April 28Apr 28 Author 25th April 2025 - 27th April 2025 1. (01) A Minecraft Movie - £2,492,087 (-53%) Weeks: 4 (£51,674,822) 2. (02) Sinners - £2,417,082 (=) Weeks: 2 (£7,277,715) 3. (RE) Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith (20th Anniversary) - £1,762,623 Weeks: (£1,762,623) 4. (NE) The Accountant 2 - £907,034 - Weeks: 1 (£907,034) 5. (NE) Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII - £682,672 Weeks: 1 (£682,672) 6. (NE) Until Dawn - £566,028 Weeks: 1 (£566,028) 7. (03) The Penguin Lessons - £399,440 (-62%) Weeks: 2 (£2,178,198) 8. (04) The Amateur - £291,495 (-68%) Weeks: 3 (£3,907,217) 9. (NE) Thudarum - £289,109 Weeks: 1 (£289,109) 10. (05) Warfare - £283,711 (-62%) Weeks: 2 (£1,610,751) Falling out:Snow White (5 weeks)Six: The Musical Live! (3 weeks)Drop (2 weeks)The King Of Kings (1 week)Kesari Chapter 2 (1 week) It was an incredibly tight battle for #1 this weekend but eventually ‘A Minecraft Movie’ just about makes it a month in top spot with it’s harshest drop yet (-53%) in the weekend after the Easter Bank Holidays. However, it’s still doing brilliantly and has passed the elusive £50 million mark which puts it within the top 50 biggest films ever in the UK. It’s closing the gap with ‘The Super Mario. Bros Movie’ and will become the biggest video-game adaptation in the next couple of weeks. One of the films that it has now overtaken this weekend is ‘Black Panther’ and talking about Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan... ‘Sinners’ had an extraordinary second weekend, grossing pretty much exactly the same in weekend two than it did in its debut and only missing out on climbing to #1 by less than £100k. With over £7 million made so far, it’s already passed the final total for 2016’s ‘Creed’ (£5.8 million) and will overtake ‘Creed II’ (£10 million) before the end of it’s run to be Michael B. Jordan’s 2nd biggest hit. In another busy week for releases, the biggest debut is the 20th anniversary re-release of ‘Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith’ (£1,762,623, #3). This is a brilliant result for a re-release and is a nice increase on what ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace’ (£1,159,370, #2) made on re-release this time last year. Seeming that ‘Sith’ was a much smaller hit than ‘Menace’ the first time around (£57 million vs £39 million), this is a really positive sign for the Star Wars franchise. I wonder why the haven’t bothered re-releasing the second sequel film ‘Attack Of The Clones’. Opening in fourth place is ‘The Accountant 2’ (£907,034). This is a big step down from the £1,623,866 made on debut in 2016 (#3). Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal return for the sequel which is apparently much more of a buddy-comedy compared to the straight drama of the original. The original made over £5 million, a total this sequel will not be matching. Although reviews have been pretty good and there’s been talk of a trilogy closer. Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MCMLXXII debuts at #5 (£682,672). First released in 1972, this sees Pink Floyd performing at the Pompeii Amphitheatre, famously sans the audience. Without previews, this would have debuted at #9 with £287k. We get a second video-game adaptation in the top 10 as ‘Until Dawn’ enters at #6 (£566,028). This is a return to horror for ‘Lights Out’ and ‘Annabelle: Creation’ director David F. Sandberg after he made the two ‘Shazam!’ films for DC. This is loosely based on the popular 2015 PS4 horror game of the same name and seems to be going for a more comedic ‘Cabin In The Wood’s vibe compared to the game. A responsible $18 million budget means that this will be a hit but not a breakout like I’m sure that Sony were hoping for. The final new entry of the week is ‘Thudarum’ (£289,108, #9). This is the 2nd biggest Indian release of the year, trailing the massive £1,210,579 that ‘L2: Empuraan’ (#2) made last month. As common with Indian films, the Irish release charts separately at #15 with £63,396. ‘The Penguin Lessons’ drops 62% on week 2 (-48% without previews) but strong midweek showings see it climb above £2 million while ‘Warfare’ drops the same 62% as it drops to #10. £1.6 million for that feels like a really solid result. The final holdover is ‘The Amateur’ that has a heavy 68% fall in week 3 after a great hold last week.There is one further new entries in the #11-15 section not previously mentioned: ' Le Nozze Di Figaro: Met Opera 2025' (#13) while the 20th anniversary re-release of 'Pride & Prejudice' enters at #12.Next week is the official start of the Summer Movie Season and sees the openings of ‘Thunderbolts*’, 'Bluey At The Cinema: Let’s Play Chef Collection', 'Parthenope', 'Where Dragons Live', 'Mother's Pride', 'Slade In Flame', 'Two To One' and 'Shui Jiao Huang Hou'. Can any of them top the charts?~David F. Sandberg Openings:Lights Out (£1,126,543, #6, 2016)Annabelle: Creation (£1,960,202, #2, 2017)Shazam! (£4,067,068, #1, 2019)Shazam! Fury Of The Gods (£2,397,953, #1, 2023)Until Dawn (£566,027, #6, 2025)
