On 24/02/2026 at 07:49, Tafty said:

It’s best to think of “previews” as similarly to “pre-orders” for an album.

I honestly can’t see The Bride or Hoppers being massive tbh. I hope to be wrong but idk…

That week is 100% going to be Peaky Blinders at number 1 and probably with 3million+. i can see The Bride and Hoppers being about 1.5million-ish. But who knows about Hoppers. I’m hoping for strong reviews.

Hoppers has had Lizard hype for the best part of the last year. I'm struggling to see how it won't easily be Pixar's biggest original release in ages!

I can see Hoppers beating The Bride! to number 1. I’ll be surprised if the latter beats the former after hearing the negative reviews about the latter

Looks like I may have been wrong about ‘Hoppers’ (thankfully)! Strong reviews and it’s the biggest opening for an original animation movie since ‘Coco’ in the US!

I believe it’s number 1 here too!

I can see this weeks results going like this

1. Hoppers

2. Scream 7

3. The Bride!

Wouldn't surprise me if 'Wuthering Heights' finished above 'Scream'...

7 hours ago, Tafty said:

Wouldn't surprise me if 'Wuthering Heights' finished above 'Scream'...

Maybe not Scream but possibly above The Bride!

‘Scream 7’ enjoyed a nice (roughly) 74% drop in the US. The biggest drop for the franchise. I suspect something very similar.

65% drop in the uk, looks like we had a better turnout then US though not by much. Still enough to only drop it to 2.

Oof the Bride couldn't even make a million.

6th March 2026 - 8th March 2026

 

1. (NE) Hoppers - £4,789,170 Weeks: 1 (£4,789,170)

2. (01) Scream 7 - £1,161,628 (-70%) Weeks: 2 (£6,142,533)

3. (02) Wuthering Heights - £1,070,054 (-52%) Weeks: 4 (£23,094,991)

4. (NE) The Bride! - £715,009 Weeks: 1 (£715,009)

5. (NE) Mother's Pride - £707,634 Weeks: 1 (£707,634)

6. (04) Goat - £416,190 (-54%) Weeks: 4 (£12,368,104)

7. (03) EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert - £335,316 (-82%) Weeks: 2 (£2,875,539)

8. (05) Crime 101 - £193,287 (-53%) Weeks: 4 (£4,128,158)

9. (NE) Giselle: ROH, London 2026 - £120,476 Weeks: 1 (£530,660)

10. (NE) Othello - £117,330 Weeks: 1 (£339,999)

 

Falling out:

The Secret Agent (2 weeks)

Zootropolis 2 (14 weeks)

The Audience: NT Live (1 week)

Pegasus 3 (1 week)

The Testament Of Ann Lee (1 week)

On the weekend where the film that proved to be Disney Animations big recovery after the flop of ‘Wish’, ‘Zootropolis 2’ finally falls out of the top 10 after 14-weeks, the film that has done the same for Pixas, ‘Hoppers’ debuts at #1 with £4,789,170 (£3.3 million without previews). After ‘Elio’ saw the studio’s worst ever opening last year and the disappointing openings of ‘Element’ and ‘Onward’ beforehand, there were questions whether the decision to release films on Disney+ during the pandemic had forever damaged the brand and their originals were no longer considered cinema fare. But this is a good opening for them, not only higher than those three films but also above Lightyear (£3,718,002, #3, 2022), with only established hit franchise hits ‘Toy Story 4’, ‘Incredibles 2’ and ‘Inside Out 2’ opening higher in recent years.  The last Pixar original to debut higher was Coco (£5,209,214, #1, 2018) and that film was very close (£3.4 million) to this when you take out previews for both films. It is only the aforementioned Disney smash-hit (‘Zootropolis 2’) that has had a better opening for an animated film in the past 18-months.

