Mortal Kombat II might have got higher than number 5 if it weren’t just being shown in premium formats ie. IMAX, 4DX, screenX

Mortal Kombat did not flop in the US

It opened with 38.5 million and in the second place, which it almost eclipsed the whole total earnings of the first movie in a week!!!!

On 05/05/2026 at 16:54, LewisGT said:

1st May 2026 - 3rd April 2026

 

Hate to be that person but this is bugging me 😅

So wonder whose gonna be number 1 next week. Unless I'm wrong there's no big releases at all this week to come close to the numbers 1 and 2 are at.

So is the battle between Michael and Devil Wears Prada 2?

Michael and Devil are both so close in numbers and although Devil is the newest its also having a bigger drop then Michael is.

On 11/05/2026 at 12:58, Henessy Lake said:

Mortal Kombat 2 kinda flopped in the US.

Why is the UK box office so behind the US on reporting by the way? We're ahead of them time wise.

The US report before finals are collated. They report them based on estimations and the “final numbers” are adjusted by Monday/Tuesday (but they’re never really that much different!)

UK box office reports are done on actuals hence why they always release on a Monday afternoon/evening (Tuesdays if it’s bank holiday etc..) to include Previews + the Friday-Sunday tracking period.

(I believe!)

8th May 2026 - 10th May 2026

 

1. (01) The Devil Wears Prada 2 - £5,203,067 (-44%) Weeks: 2 (£21,121,432)

2. (02) Michael - £5,083,005 (-28%) Weeks: 3 (£33,479,568)

3. (NE) The Sheep Detectives - £3,319,496 Weeks: 1 (£3,319,496)

4. (NE) Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour - £1,782,931 Weeks: 1 (£1,782,931)

5. (NE) Mortal Kombat II - £1,607,520 Weeks: 1 (£1,607,520)

6. (03) The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £475,202 (-51%) Weeks: 6 (£36,893,858)

7. (05) Project Hail Mary - £288,262 (-51%) Weeks: 8 (£33,779,097)

8. (04) Hokum - £278,150 (-56%) Weeks: 2 (£1,373,779)

9. (NE) Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition - £207,489 Weeks: 1 (£207,489)

10. (07) The Magic Faraway Tree - £121,169 (-55%) Weeks: 7 (£14,663,582)

Falling out:

Patriots (1 week)

The Drama (5 weeks)

Lee Cronin's The Mummy (3 weeks)

Eugene Onegin: Met Opera 2026 (1 week)

Sorry, I was a concert last night so didn’t get the chance to post but it’s been a great start to Summer 2026 with five films all making £1 million+. Eventually the battle became between the same top 2 as last weekend and ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ ends up holding on for a second weekend atop the chart after a 44% drop. It has already passed £20 million which puts it above the first films (£14 million) and also ahead of ‘Marley And Me’ (£15.4 million) which was director David Frankel’s previous biggest hit. It’s up to #4 in the YTD chart. However, hot on its heels is ‘Michael’ which drops 28% and was about £150k off from returning to #1. ‘Elvis’ has now been overtaken and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ remains as the only music biopic to gross more. ‘Michael’ currently ranks at #3 in the YTD chart but should climb to #1 by next week.

 

Amazon (and Sony) have got their second big hit of the year with ‘The Sheep Detectives’ the highest new entry at #3 (£3,319,496, £1.7 million without previews). Adapted from a 2005 novel (‘Three Bags Full’), this sounded like a weird prospect; a film about a bunch of talking sheep who try to solve the mystery of their shepherd’s murder from the most eclectic writer in the business, Craig Mazin (‘Scary Movie 3’, ‘The Hangover Part II’, ‘Chernobyl’, ‘The Last Of Us’) and directed by the man who has brought us three Minions adventures, Kyle Balda. But it’s has earned great reviews and has had a very strong start to its UK box office run. There’s a good chance this could be another £10 million+ grosser for the year.

