That seems harsh for Elio considering it has good reviews

27th June 2025 - 29th June 2025

 

1. (NE) F1 - £7,071,647 Weeks: 1 (£7,071,647)

2. (01) 28 Years Later - £2,379,964 (-50%) Weeks: 2 (£9,704,463)

3. (02) How To Train Your Dragon - £1,996,805 (-29%) Weeks: 3 (£15,925,368)

4. (03) Elio - £765,541 (-21%) Weeks: 2 (£2,075,161)

5. (04) Lilo & Stitch - £539,281 (-20%) Weeks: 6 (£35,064,308)

6. (NE) M3GAN 2.0 - £508,947 Weeks: 1 (£508,947)

7. (05) Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - £325,259 (-46%) Weeks: 6 (£25,520,587)

8. (NE) Sardaar Ji 3 - £232,447 Weeks: 1 (£232,447)

9. (06) The Salt Path - £141,277 (-49%) Weeks: 5 (£7,428,004)

10. (07) Sitaare Zameen Par - £111,137 (-51%) Weeks: 2 (£449,159)

 

 

Falling out:

Ballerina (3 weeks)

Karate Kid: Legends (4 weeks)

The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2 weeks)

 

 

Off to a fast start and debuting at #1 is ‘F1’ (£7,071,647, £4.9 million without previews). An original story focusing on the popular motorsport, it might just be the first (theatrical) success story for Apple Studios. It sees the reteaming of director Joseph Kosinski, writer Ehren Kruger and producer Jerry Bruckheimer after the massive success they found with ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ (£15,931,497, #1) 2022. Even with this film opening to about half of that, it’s still not too shabby of a result. Brad Pitt stars and it gives him his second-best opening weekend of his career, falling marginally behind ‘Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood’ (£7,544,445, #1, 2019). The film has earned solid reviews and feels like a proper ‘Dad Film’ which is a good sign that it’s going to hold well throughout the summer months.

 

Not having such a good opening is ‘M3GAN 2.0’ (£508,947, #6). The original ‘M3GAN’ was a sleeper hit only a couple of years ago, opening to £2,356,356 (#2) on its way to a £7.2 million total. It was a well-regarded film and has become a bit of a cult-classic so it’s hard to work out where this one has gone so wrong but it is indicative of the decline of Blumhouse over the past year. The same cast and director have returned for the sequel but with this opening with a quarter of the original, something has kept audiences away. Its reception has been pretty divisive, with it leaning more into the action-comedy elements instead of the horror elements. I’ve seen multiple comparisons to ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’ which is intriguing to say the least.

 

The final new entry this week is the latest Indian release: ‘Sardaar Ji 3’ (£232,447, #8). This is the third film in the horror-comedy series following ‘Sardaar Ji’ (£106,489, #12, 2015) and ‘Sardaar Ji 2’ (£56,382, #15, 2016). It hasn’t actually been released domestically in India as the country has introduced a ban on films that include Pakistani actors. Last week’s Indian release, ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ drops 51% but remains in the top 10 for a second week.

 

Last week’s #1, ’28 Years Later’ drops 50% in week two (-39% without previews). With £9.7 million, it’s already overtaken the gross that the first film took in its original run. It will shortly become the fourth horror film to pass £10 million this year and has held up pretty well after the initial poor reviews from audiences. The Disney-double have the best holds in the top 10 this week, ‘Lilo & Stitch’ drops 20% while ‘Elio’ drops 21% in week two. It looks like a good hold on paper, but with how poor the opening weekend was, it would have needed to climb in business to have any chance of recovering.

 

The other kids film in the market, ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ also has a good hold (-29%). With £15.9 million, it’s now only £1.5 million off overtaking the gross of the original animated film. The more adult-oriented fare have been impacted harder by the arrival of ‘F1’ with ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ dropping 46% and ‘The Salt Path’ dropping 49%.

 

There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Miley Cyrus: Something Beautiful’ (#13).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth‘, ‘The Shrouds’, ‘Metro... In Dino’, ‘Hot Milk’ and ‘Jungle Trouble’. Can any of them top the charts?
 