May 6May 6 Author 2nd May 2025 - 4th May 2025 1. (NE) Thunderbolts* - £5,979,242 Weeks: 1 (£5,979,242) 2. (02) Sinners - £1,870,959 (-23%) Weeks: 3 (£10,618,274) 3. (01) A Minecraft Movie - £1,267,360 (-49%) Weeks: 5 (£53,303,536) 4. (04) The Accountant 2 - £466,800 (-48%) Weeks: 2 (£1,740,041) 5. (06) Until Dawn - £331,788 (-42%) Weeks: 2 (£1,154,894) 6. (07) The Penguin Lessons - £206,948 (-48%) Weeks: 3 (£2,631,079) 7. (NE) Bluey At The Cinema: Let's Play Chef Collection - £179,176 Weeks: 1 (£179,176) 8. (NE) Retro - £163,367 Weeks: 1 (£163,367) 9. (NE) Hit: The Third Case - £150,660 Weeks: 1 (£150,660) 10. (10) Warfare - £142,708 (-50%) Weeks: 3 (£1,921,604) Falling out:Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith (20th Anniversary) (1 week)Pink Floyd At Pompeii: MXMLXXII (1 week)The Amateur (3 weeks)Thudarum (1 week) It’s officially the first week of the Summer Box Office and, as tradition, it’s Marvel who lead the charge. We have our second MCU release of the year and our second MCU #1 hit of the year as ‘Thunderbolts*’ debuts at top spot with £5,979,242 (£4.9 million without previews). This is the fourth biggest opening of the year, sitting just behind ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ (£6,404,345). However, the buzz surrounding ‘Thunderbolts*’ is much higher so it should stick around better than Cap did, especially with a quiet release schedule this weekend. ‘Brave New World’ has closed with about £18 million, a total Disney will be looking for this to beat. Directing this one is Jake Schreier who makes his first feature-film for 10 years following ‘Paper Towns’ (£2,072,789, #1, 2015). In the time since he has been very active in Television, directing episodes of ‘Shameless’, ‘Kidding’, ‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ and, what got him the Marvel gig, being the main director of 8-time Emmy winner ‘Beef’. We could reductively call this Marvel’s ‘Suicide Squad’ with it bring together a tag-team of morally-dubious side characters but it’s much more than that. Leading the film is Florence Pugh’s Yelena (‘Black Widow’, ‘Hawkeye’), Wyatt Russell’s John Walker (‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’), Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost (Ant-Man & The Wasp), David Harbour’s Red Guardian (‘Black Widow’) and Lewis Pullman’s mysterious new character ‘Bob’. Certainly not A-List MCU characters, even with Sebastian Stan returning as The Winter Soldier and with Marvel’s recent dip in form, expectations were low for this and it’s doing slightly better than you’d might expect. I think the good reviews though is exactly what Marvel needed and might help bring some hype back going into ‘F4’. It’s only the 31st (out of 36) biggest opening in the MCU but it had its best day so far on Bank Holiday Monday (£1.82 million) so let’s see how it pans out next week. The next best new release this week is ‘Bluey At The Cinema: Let’s Play Chef Collection’ (£179,176, #7). Despite the top 10 position, this is under what the last Bluey release ‘Bluey At The Cinema: Family Trip Collection’ made when it reached #11 last August (£181,276). The other two new entries this week are both Indian releases: ‘Retro’ (£163,367, #8) and ‘Hit: The Third Case’ (£150,660, #9). ‘Retro’ is a romantic-actioner starring Suriya and Pooja Hegde while, as the title suggests, ‘Hit: The Third Case’ is the third film in the ‘HIT’ action franchise starring Nani (unfortunately not the ex-Manchester United player). The previous two films didn’t seem like they reached UK cinemas based on what I’ve searched. The best hold in the top 10 again is ‘Sinners’, following its extraordinary drop of less than 1% last weekend, it only drops 23% on week 3. The word of mouth of this was has been insane as it becomes the 8th 2025 film to pass £10 million and should overtake the gross of Disney’s big flagship remake of ‘Snow White’ today. It’s now passed ‘Creed II’ (£10.1 million) and has ‘Creed III’ (£14.3 million) in its sights when it comes to Michael B. Jordan films. The second best drop this weekend is also horror in Sony’s video-game adaptation ‘Until Dawn’. A 42% drop sees it pass the £1 million barrier and even climb into the top 5 after debuting at #6 last week. 'The Accountant 2' has a slightly steeper second week drop (-48%) but still holds position at #4. It's current total (£1.7 million) is about the same as the original made in it's opening weekend that shows that the audience is just not turning up for this one. ‘A Minecraft Movie’ has lost top spot after 4 weeks but is still putting up good numbers and is within £2 million of ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ for the video-game record and when it’s reached that it will quickly enter the top 40 films of all-time in the UK. The final two holders are ‘The Penguin Lessons’ (-48%) and ‘Warfare’ (-50%) which both make it 3 weeks in the top 10.There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: 'Raid 2' (#12) and 'Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical' (#15).Next week sees the openings of ‘Ocean With David Attenborough’, 'The Surfer', 'The Uninvited', 'Holy Night: Demon Hunters', 'The Extraordinary Miss Flower', 'Rangi', and 'Peg O’ My Heart'. Can any of them top the charts?
May 6May 6 Gosh, Sinners has got really unlucky running into two monster blockbusters, but fantastic hold for it nonetheless.
May 7May 7 Thunderbolts* doesn't seem to be letting up at my cinema. I'm really intrigued to see it's 2nd weekend hold. I think it's going to be a strong one (nowhere near 'Sinners' kind of hold but probably Marvel's strongest in a while?) The good reviews and word of mouth should help it out!
May 11May 11 Amazing to see an original movie like 'Sinners' performing so well, though it doesn't look like my kind of thing at all from the trailer.I feel so out of the loop at the minute as I've only seen one of the current top 10 ('The Penguin Lessons'). Probably won't be any better with the next chart as I'm going to see 'The Wedding Banquet' today, but it must be quite a low-key release if it's not even included in the list of openings for this week.
