5th December 2025 - 7th December 2025

 

1. (02) Zootropolis 2 - £4,235,673 (-29%) Weeks: 2 (£11,740,358)

2. (NE) Five Nights At Freddy's 2 - £3,256,485 Weeks: 1 (£3,256,485)

3. (01) Wicked: For Good - £3,225,766 (-58%) Weeks: 3 (£37,651,991)

4. (NE) André Rieu 2025 Christmas Concert: Merry Christmas - £845,675 Weeks: 1 (£845,675)

5. (NE) Eternity - £388,835 Weeks: 1 (£388,835)

6. (03) Now You See Me: Now You Don't - £346,039 (-43%) Weeks: 4 (£6,149,649)

7. (NE) Dhurandhar - £306,678 Weeks: 1 (£306,678)

8. (NE) Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair - £233,052 Weeks: 1 (£233,052)

9. (NE) It Was Just An Accident - £164,007 Weeks: 1 (£164,007)

10. (07) Nuremburg - £160,157 (-37%) Weeks: 4 (£3,042,167)

 

Falling out:

Westlife: Royal Albert Hall (25th Anniversary Concert) (1 week)

Pillion (1 weeks)

The Running Man (3 weeks)

The Fifth Step: NT Live 2025 (1 week)

Predator: Badlands (4 weeks)

A Paw Patrol Christmas (4 weeks)

The Zootopia world domination finally reaches the UK as ‘Zootropolis 2’ climbs to #1 in its second week after a 29% drop giving it another £4.2 million. It currently has £11.7 million which is slightly down on the £12.6 million that the original had at the same stage. Although, that film had a lower weekend two gross (£2.7 million) and had the bonus of summer weekdays to boost the gross. I think Disney will still be pretty confident that this is on track to be the bigger hit. It currently ranks as the third biggest animated hit of 2025 and should be able to overtake ‘The Bad Guys 2’ for top-spot by next week. However, this is still a way off the £21.5 million that ‘Moana 2’ had made at this stage last year. Although, as Taffy has reported above, the China gross has made our box office look irrelevant for Disney with this one.

 

In a busy weekend that sees six new entries to the top 10, the best performing is horror-sequel ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’ that bags a #2 debut by the smallest margins (by £30k) with £3,256,485. Comparisons with the original are hard to make thanks to the difference in release strategies. The first film has a surprise smash in 2023 and had extensive previews included in it’s £5,379,587 debut. However, that film was also released on Peacock in the US at the same time as the cinemas meaning that there was plenty of high-quality streams available on less-than-reputable sites (I’m sure no-one on this website would use) which certainly has an effect on box office. The film didn’t show great legs, just about doubling the opening weekend and closing with £10.5 million. The three-day numbers are actually slightly higher for the sequel (£3.3 million compared to £3.2 million) and Universal will have hopes that this could end up performing better overall.

 

Out of the five other new entries, two can be considered event cinema ‘André Rieu 2025 Christmas Concert: Merry Christmas’ (£845,675, #4) and ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ (£233,052, #7). This is the best opening of the three André Rieu films this year but it’s down on the gross of last year’s Christmas release: André Rieu’s 2024 Christmas Concert: Gold And Silve (£931,024, #6, 2024). Tarantino hasn’t had the most endearing press-tour (#justicefordano) but his cut that combines the two ‘Kill Bill’ films in one nearly-5-hour movie has been a success. The first film opened (wide) with £2.7 million in 2003 on its way to £11.5 million while ‘Volume 2’ opened the following year with £2.8 million on its way to £9 million.

 

Opening at #5 is ‘Eternity’ (£388,835). This is a high-concept rom-com starring Elizabeth Olsen as a recently deceased woman who must decide which of her ex-husbands (played by Miles Teller and Callum Turner) with whom she wants to spend her afterlife. Recent Oscar-winner Da'Vine Joy Randolph is also heavily-featured across the promotion. This is an A24 production and has received pretty-decent reviews but always felt like a hard sell theatrically. Its budget is rumoured to be about $15 million and has made about $10 million worldwide so far. It feels like the sort of film which could find a second life on streaming.

 

Being boosted into the top 10 thanks to its previews is Iranian drama ‘It Was Just An Accident’ (£164,007, £71k without previews, #9). This is the latest feature from director Jafar Panahi who famously has to make his films in secret in Iran after he was sentenced to 6 years in prison in 2010 and banned from filmmaking for 20 years after being charged with making ‘anti-Iranian propaganda’. This won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will serve as France’s entry for the ‘Best International Feature’ at the up-coming Academy Awards. The film is about an ex-political prisoner who kidnaps a man who he believes used to be one of his torturers.  The final new entry this week is another world cinema release with the Indian action film ‘Dhurandhar’ (£306,677, #7). This is the first part of a double-bill with the sequel releasing in March. If my counting is correct, this is the 18^th Indian film to reach the top 10 this year and it has the 7^th best opening of them.