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Brad Pitt (Starring) Openings:

 

Cold World (£253,991, #7, 1992)

A River Runs Through It (£608,164, #4, 1993)

True Romance (£1,210,135, #2, 1993)

Kalifornia (£45,383, #15, 1994)

Interview With The Vampire (£3,799,972, #1, 1995)

Legends Of The Fall (£1,221,196, #1, 1995)

Seven (£2,628,821, #1, 1996)

12 Monkeys (£1,363,967, #1, 1996)

Sleepers (£662,006, #7, 1997)

The Devil’s Own (£1,108,307, #2, 1997)

Seven Years In Tibet (£719,868, #3, 1997)

Meet Joe Black (£986,511, #1, 1999)

Fight Club (£1,177,219, #2, 1999)

Snatch (£3,180,002, #1, 2000)

The Mexican (£1,124,265, #2, 2001)

Spy Game (£1,019,847, #2, 2001)

Ocean’s Eleven (£5,095,062, #1, 2002)

Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas (£828,550, #4, 2003)

Troy (£6,017,523, #1, 2004)

Ocean’s Twelve (£3,394,100, #2, 2005)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (£3,943,422, #1, 2005)

Babel (£592,387, #7, 2007)

Ocean’s Thirteen (£3,021,302, #1, 2007)

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (£180,886, #9, 2007)

Burn After Reading (£2,045,565, #1, 2008)

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (£2,213,495, #1, 2009)

Inglourious Basterds (£3,596,415, #1, 2009)

Megamind (£2,827,502, #2, 2010)

The Tree Of Life (£406,062, #6, 2011)

Moneyball (£230,848, #10, 2011)

Killing Them Softly (£955,506, #2, 2012)

World War Z (£4,535,899, #2, 2013)

The Counsellor (£815,051, #4, 2013)

12 Years A Slave (£2,511,349, #1, 2014)

Fury (£2,692,786, #1, 2014)

By The Sea (£24,770, #18, 2015)

The Big Short (£1,302,205, 4, 2016)

Allied (£1,331,919, #2, 2016)

Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood’ (£7,544,445, #1, 2019)

Ad Astra (£2,265,387, #2, 2019)

The Lost City (£2,743,211, #2, 2022)

Bullet Train (£2,858,197, #1, 2022)

Babylon (£1,323,683, #3, 2023)

F1 (£7,071,647, #1, 2025)

Such a decline for M3GAN, but it's just mirroring the decline in quality from first movie to second. I was so disappointed.

As for where it went wrong for the sequel, I can't say that I've seen posters about for it, so I think marketing has been poor. Maybe also a crowded market (with '28 Years Later' doing good numbers, as movies that could be fighting for some of the same audience)? And maybe fans of the original were just less willing to spend a heatwave going to the cinema idk.

The advertising for M3GAN was solid I thought. Not as stronng as it could have been but still a fair amount… it’s just… unfortunately this movie looked like a completely different one to what the first was and they went for the silly action-comedy route as opposed to the satirical horror comedy feel of the first. Definitely jumped the shark with that.

I haven’t had a chance to see ‘Elio’ yet and I’m gutted because I really want to but the timings are terrible now. There’s so few showings of them already. It’s sad. People constantly moan about sequels and prequels etc… but when they’re not going to see original movies like that… ugh. But it’s Disney’s own fault too… they have not promoted it much at all and I low-key think (and this is probs just the conspiracy theorist in me) Disney have done it on purpose just so they have a reason to say “Pixar titles will now be premiering on Disney+” or something. I’m sure it won’t be long until that’s a thing again. It’s sad.

4th July 2025 - 6th June 2025

 

1. (NE) Jurassic World: Rebirth - £12,493,783 Weeks: 1 (£12,493,783)

2. (01) F1 - £3,074,422 (-57%) Weeks: 2 (£12,901,088)

3. (03) How To Train Your Dragon - £1,489,574 (-26%) Weeks: 4 (£18,197,343)

4. (02) 28 Years Later - £1,409,291 (-41%) Weeks: 3 (£12,450,171)

5. (04) Elio - £691,062 (-10%) Weeks: 3 (£3,042,686)

6. (05) Lilo & Stitch - £476,644 (-12%) Weeks: 7 (£35,742,082)

7. (06) M3GAN 2.0 - £168,778 (-67%) Weeks: 2 (£983,155)

8. (07) Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - £167,575 (-49%) Weeks: 7 (25,882,507)

