Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 8th October 2021, there are 2 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace No Time to Die from the top of the UK box office.

Here are this weeks new releases

• The Addams Family 2
• Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle

The Addams Family 2

• The movie is directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon, it is the directors 5th movie.
• Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon also directed Sausage Party in 2016 which grossed £7.6 Mil. in the UK and grossed $140.7 Mil. globally.
• It stars Oscar Isaac who also starred in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
• The film also stars Charlize Theron who last appeared in Fast & Furious 9 (2021).
• They also appeared together in The Addams Family (2019).

Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle

• The movie is directed by Tetsuo Yajima, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Tetsuo Yajima also directed Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us in 2018 which grossed £177.8K in the UK and grossed $23.7 Mil. globally.
• It stars James Carter Cathcart who also starred in Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution (2019).
• The film also stars Megumi Hayashibara who last appeared in Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet (2021).
• James Carter Cathcart and Megumi Hayashibara have starred in 3 movies together.
• They also appeared together in Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - Evolution (2019).

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

• Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Wednesday, 13th October
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Friday, 15th October
• The Last Duel, Friday, 15th October
• Halloween Kills, Friday, 15th October
• Ron's Gone Wrong, Friday, 15th October
• Ear For Eye, Saturday, 16th October