 

Losing the top spot after two weekends atop is ‘Wicked: For Good’ which drops to #3 after 58% fall in business. It’s now practically level with the gross of last year’s film after 3 weekends (£37,651,991 vs £37,692,710). However, with this seeing much heavier drops, it will not get close to reaching the £61.2 million of the original film. If it can find some legs from somewhere, it may still reach £50 million but A Minecraft Movie’s £56.6 million is looking unreachable. It has, as of this weekend, overtaken ‘Lilo & Sitch’ to rank as the third biggest release of the year.  Worldwide, the drop-off has been even worse with this looking like it won’t even reach the $616,684,465 of ‘Superman’ to enter the YTD top 10 before ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ comes to inevitably knock them both down anyway.

 

The remaining two holders are ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ (#6, -43%) and ‘Nuremburg (#10, -37%). ‘Now You See Me 3’ is now tracking ahead of the second film while ‘Nuremburg’ has passed £3 million. I don’t usually track fallers from the top 10 but I think people will be interested in ‘Pillion’. It fell to #11 with 143,915 but had a good hold in its expansion if you take out the previews (-33% without previews, -59% overall). It has £699,050 in total.

 

Not helped by the underperformance of ‘Wicked: For Good’ and ‘Zootopolis 2’ compared to ‘Wicked’ and ‘Moana 2’ last year, the box office weekend is down again compared to the equivalent week last year and now we are only tracking 1% ahead YTD. It looked impossible in the summer, but we are now facing a realistic chance that 2025 box office ends up down year-to-year. A terrible result as this year was meant to be the year that the box office came back after the pandemic and writing strikes causing chaos with last year’s release schedule.

 

There are two further new-entries in the #11-15 section, ‘Kalamkaval’; (#12) and ‘Merrily We Roll Along; (#14).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Fackham Hall’, ‘Ella McCay’, ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’, ‘Eleanor The Great’, ‘Lurker’, ‘Scarlet’, ‘Christmas, Again’, ‘Rolling Stones: At The Max’, ‘Rebecca: Becky G’ and ‘Animalia’. We also get a re-release of ‘The Shining’.  Can any of them top the charts?

On 03/12/2025 at 19:16, LewisGT said:

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

I think this is the worst opening I've ever seen for a movie that I saw the trailer for SO much. I swear I saw it before everything I went to see for about 3 months.

I know I'm just one person and maybe trailers vary across the country/cinema chains, and I don't go and see everything, but compare it to say 'Eternity' this week, I didn't see a trailer for that once yet the opening weekend is 7x better.

Hope that Sydney Sweeney doesn't cause 'The Housemaid' to bomb at the end of this month too.

Trying to fit all these in the next seven days 😭 .... ‘Fackham Hall’, ‘Ella McCay’, ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’, ‘Eleanor The Great’, ‘Lurker’

4 hours ago, J❄️hq said:

I think this is the worst opening I've ever seen for a movie that I saw the trailer for SO much. I swear I saw it before everything I went to see for about 3 months.

I know I'm just one person and maybe trailers vary across the country/cinema chains, and I don't go and see everything, but compare it to say 'Eternity' this week, I didn't see a trailer for that once yet the opening weekend is 7x better.

Hope that Sydney Sweeney doesn't cause 'The Housemaid' to bomb at the end of this month too.

'The Housemaid' will debut top 10. 'Christy' was poorly promoted tbh and the reviews aren't really anything special. The pre-sales for 'The Housemaid' are surprisingly strong at my place so I assume they're similar elsewhere. Also, that feels like it's been promoted 10 x better than 'Christy' was already. I'll be very surprised if it doesn't debut top 10...

I've seen 3 of the top 6 in the past 3 weeks. Plus one not on the top 10 list.

For Good starting to flop, Zootropolis and Five Nights at Freddy's doing well!!!

Wicked eas unlucky to be followed by Zooopolis, the bigger franchise, as now it will be overshadowed by it.