9. (08) Sardaar Ji 3 - £155,613 (-33%) Weeks: 2 (£529,271)

10 (12) The Ballad Of Wallis Island - £92,131 (+2%) Weeks: 6 (£1,681,119)

 

 

Falling out:

The Salt Path (5 weeks)

Sitaare Zameen Par (2 weeks)

 

 

In a quiet mid-summer weekend, there’s only one new entry in the top 10 but it’s a big one as ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ debuts at #1 with £12,493,783 (£9.2 million without previews) continuing the trend of every ‘Jurassic’ film reaching the top spot. This is very slight up on 2022’s ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ £12,121,728 but is lagging behind the first two ‘World’’ films. The previews has helped it sneak past ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’ to be the second highest opening weekend of 2025 and it’s less than £500k away from debuting within the YTD top 10. ‘Dominion’ made about £35 million in total for context of what sort of total this will be targeting. Franchise peak ‘Jurassic World’ made about £63.7 million.

 

‘F1’ drops to #2 in it’s second week, adding another £3 million to reach a total of £13 million. This represents a 57% drop (a much healthier -38% without previews). It’s already director Joe Kosinski’s second biggest film, although it will never come close to catching ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ at #1. Holding out in the top 3 for a fourth week is ‘How To Train Your Dragon’. A solid -26% hold sees it pass £18 million and overtake the gross of the original animated film.

‘M3GAN 2.0’ did not get any respite from its slow opening, dropping a harsh 67% in weekend two and it hasn’t even reached £1 million yet. Let’s just remember that the first film opened with £2.4 million on its way to £7.3 million. I don’t see any route for this even reaching that opening weekend figure before it leaves the big screen. Jason Blum must really be scratching his head at this moment in time. The other new entry last week, ‘Sardaar Ji 3’ has a particularly strong (for an Indian release) hold of -33% as it passed £500k and holds in the top 10 for a second week.

 

The Disney-duo hold well: ‘Elio’ down 10% and ‘Lilo & Stitch’ down 12%. ‘Elio’ has reached £3 million but it still looking impossible for it not to become Pixar’s lowest grosser. ’28 Years Later’ isn’t having the strongest holds (-41%) but is still only about £500k off overtaking ‘Nosferatu’ to become the biggest horror-hit of the year. While ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ is starting to look like it’s on its last legs.

 

‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ climbs 2% on week 6 to begin a second run in the top 10. It’s on £1.7 million and doesn’t look like it’s at the end of its run yet. Not bad for a film that missed the top 10 on its opening weekend!

 

There are two further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Hot Milk’ (#11) and ‘Metro In Dino’ (#13).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Superman‘, ‘Watch The Skies, ‘CBeebies Musical: The Great Ice Cream Hunt’, ‘The Other Way Around’ and ‘Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan’. Can any of them top the charts?
 

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Jurassic Park Openings:

 

Jurassic Park (£4,875,000, #1, 1993)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (£5,666,917, #1, 1997)

Jurassic Park III (£4,762,155, #1, 2001)

Jurassic World (£19,350,727, #1, 2015)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (£14,334,894, #1, 2018)

Jurassic World: Dominion (£12,121,728, #1, 2022)

Jurassic World: Rebirth (£12,493,783, #1, 2025)

On 07/07/2025 at 19:10, LewisGT said:

4th July 2025 - 6th June 2025

 

Falling out:

The Salt Path (5 weeks)

Appropriate timing.

I went to see the Jurassic Park film this week and actually really enjoyed it. Thought it was way better than the last two, the only thing I don't like is the fake lab experiment dinosaurs, nobody needs it just stick to original dinosaurs.

Just been to see Superman cinema screen was quite empty but heard it’s taken in very high figures already so will be very intrigued to see this weeks box office.