May 12May 12 Author 9th May 2025 - 11th May 2025 1. (01) Thunderbolts* - £2,362,481 (-60%) Weeks: 2 (£11,643,834) 2. (02) Sinners - £1,101,655 (-41%) Weeks: 4 (£13,062,722) 3. (03) A Minecraft Movie - £621,814 (-51%) Weeks: 6 (£54,905,386) 4. (NE) Ocean With David Attenborough - £574,551 Weeks: 1 (£574,551) 5. (04) The Accountant 2 - £227,269 (-51%) Weeks: 3 (£2,312,396) 6. (05) Until Dawn - £190,015 (-43%) Weeks: 3 (£1,581,202) 7. (NE) The Surfer - £132,274 Weeks: 1 (£132,274) 8. (06) The Penguin Lessons - £101,952 (-51%) Weeks: 4 (£2,993,253) 9. (07) Bluey At The Cinema: Let's Play Chef Collection - £65,120 (-64%) Weeks: 2 (£397,300) 10. (10) Warfare - £63,707 (-55%) Weeks: 4 (£2,114,403) Falling out:Retro (1 week)Hit: The Third Case (1 week) A lack of major releases and warm weather leads to a depressed box-office as ‘Thunderbolts*’ picks up a 2nd week at #1 with a 60% drop (53% without previews). With £11.6 million after two weekends, it’s the ninth 2025 film to pass the £10 million barrier but is still trailing behind the £13,212,979 that ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ had banked at the same stage. It has already overtaken ‘Snow White’ though when it comes to Disney’s recent releases. It might not look great on paper but I think this is a ok hold in a sunny weekend and I think it would have been much closer to BNW’s figure had it been a rainy weekend. With everyone else still running scared of Marvel (for some reason), the highest new entry this week is actually a documentary, ‘Ocean With David Attenborough’ (£574,551, £321,963 without previews) at #4. This is a very good result for a genre that rarely sets the box office alight and just shows how much of a national treasure Attenuating is. According to the report of BoxOfficeTheory, this is the second biggest opening for a non-musical related documentary, only trailing ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ that opened to £1,304,115 (#3 behind the second week of ‘Shrek ‘2 and the opening of the Jackie Chan-starring ‘Around The World In 80 Days’) over 20 years ago in 2004. Although this would be different if you generously decided to include any non-scripted films as ‘documentaries’ as the ‘Jackass’ films would make a few appearances then. Continuing the nautical theme, the other new entry is ‘The Surfer’ (#7, £132,274, £94,895 without previews). This is the latest film starring Nicholas Cage and everything I’ve heard about it makes it sound like one of the ‘Nick-Cagiest’ of Nick Cage films as he stars in a horror-thriller as a man who slowly loses his mind after a gang stop him surfing on a beach. It’s directed by Irish director Lorcan Finnegan who previously brought us another surreal-thriller in the Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots starring ‘Vivarium’ which was released on PVOD right at the start of the Covid lockdowns. ‘Sinners’ holds at #2 with over £1 million for the fourth week with the smallest drop of the week again (-41%). With £13.1 million, it’s already done enough to mean that it would have ranked at #22 in last year’s EOY chart and it’s showing signs that it has plenty more life in it yet. Could this be a shock EOY top 20 placer this year? In the next few days, it will overtake the lifetime gross of ‘Creed III’ and then it’s only trailing ‘Black Panther’ films in both the biggest hits for Michael B. Jordan & Ryan Coogler. ‘A Minecraft Movie’ drops 51% and will also be reaching a big milestone soon. In fact, it will have already passed ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ with what it’s made today and is the biggest video-game adaptation in the UK. Although it is starting to show signs that it’s slowing down worldwide and might fall just short of $1 billion. The only other new entry from last week to remain in the top 10 is ‘Bluey At The Cinema: Let's Play Chef Collection’, despite a strong 64% drop. Only making £65,120, it’s benefited massively from weak competition. We’ve had films opening with around £250k missing the top 10 at points this year. We’re a long way off when ‘Maria’ opened at #10 with £509,328 in January. ‘Until Dawn’ has another good hold (-43%) as continues to find an audience after a slow start. It’s now at £1.6 million and is one of the 5 biggest horror releases of the year. Despite closing the gap each week, it still can’t quite overtake ‘The Accountant 2’ (-51%) that holds for a third week in the top 5. It’s overtaken 2011’s ‘Warrior’ to be director Gavin O'Connor’s 2nd biggest film but it’s still made less than half of what the original ‘Accountant’ made. ‘Warriors’ is a brilliant film by the way, go watch it if you’ve never seen it. ‘The Penguin Lessons’ and ‘Warfare’ both make it four weeks in the top 10 (‘Warfare’s 5-10-10-10 run suggests it’s lucky to reach the milestone) with 51% & 55% drops respectively. ‘The Penguin Lessons’ has overtaken director Peter Cattaneo’s previous release, ‘Military Wives’ (£2.9 million). This is the second time this year we’ve dipped below £100k for the top 10 and we’ve done it in style with ‘Warfare’ only making £63k. The barrier for the top 15 is an abysmal £34,540. There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Tourist Family' (#13) and 'The Wedding Banquet’ (#14). Next week sees the openings of ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’, ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’, ‘Hallow Road’, ‘Good One’, 'The Marching Band’, 'Make It To Munich', ‘E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea’ ‘Magic Farm’ and ‘Eurovision: Grand Final Live’. We also see a re-release of ‘Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’. Can any of them top the charts?
May 20May 20 Author 16th May 2025 - 18th May 2025 1. (NE) Final Destination: Bloodlines - £4,009,856 Weeks: 1 (£4,009,856) 2. (01) Thunderbolts* - £1,216,926 (-48%) Weeks: 3 (£13,864,143) 3. (02) Sinners - £718,770 (-35%) Weeks: 5 (£14,392,979) 4. (03) A Minecraft Movie - £471,871 (-24%) Weeks: 7 (£55,508,186) 5. (04) Ocean With David Attenborough - £213,568 (-63%) Weeks: 2 (£1,044,627) 6. (NE) Hurry Up Tomorrow - £164,832 Weeks: 1 (£164,832) 7. (05) The Accountant 2 - £111,581 (-51%) Weeks: 4 (£2,547,334) 8. (NE) Hallow Road - £81,954 Weeks: 1 (£81,954) 9. (NE) ATEEZ World Tour [Towards The Light : Will To Power] In Cinemas - £59,812 Weeks: 1 (£91,874) 10. (06) Until Dawn - £59,241 (-69%) Weeks: 4 (£1.726,037) Falling out:The Surfer (1 week)The Penguin Lessons (4 weeks)Bluey At The Cinema: Let's Play Chef Collection (2 weeks)Warfare (4 weeks) After a quiet week last weekend, we get our second major release of the summer box-office season with ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ comfortably opening at #1 with £4,009,856 (£2.8 million without previews). This is the biggest opening weekend for the 25-year old horror franchise, although without previews, it lands behind the franchise’s biggest (and worst reviewed) hit ‘The Final Destination’ which cashed in massively in the post ‘Avatar’ 3D-boom to become the only other one to top the weekend charts. That film ended up with over £12.7 million making it one of the most successful horror releases of all-time. I think this has a chance of topping it. Continuing a rough patch for The Weeknd and opening at #6 is ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ (£164,832). A ‘companion piece’ to his final studio album of the same name which has released in January, this was co-written and by and stars The Weeknd as a fictionalised version of himself. This is his second big attempt to move into acting after his HBO disaster ‘The Idol’ and critics have been just as unforgiving when it comes to reviews, especially when it comes to his performance. Also starring are two of the hottest names around (Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan) and the director (and co-writer) is Indie-favourite Trey Edward Shults who previously made ‘It Comes At Night’ and ‘Waves’ so you can see why expectations were high going into this. This has opened UNDER what ‘It Comes At Night’ opened with in 2017 (£226,688, #7) which seems almost unbelievable considering the cast and pre-release hype. With the film only opening to $3.3 million in America, this is going to go down as a big flop. British thriller ‘Hallow Road’ opens at #8 (£81,954). Starring Rosamund Pike & Matthew Rhys as a couple who awake to the news that their daughter in in trouble, this has earned rave reviews and is only a refreshing (compared to recent standards) 80 minutes so it feels like there is potential for this to hold well. It’s a low-budgeted film so the low-key release makes sense but I still think this could have done better. The final new entry this week is our latest slice of event cinema: ‘ATEEZ World Tour [Towards The Light : Will To Power] In Cinemas’ (£59,812, #9). The concert film was released slightly earlier last week and has £91k in total. The last K-Pop release to make the top 10 was ‘BLACKPINK World Tour: Born Pink In Cinemas’ which opened with £93,518 (including my £15 of course) when it reached #9 last August. ‘Thunderbolts*’ loses top spot after two winning weeks with a -48% drop in week 3. With £13,864,143, it’s less than £1 million from overtaking the final total for ‘Eternals’ but it’s still slightly off the pace of ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ from earlier this year which was at £15,693,916 at this point. ‘Sinners’ remains the big story out of the holders, remaining in the top 3 for a fifth week as it drops a measly 35% to have it’s first week under £1 million. With £14.4 million, it has climbed to #4 in the YTD chart and overtaken the final total for ‘Creed III’. But ‘A Minecraft Movie’ has an even better hold this week (-24%), which is enough to push it into the top 40 films of all time in the UK climbing above ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ (£55 million) and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (£55.4 million). ‘The Accountant 2’ has the same 51% drop as last week which pushes it above £2.5 million while ‘Until Dawn’ has its steepest drop yet (-69%) as it falls to the bottom of the top 10. ‘Ocean With David Attenborough’ has passed £1 million after a 63% drop (34% without previews) in week 2. This is a brilliant result for a documentary and makes it incredibly likely that it will land in the top 100 releases of the year come the EOY list. There are three further new entries in the #11-15 section: 'The Chosen: Last Supper Part 2' (#11), 'Salome: Met Opera 2025' (#12) and 'Wagner's Die Walküre: ROH, London 2025' (#15). Next week sees the openings of ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’, ‘Lilo & Stitch’, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, 'Padakkalam’, 'When The Light Breaks' and ‘Mongrel’. Can any of them top the charts?~Final Destination Openings:Final Destination (£1,498,519, #2, 2000)Final Destination 2 (£1,675,057, #3, 2003)Final Destination 3 (£2,219,978, #2, 2006)The Final Destination (£3,633,395, #1, 2009)Final Destination 5 (£1,450,464, #5, 2011)Final Destination: Bloodlines (£4,009,856, #1, 2025)
May 20May 20 2 hours ago, Herbs said:Disappointed that The Wedding Banquet didn’t make it into the top 10Deserved a lot more as it was pretty funny, but I think promotion was pretty non-existent ☹️ I only knew of it as the poster caught my eye on the Cineworld website.Not seen any of the current top 10 now, and I can't say the big releases of Mission Impossible and Lilo & Stitch particularly interest me. Assuming the Wes Anderson name will be enough to get 'The Phoenician Scheme' perhaps around the #5 mark in the next chart though, and I might check that one out.
May 27May 27 Author I don't have time to post the full chart because I'm going to a concert tonight but the headlines are:'Lilo & Stitch' and 'Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning' debut at #1 and #2 with solid numbers. 'The Phoenician Scheme' is new at #4 and 'Narivetta' enters at #10
May 28May 28 Author 23rd May 2025 - 25th May 2025 1. (NE) Lilo & Stitch - £9,568,923 Weeks: 1 (£9,568,923) 2. (NE) Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - £8,579,185 Weeks: 1 (£8,579,185) 3. (01) Final Destination: Bloodlines - £1,660,795 (-59%) Weeks: 2 (£6,950.824) 4. (NE) The Phoenician Scheme - £770,562 Weeks: 1 (£770,562) 5. (02) Thunderbolts* - £578,630 (-52%) Weeks: 4 (£14,931,675) 6. (03) Sinners - £342,151 (-52%) Weeks: 6 (£15,093,215) 7. (04) A Minecraft Movie - £246,952 (-24%) Weeks: 8 (£55,821,985) 8. (05) Ocean With David Attenborough - £94.522 (-56%) Weeks: 3 (£1,276,404) 9. (14) Bluey At The Cinema: Let's Play Chef Collection - £47,143 (-4%) Weeks: 4 (£515,906) 10. (NE) Narivetta - £43,551 Weeks: 1 (£43,551) Falling out:Hurry Up Tomorrow (1 week)The Accountant 2 (4 weeks)Hallow Road (1 week)ATEEZ World Tour [Towards The Light : Will To Power] In Cinemas (1 week)Until Dawn (4 weeks) Studios took full advantage of the bank holiday weekend with two big releases battling for #1. In the end it’s Disney’s latest live-action remake, this time of ‘Lilo & Stitch’ that takes the top spot (£9,568,923, £8 million without previews) but ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ pushes it closer than you might have thought. Let’s start with ‘Stitch’, the original was one the first ever films I saw in cinemas when it opened in 2002 to £1,516,249 on its way to a total of £13.2 million before it became a cultural phenomenon. It feels like you can hardly go anywhere without seeing some sort of Stitch merchandise nowadays so this big uptick in debuts was to be expected. It’s Bank Holiday Monday was the biggest ever Monday for a U-rated film with another £3.3 million banked which means that it’s already overtaken the final take of the original as well as Disney’s other live-action remake this year, ‘Snow White’ (£11.5 million). It’s almost like there’s a bigger audience that has nostalgia for a film released in 2002 compared to one released in 1937. This is the