Oh wow at Jujutsu being 5th despite being just a compilation movie (unlike "0")

Edited November 19Nov 19 by CowTzy

Wicked 2 has doubled its opening day sales from the 1st movie. This number is going to be big.

Crazy numbers projected for Wicked’s weekend.

“Wicked just had an insane opening weekend for the UK

‘Dominating across 2,750 screens with a huge 80% of the total box office, more than 15x the second-ranked film. The weekend result is the biggest opening weekend of 2025 (including and excluding previews), the second-biggest opening of all time for a live-action musical, the biggest-ever for a stage musical adaptation, the biggest 3-day November opening, and Universal’s third-biggest launch ever. Wicked For Good already sits among the Top 10 films of the year in the UK after just four days of release. It’s also the first PG film ever to open above £1M in Imax.’”

I won’t post the numbers and I’ll let Lewis do that. Crazy strong!

Do we reckon it can make it to the billion club?

The first didn't come close. But I think this could get there (but will probably fall short and be at like $950m or something) honestly it all depends on how it holds up second weekend because iirc, the first movie had great holds for a few weeks! This will obviously likely have a bigger percentage drop than the first did but it's obviously on a much higher figure.

I can't call it tbh. I'd like to see it reach $1bn. 'Ne Zha 2' and 'Lilo & Stitch' are the only 2 other movies this year to be above that (the former is like top 5 of all time )

21st November 2025 - 23rd November 2025

 

1. (NE) Wicked: For Good - £18,858,826 Weeks: 1 (£18,858,826)

2. (01) Now You See Me: Now You Don't - £1,111,688 (-53%) Weeks: 2 (£4,345,774)

3. (02) The Running Man - £654,467 (-73%) Weeks: 2 (£3,781,769)

4. (04) Nuremburg - £491,389 (-45%) Weeks: 2 (£2,015,172)

5. (03) Predator: Badlands - £375,131 (-59%) Weeks: 3 (£5,030,809)

6. (06) The Choral - £209,928 (-65%) Weeks: 3 (£3,359,525)

7. (07) Christmas Karma - £192,352 (-61%) Weeks: 2 (£856,539)

8. (09) A Paw Patrol Christmas - £182,718 (-29%) Weeks: 3 (£768,838)

9. (05) Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution - £123,952 (-85%) Weeks: 2 (£1,161,971)

10. (10) Bugonia - £94,951 (-63%) Weeks: 4 (£2,892,081) 

 

Falling out:

Regretting You (4 weeks)

There’s only one new entry to discuss this week but it’s certainly a big one: ‘Wicked: For Good’ has the best opening weekend of the year (with or without previews) as it tops the chart with a huge £18,858,826 (£17.8 million without previews). There’s about a hundred records it has broken that we could talk about so strap in while I share the most pertinent. Let’s start off by comparing it to last year’s ‘Wicked’ (£13,696,057, #1). A £5 million rise is impressive, especially when you consider that ‘Wicked’ ended up becoming the top film of 2024 with the biggest 3-day opening of the year. This is now the second-biggest opening for a musical of all-time behind ‘Beauty And The Beast’ (£19,700,000, #1, 2017) but has broken its own record as being the biggest stage-show adaptation. This also makes it the second-biggest ‘PG’ opening of all-time, again behind ‘Beauty And The Beast’ but beating ‘The Lion King' (£16,671,764, #1, 2019). It also ranks second for Universal in 3-day openings, behind ‘No Time To Die’ (£25,916,476 with previews, #1 2021) but also trails ‘Jurassic World (£19,350,727, #1, 2015) if you include previews. One record it does have for itself is the best ever November 3-day opening. I’m not 100% sure but I think this was previously ‘Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets’ (£18,871,829, #1, 2002). In recent context, this is the biggest 3-day opening since ‘Barbie’ (£18,509,235, #1) from July 2023 and the biggest overall opening since ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ (£19,765,718, #1) from May 2022. Seeming that we’re talking about the MCU, for context on how great this opening is, ‘Wicked: For Good’ has already outgrossed the closing figures for 2/3 of the MCU films this year (‘Captain America: Brave New World’ and ‘Thunderbolts*’). It feels like the only film that can stop ‘Wicked’ from doing a two-peat at the yearly UK box office will be ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’. This has opened at #10 in the YTD chart.

