8th August 2025 - 10th August 2025

 

1. (NE) Weapons - £2,818,535 Weeks: 1 (£2,818,535)

2. (NE) Freakier Friday - £1,758,698 Weeks: 1 (£1,758,698)

3. (01) The Fantastic Four: First Steps - £1,379,975 (-55%) Weeks: 3 (£19,034,075)

4. (02) The Naked Gun - £1,103,887 (-39%) Weeks: 2 (£4,401,635)

5. (03) The Bad Guys 2 - £812,771 (-39%) Weeks: 3 (£7,382,166)

6. (04) Jurassic World: Rebirth - £663,735 (-48%) Weeks: 6 (£33,403,993)

7. (05) Superman - £650,520 (-48%) Weeks: 5 (£26,013,719)

8. (08) F1 - £281,670 (-42%) Weeks: 7 (£21,436,326)

9. (07) Saiyaara - £244,273 (-50%) Weeks: 4 (£2,638,546)

10. (NE) Stans - £212,163 Weeks: 1 (£352,326)

 

 

Falling out:

Bring Her Back (1 week)

Smurfs (3 weeks)

Chal Mera Putt 3 (1 week) 

You wait 5 months for an 18-certificated film to open above £1 million and then you get two in consecutive weeks as ‘Weapons’ smashes all expectations to bag Warner Bros. a sixth #1 hit in an insane year for the production company after some high-profile failures in 2024 (‘Joker: Folie à Deux’, ‘Horizon: An American Saga: Chapter 1’). When you consider one of their only releases that hasn’t hit #1 is ‘Sinners’ which spent 4-weeks at #2 and became one of the biggest horror hits of all-time in the US, you can really see how 2025 belong to them. The opening of £2,818,535 (£2.6 million without previews) means that ‘Weapons’ has had the biggest opening weekend for an 18-rated flick since ‘Scream VI’ opened with £3,043,922 (#1) in March 2023. Zach Cregger’s horror hit is another example of a strong marketing campaign can do wonders for horror hits after inventive ads have helped ‘M3GAN’ (£2,356,356, #2, 2023) and ‘Longlegs’ (£1,371,352, #3, 2024) in recent years. It also shows just how successful the comedian-turned-horror-auteur path has become with Cregger first finding fame as part of the sketch-group ‘The Whitest Kids U' Know’ before his break-out horror hit ‘Barbarian’. This follows Jordan Peele going from ‘Key & Peele’ to ‘Get Out’ to ‘Us’ and last week’s ‘Bring Her Back’ where directors Danny and Michael Philippou started off with the horror-comedy YouTube channel ‘RackaRacka’ before releasing ‘Talk To Me’.

 

Opening at #2 is Lindsay Lohan’s comeback to the big screens in ‘Freakier Friday’ (£1,758,698). Have we finally cracked the code for legacy-sequels as ‘Freakier Friday’ is another critical-smash following ‘The Naked Gun’ last week? Aside from her cameos in last year’s ‘Mean Girls’ and 2013’s ‘Scary Movie 5’, this marks Lohan’s first appearance in a film that has reached the UK Box Office charts since ‘Bobby’ (£285,057, #12) in 2007. Lohan’s struggles in this intermittent period has been well-documented but she has found her footing again with a successful-slew of Netflix films since 2022 and it’s great to see her back in a major role. Despite being a success overall and becoming a cult-hit, the first ‘Freaky Friday’ starring Lohan was never a massive hit in the UK. It opened at #4 with £1,214,559 on its way to a £6.6 million total. So, the sequel has started off stronger and Disney will be hoping that it can end up beating the first film overall, especially with the strong reviews. Just eking out ‘Freaky Friday’ to be Lohan’s most successful time to date is ‘Herbie: Fully Loaded’ (£774,412, #5, 2005) that closed with £6.7 million.

 

There is one final new entry in the top 10: ‘Stans’ (£212,163, #10). This actually opened in the week but didn’t have that gross included with previews. Had this been included the film would have opened slightly higher at #8 with £352,326. This is a documentary that follows the career of Hip-Hop legend Eminem through the eyes of some of his biggest fans. Compared to other musical documentaries of recent years, this falls short of February’s ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ (£417,768, #8) but is above the two from last year: ‘Blur: To The End (£147,981, #8) and 'Piece By Piece' (£186,978, #10).

