4 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Im hoping the re-release will help it take back over avatar worldwide 🤞 and maybe crack 3b its only 40m behind avatar

The 40m to re-overtake should be within reach after this weekend. But actually getting to $3bn will be a bit touch and go!

I believe this is just a 2 week and done thing? Could be wrong though!

It’s a shame Verity is gonna beat Digger. Shame one of the films wasn’t brought forward a week as both would’ve had turns at number 1

Digger is now expecting to be a flop according to projections, so it may not even compete for the #1 slot even with Verity likely to take a King’s Ransom.

On 02/10/2026 at 12:26, Hadji said:

It’s a shame Verity is gonna beat Digger. Shame one of the films wasn’t brought forward a week as both would’ve had turns at number 1

'Endgame Encore' was #1 last weekend with over £4m though? 'Digger' isn't going to come anywhere close to that so moving that forward a week wouldn't have done anything, I'd be surprised if 'Verity' went that high either (I think 'It Ends With Us' opened around the £4m mark? But isn't that the most popular/famous of Colleen's books)

'Digger' had hype from cinephiles for months based on Inárritu, Cruise's transformation and the expectation that it would be a major awards players, but then people saw it and turns out it's messy and divisive and awards predictions are really dropping. I think a lot of casual cinema go-ers have found the marketing quite off-putting and bizarre. 'Verity' never had awards prospects and was never going to be liked by the film bros and critics, but there was always going to be the casual audience turning out for it as it's based on a popular book and we've seen how Colleen Hoover adaptations have done before (with this one having the biggest name cast and budget of all).

I'll be rooting for 'Verity' to be #1 but I found a great amount of enjoyment in both. I didn't expect them both to have big twists that are central in a way that it's hard to discuss them in too much detail without giving something away.

2nd October 2026 - 4th October 2026

 

1. (NE) Verity - £3,396,611 Weeks: 1 (£3,396,611)

2. (02) Resident Evil - £1,337,563 (-40%) Weeks: 3 (£11,239,089)

3. (03) Heart Of The Beast - £1,141,551 (-45%) Weeks: 2 (£4,068,963)

4. (NE) Digger - £1,089,898 Weeks: 1 (£1,089,898)

5. (04) Sense And Sensibility - £975,932 (-37%) Weeks: 2 (£3.723,415)

6. (01) Avengers: Endgame Encore - £711,353 (-83%) Weeks: 2 (£5,900,408)

7. (05) Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom - £551,356 (-33%) Weeks: 3 (£3,227,545)

8. (NE) Drishyam: The Conclusion - £471,160 Weeks: 1 (£471,160)

9. (06) Practical Magic 2 - £373,009 (-52%) Weeks: 4 (£7,849,928)

10. (07) Pressure - £281,358 (-52%) Weeks: 4 (£6,441,801)

Falling out:

The Odyssey (11 weeks)

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (9 weeks)

The Paradise (1 week)

Colleen Hoover adaptations have become a box office force in recent years with ‘Verity’ becoming the second of which to reach #1. It does so with £3,396,611 which is less than the infamous ‘It Ends With Us’ (£4,516,760, #1, 2014) but betters her last two: ‘Regretting You’ (£1,275,980, #2, 2025) and ‘Reminders Of Him’ (£1,081,953, #2, 2026). This is another hit for Anne Hathaway in a banner year for her with ‘Mother Mary’ being the only blip on her CV with Dakota Johnson and Josh Harnett also in main roles. ‘It Ends With Us’ went on to make £21.7 million which this won’t reach but the £6.2 million and £4.5 million of the other two should be easy to beat.

 

Not quite being as competitive as Warner Bros. would have hoped, ‘Digger’ has a disastrous £1,089,898 opening at #4. This is first theatrical release for Alejandro González Iñárritu in 10 years after he famously won back-to-back ‘Best Director’ Oscars for his one-two punch of ‘Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance’ (£1,524,667, #7, 2015) and ‘The Revenant’ (£5,235,851, #1, 2016) and stars Tom Cruise in his first non-action role in years. This was expected to a major awards play and a reported $180 million was put into its budget. The only positive I can see is that it has opened slightly above ‘American Made’ (£1,067,075, #1, 2017) to avoid being his lowest since ‘Rock Of Ages’ (£1,003,107, #4, 2012). 

 

The final new entry comes from India and is ‘Drishyam: The Conclusion’, (£471,160, #8). This is less than ‘Drishyam 3’ (£835,968, #5) from May earlier this year. These are both the third film in trilogies of the same name, with this being a Hindi remake of the Malayalam franchise.

 

Holding at #2 is ‘Resident Evil’ after a 40% drop. It’s already up to £11.2 million and is closing in on the £11.8 million of ‘Weapons’ from last year. ‘Heart Of The Beast’ holds strongly just behind it as well with its 3-day drop of -26% (-45% with previews) being the strongest of the week. This has now passed £4 million and I’m fancying it to get to £10 million.

