Elf has made it to Number 1 on the Official Film Chart for the very first time. The 2003 flick has become a firm favourite in homes since its release and finally enjoys a stint at the top for the first time since the chart’s inception in 2018.

This mean’s Disney’s live action remake of Mulan drops to Number 2 after two weeks at the top. Last Christmas holds on at three as The Greatest Showman puts on a great performance by climbing seven places to Number 4. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker flies ten to Number 5 following the release of a new 4k Steelbook edition.

 This week’s highest new entry is psychological thriller Unhinged (6), starring Russell Crowe and Caren Pistorious. 1917 moves down one place to Number 7, as does Jim Carrey in The Grinch at Number 8. Trolls World Tour, flies up seven places to Number 9.

Finally, Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis star in brand new festive rom-com, Happiest Season, which debuts at Number 10 on digital downloads only. Abby (Stewart) is brought home for the holidays by her girlfriend Harper (Davis), and has big plans to propose – but quickly learns that Harper isn’t out to her family. Will they have their happy ending?

This week’s Official Film Chart online show features a preview of the re-edited final film of the Godfather trilogy, The Godfather Coda: The Death Of Michael Corleone. The new version is available both on Blu-ray and to Download & Keep from December 8.

The Official Film Chart Top 10 – 2^nd December 2020

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Terracotta Distribution launches the UK’s first Video On Demand (VOD) platform dedicated to East Asian cinema. The new streaming service will showcase a range of new and classic genre, arthouse and indie films from across East and South East Asia. The launch is being marked with a time-limited retrospective of highlights from the celebrated Terracotta Far East Film Festival, which was set up alongside the label.

Films are available on the platform to rent now, with plans to explore subscription and hybrid models in the near future. Terracotta Managing Director, Joey Leung, says: “We are so happy to have a streaming site purely for Asian film and really pleased with the mix of classics, emerging directors and new releases we’ve put together. We’re really excited to have the Festival Retrospective too, and we hope festival goers will love re-visiting some of their favourite films from past editions. There are so many amazing films coming out of Asia that really need to be seen but never make it over here due to inefficiencies in the system, and now we can help to match film to audience in a more direct way.”

As an introductory launch offer, a selection of titles will be available to rent for just £1 during the Black Friday weekend.

Content highlights include the ‘Japanese Evil Dead’ Bloody Muscle Body Builder In Hell, a collection of golden-age Jackie Chan films from the 80s and 90s and classics from the Korean New Wave never before released in the UK, including April Snow, Il Mare and Christmas in August.

Also on the Terracotta platform is an exclusive collection of films by Lee Sang-woo, an auteur director very much in the style of Kim Ki-duk, whose films deal with topics of society’s marginalised underclass, the same types of characters explored in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Starting with his debut Tropical Manila, Terracotta are showcasing an exclusive selection of seven of his films.

With cinemas shut this is the perfect time to explore East Asian film from your own home– for less than the price of a coffee. 

The new VOD platform compliments Terracotta’s existing online store for Asian cinema on physical DVD and Blu-ray.

Watch exclusive interactive trailer for bloody Brit thriller Concrete Plans 

Check out this interactive trailer below for Concrete Plans, a thriller with 4 star reviews and 8.2 on iMDb.

Some debts are paid in blood…

A manor house in disrepair and a landowner with a fierce temper and cash flow problem meets his match when confronted with a bill he can’t pay. Time is running out and the builders living on his land want their pound of flesh. When it becomes clear there is no cash, a red mist descends, the class divide widens and a simple dispute turns into a shockingly horrific display of violence as events spiral out of control. 

Starring James Lance (Ted Lasso), Amber Rose Revah (The Punisher) and Steve Speirs (Upstart Crow), Written and directed by Will Jewell. Concrete Plans original score by Paul Hartnoll of dance music legends Orbital.

A visceral snapshot of the United Kingdom – tense, divided and balanced on a knife-edge. Topics such as migrant labour, class tension, tax evasion and toxic masculinity are woven into a taut Neo Western Thriller that grips and twists towards a devastating climax.

High in the remote Welsh mountains five builders are housed in a mouldy portacabin; thrown together to renovate a sprawling old farmhouse.

Tensions soon simmer between the men and the self- entitled aristocratic homeowner, as well as amongst the rag tag group of men themselves. Bob, the kindly foreman, attempts to keep the peace as the bigoted Jim becomes a malign influence, taking a dislike to Ukranian labourer Viktor and slowly poisoning Bob’s own nephew against him.

As the weather closes in and payments are late, tempers fray. Blood is spilled. As the blue-collar men are confronted with an increasingly dark spiral of moral choices, Jim – now de-facto leader – makes an astonishing proposition…

For more info and to buy the film www.concreteplans.co.uk/watch