 

Nothing much else of note to comment on this weekend, but the other film that deserves some praise is ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ which drops 53% in weekend two. This is not a bad result as it allows the film to pass £1 million for the weekend which wasn’t a given with the Wicked takeover. Although it’s tracking behind ‘Now You See Me 2’ at the same stage (£4,843,905), it is already doing more business day-to-day so I think it will end up passing that films final gross of £6.3 million. Not so lucky is ‘The Running Man’ that has a large 73% drop (61% without previews) that puts it at £3.8 million. More than ‘Last Night In Soho’ (£2.4 million total) but far off Edgar Wright’s beloved classics.

 

But that drop is nothing compared to the massive 85% fall saw by anime-release ‘Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution’. This is more in line with what we expect from anime releases after a couple of films have really bucked the trend of late. But it has passed £1 million, becoming the 103^rd 2025 release to reach this milestone. Particularly impressive when we only had 89 films do this last year. Although year-to-year, we’re now only tracking at 4% ahead when we were miles ahead in the summer.

 

A more impressive hold from last week’s new entries is from ‘Nuremburg’ that holds at #4 with a 45% drop. It’s solid counter-programming to ‘Wicked’ and has already made more than £2 million overall. Targeting a similar audience is ‘The Choral’ which drops 65% in weekend three. It’s now at £3.3 million and is edging closer to the being one of the top 5 British releases of the year.

 

‘Predator: Badlands’ hasn’t been able to recover from the larger-than-expected drop last weekend as it sheds another 59% and falls to #5. But it has made £5 million now and is less than a million off becoming the biggest hit of the franchise. ‘Bugonia’ drops 63% but gains a surprise extra week in the top 10 with a sub-£100k gross.

 

There are four further new-entries in the #11-15 section, ‘Laalo: Krishna Sada Sahaayate‘ (#11), ‘Sisu: Road To Revenge (#13), ‘CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella’ (#14) and ‘Arabella: Met Opera 2025’’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Zootropolis 2’, ‘Christy’, ‘Pillion’, ‘Blue Moon’, ‘Primitive War’ ‘Desperate Journey’, ‘Tere Ishk Mein’ and ‘Still Pushing Pineapples’.  Can any of them top the charts?

 

~

 

Jon M. Chu’s Openings:

 

Step Up 2: The Streets (£2,358,003, #3, 2008)

Step Up 3D (£2,015,403, #4, 2010)

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (£820,592, #9, 2011)

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (£2,761,395, #2, 2013)

Justin Bieber’s Believe (£205,242, #14, 2013)

Jem And The Holograms (£8,869, #24, 2016)

Now You See Me 2 (£2,964,641, #3, 2016)

Crazy Rich Asians (£1,599,858, #3, 2018)

In The Heights (£1,073,687, #3, 2021)

Wicked (£13,696,057, #1, 2024)

Wicked: For Good (£18,858,826, #1, 2025)

I somehow completely missed that the Wicked sequel was out this past weekend, definitely want to see that after I unexpectedly thoroughly enjoyed the first one.

I had no idea that Jon M Chu directed Now You See Me 2, that makes the top 2 this week amusing

Relieved that there's more love for Wicked in the UK than there is for Minecraft!

I'm on holiday from Friday to Monday, and there are three movies being released this weekend that are essential watches for me ('Zootropolis 2', 'Christy' and 'Pillion' - plus I wouldn't mind checking out 'Blue Moon' if I get chance as I'm hearing buzz that Ethan Hawke could sneak an Oscar nom for it). The battle between Zootropolis 2 and week 2 of Wicked could be interesting.

49 minutes ago, J❄️hq said:

The battle between Zootropolis 2 and week 2 of Wicked could be interesting.

Certainly!

I don't know why, but I'm actually expecting Zootropolis 2 to be a bit of a flop... I haven't seen much hype for it, but we'll see!

Out of this week's releases, I'll be seeing that at Pillion though!

