Studiocanal’s Christmas slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night and Entertainment Film Distributors’ period parody Fackham Hall are leading the charge for new releases at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office.
Mike P. Nelson directs the second remake of the 1984 Silent Night, Deadly Night film, following 2012’s Silent Night, and is the seventh film in the Silent Night, Deadly Night frachise. Rohan Campbell takes up the role of long-standing protagonist Billy Chapman, as he continues to grapple with childhood trauma by murdering people while dressed as Santa Claus.
Jim O’Hanlan’s Downton Abbey spoof Fackham Hall is out at upwards of 450 sites. Damian Lewis and Thomasin McKenzie star, with comedian Jimmy Carr co-writing.
Disney’s Ella McCay, a comedy directed by James L. Brooks and starring Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Lowden, is opening in 400 sites, and follows a young US East Coast state governor as she attempts to hold her life together.
Warner Bros has the 45th anniversary re-release of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining at 306 locations.
In event cinema, Trafalgar Releasing has The Nutcracker – Royal Opera House London 2025 at 293 cinemas, Andrea Chenier - Met Opera 2025 at 197 venues and The Cure: The Show Of A Lost World at around 60 sites.
Sony has Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut and Cannes premiere Eleanor The Great at 150 sites. The comedy drama stars June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Erin Kellyman and set in a New York Jewish community.
Universal’s Lurker is in 138 sites. The psychological drama is directed by Alex Russell and premiered at Sundance and stars Archie Madekwe – also a producer on the film – plays a popstar who becomes a figure of obsession for a troubled young fan.
Netflix has an awards-qualifying release of Goodbye June, directed and produced by Kate Winslet and written by her son, Joe Anders. Cast includes Helen Mirren, Andrea Riseborough, Toni Collette, Timothy Spall and Johnny Flynn, alongside Winslet. A fractured family comes together to say goodbye to their dying matriarch at Christmas.
T A P E Collective is at 10 sites with Sofia Alaoui’s Animalia in which a wealthy, heavily pregnant woman experiences a crisis of faith in a Morocco-set debut.
Also out at 10 sites is Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases, a restored collection of early 20th-century silent Sherlock Holmes films, for BFI Distribution.
Bulldog Film Distribution is opening Charles Poekel’s Christmas, Again in three sites, growing to around 30 across the following two weeks. The New York-set drama was first released in the US in 2015, but has taken a decade to reach UK cinemas.
Also out this weekend is Met Film’s drama Preparation For The Next Life, directed by Bing Liu and following the connection between an undocumented Uyghur immigrant and a traumatised US veteran; Dreamz Entertainment’s Indian thriller Rachel; Dogwoof’s Macedonian farming documentaryThe Tale Of Silyan; and Peccadillo Pictures’ Brazilian queer drama Baby.
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