 

(Just about) the next best opener this weekend is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second-feature ‘The Bride!’ (£715,009, #4). A re-adaptation of 1935’s ‘Bride of Frankenstein’, this sees (likely) soon-to-be Oscar winner Jessie Buckley star as the titular monster with Christian Bale starring as her beau. This was originally due to release in September last year but was moved, presumedly, because of Netflix’s ‘Frankenstein’ adaptation releasing at the same time. You do have to wonder what 'possessed' Warner Bros. to drop $90 million into making this film, especially as the marketing made it look like a pastiche of another one of their big-budget bombs, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’. Gyllenhaal’s first film was Netflix’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ where she directed Buckley to an Oscar nomination. I can’t see this doing the same.

 

Opening just £7k behind at #5 is ‘Mother’s Pride’ (£707,634, #5). This is a classic British comedy/drama about a family with a failing pub whose lives are changed when they enter the Great British Beer Awards. Starring James Buckley, Jonno Davies and Martin Clunes, this is directed by Nick Moorcroft, whose only other directing credit is for another classic of the ‘British Sunday-afternoon, easy-watching comedy-drama’ genre ‘Fisherman’s Friends: One And All’ (£656,293, #6, 2022). This has beat ‘Giant’ to become the biggest opening for a British film so far in 2026. And with it being the sort of film that will play well during the week, expect this to end up healthily outgrossing ‘The Bride!’.

 

Opening at #9 and #10 are two event-cinema releases: ‘Giselle: ROH, London 2026 (£120,476) and ‘Othello’ (£117,330). With midweek showings, they are up to £530,659 and £399,999 respectively.

 

Last week’s chart topper ‘Scream 7’ drops to #2 after a 70% drop (65% without previews). This may sound harsh but with £6,142,533, this has already outgrossed ‘Scream 4’ and ‘Scream 3’ and will have overtaken a few more by next week. For comparison, ‘Scream VI’ was at £5,137,371 at the same point in its run and earned less than £1 million in its second weekend. The original ‘Scream’ remains the franchise peak so far with £8.4 million but that seems in reach for this one. ‘Wuthering Heights’ gets a fourth weekend above £1 million which helps it reach £23 million. This puts it at #4 for Margot Robbie films but the top 3 (‘Suicide Squad, £33.6 million) should be out-of-reach. Its current gross would have ranked it as the 13th biggest 2025 release.

 

‘EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert’ has a huge 82% drop in weekend two. However, this reduces to 71% when you take out previews. It’s at £2.9 million which is a great result for a music documentary. ‘Goat’ struggled to compete with the big kids competition and shreds 54%. But with it being at £12.4 million, it is only £1.5 million behind the big animated hit of Q1 2025, ‘Dog Man’. ‘Crime 101’ holds around for a fourth weekend too with its 53% drop seeing it hit £4.1 million. I don’t think that’s too shabby for this sort of film. In terms of 2025 releases, this is more than ‘The Brutalist’, ‘Materialists’ or ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’.

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘James Acaster: Cinemagoers Welcome’ (#13) and ‘ENHYPEN: Walk The Line Summer Edition’ (#14). We also see a re-entry for ‘Sinners’ at #12.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘How To Make A Killing’, ‘One Last Deal’, ‘Reminders Of Him’, ‘A Pale View Of Hills’, ‘Learning You’, ‘Scarlet’, ‘The Tasters’ ‘The Love That Remains’ and ‘Charak: Fair Of Faith’. We also see re-releases of ‘The Straight Story’ ‘Zulu Dawn’ and ‘Back To The Past Plus +’. Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Pixar (Non-Disney+) openings:

 

Toy Story (£3,387,160, #1, 1996)

A Bug’s Life (£4,204,678, #1, 1999)

Toy Story 2 (£8,121,143, #1, 2000)

Monsters, Inc. (£9,200,257, #1, 2002)

Finding Nemo (£7,381,962, #1, 2003)

The Incredibles (£9,753,035, #1, 2004)

Cars (£2,668,968, #1, 2006)

Ratatouille (£4,444,384, #1, 2007)

Wall-E (£4,253,736, #2, 2008)