 

Not having as impressive of a debut is ‘Mortal Kombat II’ (£1,607,520, £1.5 million without previews). This is a large improvement on the 2021 this is a sequel to, ‘Mortal Kombat’ (£319,313, #6) which only made £600k in total but that film was only released after cinemas first re-opened and had already been available to watch at home on Premium Video on Demand (PVOD). Over the past few years, when a film does well in America but poorly worldwide, we’re usually the market that aligns with America and it does well over here too but that’s not the case with this as it had a good American opening ($38.5 million) but we’ve aligned with the rest of the world that’s shown little interest. This is despite it being given the majority of the premium screens across the UK this week where films are able to make big money when they hit. The top grossing film based on the video-game franchise is 1995’s ‘Mortal Kombat’ with £2 million so at least it will beat that.

 

The other two new entries are both music related with ‘Billie Eilish: Hot Me Hard And Soft: The Tour’ doing the better (£1,782,931, £1.4 million without previews, #4) and even finishing above ‘Mortal Kombat II’ thanks to previews. If you didn’t know this was co-directed by Billie and James Cameron, making it his first non-Avatar film since ‘Titanic’ in 1997. Cameron is a pioneer of the 3D-trend and most of this films box office comes from 3D showings. While this isn’t an ‘Eras Tour’ opening, it is above the other big concert release of recent times, “Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé” (£1,082,080, #4, 2023). Music documentary “Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition” (£207,489, £98k without previews) also debuts in the top 10 at #9.

 

‘Hokum’ has a 56% drop in weekend two and ends the weekend on £1.4 million which ranks as the 6^th biggest horror of the year so far. The final three holdovers all have similar holds: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ (-51%), ‘Project Hail Mary’ (-51%) and ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ (-55%).

 

There are three further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Kokuho’ (#12), ‘Our Land’ (#13) and ‘’Romeria’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘The Christophers’, ‘Normal’, ‘Obsession’, ‘Northern Soul: Still Burning’, ‘Orphan’ and ‘Ciao UFO’. We also see re-releases of ‘Shrek’, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, ‘Space Jam’, ‘Top Gun’, ‘Cronos’ and ‘Wake In Flight’. Can any of them top the charts?

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Summer Box Office Top 5:

1. (01) The Devil Wears Prada 2 - £21,121,431

2. (NE) The Sheep Detectives - £3,319,416

3. (NE) Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour - £1,782,931

4. (NE) Mortal Kombat II - £1,607,520

5. (02) Hokum - £1,373,779

So many re-releases!

Michael Jackson has the number 1 album and movie of the week! Dropping only 17 percent at around 4.2m (estimated)

The UK is also where Obsession did the highest amount internationally.

15th May 2026 - 17th May 2026

 

1. (02) Michael - £4,432,923 (-13%) Weeks: 4 (£40,515,865)

2. (01) The Devil Wears Prada 2 - £3,177,722 (-39%) Weeks: 3 (£27,295,316)

3. (03) The Sheep Detectives - £1,380,614 (-58%) Weeks: 2 (£5,454,156)

4. (NE) Obsession - £1,342,900 Weeks: 1 (£1,342,900)

5. (05) Mortal Kombat II - £603,111 (-62%) Weeks: 2 (£2,854,243)

6. (RE) Top Gun (40th Anniversary Re-Release) - £520,907 Weeks: 1 (£520,907)

7. (NE) The Christophers - £397,537 Weeks: 1 (£397,537)

8. (06) The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £374,394 (-21%) Weeks: 7 (£37,348,348)

9. (RE) Shrek (25th Anniversary Re-Release) - £242,889 Weeks: 1 (£242,889)

10. (NE) Athiradi - £241,737 Weeks; 1 (£241,737)

Falling out:

Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour (1 week)

Project Hail Mary (8 weeks)

Hokum (2 weeks)

Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition (1 week)

The Magic Faraway Tree (7 weeks)

For the third week in a row, the top 2 consists of the same films but it’s ‘Michael’ that overhauls the previous deficit to return to #1 for a second week after a miniscule 13% drop in week 4 sees it add another £4.4 million. With £40 million in the bank already, it has climbed to the top of the YTD chart and has already made enough that it would have been top 5 in 2025’s chart. How it deals with ‘Star Wars’ will be interesting as the £55 million of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is starting to look reachable. ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ holds well too (-39%) as it ends its two-week reign. With £27.3 million, it’s up to #4 in the YTD chart and would have been a top 10 film last year.