third biggest opening weekend of 2025 so far. But ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ also has a very solid debut (£8,579,185, £6.2 million without previews) which means it was a great weekend for cinema owners all around. This is the second-best opening for a ‘Mission’ film, only trailing the massive £10,391,016 (£6.3 million without previews) that the last entry ‘Dead Reckoning Part 1’ made two years back. Despite the strong start, this does become the first ‘Mission’ film not to reach #1, both here and in the States. With a reported budget of between $300-400 million due to Covid and strike delays, this film has a long way to go before it can considered profitable. I’ve done my part by already paying for two tickets for the film. I booked to see it last Thursday but ended up not being able to go before I went again on Monday. Debuting at #4 is the latest perfectly-symmetrical release from Wes Anderson, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ (£770,562). This ranks somewhere in the middle when it comes to openings by Anderson, it’s the lowest out of his last 5 releases but is above the level from the start of his career. ‘Asteroid City’ made about £5 million while ‘The French Dispatch’ made about £4.2 million if you want some comparisons to understand where this may land. His biggest film overall remains ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ which is his only film to gross over £10 million. I’ve seen his last three in cinemas and plan on making that four in a row at some point. The final new entry in the top 10 is ‘Narivetta’ (#10, £43,551). This is an Indian political-actioner about the dangers of a police state. This is the second feature for director Anuraj Manohar and stars Tovino Thomas who led the Netflix film ‘Minnal Murali’. Last week’s number one, ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ drops 59% (41% without previews) as it falls to #3. This is a strong hold for a horror film, especially with massive competition and is a good sign that this is going to climb towards the top of the rankings for the franchise. ‘Thunderbolts*’ and ‘Sinners’ both move down three placed to accommodate the new entries and both fall the same 52%. Both films are around the £15 million mark with ‘Sinners’ maintaining an ever-decreasing lead. ‘A Minecraft Movie’ continues to hold well with a 48% drop. With the big releases doing so well, there’s little space for anything else which meant that a 56% drop is enough to see ‘Ocean With David Attenborough’ bag a third week in the top 10, albeit on under £100k while ‘Bluey At The Cinema: Let’s Play Chef Collection’ climbs from #14-#9 to re-enter the top 10 despite a 4% decrease in business and a sub-£50k gross. The bar to enter this week’s top 15 is the abysmal £17,063 taken by ‘Hallow Road’ in it’s second week. Outside of the top #15, ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ has a 90% drop. There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: 'Ballet To Broadway: Wheeldon Works: ROH, London 2025 (Ballet)’ (#11) and ‘Padakkalam’ (#13). Next week sees the openings of ‘Karate Kid: Legends', ‘The Ritual’, ‘The Salt Path’, ‘Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience’, 'The Ballad Of Wallis Island’, Detective Kien: The Headless Horror' and ‘Along Came Lover. Can any of them top the charts? ~Mission: Impossible Openings: Mission: Impossible (£4,161,780, #1, 1996)Mission: Impossible 2 (£4,621,948, #1, 2000)Mission: Impossible III (£5,378,013, #1, 2006)Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol (£8,188,209, #1, 2011)Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (£5,351,344, #1, 2015)Mission: Impossible: Fallout (£7,300,103, #1, 2018)Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 (£10,391,016, #1, 2023)Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning £8,579,185, #2, 2025) ~ Wes Anderson Openings: Rushmore (£69,703, #10, 1999)The Royal Tenenbaums (£700,025, #4, 2002)The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (£502,041, #8, 2005)The Darjeeling Limited (£435,198, #6, 2007)Fantastic Mr. Fox (£1,517,312, #3, 2009)Moonrise Kingdom (£251,760, #7, 2012)The Grand Budapest Hotel (£1,532,239, #1, 2014)Isle Of Dogs (£1,641,509, #3, 2018)The French Dispatch (£867,672, #6, 2021)Asteroid City (£1,176,972, #4, 2023)The Phoenician Scheme (£770,562, #4, 2024)
June 2Jun 2 Author 30th May 2025 - 1st June 2025 1. (01) Lilo & Stitch - £6,139,574 (-36%) Weeks: 2 (£25,904,453) 2. (02) Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - £3,454,871 (-60%) Weeks: 2 (£17,475,531) 3. (NE) Karate Kid: Legends - £2,592,601 Weeks: 1 (£2,592,601) 4. (NE) The Salt Path - £1,479,569 Weeks: 1 (£1,479,569) 5. (NE) Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience - £1,065,856 Weeks: 1 (£1,065,856) 6. (03) Final Destination: Bloodlines - £977,099 (-41%) Weeks: 3 (£9,421,102) 7. (04) The Phoenician Scheme - £437,271 (-43%) Weeks: 2 (£1,932,054) 8. (NE) Doctor Who: The Two Episode Finale - £381,725 Weeks: 1 (£381,725) 9. (05) Thunderbolts* - £258,579 (-55%) Weeks: 5 (£15,860,747) 10. (06) Sinners - £198,648 (-42%) Weeks: 7 (£15,609,743) Falling out:A Minecraft Movie (8 weeks)Ocean With David Attenborough (3 weeks)Bluey At The Cinema: Let's Play Chef Collection (1 week*) *In this runNarivetta (1 week) After the big battle last weekend, the top 2 remain unchanged as ‘Lilo & Stitch’ earns a second week at #1 with a 36% drop (-23% without previews). Particularly impressive when you consider last week was half-term for most schools meaning that parents had the full week to entertain their kids. Passing the £25 million mark, it’s already the third biggest release of 2025 and has made double what ‘Mufasa’ had made at this stage last December (£12,613,098). ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ has a more eye-watering drop (-60%) but this is because it had more extensive previews and the weekend drop is a more-respectable 44%. It holds at #2 while increasing it’s total to £17.5 million, allowing it to enter the YTD top 5 and Tom Cruise’s personal top 10. ‘Dead Reckoning’ is the highest grossing M:I film so far and this one is tracking slightly ahead of that from the same stage (£16,434,929). Seeming that ‘Dead Reckoning’ had Barbenheimer as competition, I think this is looking likely to top it. But in a great weekend for cinemas, there are a further four new entries in the top 10, three of which open with over £1 million. The biggest of which is ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ that lands at #3 with £2,592,601 (£1.7 million without previews). The ‘Karate Kid’ franchise has had a renaissance in recent years with streaming-show ‘Cobra Kai’ bringing back many of the original cast in a huge success for (first YouTube then) Netflix. This film tries to integrate those stories and star Ralph Macchio with the 2010 reboot film with Jackie Chan as they both unite to teach a new martial arts hopeful portrayed by Ben Wang. So, I think Sony will