11th July 2025 - 13th June 2025

 

1. (NE) Superman - £6,992,902 Weeks: 1 (£6,992,902)

2. (01) Jurassic World: Rebirth - £3,236,505 (-74%) Weeks: 2 (£19,383,471)

3. (02) F1 - £1,170,338 (-62%) Weeks: 3 (£15,882.658)

4. (03) How To Train Your Dragon - £582,038 (-61%) Weeks: 5 (£19,319,953)

5. (04) 28 Years Later - £498,015 (-65%) Weeks: 4 (£13,729,504)

6. (05) Elio - £240,341 (-65%) Weeks: 4 (£3,474,578)

7. (06) Lilo & Stitch - £159,496 (-67%) Weeks: 8 (£36,056,086)

8. (09) Sardaar Ji 3 - £72,631 (-53%) Weeks: 3 (£678,425)

9. (08) Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning - £48,307 (-72%) Weeks: 8 (£26,051,451)

10 (10) The Ballad Of Wallis Island - £43,996 (-53%) Weeks: 7 (£1,834,812)

 

 

Falling out:

M3GAN 2.0 (2 weeks)

 

 

In a depressed weekend at the box office due to the sun, ‘Superman’ underwhelms as it bags itself a #1 debut. Opening with £6,992,902, this is the 8^th biggest opening weekend of 2025 (5th biggest 3-day opening) but does rank slightly higher than the two MCU efforts so far this year ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ (£6,404,345, #1) and ‘Thunderbolts*’ (£5,979,242, #1) and the previous six DC releases: ‘Black Adam’ (£5,655,003, #1, 2022), ‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods’ (£2,397,953, #1, 2023), ‘The Flash’ (£4,252,532, #1, 2023), ‘Blue Beetle’ (£1,189,812, #3, 2023), ‘Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom’ (£2,489,068, #2, 2023) and ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ (£5,674,029, #1, 2024). However, this is the first release in the new James Gunn-led DC Universe and I certainly think they were looking for a stronger start. The DCEU also started with Superman with ‘Man Of Steel’ (£11,198,786, #1, 2013) and ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ (£14,621,007, #1, 2016) both pulling in nearly double this year’s effort. However, this weekend was the hottest of the year and, unlike in the US, UK cinemas are at their quietest in the sun which is evidences by the drops of every other film in the top 10. With no major new competition next week and with school’s shutting for the summer very soon, there is a lot of scope available for this film to pick up. Next week’s hold will be interesting and then how it holds against ‘Fantastic Four’ in a couple of weeks will be the moment of truth.

 

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ has a massive 74% drop (65% without previews) in weekend two. However, as previously mentioned this has been inflated by the warm weather and next week’s hold will tell a better story. It has still managed to climb up to #5 in the YTD chart and will pass the £20 million mark over the next couple of days. It has fell behind the pace of the previous Jurassic release ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ which had £21,759,279 at this point. ‘F1’ is the only other film this week that cleared £1 million as it rises to £15.8 million. It needs to reach £19.5 million to enter Brad Pitt’s top 5.

 

Kids films have not been able to resist the hot-weather curse with ‘Elio’ collapsing 65%. Not what it needed when it’s already playing catch-up. The pair of remakes see drops of 61% (‘How To Train Your Dragon’) and 67% (‘Lilo & Stitch).

 

’28 Years Later’ has overtaken ‘Nosferatu’ and is now the biggest horror hit of the year with £13.7 million while ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ has a harsh 71% drop but does scrape past £26 million. It’s still trailing ‘Dead Reckoning: Part One’ by about £600k.

 

The two best holds come from ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ that holds at #10 (-52%) and the Indian hit ‘Sardaar Ji 3’ that climbs a place in week #3 despite the 53% drop. For anyone interested, ‘M3GAN 2.0’ drops to #12 with an 85% drop in business. The films at #14 and #15 this week both fall short of £20k.

 

There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘CBeebies Musical: The Great Ice Cream Hunt’ (#12), while the re-release of ‘The Girl Who Leaped Through Time’ enters at #14.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Smurfs’, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’, ‘Friendship’, ‘Saiyaara’, ‘Four Letters Of Love’, ‘Harvest’ and ‘The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire’. We also see a re-release of ‘Barry Lyndon’.  Can any of them top the charts?

I think I Know What You Did Last Summer will be top next week.

I'm not sure. I think it'll be Superman for a 2nd week (and a solid hold)!