 

The highest new entry this week is buzzy-horror hit ‘Obsession’ (£1,342,900, #4). This is only the third horror film to open above £1 million this year after legacy-sequel-fare ‘Scream VI’ and ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’. Written and directed by Curry Barker, this is the latest addition to the Youtuber to horror director pipeline which has been so prevalent of the past couple of years. Barker first found success as part of the duo ‘that’s a bad idea’ alongside Cooper Tomlinson. In 2024, their found footage debut ‘Milk & Serial’ was released on YouTube after they failed to get distribution and was incredibly well-received. This one has been received even-better and has already made $23 million worldwide against a $1 million budget after strong online hype. Barker is now already booked and busy with him signing a deal with Blumhouse for his third feature and with A24 to write a reboot of ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’.

 

Also opening this week is ‘The Christophers’ (£397,537, #7). Coming from the most prolific director in the world, Steven Soderbergh, he was relatively quiet last year, only releasing two films with this opening between those two (‘Black Bag’, £915,377, #3 and ‘Prescence’, £365,390, #10). This was distributed by Picturehouse and is their best ever opening, just about beating ‘The Wife’ (£392,635, #7, 2018). This is a two-parter between Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel and is about an artist who is hired to steal and finish a series of paintings discarded by a historic artist. The pair have earned rave reviews and it feels like they could have had been involved in the awards conversation if this was released at a better time.

 

The final new entry this week is ‘Athiradi’ (£241,737, #10). This in an Indian action-comedy about a student who tries to revive a festival only for it to be interrupted by a kidnapping. The poster looks a lot like the one Marvel released for ‘Thunderbolts*’ last year. But the entries don’t stop there. It was a particularly strong weekend for re-releases which saw the 40^th anniversary release of ‘Top Gun’ debut at #6 (£520,907, £312k without previews) and the 25^th anniversary release of ‘Shrek’ enter at #9 (£242,889). I know that previews for a 40-year-old film sounds mad. I also can’t believe that ‘Shrek’ was originally released so much closer in time to ‘Top Gun’ that it was to now!

 

‘The Sheep Detectives’ hold at #3 with a 58% drop that sounds much more impressive when you strip out the massive previews and it reduced to just 19%. Up to £5.4 million, it looks like it has a great shot at becoming another £10 million+ grosser for 2026. ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ might have had a large drop-off from the first film but it’s showing solid late-legs with a 21% drop in week 7. Like ‘Michael’ it has now also done enough that it would have ranked in the top 5 films of 2025. The final holdover is ‘Mortal Kombat II’ which sticks at #5 despite the 62% drop. With £2.9 million, it has outgrossed the 1995 original which is about a positive spin you can put on this film.

 

There is only one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Karuppu’ (#11). But we do also see another re-entry for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ (#12).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu’, ‘Tom And Jerry: Forbidden Compass’, ‘Finding Emily’, ‘Passenger’, ‘Charlie The Wonderdog’, ‘Hen’, ‘Eagles Of The Republic’, ‘The Balloonists’,  ‘Chand Mera Dil’ and ‘Fight Like A Girl’. Can any of them top the charts?

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Summer Box Office Top 5:

1. (01) The Devil Wears Prada 2 - £27,295,316

2. (02) The Sheep Detectives - £5,454,156

3. (04) Mortal Kombat II - £2,854,243

4. (03) Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard And Soft: The Tour - £1,994,117

5. (05) Hokum - £1,664,180

The same top 5 as last week but 'Mortal Kombat II' overtakes 'Billie Eilish'. 'Obsession' will be in next week and we'll see how high 'Star Wars' can debut.

Nothing from next Friday looks enticing at all.

The hold for 'Obsession' is going to be ridiculously strong. I actually wouldn't be surprised to see an increase! I would like to think it'll be at least top 3 (behind 'Mandalorian & Grogu' and 'Michael') but that would depend on how far 'Devil Wears Prada' falls in it's 4th week (I think the hype is dying off for that now - unlike the 3 titles surrounding it)...