be disappointed to see this open much lower than the 2010 reboot (£4,882,306, #2). That one ended with £12.4 million which I don’t say this one matching, especially with so-so reviews. British-drama ‘The Salt Path’ opens at #4 (£1,479,569). This is the biggest ever 3-day opening for distributor Black Bear, although it still trails the preview-boosted £1,981,677 debut of ‘Ferrari’ in 2023. Adapted from the 2018 memoir by Raynor Winn, this stars Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs as a couple who decide to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path after being made homeless. This feels like a great opening for this film and it should continue to perform well in midweek showings. The final two new entries are both TV related, ‘Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience’ (£1,065,856, #5) and ‘Doctor Who: The Two Episode Finale’ (£381,725, #8). This is the best opening for a Peppa Pig release yet, just pipping the £1,050,962 of ‘Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience’ (#3) from 2017 and well-above the £490,779 of last year’s ‘Peppa’s Cinema Party’. ‘Doctor Who’ is also slightly ahead of last year’s release ‘Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death’ (#4, £364,353). I’m no Doctor Who fan so I may be wrong, but, from what I’ve seen online, I feel like this might be the last one of these releases we see anytime soon. We were so close to having six films over the £1 million barrier but ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ falls just short in week 3, dropping an impressive (especially considering the competition), 41% as it nears the £10 million barrier. Next week, it will become the third film in the franchise to reach double figures. ‘Thunderbolts*’ and ‘Sinners’ survive for another week with falls of 55% and 42% respectively. This is enough for ‘Thunderbolts*’ to finally overtake the gross of ‘Sinners’. I don’t think many people would have predicted that would take 5 weeks before they were released. Last week’s other new release, ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ has an alright second week hold (-43%) as it nears £2 million. Wes Anderson’ films always seem to leg out so I’m sure we will see this stick around for a while more. There are four further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ (#12), ‘Saunkan Saunkanay 2’ (#13), ‘j-hope Tour: Hope On The Stage In Japan: Live Viewing’ (#14) and ‘Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Met Opera 2025’ (#15). Next week sees the openings of ‘Ballerina’, ‘Clown In A Cornfield’, ‘Dangerous Animals’, ‘Housefull 5’, ‘Love Guru’, ‘Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye’, ‘Big Star: The Nick Skelton Story’ and ‘Falling Into Place’. We also see a re-release of ‘Showgirls’. Can any of them top the charts? ~Peppa Pig Openings:Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots (£687,417, #6, 2015)Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience (£1,050,962, #3, 2017)Peppa Pig: Festival Of Fun (£982,617, #5, 2019)Peppa’s Cinema Party (£490,779, #5, 2024)Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience (£1,065,856, #5, 2025)
June 3Jun 3 Brilliant hold for Lilo & Stitch, and a great opening for The Salt Path (though you'd hope so with how much I've been seeing the trailer for MONTHS now)
June 9Jun 9 Author 6th June 2025 - 8th June 2025 1. (01) Lilo & Stitch - £3,528,384 (-43%) Weeks: 3 (£31,150,259) 2. (02) Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - £2,312,435 (-33%) Weeks: 3 (£21,557,704) 3. (NE) Ballerina - £1,418,816 Weeks: 1 (£1,418,816) 4. (04) The Salt Path - £1,364,923 (-8%) Weeks: 2 (£4,346,843) 5. (03) Karate Kid: Legends - £1,045,817 (-60%) Weeks: 2 (£4,200,757) 6. (06) Final Destination: Bloodlines - £620,246 (-36%) Weeks: 4 (£10,577,267) 7. (05) Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience - £493,224 (-54%) Weeks: 2 (£1,754,213) 8. (NE) Clown In A Cornfield - £350,198 Weeks: 1 (£350,198) 9. (07) The Phoenician Scheme - £291,210 (-33%) Weeks: 3 (£2,571,823) 10. (NE) Thug Life - £257,659 Weeks: 1 (£257,659) Falling out:Doctor Who: The Two Episode Finale (1 week)Thunderbolts* (5 weeks)Sinners (7 weeks) The top two films remain the same for a third week as ‘Lilo & Stitch’ continues to dominate the summer box office. A 43% drop sees the title pass the £30 million milestone as it continues to chase ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ in its aim to reach the top 2 films of the year. It’s also closing in on the £33.4 million total of recent Disney live-action hit ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’. Also holding at #2 is ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ that passes the £20 million barrier with a 33% drop and sits just behind ‘Lilo & Stitch’ as the fourth biggest release of the year so far. It’s up to being the third biggest ‘Mission: Impossible’ hit so far and needs another £5 million-ish before it’s the franchise’s best. The highest new entry this week is ‘Ballerina’ at #3 (£1,418,816). It’s taken a long time for this Ana de Armas-starring ‘John Wick’ spin-off to reach cinemas after being announced and filmed in 2022. Originally schedules to be released last summer, there was reported ‘extensive reshoots’ early last year that meant it was pushed until now. That usually spells disaster but it has ended up receiving surprisingly solid reviews (75% on Rotten Tomatoes) which, unfortunately, hasn’t led to great box office. The four main entries in the series all increased in opening weekend as the series progressed (see the opening list below), but this opening for ‘Ballerina’ is the lowest since the original film hit cinemas 10 years ago. A budget of less than $100 million means that this isn’t going to be the massive flop it could have been but it’s going to have to rely on positive word-of-mouth to reduce the money lost by Lionsgate. Opening at #8 this week is ‘Clown In A Cornfield’ (£350,198). This is a horror from (Sally Field’s son) director, Eli Craig who previously made the cult-classic horror-comedy ‘Tucker & Dale vs. Evil’. Made for a reported $1 million budget, this has already made more than 8x that back in worldwide gross so is a nice hit. It’s adapted from the 2020 book of the same name by Adam Cesare. The final new entry in the top 10 is ‘Thug Life’ (£257,659, #10), the latest release from India. This is a crime-drama and stars one of Indian cinema’s leading stars, Kamal Haasan. The best hold of the week is undoubtably for British drama ‘The Salt Path’ that holds at #4 with a tincy 8% drop in week two (2% when you take out previews). This is an even crazier result when you consider the poor reviews and the fact that this type of film usually makes most of its money during week-day showings. This is doing well on all 7 days of the week and is already up to £4.3 million which is enough for it to rank as the third biggest (purely) British release of the year so far. In fact, it’s already outgrossed the big Hollywood film ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ which was released on the same day and drops to #5 this weekend with a 60% fall (37% without previews) and just about clears £1 million making it the second weekend in a row where five films have achieved this. ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ is a non-mover at #6 (-36%) as it passes the £10 million mark and cements its position as the second biggest film in the franchise. It’s still well on track to overtake ‘The Final Destination’ (£12.8 million) for the outright record. ‘Peppa Meets The Baby’ drops 54% on week two as it continues to be a strong release in the Peppa Pig franchise. The final holdover this week is Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ that dips 33% as it passes £2.5 million. There are three further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Housefull 5’ (#12), ‘Dangerous Animals’ (#13) and ‘Love Guru’ (#14). Next week sees the openings of ‘How To Train Your Dragon’, ‘Tornado’, ‘Lollipop’, ‘Daakuaan Da Munda 3’, ‘The Way We Talk’, ‘Jane Austen Wrecked my Life’, ‘Protein’, ‘Juliet & Romeo’ and ‘Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf’. Can any of them top the charts? ~John Wick Openings:John Wick (£539,602, #6, 2015)John Wick: Chapter 2 (£2,232,055, #3, 2017)John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum (£3,562,524, #1, 2019)John Wick: Chapter 4 (£5,321,533, #1, 2023)Ballerina (£1,418,815, #3, 2025)
June 16Jun 16 Author 13th June 2025 - 15th June 2025 1. (NE) How To Train Your Dragon - £8,145,189 Weeks: 1 (£8,145,189) 2. (01) Lilo & Stitch - £1,469,785 (-58%) Weeks: 4 (£33,236,415) 3. (02) Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - £1,190,616 (-49%) Weeks: 4 (£22,560,883) 4. (04) The Salt Path - £592,578 (-57%) Weeks: 3 (£6,002,299) 5. (03) Ballerina - £580,834 (-59%) Weeks: 2 (£2,633,002) 6. (05) Karate Kid: Legends - £472,038 (-55%) Weeks: 3 (£4,919,265) 7. (06) Final Destination: Bloodlines - £304,740 (-51%) Weeks: 5 (£11,117,652) 8. (11) The Ballad Of Wallis Island - £240,232 (-3%) Weeks: 3 (£906,175) 9. (07) Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience - £153,900 (-69%) Weeks: 3 (£1,971,199) 10. (08) Clown In A Cornfield - £129,742 (-63%) Weeks: 2 (£657,326) Falling out:The Phoenician Scheme (3 weeks)Thug Life (1 week) After three weeks of ‘Stitch’, it’s Toothless’s turn as ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ makes it consecutive live-action remakes of animation films at #1. It’s opening of £8,145,189 (£5.7 million) is the best result for the franchise and shows, even though it’s only 15 years since the original film was released, there’s still tonnes of nostalgia surrounding these characters. The original was the lowest grossing of the original trilogy (£17.4 million) while ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ was the commercial peak with £25.5 million. If this can stick around through summer that feels like a potential target that this could beat. This has opened better than recent live-action remakes ‘The Little Mermaid’ (£5,012,929) and ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ (£4,415,961) and they reached £27.6 million and £33.3 million respectively. In a quiet week, there are no other films debuting in the top 10. However, we do see British-favourite ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ climb into the top 10 in its third week after previously going #12-#11 in the past two weeks. Despite originally missing the top 10, this has stuck around brilliantly, dropping just 3% this weekend and will soon pass the £1 million mark. This is a comedy-drama from director James Griffiths and writing-duo Tim Key and Tom Basden and is a feature-length remake of their 2007 short film ‘The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island’. The writers remain the stars of the film although they also add the wonderful Carey Mulligan to the cast. This has a brilliant 98% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and is sure to be a contender at this year’s BAFTAs and an outsider hopeful for the other award shows. ‘Lilo & Stitch’ is still holding off ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ as it dips to #2, although it has a bigger fall this weekend (-58% vs -49%). They remain third and fourth place in the YTD chart. The fall for ‘Mission: Impossible’ is actually the best hold this week for any film holding in the top 10. ‘Ballerina’ has a rough week two dropping 59% and only adding £580k. With £2.6 million banked so far, it has passed the lifetime total of the original ‘John Wick’ but even the £6 million gross for ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ is looking impossible to catch. Never mind the £17.6 million peak of 2023’s ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’. ‘The Salt Path’ manages to climb above ‘Ballerina’ to claim a third week stuck at #4, although with a much harsher drop than last week (-57%). The film has passed £6 million so has been a great hit compared to over British films of late.‘Karate Kid: Legends’ drops out of the top 5 in it’s third week (-55%). It’s just short of £5 million currently so will not be getting anywhere close to the £12.4 million total of 2010’s remake of ‘The Karate Kid’. But ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ is proving to be a much more successful revival with a 51% drop on week five helping it creep ever closer to the £12.9 million of ‘Nosferatu’ as it looks to become the biggest horror hit of the year. Rounding out the top 10 this week is the biggest faller ‘Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience’ (-69%), which is still a decent showing on week 3 for an event cinema release like this and ‘Clown In A Cornfield’ which drops 63% on week 2 as it reaches a £650k total. There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Tornado’ (#14). Next week sees the openings of ’28 Years Later, ‘Elio’, ‘Pip and Posy: Sandpit Friends’, ‘A Sip Of Irish’, ‘Red Path, ‘The Last Journey’, and ‘Holloway’. Can any of them top the charts? ~How To Train Your Dragon Openings: How To Train Your Dragon (£4,846,532, #2, 2010)How To Train Your Dragon 2 (£604,325, #6, 2014) *Opened in limited release before going wideHow To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (£5,323,448, #1, 2019)How To Train Your Dragon (£8,145,189, #1, 2025)
June 16Jun 16 What an intriguing chart run for "The Ballad of Wallis Island"! Has it been expanding into more cinemas, or just benefiting from really good word of mouth?Heard some great things about it, so might go and see it midweek!
June 16Jun 16 I saw the live action 'How To Train Your Dragon' today and it's so good! I actually think it's slightly better than the original animation (but 2 and 3 are my favourites). I'm really pleased to see it become a huge success for them.Still need to catch 'Lilo & Stitch' and the reviews for 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' have me intrigued.
