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This weeks UK new movie preview 17th June 2022 - Lightyear, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Spiderhead, The Lost Girls and Pleasure - #lightyear #goodlucktoyouleogrande #spiderhead #thelostgirl

Lightyear
This weekend, Friday 17th June 2022, there are 5 new films released in the UK and where available looking to hit the box office chart, but can they challenge last weekends top movie, Jurassic World: Dominion, for the number 1 spot?

Here are this weeks new releases

  • Lightyear
  • Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
  • Spiderhead
  • The Lost Girls
  • Pleasure
Lightyear

Lightyear

  • The movie is directed by Angus MacLane, it is the directors 2nd movie.
  • Angus MacLane also directed Finding Dory in 2016 which grossed £42.6 Mil. in the UK and grossed $1 Bil globally.
  • It stars Chris Evans who also starred in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008).
  • The film also stars Keke Palmer who was last seen in Alice~2022 (2022).
  • The BBFC UK age rating is

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

  • The movie is directed by Sophie Hyde, it is the directors 3rd movie.
  • Sophie Hyde also directed 52 Tuesdays in 2015 which grossed £6.4K in the UK.
  • It stars Emma Thompson who also starred in Missing Link (2019).
  • The film also stars Daryl McCormack who was last seen in Pixie (2020).
  • The BBFC UK age rating is
Spiderhead

Spiderhead

  • The movie is directed by Joseph Kosinski, it is the directors 5th movie.
  • Joseph Kosinski also directed TRON Legacy in 2010 which grossed £10.1 Mil. in the UK and grossed $397 Mil globally.
  • It stars Chris Hemsworth who also starred in Extraction (2020).
  • The film also stars Miles Teller who was last seen in Top Gun: Maverick (2022).

The Lost Girls

  • The movie is directed by Livia De Paolis, it is the directors 2nd movie.
  • Livia De Paolis also directed Emoticon ;) in 2014.
  • It stars Vanessa Redgrave who also starred in Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool (2017).
  • The film also stars Joely Richardson who was last seen in Color Out of Space (2020).
  • Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson have starred in 6 other movies together.
  • They also appeared together in The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1968, The Bostonians in 1984, The Fever in 2004, Anonymous in 2011, The Aspern Papers in 2019 and Wetherby in 1985.

Pleasure

  • The movie is from director Ninja Thyberg.
  • This movie is a directorial debut.
  • It stars Sofia Kappel who is making a feature film debut.
  • The film also stars Zelda Morrison who is making a feature film debut.

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

  • Elvis - Friday, 24th June
  • The Black Phone - Friday, 24th June
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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.

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