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.
Here are this weeks new releases
- The Naked Gun
- 40 Acres
- Together
- My Oxford Year
- 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
- 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 Oconnor who's last movie was 1UP (2022).
- This movie is released in Movie Theatres.
- 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
- 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
ABOUT:
Robert Hyde
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