28th November 2025 - 30th November 2025

 

1. (01) Wicked: For Good - £7,713,861 (-59%) Weeks: 2 (£32,095,250)

2. (NE) Zootropolis 2 - £5,984,739 Weeks: 1 (£5,984,739)

3. (02) Now You See Me: Now You Don't - £605,622 (-46%) Weeks: 3 (£5,488,759)

4. (NE) Westlife: Royal Albert Hall (25th Anniversary Concert) - £527,713 Weeks: 1 (£527,713)

5. (NE) Pillion - £348,071 Weeks: 1 (£348,071)

6. (03) The Running Man - £267,015 (-59%) Weeks: 3 (£4,388,541)

7. (04) Nuremburg - £249,816 (-49%) Weeks: 3 (£2,633,370)

8. (NE) The Fifth Step: NT Live 2025 - £202,003 Weeks: 1 (£884,966)

9. (05) Predator: Badlands - £145,230 (-61%) Weeks: 4 (£5,367,354)

10. (08) A Paw Patrol Christmas - £103,689 (-43%) Weeks: 4 (£901,626)

 

Falling out:

The Choral (3 weeks)

Christmas Karma (2 weeks)

Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2 weeks)

Bugonia (4 weeks)

In a year where (western) animation has really struggled, there’s another wicked twist as ‘Zootropolis’ is unable to topple ‘Wicked: For Good’ which instead bags a second week at #1 with £7,713,861 (-59%, -57% without previews). After debuting at #10 in the YTD chart last week, it has now climbed up to #5 with £32.1 million and is about £24.5 million away from reaching top spot which currently belongs to ‘A Minecraft Movie’. After two weekends, it’s £1 million ahead where ‘Minecraft’ was (£31,056,475). However, a more apt comparison is with the first ‘Wicked’ film which had made £28,530,258 at this stage this year and that film ended up becoming the biggest release of 2024 with £61.2 million. Although Wicked’s second weekend gross (£8,371,25) was already out-performing this so there’s no guarantee that this will be able to leg out the same.

 

The misfortune for ‘Zootropolis 2’ (£5,984,739, #2) is hardly too big of a disappointment for Disney as this still represents the biggest debut for an animated film this year (overtaking ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle’, £3,464,393) and the worldwide numbers are even more impressive. Globally, ‘Zootopia 2’ (as it’s known in most of the world) has opened with $556 million which is the fourth biggest ever opening weekend for any movie worldwide. This has been fuelled by an insane $272 million debut in China. Even more crazy when China has largely rejected Hollywood films since the Covid pandemic with many blockbusters not even being granted a release. And, although this UK debut looks poor compared to the £12,021,342 which ‘Moana 2’ opened with in the equivalent weekend last year, compared to the original ‘Zootropolis’ (£5,306,726. #2, 2016) who’s 3-day opening would be reduced to just £3.8 million, it’s a stronger start. Despite being a $1 billion grosser worldwide, ‘Zootropolis’ only made about £24 million in the UK and the sequel will certainly be targeting higher. Annoyingly, I had planned to watch both of this week’s top 2 this weekend but I’ve been stuck in bed with a cold so there’s definitely another £8 or so at least to come for both of these.

 

Also opening in the top 5 thanks to its previews is ‘Pillion’ (£348,071, £213k without previews). This is a strong start for an 18-rated British film. In fact, it’s in the top 5 openings for distributor Picturehouse, being the only one that carries the most restrictive rating. This a dramatic rom-com about the BDSM relationship formed between an inexperienced gay man played by Harry Melling and a mysterious, confident Biker played by Alexander Skarsgård. This has earned rave-reviews, including the Best Screenplay prize at this year’s Cannes festival, and is currently 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s going into a wider release next weekend so expect to see a great hold.

 

The other two new entries this week are both event-cinema. ‘Westlife: Royal Albert Hall (25th Anniversary Concert)’ only played on Saturday and Sunday but grossed an impressive £527,713. This doesn’t quite reach the heights the Irish band reached with 2019’s ‘Westlife: The Twenty Tour Live’ (£899,488, #4) but marks an improvement of their previous most recent release ‘Westlife: Live From Wembley Stadium’ (£468,214, #8, 2022). The other new entry is ‘The Fifth Step: NT Live 2025’ (£202,003, #8, £885k in total). This is the second NT Live release to make the top 10 this year after ‘Inter Alia: NT Live’ had two spells in September.

 

Remaining in the top 3 is ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ which drops 46% as it hits £5.5 million. After a stronger start, ‘Now You See Me 2’ had £5.7 million at the same stage so this is looking like it will overtake that at least. Released on the same weekend, ‘The Running Man’ is having a much more difficult time of it as it sheds another 59%  and drops to #6. £4.4 million will be a disappointing total for Paramount.