1. Superman

2. Jurassic World

3. I Know What You Did Last Summer

4. Smurfs

5. F1

Would be my guess

18th July 2025 - 20th June 2025

 

1. (01) Superman - £4,877,459 (-30%) Weeks: 2 (£16,391,993)

2. (02) Jurassic World: Rebirth - £3,295,875 (+2%) Weeks: 3 (£24,938,490)

3. (03) F1 - £1,260,688 (+8%) Weeks: 4 (£18,241,245)

4. (NE) Smurfs - £1,212,110 Weeks: 1 (£1,212,110)

5. (NE) I Know What You Did Last Summer - £941,968 Weeks: 1 (£941,968)

6. (04) How To Train Your Dragon - £675,900 (+16%) Weeks: 6 (£20,485,940)

7. (05) 28 Years Later - £438,640 (-12%) Weeks: 5 (£14,698,934)

8. (06) Elio - £307,131 (+28%) Weeks: 5 (£4,012,689)

9. (07) Lilo & Stitch - £196,247 (+20%) Weeks: 9 (£36,429,864)

10. (NE) Saiyaara - £194,072 Weeks: 1 (£194,072)

 

 

Falling out:

Sardaar Ji 3 (3 weeks)

Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning (8 weeks)

The Ballad Of Wallis Island (2 weeks) *In this run

 

 

I said last week that it was too early to write off ‘Superman’ with its disappointing opening being due to the hot weather and it has proved the case with the DC flick bagging a second week at #1 with a drop of just 30%. Solid midweek showings have seen it reach a total of £16.4 million, allowing it to already climb over the final total of ‘Thunderbolts*’ and climb into the YTD top 10. 2006’s ‘Superman Returns’ closed on £16.3 million so this will only climb above that film and it’s already closing in on ‘Justice League’ (£17.4 million). ‘Man Of Steel’ (£29.9 million) and ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ (£36.6 million) are still far off. Next weekend is going to be fascinating for this film as it has about as direct competition as possible with the release of Marvel’s ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’.

 

The highest new entry this week is Rihanna is Smurfette ‘Smurfs’ which opens at #4 with £1,212,110. This isn’t far off what 2017’s ‘Smurfs: The Lost Village’ (£1,383,059, #3, 2017) opened with which I’m actually shocked by because I was expecting this to completely tank. It’s the third attempt to revitalise the Smurfs IP in recent years (after consecutive diminishing returns) and I haven’t seen a film marketed as poorly as this in a while. If you’ve heard anything about this film, I’m sure it is that ‘Rihanna is Smurfette’. It’s written bigger than ‘Smurfs’ on the poster! They’ve tried the big female popstar for the last two attempts (Katy Perry in ‘The Smurfs’ and ‘The Smurfs 2’ and Demi Lovato in ‘Smurfs: The Lost Village’) and no on cared so they haven’t learnt from their mistakes in making this the film’s big selling point. They also cast James Corden as the likeable, down-on-his-luck ‘hero’ which shows how out-of-touch they are with the general public. The only interesting part of the advertising campaign is the fate of Influencer Smurf and how the internet (successfully) decided to ‘cancel’ him. 2011’s ‘The Smurfs’ grossed £16.8 million while 2017’s ‘The Lost Village’ closed with £5.8 million.

 

Opening just behind at #5 is ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (£941,968). This is higher than 1999’s ‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ (£802,498, #1) but is behind the original film’s £1,480,505 (#3, 1997). The original films were decent hits but I think people will be surprised at how little they grossed in the UK, the original made £4.5 million in total with the sequel bagging £2.7 million. I feel like this one will end up somewhere in the middle. Original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. both return (alongside cameos from Sarah Michelle Gellar and Brandy) all return alongside flesh blood in Madelyn Cline, Jonah Hauter-King, Chase Sui Wonders and Tyriq Withers.

 

The final new entry in the top 10 is ‘Saiyaara’ (£194,072, #10). This is an Indian musical from director Mohit Suri and is a loose-remake of the 2004 Korean film ‘A Moment To Remember’. Apparently one of the main plot points surrounds the lead character’s upcoming gig at Wembley Stadium so maybe they were targeting the UK market.

 

I was on holiday this weekend so I don’t know but the weather must have been worse than the previous weekend as only one of the remaining six holders in the top 10 dropped in business. The only decrease was ’28 Years Later’ that drops 12%. However, this was another for the film to pass £14 million and overtake ‘Yesterday’ to reach bronze position when it comes to Danny Boyle films. ‘T2 Trainspotting’ (£17 million) and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (£31.5 million) should both prove to be steps too far.  

