Friday, 30th October
• The Burnt Orange Heresy, Friday, 30th October