Up (£6,411,836, #1, 2009)

Toy Story 3 (£21,187,264, #1, 2010)

Cars 2 (£3,541,664, #2, 2011)

Brave (£820,084, #6, 2012)* *Only released in Ireland/Scotland in opening weekend

Monsters University (£3,463,917, #1, 2013)

Inside Out (£7,376,513, #1, 2015)

The Good Dinosaur (£2,926,448, #2, 2015)

Finding Dory (£8,122,075, #1, 2016)

Cars 3 (£2,625,000, #4, 2017)

Coco (£5,209,214, #1, 2018)

Incredibles 2 (£9,650,000, #1, 2018)

Toy Story 4 (£13,300,000, #1, 2019)

Onward (£3,419,500, #1, 2020)

Lightyear (£3,718,002, #3, 2022)

Elemental (£3,049,002, #1, 2023)

Inside Out 2 (£11,321,387, #1, 2024)

Elio (£971,169, #3, 2025)

Hoppers (£4,789,170, #1, 2026)

As if Mother’s Pride was only a bit behind The Bride!

The Bride (no relation) is on course to be the first big-budget flop of 2026 then, it also majorly underperformed in the USA (just over $7 million), and barely outgrossed a "goes down well with tea and a biscuit" cosy British film "Mother's Pride", which I barely saw any publicity for compared to the wall-to-wall coverage for "The Bride".

Pixar will definitely be happy with the performance of "Hoppers" then, although still lower than one may come to expect for Pixar, although I imagine that like Zootopia 2 before it, it will have a long tail (if you pardon the pun).

I really wish Netflix gave numbers lmao! Do we know if we actually found out any opening figures for their other releases eventually or something? I swear I've seen a figure for the Knives Out sequels before?

Scream 7 barely above Wuthering Heights, as I kinda expected (just, the other way round). Impressive for 'Hoppers' too and I think it'll hold well too, I'm glad to see it proving to be a success after all! I'm still to see it myself but I'm excited to watch it.

'The Bride' really did not hit! Yikes. I had no idea the budget was as high as it was for it! It was a complete mess to me and so... bland and kind of boring.

On 09/03/2026 at 20:29, Tafty said:

I really wish Netflix gave numbers lmao! Do we know if we actually found out any opening figures for their other releases eventually or something? I swear I've seen a figure for the Knives Out sequels before?

Deadline have posted an article about Peaky Blinders that says this:

We’ve seen data that indicates the film sold around 105,000 tickets across only 60 cinemas/300 screens over the weekend. This is incomplete data because it doesn’t take into account the whole UK independent market, but given the data we’re looking at includes the Showcase, Everyman and The Light chains, it is a large piece of the indie picture.

Our sources estimate Peaky would have done between £1.1 million-£1.5 million this weekend from the above sites alone, likely placing it in the top few films at the box office, and potentially as high as second.

13th March 2026 - 15th March 2026

 

1. (01) Hoppers - £2,288,827 (-52%) Weeks: 2 (£7,724,157)

2. (NE) Reminders Of Him - £1,081,953 Weeks: 1 (£1,081,953)

3. (NE) How To Make A Killing - £884,599 Weeks: 1 (£884,599)

4. (05) Mother's Pride - £602,187 (-15%) Weeks: 2 (£2,032,265)

5. (03) Wuthering Heights - £533,606 (-51%) Weeks: 5 (£24,272,529)

6. (02) Scream 7 - £491,351 (-58%) Weeks: 3 (£7,133,022)

7. (06) Goat - £252,658 (-39%) Weeks: 5 (£12,668,168)

8. (07) EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert - £177,207 (-47%) Weeks: 3 (£3,373,235)

9. (04) The Bride! - £176,700 (-75%) Weeks: 2 (£1,240,962)

10. (11) The Secret Agent - 77,891 (-31%) Weeks: 4 (£1,134,142)

 

Falling out:

Crime 101 (4 weeks)

Giselle: ROH, London 2026 (1 week)

Othello (1 week)

Holding well for a second week at #1 is Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ (-52%, -31% without previews). With £7.7 million, this means that it was already beaten the lifetime total for last year’s ‘Elio’ (£5.3 million) and the COVID-impacted ‘Onward’ (£7.7 million) and is still tracking ahead of where ‘Elemental’ was at the same point (£6,630,843). Just like last week with the opening, the last Pixar original to be tracking higher at the same stage was ‘Coco’ in 2018 (£8,165,400). It still looking good for this to end up grossing £20 million+.