12th December 2025 - 14th December 2025

 

1. (01) Zootropolis 2 - £2,767,509 (-35%) Weeks: 3 (£15,531,866)

2. (03) Wicked: For Good - £1,856,430 (-43%) Weeks: 4 (£40,724,713)

3. (02) Five Nights At Freddy's 2 - £1,016,400 (-69%) Weeks: 2 (£5,280,983)

4. (07) Dhurandhar - £593,726 (+94%) Weeks: 2 (£1,230,944)

5. (NE) Fackham Hall - £407,006 Weeks: 1 (£407,006)

6. (NE) The Nutcracker: ROH, London 2025 - £225,057 Weeks: 1 (£767,988)

7. (06) Now You See Me: Now You Don't - £216,102 (-38%) Weeks: 5 (£6,570,212)

8. (NE) Silent Night, Deadly Night - £183,191 Weeks: 1 (£183,191)

9. (05) Eternity - £181,348 (-53%) Weeks: 2 (£849,490)

10. (RE) Home Alone (Re-Release) - £181,298 (+122%) Weeks: 368 (£3,803,717)

 

Falling out:

André Rieu 2025 Christmas Concert: Merry Christmas (1 week)

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (1 week)

It Was Just An Accident (1 week)

Nuremburg (4 weeks)

‘Zootropolis 2’ is #1 for a second weekend dropping 35% to add another £2.8 million to reach £15.5 million. It is now officially the top grossing animated film of the year. However, it’s falling further off the pace of the original which had £18.6 million at this stage. Again though, the weekend gross was for this was above the original’s third weekend and its the extra summer midweek grosses than has pushed the original ahead. With kids soon to be finished for Christmas, I think this trend will reverse pretty soon and still think this will end up as the bigger hit. It’s certainly not facing the same woes elsewhere where it has now hit $1.1 billion worldwide, overtaking ‘Lilo & Stitch’ to be the biggest Hollywood release of 2025.

 

The highest new entry this week is ‘Fackham Hall’ at #5 (£407,006). Parody films are officially back and this is a spoof of Downton Abbey. Directed by Jim O’Hanlon and written by a myriad of writers including the Dawson Brothers and the Carr brothers, Patrick and Jimmy (yes, that one), this has earned surprisingly decent reviews and (even more surprisingly) has a cast of proper actors (Thomasin McKenzie, Damian Lewis and Katherine Waterston). I was wondering who this was made for as the crossover between Downton Abbey fans and frivolous parody films seemed minimal but this is a pretty solid debut.

 

Opening at #8, ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’ (£183,191) is a slasher Christmas film and a remake of the 1984 film of the same name. Another film which has earned shockingly good reviews (81% on Rotten Tomatoes), I don’t think this is going to find much more of an audience in the cinemas and will look instead to become a cult-classic on streaming.

 

The final new entry this week is another event cinema release, ‘The Nutcracker: ROH, London 2025’ (£225,057, #6). This gross was from Sunday showings and if you include the gross from its midweek openings, it’s at a much more respectable £767,988. This is the biggest ballet release of the year. Last year’s Nutcracker release reached #8 with a lower £180,826, although it had grossed more (£803,518) when you include midweek showings. ‘Home Alone’ gets its annual showings and is able to re-enter the top 10 this time with £181k.

 

Climbing back up in its fourth week, ‘Wicked: For Good’ is back at #2 but with a 43% drop. It has now passed £40 million which is a great result for any film but its now £3 million behind where last year’s film was at this stage (£43,634,853) after starting way ahead. It would need a great Christmas to reach £50 million and an outstanding one to reach ‘A Minecraft Movie’ to be the biggest release of the year. However, I think a certain film released this weekend will have something to say about that.

 

‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’ was last week’s big release and its not showing great legs at all with a harsh 69% drop in week #2. It just about manages a second week above £1 million. Last week, I questioned if this film being purely theatrical worldwide might help it hold up better than the original but it looks like any boost is small as the original dropped a slightly worse 75% in weekend two that saw it add £1,374,000. This one is up to £5.3 million so the £10 million+ of the original is out of sight. The other release last week ‘Eternity’ drops 53% to hit £849k. Another £1 million grosser this year looks certain.

 

‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ has a good hold (-38%) that sees it reach £6.6 million that puts it above ‘Now You See Me 2’. In the current market, a franchise where a third film outgrosses the second is nothing to be sniffed at so I think Lionsgate will be very happy with this result. However, the biggest story this week is certainly ‘Dhurandhar’ which has a massive 94% increase in weekend two (despite a lower screen count) that puts it at £1.2 million. This is the fifth Indian film to pass £1 million this year and it ranks at #3 so far.

 

There are no further new-entries in the #11-15 section, but we do see re-entries for ‘The Shining’, (#11) 'The Polar Express' (#12), 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas' (#13) and ‘Home Alone 2: Lost In New York' (#14).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’, ‘The Super Elfkins’ and ‘The Six Billion Dollar Man: Julian Assange and the Price of Truth’. Can any of them top the charts?

