In a repeat of a few weeks ago, it’s not a special holiday weekend or anything but South African movie fans are spoiled for choice. Five new films are hitting local cinemas this Friday. Check out the new releases below.

Scream VI

The Scream franchise has already ventured out from its hometown of Woodsboro to set its bloody murders against the backdrop of Los Angeles. However, with its sixth installment, the slasher series mixes things up substantially by heading out east to New York City. In Scream VI, the survivors (Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding) of the most recent batch of Ghostface killings attempt to make a fresh start in bustling, population-dense NYC, only to encounter a new masked foe unlike any other. Hayden Panettiere and Courteney Cox return to their franchise roles as Kirby Reed and Gale Weathers. This is the first Scream movie not to include Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott.

Read our spoiler-free Scream VI review here.

65

From the writers of A Quiet Place and producer Sam Raimi, 65 is a tense sci-fi survival thriller. The human race has embraced space travel in the quest to find habitable worlds, but a catastrophic crash results in pilot Mills (Adam Driver) being stranded on an unknown planet. Soon our hero realises he’s actually on Earth… 65 million years ago. With one chance at rescue, Mills and the lone other survivor, a young girl named Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures.

The Son

Filmmaker Florian Zeller adapts his own play, The Son for this prequel to Academy Award-winning The Father, with Anthony Hopkins repeating his role for the family drama. Hopkins isn’t the main character though. That role is filled by Hugh Jackman, who plays Peter, a man whose busy life with his new partner (Vanessa Kirby) and baby is upended when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) appears with their clinically depressed teenage son Nicholas (Zen McGrath). Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have liked his own cruel and neglectful father (Hopkins) to have taken care of him.

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

No, this isn’t another Tina Turner biopic. What’s Love Got to Do With It? is a British romantic comedy from Working Title Films, the same studio behind the likes of Love, Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Bridget Jones. Directed by Shekhar (Elizabeth, Bandit Queen) Kapur, from a screenplay by Jemima Khan, What’s Love Got to Do With It? sees Lily James’s filmmaker Zoe document the upcoming arranged marriage of her childhood friend Kaz ((Shazad Latif) to a woman from Pakistan. What really is the best way to find a happy long-term relationship after all? Emma Thompson plays Zoe’s eccentric mother Cath.

The Wandering Earth 2

Chinese science fiction action-adventure The Wandering Earth 2 is the prequel to 2019 blockbuster The Wandering Earth, the fifth highest-grossing non-English film of all-time. Later this century, after learning that the sun is rapidly burning out and will obliterate Earth, humans build enormous engines to propel the planet to a new solar system. Key to this perilous journey is a group of young people who execute a dangerous, life-or-death operation to save our world. The cast includes Andy Lau, Wu Jing, Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Ning Li, and Wang Zhi. The Wandering Earth is based on a short story by acclaimed writer Liu Cixin.