 

In terms of money made this weekend, the #2 film would be ‘Project Hail Mary’ which had previews on Saturday and Sunday. However, they will be rolled into its opening next weekend so the actual #2 film is ‘Reminders Of Him’ (£1,081,953). This is the third adaptation of a Coleen Hoover novel in as many years and is the lowest opening of the three after ‘It Ends With Us’ (£4,516,760, #1, 2024) and ‘Regretting You’ (£1,275,980. #2, 2025). However, they are all budgeted well and are great money-makers. This one stars Tyriq Withers and scream-queen Maika Monroe and cost $25 million. Worldwide, it has made $28 million worldwide in its opening weekend so should prove to be another hit.

 

The only other new entry this week is ‘How To Make A Killing’ (£884,599, £611k without previews, #3). This stars Glen Powell and is a loose retelling of the 1949 film ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’. An A24 film, this didn’t really break-out in the US when it was released last month so this feels like a decent debut to me. Although it is well down on Powell’s other recent releases: ‘The Running Man’ (£2,383,269, #2, 2025), ‘Twisters’ (£4,149,210, #2, 2024) and ‘Anyone But You’ (£1,253,694, #5, 2023).

 

The best hold this week, and managing to climb a place to #4 from its #5 debut, is ‘Mother’s Pride’ (-15%). This film has already passed £2 million and this type of British drama usually has great legs so should continue to tick along very nicely. ‘Wuthering Heights’ completes the top 5 with a 51% drop in week 5.

 

‘The Bride!’ isn’t have a good time though, dropping a massive 75% in week two as it falls to #9. Mixed times for star Jessie Buckley as she did pick up her first Oscar last night for ‘Hamnet’. Speaking of the Oscars, ‘The Secret Agent’ didn’t manage to pick up any awards but does re-enter the top 10 after a 31% drop. It has become the sixth foreign-language film distributed by Mubi to pass £1 million. A really impressive feat for them!

 

‘Scream VI’ loses 58% in weekend three but is now only £600k away from overtaking the previous film in the franchise. ‘Goat’ and ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert’ are the final two holdovers, dropping 39% and 47%.  The Elvis film is now up to £3.4 million. An impressive result for a music documentary.

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Seima I Gamta’ (#12) and ‘Exhibition On Screen: Turner & Constable 2026 (#13).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Project Hail Mary’, ‘Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’, ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’, ‘Arco’, ‘Dead Man’s Wire’, ‘The Land Of Sometimes’, ‘Midwinter Break’, ‘Apnas’, ‘The Good Boy’ and ‘Broken English’.  We also see re-releases of ‘Moulin Rouge!’ and ‘The Killer’. Can any of them top the charts?

Wouldn't be suprised to see the hoppers get a boost in the next couple of weeks too as the easter holidays are almost upon us, before the Super Mario galaxy movie comes out

Project hail mary to be the next blockbuster? It has 2m previews

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Hope so. It deserves it. It’s incredible.

Has anyone seen Mothers Pride - I kind of want to watch it but the trailer makes me think I’ll find some of the characters annoying/frustrating

I take it One Last Deal with DANNY DYER didn’t do much then? What a shame…

3 hours ago, Brett-Butler said:

I take it One Last Deal with DANNY DYER didn’t do much then? What a shame…

Not sure it’s released yet? I think my cinema is showing it next week? (Limited timings though)