 

The worst hold of the weekend though is ‘Predator: Badlands’ which loses 61% and looks to be on its last legs. ‘Nuremburg’ drops 49% as it passes £2.5 million. But the best hold of the weekend is ‘A Paw Patrol Christmas’ (-43%) as it gets ever closer to that £1 million threshold. It’s outlasted ‘Christmas Karma’ in the top 10, although that film is only £12k off the £1 million barrier.

 

There are three further new-entries in the #11-15 section, ‘Cinderella: ROH, London 2025’ (#11), ‘Tere Ishk Mein (#12) and ‘Blue Moon’ (#14).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’, ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’, ‘Eternity’, ‘It Was Just An Accident’, ‘Magazine Dreams’ ‘Prime Minister’ and ‘Son Of The Soil’. We also get re-releases of ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas’ and ‘Sunset Boulevard’. Can any of them top the charts?

Thats so funny Universal beat Disney yess

That must by the highest weekend gross for a #2 film in the Box Office for a long time, probably since Barbieheimer?

Also surprised that “Pillion” did so well. It sounded so niche that I doubted it would even crack the top 10.

2 hours ago, Brett-Butler said:

That must by the highest weekend gross for a #2 film in the Box Office for a long time, probably since Barbieheimer?

You don't actually have to go back as long as you'd think.

'Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning' opened at #2 with £8,579,185 in May behind 'Lilo & Stitch'.

Well cinema wins this week! And also nice to see Pillion enter - I’m hosting a screening of that next week!

Pillion is one of those films that gets better the more you think about it. So good!

Nearly 6m is phenomenal for zootropolis but not suprised wicked reigned supreme, the hype for the former just feels none existent considering the first was so huge

Although its smashing box office records left right and centre, mad that its "flopping" in comparison 😳

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18 hours ago, LewisGT said:

There are three further new-entries in the #11-15 section, ‘Cinderella: ROH, London 2025’ (#11), ‘Tere Ishk Mein (#12) and ‘Blue Moon’ (#14).

'Christy' didn't even make the top 15? Oh Sydney Sweeney, your power.

That's crazy as I know everyone hates her now and it bombed massively in the US, but I saw the trailer for it LOADS.

On 02/12/2025 at 12:49, J❄️hq said:

'Christy' didn't even make the top 15? Oh Sydney Sweeney, your power.

That's crazy as I know everyone hates her now and it bombed massively in the US, but I saw the trailer for it LOADS.

It opened at #16 with £54,360. About £15k away from the top 15.

On 24/11/2025 at 19:02, LewisGT said:

21st November 2025 - 23rd November 2025

 

1. (NE) Wicked: For Good - £18,858,826 Weeks: 1 (£18,858,826)

2. (01) Now You See Me: Now You Don't - £1,111,688 (-53%) Weeks: 2 (£4,345,774)

3. (02) The Running Man - £654,467 (-73%) Weeks: 2 (£3,781,769)

4. (04) Nuremburg - £491,389 (-45%) Weeks: 2 (£2,015,172)

5. (03) Predator: Badlands - £375,131 (-59%) Weeks: 3 (£5,030,809)

6. (06) The Choral - £209,928 (-65%) Weeks: 3 (£3,359,525)

7. (07) Christmas Karma - £192,352 (-61%) Weeks: 2 (£856,539)

8. (09) A Paw Patrol Christmas - £182,718 (-29%) Weeks: 3 (£768,838)

9. (05) Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution - £123,952 (-85%) Weeks: 2 (£1,161,971)

10. (10) Bugonia - £94,951 (-63%) Weeks: 4 (£2,892,081) 

 

Falling out:

Regretting You (4 weeks)

