Last weekend saw Spider-Man: No Way Home at the top of the UK box office, with 4 new releases can any of them do enough to top the box office chart this weekend?

Here are this weeks new releases

• Licorice Pizza
• Malibu Road
• The Humans
• The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Licorice Pizza

• The movie is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, it is the directors 9th movie.
• Paul Thomas Anderson also directed Punch Drunk Love in 2003 which grossed £322.9K in the UK.
• It stars Alana Haim who is making a feature film debut.
• The film also stars Cooper Hoffman who is making a feature film debut.
• Box Office Prediction: 5

Malibu Road

• The movie is from director Montgomery Markland
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Jessica Jade Andres who is making a feature film debut.
• The film also stars Benita Robledo who last appeared in Lets Be Cops (2014).

The Humans

• The movie is from director Stephen Karam
• This movie is a directorial debut.
• It stars Richard Jenkins who also starred in Turbo (2013).
• The film also stars Jayne Houdyshell who last appeared in Little Women (2019).
• They also appeared together in Changing Lanes (2002).

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

• The movie is directed by Will Sharpe, it is the directors 3rd movie.
• Will Sharpe also directed The Darkest Universe in 2016 which grossed £2.3K in the UK.
• It stars Benedict Cumberbatch who also starred in The Fifth Estate (2013).
• The film also stars Claire Foy who last appeared in Louis Wain (2021).
• Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy have starred in 2 other movies together.
• They also appeared together in Wreckers (2011) and Louis Wain (2021).

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

Next week there is 1 new movie

• The 355 - Friday, 7th January

Gone Girl gives up it's reign at the top of the box office this week allowing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to debut at the top.

Reboots being the name of the game, Michael Bay produces a new take on the Turtles story of which the first film was released back in 1990.

Directed by Jonathan Liebesman and starring Megan Fox the new spin makes £4.7 million on it's opening weekend, there is no data for the opening weekend of the 1990 version, but an animated version came out in 2007 called TMNT which tool just less than a million pond on it's debut.

Gone Girl is still doing very well at the box office and this weeks falls into second place with a weekend gross of £2.3 million pound to bring it's total gross in the UK to £14.2 million which places it between Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Terminator Salvation as the top UK films.

Other new film at the UK are The Best of Me at 5, The Judge (a little disappointingly) at 9 and Northern Soul at 10, event feature The Metropolitan Opera Le Nozze Di Figaro 2014 is at 11.

Historical charts.

One year ago - Last year animated film Turbo was debuting a the top of the box office knocking Prisoners right down to fourth with Captain Phillips and Escape Plan also debuting in second and third.

Five years ago - Up remained at the top for another week while Couples Retreat was the highest new film debuting at two.

Ten years ago - Shark Tale made it's debut at the top of the box office knocking the previous number one, Bride and Prejudice down to fourth.

Fifteen years ago - Deep Blue Sea made a debut at the top of the box office chart meaning that American Pie took a tumble into second place.