11 minutes ago, LewisGT said:

I was wondering who this was made for as the crossover between Downton Abbey fans and frivolous parody films seemed minimal but this is a pretty solid debut.

As someone who spent his tweens enjoying ridiculously silly comedies that spoofed films & genres I’d never seen at that point (“Airplane”, Blazing Saddles & “Naked Gun” on one end, all the way through to “BASEketball”, “Jane Austin’s Mafia!” and “Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday 13th on the other), it was well up my street, even though I’ve never watched a minute of Downton Abbey.

The cinema was near empty when I went to see it at the weekend, so I’m surprised it’s not done as badly as I’d thought, I’d not seen any promo for it bar its trailer on YouTube

Not 'Ella McCay' missing the top 15 - a bad time for movies where the title is a woman's name (I guess that can also apply to 'Eleanor the Great', but that one isn't a surprise to me as it seems to be a very small movie/release considering it's directed by Scarlett Johansson)

On 15/12/2025 at 21:26, LewisGT said:

I was wondering who this was made for as the crossover between Downton Abbey fans and frivolous parody films seemed minimal but this is a pretty solid debut.

Based on the showing I went to, the answer is underage kids! It's rated 15 but when I went on Sunday evening, there were two separate family groups that included kids/teens that were clearly under 15. At first I wondered if they'd wandered into the wrong screen by mistake (not sure about anyone else, but from my experience that seems surprisingly common)

On 15/12/2025 at 21:42, Brett-Butler said:

As someone who spent his tweens enjoying ridiculously silly comedies that spoofed films & genres I’d never seen at that point (“Airplane”, Blazing Saddles & “Naked Gun” on one end, all the way through to “BASEketball”, “Jane Austin’s Mafia!” and “Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday 13th on the other), it was well up my street, even though I’ve never watched a minute of Downton Abbey.

The cinema was near empty when I went to see it at the weekend, so I’m surprised it’s not done as badly as I’d thought, I’d not seen any promo for it bar its trailer on YouTube

20 minutes ago, J❄️hq said:

Based on the showing I went to, the answer is underage kids! It's rated 15 but when I went on Sunday evening, there were two separate family groups that included kids/teens that were clearly under 15. At first I wondered if they'd wandered into the wrong screen by mistake (not sure about anyone else, but from my experience that seems surprisingly common)

It evidently must have much broader appeal than I first thought! 🤣

I love silly comedies, so I'll have to ser er

Also Zooopolis 2 bigger than Wicked 2 worldwide, and completely overshadowing it!!! Meaning Wicked 2 will have steep drops and not do the numbers of part 1, esp after the mixed reviews too

I enjoyed both, but Wicked Part 1 is definitely the stronger part, For Good did well initially based on hype and since is limping towards 500m worldwide slowly, I don't think it stands a chance of coming close to Part 1s final total of 759m

23 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

I enjoyed both, but Wicked Part 1 is definitely the stronger part, For Good did well initially based on hype and since is limping towards 500m worldwide slowly, I don't think it stands a chance of coming close to Part 1s final total of 759m

No chance! Especially not with Zooopolis taking all the cinema rooms and overshadowing it. It might make 600 million total if lucky

Such a shame. It could have been a 1bil movie were it not so badly received

1 hour ago, December Dong said:

No chance! Especially not with Zooopolis taking all the cinema rooms and overshadowing it. It might make 600 million total if lucky

Zootropolis has China to thank for the insane WW figures. Most other places have been kinda lukewarm to it and only gravitated to it due to it being the only new kids movie out. I'm kinda annoyed at the reception to Zootropolis outside of it's success in China because I think it's actually better than the first and loved it!

Avatar is obviously taking all the premium screens next week for the next few weeks. But presales for that haven't been as strong so I'm intrigued to see where it levels out... I don't think it's hitting $2bn. But I'd assume $1.5bn is happening?

1 hour ago, December Dong said:

No chance! Especially not with Zooopolis taking all the cinema rooms and overshadowing it. It might make 600 million total if lucky

Yeah that's what I'm thinking 600m max but even that is gonna be a slog as its nosedive so much after taking nearly 300m in it's first week

19th December 2025 - 21st December 2025

 

1. (NE) Avatar: Fire And Ash - £9,015,796 Weeks: 1 (£9,015,796)

2. (01) Zootropolis 2 - £1,879,320 (-32%) Weeks: 4 (£18,640,723)

3. (02) Wicked: For Good - £1,072,380 (-42%) Weeks: 5 (£42,775,033)

4. (04) Dhurandhar - £386,899 (-35%) Weeks: 3 (£1,999,949)