 

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ and ‘F1’ both remain in medal positions with climbs of 2% and 8%. ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ was at £27,117,894 at this stage in its run so ‘Rebirth’ is going to need some strong summer legs if it wants to stop itself from being the worst performing release in the World era of Jurassic films. ‘F1’ has passed ‘Troy’ (£18 million) but still needs another £1.3 million-ish before it catches ‘Se7en’ (£19.5 million) and becomes a top 5 hit for Brad Pitt.

 

‘How To Train Your Dragon’ increases 16% and passes £20 million. It’s now only trailing ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ (£25.5 million) when it comes to the kids fantasy franchise. The other big live-action remake ‘Lilo & Stitch’ climbs 20% as it further solidifies it’s place in the top 3 films of the year so far. While ‘Elio’ has a too little, too late increase of 23% as it reaches £4 million. Still only one-seventh of what ‘Toy Story 3’ OPENED with in 2010(!)

 

There are three further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Friendship’ (#11), 'Sarbala Ji' (#12) and 'Four Letters Of Love' (#15), while the re-release of ‘Barry Lyndon’ enters at #14.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’, ‘The Home’, ‘Zero’, 'Bambi: The Reckoning’, 'House On Eden’, and 'Gazer’. We also see re-releases of ‘The Goonies' and 'Amadeus’.  Can any of them top the charts?

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The Smurfs Openings:

 

The Smurfs (£3,778,085, #2, 2011)

The Smurfs 2 (£3,220,911, #1, 2013)

Smurfs: The Lost Village (£1,383,059, #3, 2017)

Smurfs (£1,212,110, #4, 2025)

The Bad Guys 2 also opens next week which I think could be opening to bigger numbers than (the surprisingly stronger than I had anticipated opening) Smurfs!

Hyped for Fantastic 4. Great to see Superman hold so well! I assumed it would as word of mouth is great/the strongest I’ve seen for a movie for a while.

On 21/07/2025 at 20:40, Tafty said:

The Bad Guys 2 also opens next week which I think could be opening to bigger numbers than (the surprisingly stronger than I had anticipated opening) Smurfs!

Hyped for Fantastic 4. Great to see Superman hold so well! I assumed it would as word of mouth is great/the strongest I’ve seen for a movie for a while.

You're right! For some reason it was saying 1st August when I was searching it. I agree that it will be above 'Smurfs' but I'm just don't know how it will land. We've seen a couple of animated sequels do brilliantly recently so we'll see if the trend continues.

I hope IKWYDLS can do enough for them to justify a sequel - they can’t leave it at that ending

25th July 2025 - 27th June 2025

 

1. (01) The Fantastic Four: First Steps - £8,144,594 Weeks: 1 (£8,144,594)

2. (01) Superman - £1,913,047 (-61%) Weeks: 3 (£21,423,043)

3. (NE) The Bad Guys 2 - £1,628,702 Weeks: 1 (£1,628,702)

4. (02) Jurassic World: Rebirth - £1,577,590 (-52%) Weeks: 4 (£28,773,507)

5. (03) F1 - £651,189 (-48%) Weeks: 5 (£19,729,006)

6. (10) Saiyaara - £506,773 (+161%) Weeks: 2 (£1,049,897)

7. (04) Smurfs - £481,833 (-60%) Weeks: 2 (£2,783,524)

8. (05) I Know What You Did Last Summer - £378,137 (-60%) Weeks: 2 (£1,988,657)

9. (06) How To Train Your Dragon - £299,397 (-56%) Weeks: 7 (£21,445,468)

10. (07) 28 Years Later - £174,790 (-60%) Weeks: 6 (£15,175,815)

 

 

Falling out:

Elio (5 weeks)

Lilo & Stitch (9 weeks) 

Marvel makes it 3/3 for #1 openings this year with their final release until next July, ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ tops the chart with £8,144,594 (£6 million without previews) beating out the film it bumps off the top spot to become the biggest opening of the year for a comic book film. ‘Superman’ still leads when it comes to the 3-day, no-previews opening. This represents the best opening for an F4 film with 2007 sequel ‘Rise Of The Silver Surfer’ being the previous highpoint with an opening of £4,137,169. The first two Chris Evans/Jessica Alba films were incredibly consistent, both ending with about £12.4 million while 2015’s failed reboot closed lower than this one has opened with £5.7 million and only two weeks in the top 10. There doesn’t seem to be much direct competition coming out in August, so Disney will be hoping to see this hold like their DC counterpart. However, this one wasn’t affected by the hot weather in its opening weekend so I don’t foresee it having the same staying power.