There’s only one new entry to discuss this week but it’s certainly a big one: ‘Wicked: For Good’ has the best opening weekend of the year (with or without previews) as it tops the chart with a huge £18,858,826 (£17.8 million without previews). There’s about a hundred records it has broken that we could talk about so strap in while I share the most pertinent. Let’s start off by comparing it to last year’s ‘Wicked’ (£13,696,057, #1). A £5 million rise is impressive, especially when you consider that ‘Wicked’ ended up becoming the top film of 2024 with the biggest 3-day opening of the year. This is now the second-biggest opening for a musical of all-time behind ‘Beauty And The Beast’ (£19,700,000, #1, 2017) but has broken its own record as being the biggest stage-show adaptation. This also makes it the second-biggest ‘PG’ opening of all-time, again behind ‘Beauty And The Beast’ but beating ‘The Lion King' (£16,671,764, #1, 2019). It also ranks second for Universal in 3-day openings, behind ‘No Time To Die’ (£25,916,476 with previews, #1 2021) but also trails ‘Jurassic World (£19,350,727, #1, 2015) if you include previews. One record it does have for itself is the best ever November 3-day opening. I’m not 100% sure but I think this was previously ‘Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets’ (£18,871,829, #1, 2002). In recent context, this is the biggest 3-day opening since ‘Barbie’ (£18,509,235, #1) from July 2023 and the biggest overall opening since ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ (£19,765,718, #1) from May 2022. Seeming that we’re talking about the MCU, for context on how great this opening is, ‘Wicked: For Good’ has already outgrossed the closing figures for 2/3 of the MCU films this year (‘Captain America: Brave New World’ and ‘Thunderbolts*’). It feels like the only film that can stop ‘Wicked’ from doing a two-peat at the yearly UK box office will be ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’. This has opened at #10 in the YTD chart.

 

Nothing much else of note to comment on this weekend, but the other film that deserves some praise is ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ which drops 53% in weekend two. This is not a bad result as it allows the film to pass £1 million for the weekend which wasn’t a given with the Wicked takeover. Although it’s tracking behind ‘Now You See Me 2’ at the same stage (£4,843,905), it is already doing more business day-to-day so I think it will end up passing that films final gross of £6.3 million. Not so lucky is ‘The Running Man’ that has a large 73% drop (61% without previews) that puts it at £3.8 million. More than ‘Last Night In Soho’ (£2.4 million total) but far off Edgar Wright’s beloved classics.

 

But that drop is nothing compared to the massive 85% fall saw by anime-release ‘Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution’. This is more in line with what we expect from anime releases after a couple of films have really bucked the trend of late. But it has passed £1 million, becoming the 103^rd 2025 release to reach this milestone. Particularly impressive when we only had 89 films do this last year. Although year-to-year, we’re now only tracking at 4% ahead when we were miles ahead in the summer.

 

A more impressive hold from last week’s new entries is from ‘Nuremburg’ that holds at #4 with a 45% drop. It’s solid counter-programming to ‘Wicked’ and has already made more than £2 million overall. Targeting a similar audience is ‘The Choral’ which drops 65% in weekend three. It’s now at £3.3 million and is edging closer to the being one of the top 5 British releases of the year.

 

‘Predator: Badlands’ hasn’t been able to recover from the larger-than-expected drop last weekend as it sheds another 59% and falls to #5. But it has made £5 million now and is less than a million off becoming the biggest hit of the franchise. ‘Bugonia’ drops 63% but gains a surprise extra week in the top 10 with a sub-£100k gross.

 

There are four further new-entries in the #11-15 section, ‘Laalo: Krishna Sada Sahaayate‘ (#11), ‘Sisu: Road To Revenge (#13), ‘CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella’ (#14) and ‘Arabella: Met Opera 2025’’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Zootropolis 2’, ‘Christy’, ‘Pillion’, ‘Blue Moon’, ‘Primitive War’ ‘Desperate Journey’, ‘Tere Ishk Mein’ and ‘Still Pushing Pineapples’.  Can any of them top the charts?

 

~

 

Jon M. Chu’s Openings:

 

Step Up 2: The Streets (£2,358,003, #3, 2008)

Step Up 3D (£2,015,403, #4, 2010)

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (£820,592, #9, 2011)

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (£2,761,395, #2, 2013)

Justin Bieber’s Believe (£205,242, #14, 2013)

Jem And The Holograms (£8,869, #24, 2016)

Now You See Me 2 (£2,964,641, #3, 2016)

Crazy Rich Asians (£1,599,858, #3, 2018)

In The Heights (£1,073,687, #3, 2021)

Wicked (£13,696,057, #1, 2024)

Wicked: For Good (£18,858,826, #1, 2025)

18 million in one week?! That's even bigger than Wonka and makes it the biggest openimg movie week of all time!!! Even bigger than RETURN!!!!! (of the king)

After 2 weekends ‘Zootropolis 2’ is already at $900m WW! Largely with thanks to China!

Just for context, ‘Inside Out 2’ was on around $724m globally after it’s 2nd weekend (although that was during the Summer!)

A fairer comparison as it was the same weekend last year, but ‘Moana 2’ was at around $600m globally after it’s 2nd weekend.. even though it opened much larger in the US and had a record “post-Thanksgiving weekend”…