Last weekend The Garfield Movie 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.

Here are this weeks new releases

• Bad Boys: Ride Or Die
• Late Bloomers
• The Watched
• Hit Man
• Am I OK?

Bad Boys: Ride Or Die

• The movie is directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah also directed Black in 2016.
• It stars Will Smith who also starred in Emancipation (2022).
• The film also stars Martin Lawrence who's last movie was Bad Boys For Life (2020).
• Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have starred in 3 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Bad Boys II in 2003, Bad Boys in 1995 and Bad Boys For Life in 2020.
• Adil El Arbi directed Will Smith in Bad Boys For Life
• Adil El Arbi directed Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys For Life
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Late Bloomers

• The movie is from director Lisa Steen.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Karen Gillan who also starred in The Party's Just Beginning (2019).
• The film also stars Malgorzata Zajaczkowska who's last movie was Zacma (2017).
• This movie is released in movie theatres on limited release.

The Watched

• The movie is from director Ishana Shyamalan.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Dakota Fanning who also starred in War of the Worlds (2005).
• The film also stars Georgina Campbell who's last movie was T I M (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The MPAA age rating is

Hit Man

• The movie is directed by Richard Linklater, it is the directors 25th movie.
• Richard Linklater also directed Waking Life in 2001.
• It stars Glen Powell who also starred in The Wendell Baker Story (2005).
• The film also stars Adria Arjona who's last movie was The Absence of Eden (2024).
• Richard Linklater directed Glen Powell in Everybody Wants Some!!
• This movie is released in movie theatres on limited release.
• The MPAA age rating is

Am I OK?

• The movie is from director Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Dakota Johnson who also starred in The High Note (2020).
• The film also stars Sonoya Mizuno who's last movie was Civil War (2024).
• This movie is released on streaming platforms.
• The MPAA age rating is

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

Next week there are 5 new movies released

• Bad Boys 4 - Friday, 14th June
• Firebrand - Friday, 14th June
• Tiger Stripes - Friday, 14th June
• Inside Out 2 - Friday, 14th June
• Treasure - Friday, 14th June

Released in the UK this weekend, Friday, 7th June 2024, there are 5 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace IF from the top of the UK box office.

Check out other new releases from around the world.

Here are this weeks new releases

• Bad Boys: Ride Or Die
• The Dead Don't Hurt
• Deep Sea
• The Watched
• Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Bad Boys: Ride Or Die

• The movie is directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, it is the directors 6th movie.
• Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah also directed Image in 2014.
• It stars Will Smith who also starred in Hitch (2005).
• The film also stars Martin Lawrence who's last movie was Bad Boys For Life (2020).
• Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have starred in 3 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Bad Boys II in 2003, Bad Boys in 1995 and Bad Boys For Life in 2020.
• Adil El Arbi directed Will Smith in Bad Boys For Life
• Adil El Arbi directed Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys For Life
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Dead Don't Hurt

• The movie is directed by Viggo Mortensen, it is the directors 2nd movie.
• Viggo Mortensen also directed Falling in 2020 which grossed £8.8K in the UK.
• It stars Vicky Krieps who also starred in More Than Ever (2022).
• The film also stars Viggo Mortensen who's last movie was Eureka (2024).
• Viggo Mortensen directed Viggo Mortensen in Falling
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Deep Sea

• The movie is from director Xiaopeng Tian and Fabiola Stevenson.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Tingwen Wang who is making a feature film debut.
• The film also stars Su Xin who is making a feature film debut.
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

The Watched

• The movie is from director Ishana Shyamalan.
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Dakota Fanning who also starred in Dreamer: Inspirede By a True Story (2005).
• The film also stars Georgina Campbell who's last movie was T I M (2023).
• This movie is released in movie theatres.
• The BBFC UK age rating is

Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

• The movie is directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, it is the directors 4th movie.
• Rhys Frake-Waterfield also directed Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey in 2023 which grossed £24.6K in the UK.
• It stars Scott Chambers who also starred in Patrick (2018).
• The film also stars Tallulah Evans who's last movie was The Watcher In the Woods (2017).
• 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 4 new movies released

• Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire - Friday, 17th May
• Sasquatch Sunset - Friday, 14th June
• Freud's Last Session - Friday, 14th June
• Inside Out 2 - Friday, 14th June

The company was started in the US in 1997 specialising in mailing DVD's to it's customers rather than having them go to a Video Shop to rent them, utilising the internet it revolutionised the industry and was the first nail in the Blockbuster coffin. Today the company still deals with mail order but also does big business with streaming video, and from today the service has come to Britain, over 10 years later!

Does the UK need Netflix? LoveFilm has no strong competition, so in the mail order sector, but streaming/downloaded video, maybe not. I can stream films from my PS3, my Xbox 360, my iTunes account, my Apple TV (OK technically thats through iTunes as well), my TV itself, even Blockbuster if I so choose, so Netflix I think is 10 years late.

So why launch Netflix now? It has the brand recognition, despite it being US only many many UK people know the name, in fact many probably thought the service was already available in the UK. Netflix are also a massive company making billions of dollars a year, expansion was only a matter of time.

I remember working for the biggest video rental company in Britain many years ago, the company was called Ritz Video Film Hire, Blockbuster Video had been trying to crack the UK for a couple of years, they were a massive American company at the time and thought they could bring the American business model to the UK, it didn't work and Blockbuster Video was failing, so what did they do? They bought Ritz Video Film Hire and overnight the staff who had grown to hate Blockbuster were suddenly working for them, I know LoveFilm is owned by Amazon.co.uk but I can seriously see them selling to Netflix sometime down the line.

At the end of the day as long as the customer wins who cares? Already LoveFilm have reduced their prices by a pound, but LoveFilm don't offer HD yet, Netflix had that advantage for the extra pound. I'm going to sound off now, I know these services are good value, £4.99 or £5.99 for unlimited streaming films is very good, but, this thing that annoys me is they don't have the latest releases, I want to see film when they are out on DVD/Blu-ray, not weeks later, I'd even pay a pound or 2 extra so i could stream Breaking Dawn Part 1 from the day it's released, I wont get that yet with Netflix or LoveFilm, for that I'd need to stick iTunes, PS3 etc.

I'm sure these services will get there, and for rental at least the future is in digital distribution, but for me Netflix isn't there yet, but still it is a welcome addition that I may use when they get same day as disk releases.