 

Falling to #3 after two weeks at the top is ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ after another steep drop (-55%). It has done enough this weekend to pass the other two MCU films of 2025 and enter the top 10 in the YTD chart but it’s now running £2.5 million behind where ‘Superman’ was at after 3-weeks (£21,423,043) and is having harsher drops than that film has had. It’s official that DC will are beating Marvel this year. ‘Superman’ drops 49% this weekend as it falls to #7.

 

‘The Naked Gun’ was the biggest new entry last week and it has a solid hold this weekend, dropping 39% and bagging a second week over £1 million. It’s at £4.4 million in total which means it’s closing in on the £5.3 million total of ‘The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult’ from 1994. However. that was over 30-years ago so comparisons are almost pointless to make. ‘Wicked Little Letters’ was at £4,259,564 at this stage last year so there’s still a chance it can leg-out well like that did and potentially be an exceedingly rare-comedy that can hit the £10 million milestone. Closing out the top 5 is ‘The Bad Guys 2’ in it’s fifth week. A 39% drop sees it hit £7.4 million, amazingly similar to where the original film was at after 3 weekends (£7,587,779). Great consistency for the animated franchise!

 

‘Saiyaara’ has its first significant drop as it loses 50% of business to fall to #9. However, it’s total of £2.7 million is very impressive for an Indian film and, as reported by Screen Daily, allows it to enter the top 5 grossing Indian films of all-time in the UK. It will be top 3 by next weekend but, for now, see below for the full top 5.

 

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ is still plodding along nicely with a 48% drop seeing it climb to £33.4 million. It’s now looking likely that it will overtake the £35.1 million of ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ and stop itself from being the worst-performing film of the ‘World’ era of Jurassic films. ‘F1’ is also sticking around, dropping 42% in its 7^th week to hold at #8.

 

There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Mahavatar Narsimha’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Nobody 2’, ‘The Materialists’, ‘Together’, ‘Coolie’, ‘War 2’, ‘Super Charlie’, ‘Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods’, ‘Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love’, and ‘Motherboard’. We also get re-releases of ‘Princess Mononoke’, ‘Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai’ and ‘Central Station’. Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Top Indian Films (All-Time)

 

1. Pathaan (£4.4 million, 2023)

2. Jawan (£3.1 million, 2023)

3. Dhoom 3 (£2.7 million, 2013)

4. Bajrangi Bhaijaan (£2.7 million, 2015)

5. Saiyaara (£2.7 million, 2025)

That's fantastic for Weapons! Do we know Barbarian's overall gross or opening? That was definitely more of a slow burner and I think the similar rug pull that that had probably helped this one.

Freakier Friday AND Naked Gun 2 being no.2 flops?! Unbelievable!!!

20 hours ago, Chez Wombat said:

That's fantastic for Weapons! Do we know Barbarian's overall gross or opening? That was definitely more of a slow burner and I think the similar rug pull that that had probably helped this one.

Barbarian opened with £380,812 (#8, 2022) and eventually made about £1.3 million.

For some reason, in my head I remembered it as being a Disney+ release when cinemas were closed so I didn't even think to look at it's box office 😄

On 11/08/2025 at 20:00, LewisGT said:

The Naked Gun’ was the biggest new entry last week and it has a solid hold this weekend, dropping 39% and bagging a second week over £1 million. It’s at £4.4 million in total which means it’s closing in on the £5.3 million total of ‘The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult’ from 1994. However. that was over 30-years ago so comparisons are almost pointless to make

Taking inflation into account, that would be around £11.2 million at 2025 prices. That may be a tad ambitious for this one, although the studio will likely be happy with how it’s done overall.