 

Speaking of ‘Superman’, it drops to #2 in its third weekend with a 61% drop in business. This has helped it pass £20 million and overtake ‘F1’ and ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ in the process. The aim for DC has got to be to see it past the £29.9 million of ‘Man Of Steel’ and officially start this reboot of their universe in a stronger fashion than the last.

 

The only other new entry this week is ‘The Bad Guys 2’ (£1,628,702, #3). This represents a slight increase from the 3-day debut of the original (£1.6 million) but that film had previews that allowed it to officially open to £2,279,074 (#3, 2022) on its way to a strong £13.5 million total after 12 weeks in the top 10. In what has been a weak year for animation after a strong 2024, this is the second best opening for an animated film this year, only trailing the £3,252,537 that ‘Dog Man’ opened with all the way back in February. See below for a list of the top 5 animated openings of the year and, yes, ‘Elio’ really did so badly in the opening weekend that it misses out on this list.

 

Aside from the two debuts, the big story this week is the expansion of Indian hit ‘Saiyaara’ that climbs a massive 161% in week two as it becomes the second Indian release of 2025 to pass the £1 million barrier after ‘L2: Empuraan’. I’m very interested to see where this one goes from here. It’s the first time I recall an Indian film performing this way.

 

Last week’s two new entries both drop 60% and three positions. ‘Smurfs’ isn’t quite the smurfing disaster I was expecting with it’s current total of £2.8 million being higher than where ‘The Lost Village’ was at the same point in 2017 (£2,430,688). It’s a far cry from the £7,697,835 that 2011’s ‘The Smurfs’ had after two weeks though. ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ tells a similar story, it’s tracking ahead of the 1999 sequel but behind the £2,433,212 that the 1997 original had at the same stage, despite the decades of inflation since then. Also dropping that same 60% (a very popular drop this week) is ’28 Years Later’ as it falls the basement of the top 10. It's still about £1 million away from overtaking 'Sinners' and becoming the biggest horror hit of 2025.

 

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ is still showing that there’s life in those dinosaurs yet with it’s 52% drop looking good compared to the market average and being enough for it to overtake ‘Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning’ to climb to #4 in the YTD charts. ‘F1’ remains in the top 5 for a 5^th week with a decent hold of -48% while ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ drops 56% and looks like it won’t be able to catch franchise peak ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’.

 

There are three further new entries in the #11-15 section: 'Hari Hara Veera Mallu: Part 1' (#11), 'Thalavain Thalaivii' (#14) and 'Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death: The Movie' (#15). The re-release of ‘The Goonies’ also enters at #12.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘The Naked Gun’, ‘Bring Her Back’, ‘The Legend Of Ochi’, ‘BTS Army: Forever We Are Young’, ‘Kingdom’, ‘Late Shift’, ‘Savages’, ‘Dhadak 2’, ‘Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams’, ‘Dogspiracy’ and ‘2000 Meters To Andriivka’.

 

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Fantastic Four Openings:

 

Fantastic Four (£3,541,391, #1, 2005)

Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (£4,137,169, #1, 2007)

Fantastic Four (£2,686,176, #1, 2015)

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (£8,144,594, #1, 2025)

 

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Top 5 Animated Openings of 2025 (so far):

1. Dog Man - £3,252,537 (#1)

2. The Bad Guys 2 - £1,628,702 (#3)

3. Ne Zha 2 - £1,235,546, (#2)

4. Smurfs - £1,212,110 (#4)

5. Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience - £1,065,856 (#5)

Yay for 'The Fantastic Four'! Hopefully it'll hold steady.

For such a weak year for animation, 'Elio' really should be wiping the floor with it's competition. It's behind ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ and 'Ne Zha 2' for me as the best animation of the year so far (4th/5th if you include 'Flow' & 'Memoir of a Snail' - like I do - as 2025 releases)

Really hoping both 'The Fantastic Four' and 'Superman' can level out what will be a pretty meh August and hold strong.