June 17Jun 17 Author 20 hours ago, J❄️hq said:What an intriguing chart run for "The Ballad of Wallis Island"! Has it been expanding into more cinemas, or just benefiting from really good word of mouth?Heard some great things about it, so might go and see it midweek!It increased from 129 to 207 cinemas between it's first week and second week (and increased 74% in business). Not sure how many it was in this week but I can check tomorrow.
2 hours ago2 hr Author 20th June 2025 - 22nd June 2025 1. (NE) 28 Years Later - £4,780,374 Weeks: 1 (£4,780,374) 2. (01) How To Train Your Dragon - £2,817,385 (-65%) Weeks: 2 (£12,693,731) 3. (NE) Elio - £971,168 Weeks: 1 (£971,168) 4. (02) Lilo & Stitch - £670,244 (-54%) Weeks: 5 (£34,255,710) 5. (03) Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - £599,292 (-50%) Weeks: 5 (£24,781,798) 6. (04) The Salt Path - £268,038 (-55%) Weeks: 4 (£6,858,405) 7. (NE) Sitaare Zameen Par - £226,202 Weeks: 1 (£226,202) 8. (05) Ballerina - £194,167 (-67%) Weeks: 3 (£3,139,662) 9. (06) Karate Kid: Legends - £177,043 (-62%) Weeks: 4 (£5,236,337) 10. (08) The Ballad Of Wallis Island - £131,958 (-45%) Weeks: 4 (£1,224,878) Falling out:Final Destination: Bloodlines (5 weeks)Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience (3 weeks)Clown In A Cornfield (2 weeks) Danny Boyle is back and straight in at #1 with ‘28 Years Later’ (£4,780,374, £3.9 million without previews), his second sequel and second-best opening weekend following ‘T2 Trainspotting). It also edges out ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ to be the second-biggest Horror opening of the year. Although obviously helped by inflation, this is still a solid opening with it being higher than the original (’28 Days Later’) and the non-Boyle-directed sequel ’28 Weeks Later’ which had opened to £1,500,079 (#1, 2002) and £1,575,620 (#2, 2007) respectively. The original closed with £6.3 million in it’s original run (but numerous re-releases will see it on much more than that now) while ‘Weeks’ totalled out at £5.4 million. This will comfortably beat those two, probably by next weekend but with another sequel already shot and a trilogy-closer planned, I do think Sony we’re hoping for slightly higher than this. The pre-release hype was there; the first trailer is the second most-viewed Horror trailer of all-time on YouTube and the original film has grown in stature so much since it’s original release. We will have to see how it continues to play now but the online-talk I’m seeing about it isn’t positive. The third-act has proved very divisive and I fear this negativity may harm it in the coming weeks. But, even if ’28 Years Later’ hasn’t blown up in the way it looked like it might have, it’s not a disaster on the level of Pixar’s ‘Elio’ which has a sub-£1 million opening at #3 to obliterate the record as the worst opening for the studio for a film released nationwide. It can save some face as it has opened higher than ‘Brave’ did in 2012 (£820,084, #6). However, that film was only released in Ireland and Scotland in the first weekend and climbed to #1 with £5,269,402 when it reached England and Wales. Outside of that, the previous worst opening was ‘Cars 3’ (£2,625,000, #4, 2017) and that film had the fact that the franchise has apparently brought in over $10 billion in merchandise sales for Disney going for it. Just to highlight how bad this opening was, this time last year ‘Inside Out 2’ was opening to £11,321,387. It’s bombed in America too, opening to $21 million when it was projected to hit $30 million at the start of the weekend. With a $150 million budget, this is a kick in the teeth to the ’Pixar make too many sequels’ crowd and just shows why they keep returning to the tried-and-tested hits. ‘Element’ did manage to leg-out ok after a slow start in 2023 (£19.7 million from a £3,049,002 opening) but this one feels DOA to me. The final new entry to the top 10 is the latest Indian hit ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ (£226,202, #7). This is a remake of the 2018 Spanish-Basketball hit ‘Champions’ which has already had an American remake in 2023: ‘Champions’ (£376,816, #8). It’s quite impressive that these openings are fairly similar. ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ drops to #2 in it’s second weekend with a 65% drop (51% without previews). This is slightly on the steep side but was expected with the warm weather this weekend. I think we’ll be able to tell more next weekend about where this is going to land in the franchise. ‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ continue to stick together and round of the top 5 with drops of 54% and 50%. They’ve both hit big milestones this weekend, ‘Stitch’ has overtaken last year’s big remake hit ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ while ‘The Final Reckoning’ has overtaken the £24.4 million total of ‘Mission: Impossible: Fallout’ to be the second biggest hit in the long-running franchise. The final four holders in the top 10 can be split into two: the British dramas ‘The Salt Path’ and ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ and the Hollywood franchisers ‘Ballerina’ and ‘Karate Kid: Legends’. The best hold comes from ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ as it drops 45% to become the 54th 2025 release to pass the £1 million mark. The biggest drop is the third weekend of ‘Ballerina’ (-67%). Despite good reviews, it looks like there just wasn’t the interest in the wider world of the John Wick franchise and puts the pressure on the recently announced ‘Chapter 5’. There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Kuberaa (#12). Next week sees the openings of ‘F1‘, ‘M3GAN 2.0’, ‘Chicken Town’, ‘From Hilde, With Love’, ‘Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful’, ‘Love & Trouble’, ‘Maa’ and ‘Worlds At War’. We also get a re-release of ‘Clueless’. Can any of them top the charts? ~Danny Boyle Openings: Shallow Grave (£1,071,587, #5, 1995)Trainspotting (£2,166,666, #1, 1996)A Life Less Ordinary (£1,045,050, #3, 1997)The Beach (£2,418,321, #2, 2000)28 Days Later (£1,500,079, #1, 2002)Millions (£293,032, #5, 2005)Sunshine (£1,021,063, #4, 2007)Slumdog Millionaire (£1,827,457, #2, 2009)127 Hours (£2,168,570, #2, 2011)Trance (£1,574,399, #3, 2013)Steve Jobs (£903,214, #5, 2015)T2 Trainspotting (£5,146,791, #1, 2017)Yesterday (£2,212,380, #2, 2019)28 Years Later (£4,780,374, #1, 2025)
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