15th August 2025 - 17th August 2025

 

1. (NE) Weapons - £1,557,829 (-45%) Weeks: 2 (£6,254,096)

2. (NE) Materialists - £1,287,221 Weeks: 1 (£1,287,221)

3. (NE) Coolie - £939,508 Weeks: 1 (939,508)

4. (02) Freakier Friday - £915,704 (-47%) Weeks: 2 (£4,027,369)

5. (03) The Fantastic Four: First Steps - £688,026 (-50%) Weeks: 4 (£20,807,289)

6. (05) The Bad Guys 2 - £542,738 (-33%) Weeks: 4 (£8,821,350)

7. (04) The Naked Gun - £531,660 (-52%) Weeks: 3 (£5,673,134)

8. (NE) Together - £504,490 Weeks: 1 (£504,490)

9. (NE) War 2 - £503,416 Weeks: 1 (£503,416)

10. (NE) Nobody 2 - £475,724 Weeks: 1 (£475,724)

 

 

Falling out:

Jurassic World: Rebirth (6 weeks)

Superman (5 weeks)

F1 (7 weeks)

Saiyaara (4 weeks)

Stans (1 week) 

In a busy weekend where half of the top 10 are new entries, it’s ‘Weapons’ that proves to be the biggest draw as it completed a second weekend at the top of the chart with £1,557,829 (-45%). Unless you’re being generous and count ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ as horror, this is the first horror film to spend multiple weeks at #1 since ‘Alien: Romulus’ which actually made its debut this time last year. It’s already made over £6 million in total and has a good chance of becoming the 5^th horror film to pass £10 million this year. Last year, only one reached this total (although ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ only fell short by less than £100k).

 

Thanks to previews, we get flesh blood at positions #2 and #3 with the debuts of ‘Materialists’ (£1,287,221, £830k without previews) and ‘Coolie’ (£939,508, £576k without previews) respectively. ‘Materialists’ is the second feature from director Celine Song after her Oscar-nominated debut ‘Past Lives’ (£515,509, #5) earned £3.1 million in 2023. This is a bigger-budgeted film (around $20 million compared to her debut’s $12 million) and that’s came with a very starry cast led by Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and man-of-the-moment Pedro Pascal who make up a love-triangle in this rom-com. An A24 release in America and picked up by Sony worldwide, the film already has over $75 million banked worldwide and is another success for Song. ‘Coolie’ is an Indian actioner from director Lokesh Kanagaraj, who previously had great-success with his last release ‘Leo’ in 2023 (£1,236,751, #4). This continues the hot streak for Indian cinema in the UK with last month’s ‘Saiyaara’ now the third-most successful import from the country.

 

We then get a trio of new entries rounding out the top 10 with buzzy-horror ‘Together’ (£504,490, #8) eking out a victory over Indian action-sequel ‘War 2’ (£503,416, #9) by little more than £100 while American action-sequel ‘Nobody 2’ bombs at #10. It feels like it’s taken forever for ‘Together’ to reach our shores. I remember hearing about there being a bidding-war for it at the Sundance Festival in January which was eventually won by Neon for a cool $17 million dollars. Then it was in the news as it faced a plagiarism lawsuit as director Patrick Henry Phelan claimed that the whole film was stolen from his 2023 film ‘Better Half’ claiming that he had pitched the role to eventual ‘Together’ co-star and co-producer Dave Franco. Since then, the promotion tour starring Franco and his co-star (and wife) Alison Brie has been unavoidable for me but it’s finally here amongst ecstatic reviews. Eventual writer/director Michael Shanks continues the YouTube to horror-director trend started by the Philippou brothers. The debut is alright for the film but you can’t help but feel like it’s had the wrong release date with ‘Weapons’ being such a breakout at the same time.

 

‘War 2’ beats out ‘Nobody 2’ in the action sequel battle. The original ‘War’ opened to £345,418 (#8) in 2019 and earned about £600k in total so this represents a much stronger start and could become the third Indian film in the past month to crack £1 million if it can hold. The original ‘Nobody’ was not a hit on release in the UK; opening with £574,399 (#5) and ending up with £1.4 million. It fared slightly better worldwide and made $57.5 million from a $16 million budget. However, it was well received and found an audience on streaming services which led to Universal green-lighting the sequel. Despite being modestly budgeted ($25 million), it doesn’t look like the risk was worth it. You usually see a big increase for the sequel for films like this. The big example being ‘John Wick’ where the original was a small hit before the sequel becoming a blockbuster. However, ‘Nobody 2’ has opened with less than the original did in the just-reopening marketplace of June 2021 when cinemas were still trying to recover.

