Have throughly enjoyed reading through this thread again, excellent work as always @LewisGT 🥰 👏

Excited for this weeks numbers. I imagine PHM has closed the gap even more to Super Mario (in weekly). Idk about other sites ofc but Mario has fallen off a cliff where I work! PHM, Time Hoppers and a few shows of Akira are the only ones that really did much noise over this weekend.

I can see The Mummy being the highest new entry this week

17th April 2026 - 19th April 2026

 

1. (01) The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £2,552,081 (-54%) Weeks: 3 (£32,935,857)

2. (02) Project Hail Mary - £1,676,572 (-33%) Weeks: 5 (£30,344,276)

3. (03) The Drama - £1,205,060 (-32%) Weeks: 3 (£8,077,705)

4. (NE) Lee Cronin's The Mummy - £970,220 Weeks: 1 (£970,220)

5. (RE) Akira (2026 Re-Release) - £884,729 Weeks: 1 (£884,729)

6. (04) The Magic Faraway Tree - £857,125 (-49%) Weeks: 4 (£13,390,155)

7. (NE) Time Hoppers: The Silk Road - £219,142 Weeks: 1 (£219,142)

8. (NE) BTS World tour ‘ARIRANG’ in Japan: Live Viewing - £203,738 Weeks: 1 (£203,738)

9. (NE) All My Sons: NT Live 2026 - £196,211 Weeks: 1 (£597,806)

10. (NE) Bhooth Bangla - £187,172 Weeks: 1 (£221,250)

Falling out:

Hoppers (6 weeks)

BTS World tour ‘ARIRANG’ in Goyang: Live Viewing (1 week)

You, Me & Tuscany (1 week)

Undertone (1 week)

California Schemin' (1 week)

The Stranger (1 week)

Last week saw five new entries and five holdovers. This week goes a step further and four of those holdovers remain while we get six new entries. But it is the same top 3 for a third week in a row which means that ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ still leads the pack after a 54% drop puts it at £33 million. It’s now falling further off the pace of the original (£41,605,147 at this stage) and even further behind last year’s ‘A Minecraft Movie’ (£45,467,916 at this stage). I guess that it’ll just have to settle as being the third biggest video-game adaptation of all time. ‘Project Hail Mary’ is pushing it close after a 33% drop allows it to gain a fifth-week in the top-2. With £30 million in the bank, it has already made enough that it would have ranked as #9 out of 2025 releases and is showing no signs of slowing down yet. ‘The Drama’ makes it three weeks at #3 with another great -32% hold. It’s already outgrossed ‘Challengers’ and ‘Mickey 17’ from the lead two’s recent films and should comfortably pass £10 million within the next couple of weeks. Not many films that miss #1 or #2 go on to achieve this. The only other holder this week is ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ which drops 49% to land at #6 and ends the weekend having earned about £450k less in total than ‘Hoppers’ which itself drops to #11.

 

The highest new entry this week is ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ (£970,220, #4). Lee Cronin is the Irish director behind gnarly horror hits ‘The Hole In The Ground’ (£96,404, #17, 2019) and ‘Evil Dead Rise’ (£1,477,840, #2, 2023). As you might have guessed, this is a return to the franchise’s horror roots and is presumably why the director’s name is added to the title, to differentiate it from the action-adventure series of the same name. I wonder how many people went to see this thinking it was the upcoming Brendan Frasier/Rachel Weisz sequel expected in 2028. This represents the third biggest horror release of the year, just edging out ‘Iron Lung’ (£948,731, #4). Completing the top 5 is the re-release of the classic anime, 1988’s ‘Akira’ (£884,729, #5). This was first released in the UK in 1991 where it grossed about £1 million after debuting at #3 with £439,345 and was also re-released in 2020 (shortly after the first lockdown) where it reached #3 again with £201,124. Despite not hitting the same heights, this does mark its most successful weekend in UK cinemas.

 

Opening at #7 is ‘Time Hoppers: The Silk Road’ (£219,142). A Canadian animation aimed at the Muslim market; there doesn’t seem to be a lot of information about this one online. It appears to be a time-travelling film where the superhero children meet a range of historical Muslim scientists during their trials. Opening just behind is ‘BTS World tour ‘ARIRANG’ in Japan: Live Viewing’ (£203,738, #8). The second concert release is two weeks, this opens about £130k under what last week’s one did.

 

Opening at #9 and #10 are two releases that opened midweek and would climb up to #7 and #8 if you included their midweek grosses. ‘All My Sons: NT Live 2026’ (£196,211, £597,806 in total, #9) is the second NT Live release to make the top 10 this year after the re-release of ‘The Audience: NT Live’ (£176,994) made #8 in March. Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste star in this one. ‘Bhooth Bangla’ (£187,171, £221,250 in total) opens at #10 (£187,172, £221,250 in total) and is an Indian horror-comedy who’s title translated as ‘Haunted Mansion’.

 

There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Glenrothan’ (#12).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Michael’, ‘Mother Mary’, ‘Exit 8’, ‘Hitpig!’, ‘Rose Of Nevada’, ‘Surviving Earth’, ‘The North’, ‘Ultras’ and ‘Primavera’. We also see a re-release of ‘Fight Club’.  Can any of them top the charts?

Michael time. Is it gonna be the years biggest opening?

I can't see it debuting with a higher opening than Mario, personally!

I wonder how it will compare to recent biopics though... What did Back to Black open with? I'm thinking roughly what that did? Anything about 10 mil feels like alot

Michael will be on a similar level to Bohemian Rhapsody, I think.

Back To Black and One Love felt quite… “local” to me. I don’t think there was much promotion for them outside of the UK really. Whereas I believe Universal think this will fo $1bn and have gone big with promotion… plus he is considered the greatest popstar to have ever lived, so has that core fanbase.

Looks like it's Super Mario Galaxy's last week at #1 I think.