5. (03) Five Nights At Freddy's 2 - £373,346 (-63%) Weeks: 3 (£6,202,380)

6. (10) Home Alone (Re-Release) - £267,348 (+47%) Weeks: 369 (£4,165,550)

7. (05) Fackham Hall - £187,415 (-54%) Weeks: 2 (£965,312)

8. (12) The Polar Express (Re-Release) - £183,082 (+29%) Weeks: 56 (£1,097,496)

9. (RE) It's A Wonderful Life (Re-Release) - £166,600 (+196%) Weeks: 212 (£2,149,250)

10. (NE) Bha Bha Ba - £157,431 Weeks: 1 (£157,431)

 

Falling out:

The Nutcracker: ROH, London 2025 (1 week)

Now You See Me: Now You Don't (5 weeks)

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1 week)

Eternity (2 weeks)

As expected, debuting at #1 is ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ (£9,015,796). This is above the opening of the 2009 original (£8,509,050) but down on the £11,187,562 that ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ opened with in 2022. However, these Avatar films have never been defined by their opening weekend with the first two taking full advantage of the Christmas holidays to show some insane holds and reach £96.7 million and £77.4 million in total to be the 5^th and 12^th biggest films ever in the UK (1^st and 3^rd worldwide). So, while this is only the sixth biggest opening of 2025 (fifth if you take out the previews for ‘Lilo & Stitch’), this still has every chance of becoming the biggest film of the year if it follows the same trajectory of the others. Audiences seem to be on board, but, unlike with the first two, critics have been split on this one (just see the BBC’s savage 1-star review) so we’ll see if the mixed word-of-mouth may have an effect.

The only other new entry this week comes from India and it's 'Bha Bha Ba' (£157,431) at #10. This is an action-comedy starring Dileep and Vineeth Sreenivisan. It hasn't earned great reviews so I don't think it's going to have a second weekend as insane as 'Dhurandhar' last week.

 

Dropping a place after two weeks atop the chart is ‘Zootropolis 2’ (-32%). With a cumulative total of £18.63, it’s on the verge of entering the YTD top 10 but is still behind the pace of the original at this stage (£20,701,132). However, the equivalent weekend gross is higher again (£1.9 million vs £1.1 million) and with kids now being off for Christmas, those midweek grosses should see some massive boosts and it’ll catch the original up in no time. ‘Wicked: For Good’ drops a place to third and has a fifth week above £1 million with a drop of 42%. It’s now up to £42.8 million, just under £5 million behind where ‘Wicked’ was going into Christmas weekend.

 

Last week’s biggest debut, ‘Fackham Hall’, has a 54% drop in week 2 as it drops to #7 and ends the weekend just short of £1 million. While ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’ has another harsh drop (-63%) but remains in the top 5 and has a total of £6.2 million. But having a great weekend again is ‘Dhurandhar’ which holds at #4 with a 35% drop. It’s just under £2 million in total which makes it the 2^nd biggest Indian film of the year.

 

Despite numerous new festive films released this year, it’s the classics that round out the chart with ‘Home Alone’ (#6, +47%), being joined in the top 10 by ‘The Polar Express’ (#8, +29%) and ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ (#9, +£196%).

 

There are no further new-entries in the #11-15 section, but we do see Christmas entries for ‘Elf’ (#11), ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ (#12) and ‘Die Hard’ (#14).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants’, ‘The Housemaid’, ‘Marty Supreme’, ‘Anaconda’, ‘Sentimental Value’, ‘Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri’, ‘Bowie: The Final Act’ and ‘#RunSeokjin  EP.Tour: The Movie’. We also get a re-release of ‘The Devil’s Backbone’. Can any of them top the charts?

Bit of an Avatar flop, but given how bad the writing is in those movies it's no surprise everyone is sick of it

Yeah it only did 345m opening which is down from 435m of the second be interesting to see it's final total and whether or not it means 4 and 5 get scrapped 😅

4 and 5 will not be scrapped. This is only an underperformance when comparing it to the other Avatar movies - it’s still comfortably reaching 1.5bn imo (I’d be surprised if it was any lower but who knows, eh!). Had there been just 3 years between the first and 2nd (like the gap between the 2nd and 3rd) instead of 13… The Way of Water would have done about what this one has done, I reckon.

I’m not a fan of them though tbh. I don’t particularly dislike them, but they’re definitely all spectacle over substance, imo. I get why so many love being in that world though, it’s visually gorgeous (but there are so many moments where you could be tricked into thinking that you were watching a YouTuber play a video game. But this being over 3 hours long will not have replay value for a lot of people I think.