 

‘Freakier Friday’ drops 47% on week two. The hold is about what you’d expect and sees the film reach £4 million. It’s going to pass the gross of the original but it’s not going to breakout in the way that I think Disney were hoping. You can say the same for ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ that drops 50% on week 4 as it climbs above £20 million. According to Screen Daily, it now ranks as the 23/36 in the MCU passing ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ (£19.4 million) and ‘Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania’ (£19.3 million). Although, there’s actually been 37 MCU films so take their information with a pinch of salt.

 

The best hold of the weekend goes to ‘The Bad Guys 2’ that dips just 33% to reach £8,821,350. Despite this, it is falling further of the place of the original which had earned £9,362,010 at this stage in its run. The biggest drop of any film this weekend is the 52% lost by ‘The Naked Gun’. Although, hitting £5.7 million feels like a good result for a broad-comedy in 2025.

 

There are no further new entries in the #11-15 section. Although, we do see the re-release of ‘Princess Mononoke’ enter at #13.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘The Life Of Chuck’, ‘Eddington’, ‘Sorry, Baby’, ‘Grand Prix Of Europe’, Yungblud. Are You Ready, Boy?’, ‘Dongji Rescue’, ‘A Road To A Village’, ‘The Ceremony’ and ‘Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex’. We also see releasees of ‘Battleship Potemkin’, ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ and ‘Six: The Musical’. Can any of them top the charts?

Amazing for Weapons to get two weeks at the top, what a result

K-Pop Demon Hunters for number 1 this coming weekend please 😍😍

The Freaky Friday and Naked Gun flops are surprising still tbh! No idea what happened - maybe the marketing

Also what is Barbarians??

17 hours ago, Tafty said:

K-Pop Demon Hunters for number 1 this coming weekend please 😍😍

Netflix doesn't usually report their box office so I don't think we'll see 'K-Pop Demon Hunters' in the chart at all. It will be interesting to see if the gross leaks though.

8 hours ago, Big Fat Sue said:

The Freaky Friday and Naked Gun flops are surprising still tbh! No idea what happened - maybe the marketing

Also what is Barbarians??

I don't think either of them have flopped. They're both going to make small profits theatrically but I do think 'Freakier Friday' had the potential to be bigger with it being more of a family film with a lot of nostalgia.

'Barbarian' is a horror film from 2022 about an Airbnb that gets double-booked. It's on Netflix and streaming on Channel 4 at the moment. Well worth checking out imo!

2 hours ago, LewisGT said:

Netflix doesn't usually report their box office so I don't think we'll see 'K-Pop Demon Hunters' in the chart at all. It will be interesting to see if the gross leaks though.

But its getting a 2 day cinema singalong release on 23rd and 24th

45 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

But its getting a 2 day cinema singalong release on 23rd and 24th

I know and it will probably do well but every other time Netflix has given films a theatrical run, they do not report the gross so it doesn’t count to the chart.

For example, ‘Glass Onion’ had a weekend in cinemas before it was released for streaming and was rumoured to have made over £1 million, but it never reached the box office chart as Netflix didn’t announce the data.

Ah fair enough very weird then 😮

Nobody 2 is great, deserves better - it's gory in a Tom & Jerry way, but also amusing and pushes two fave oldie songs in Summer Holiday and Run Run Run, both been needing a rebirth for decades. Oh, and Sharon Stone is a classic baddie, what a performance, and Christopher Lloyd is Christopher Lloyd, what's not to love!

22nd August 2025 - 24th August 2025

 

1. (NE) Weapons - £1,147,166 (-26%) Weeks: 3 (£8,668,189)

2. (04) Freakier Friday - £739,747 (-19%) Weeks: 3 (£5,848,203)

3. (02) Materialists - £554,097 (-57%) Weeks: 2 (£2,593,725)

4. (06) The Bad Guys 2 - £510,883 (-6%) Weeks: 5 (£10,217,297)

5. (05) The Fantastic Four: First Steps - £507,615 (-26%) Weeks: 5 (£22,029,709)

6. (NE) The Life Of Chuck - £486,294 Weeks: 1 (£486,294)

7. (07) The Naked Gun - £391,877 (-26%) Weeks: 4 (£6,557,544)

8. (11) Jurassic World: Rebirth - £263,048 (-21%) Weeks: 8 (£34,949,483)

9. (10) Nobody 2 - £247,770 (-48%) Weeks: 2 (£1,112,067)

10. (NE) Eddington - £247,442 Weeks: 1 (£247,442)

 

 

Falling out:

Coolie (1 week)

Together (1 week)

War 2 (1 week) 

The official chart doesn’t tell the true story of this weekend’s box office as this week’s #1, ‘Weapons’ was probably the film that made only the third most of any this weekend. As I suggested last week, Netflix do not report their box office takings but they did release two films in wide release, ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ and ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and I think it’s very likely that they are the true #1 and #2 for this bank holiday weekend. It has been suggested that ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ did particularly well so it’s almost guaranteed that it was the true winner this weekend. However, the official stats will tell you that ‘Weapons’ achieves a third week at #1 with a drop of 26% (£1,147,166). This is an incredible achievement for an 18-rated film; the last one to do the same was ‘The Wolf Of Wall Steet’ all the way back in January-February 2014. It has overtaken the £7.6 million gross of last year’s highest grossing 18-rated film ‘Poor Things’ and is now targeting ‘Smile’ (£11.7 million) to be the biggest 18-rated film post-pandemic.

 

The highest (non-Netflix) new entry this weekend is ‘The Life Of Chuck’ (£485k, £312k without previews) at #6. This is the latest Stephen King adaptation from director Mike Flanagan. This has become a bit of a speciality for Flanagan after he previously directed ‘Gerald’s Game’ and ‘Doctor Sleep’. However, this is a non-horror King which have often been huge critical-favourites (‘The Shawshank Redemption’, ‘Stand By Me’, ‘The Green Mile’) and this is no different, becoming a shock winner of the audience award at the Toronto Film Festival.  This usually spells awards-success (the last 12 winners have all received Best Picture nods at the Oscars) but this has largely ignored in it’s US release earlier in the Summer and looks like it won’t hang around until awards season. The film is split between three distinct acts and has a large cast but which is led by Tom Hiddleston.

 

The only other new entry in the top 10 is ‘Eddington’ (£247,442, #10). This is the fourth feature from director Ari Aster who started with the modern-horror classics ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Midsommar’ before trying something different with the divisive ‘Beau Is Afraid’. This one continues the experimental streak with it being a Covid-set neo-Western political dark satire surrounding an election between a republican sherif (Joaquin Phoenix) and democrat incumbent (Pedro Pascal).

 

In a weekend of low grosses but great holds, climbing back up to #2 is ‘Freakier Friday’ with a drop of 19%. It’s getting verse close to passing the total of the original. But the best hold again goes to ‘The Bad Guys 2’ which drops just 6% as it climbs a position up to #4. It has now passed £10 million and is trailing just ‘Dog Man’ when it comes to animated films this year.

 

From last week’s releases, ‘Materialists’ drops 57% (33% without previews) as it falls to #3 and ‘Nobody 2’ drops 48% as it climbs to #9. ‘Materialists’ is up to £2.6 million and will pass Song’s debut ‘Past Lives’ by next week. If it can pass £4.2 million, it will also beat Dakota Johnson’s superhero flop ‘Madame Web’ from last year. ‘Nobody 2’ has reached £1.1 million and should end up reaching the £1.4 million of the original but Universal needed much more than that to justify a trilogy-closer.

 

‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ has its best hold since release, securing a fifth week in the top 5 with a 26% drop. It’s at £22 million which puts it past ‘Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings’. On the day that it’s been reported that the Neeson/Anderson romance was a publicity stunt, ‘The Naked Gun’ drops 26% to hit £6.6 million. ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ continues it’s good run, re-entering the top 10 despite a 21% drop.

 

There is onefurther new entries in the #11-15 section: 'Yungblud. Are You Ready, Boy?' (#14). We also see re-entries for the re-releases of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show' (#13) and 'Six The Musical' (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘The Roses', 'The Toxic Avenger', 'Caught Stealing', 'Highest 2 Lowest', 'Little Trouble Girls', 'Big Boys' 'Andre Rieu’s 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz The Night Away!, 'Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing' and ‘Young Mothers’. We also see releasees of ‘Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire’, ‘Jaws’ and ‘Dogtooth’. Can any of them top the charts?

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Ari Aster Openings:

Hereditary (£1,863,913, #2, 2018)

Midsommar (£812,052, #5, 2019)

Beau Is Afraid (£231,370, #5, 2021)

Eddington (£247,442, #10, 2025)