 

After a lowly opening, ‘Sense And Sensibility’ sticks around in week 2 with a 37% drop and has earned £3.7 million so far. This is tracking almost the exact same as the previous Daisy Edgar-Jones literally adaptation, ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’ which had £3,767,061 after two weekends in 2022. ‘Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom’ drops 33% and has £3.2 million after three weeks.

 

The two oldest films in the top 10 are now ‘Practical Magic 2’ and ‘Pressure’ which are both on their fourth week. Both films fall about 52% and have made £7.5 and £6.4 million it total. Last week's #1 was ‘Avengers: Endgame Encore’ which shreds 83%. The re-release has £5.9 million and has now re-overtaken ‘Avatar’ to become the biggest ever film worldwide.

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-#15 section: ‘Linkin Park: Unshatter’ (#13) and ‘Jet Lag: Japanorama’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘The Social Reckoning’, ‘Other Mommy’, ‘The Uprising’, ‘Queen Budapest’ and ‘The Yellow Tie’. We also see re-releases of ‘Casino Royale’, ‘The Craft’ and ‘24 Hour Party People’.  Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Tom Cruise (post 2000) Openings:

 

Mission: Impossible 2 (£4,621,948, #1, 2000)

Vanilla Sky (£2,978,264, #1, 2002)

Minority Report (£4,506,315, #2, 2002)

The Last Samurai (£2,723,081, #2, 2004)

Collateral (£2,238,200, #1, 2004)

War Of The Worlds (£8,644,787, #1, 2005)

Mission: Impossible III (£5,378,013, #1, 2006)

Lion For Lambs (£658,282, #6, 2007)

Tropic Thunder (£2,483,568, #1, 2008)

Valykrie (£1,854,195, #9, 2009)

Knight And Day (£2,404,163, #2, 2010)

Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol (£8,188,209, #1, 2011)

Rock Of Ages (£1,003,107, #4, 2012)

Jack Reacher (£3,575,066, #3, 2012)

Oblivion (£4,959,386, #1, 2013)

Edge Of Tomorrow (£1,886,096, #3, 2014)

Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation (£5,351,344, #1, 2015)

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (£2,688,561, #2, 2016)

American Made (£1,067,075, #1, 2017)

The Mummy (£3,343,650, #2, 2017)

Mission: Impossible: Fallout (£7,300,103, #1, 2018)

Top Gun: Maverick (£15,931,497, #1, 2022)

Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 (£10,391,016, #1, 2023)

Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning (£8,579,185, #2, 2025)

Digger (£1,089,898, #4, 2026)

Would love Other Mommy to be no.1 but feel it be Social Reckoning.

Thats a great hold for Resident Evil.

Lol at Digger. I don't fancy it's award chances much with the reception to it.

Poor Digger. I was expecting at least 2 or 3 for it but Verity did less than what a 7 year old film did the previous week

'Digger' just creeping past the £1m mark is...not as much of a disaster as I may have feared after seeing the US numbers. Why they were given a budget of $180m I have no idea (I mean, I can see where the money went, the production design was fab, but it feels like a bonkers amount because a massive audience for this story was never going to be there). Also gagged to see that 'Birdman' did £1.5m a decade ago to only open at #7!

I think 'Verity' holding on is most likely next weekend. I don't expect 'The Social Reckoning' to do much, I feel like this release has crept up out of nowhere. I've seen the trailer in the cinema a couple of times but idk if it mentioned a date, when I read on Screendaily yesterday that it's out this weekend, my reaction was oh. Early reaction looks middling at best. I'm guessing 'The Uprising' is heading for a flop, like it did in the US and the similar looking Hugh Jackman does Robin Hood movie did not that long ago. No idea about 'Other Mommy', my only awareness of it is seeing the poster at the cinema.

9th October 2026 - 11th October 2026

 

1. (NE) Other Mommy - £1,969,622 Weeks: 1 (£1,969,622)

2. (01) Verity - £1,936,358 (-44%) Weeks: 2 (£7,302,828)

3. (03) Heart Of The Beast - £815,453 (-29%) Weeks: 3 (£5,440,865)

4. (02) Resident Evil - £780,925 (-42%) Weeks: 4 (£12,710,019)

5. (NE) The Social Reckoning - £621,262 Weeks: 1 (£621,262)

6. (05) Sense And Sensibility - £589,110 (-40%) Weeks: 3 (£5,094,763)

7. (NE) The Uprising - £541,444 Weeks: 1 (£541,444)

8. (07) Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom - £492,146 (-11%) Weeks: 4 (£3,800,806)

9. (04) Digger - £489,167 (-55%) Weeks: 2 (£2,237,547)

10. (12) The Odyssey - £261,148 (+72%) Weeks: 13 (87,453,854)

Falling out:

Avengers: Endgame Encore (2 weeks)

Drishyam: The Conclusion (1 week)

Practical Magic 2 (4 weeks)

Pressure (4 weeks)

It was a tight race with only £60k separating the top two but we do have a new #1 as ‘Other Mommy’ wins the battle with £1,969,622. This is the already the biggest hit for director Rob Savage who briefly looked like the next big-name in horror when ‘Host’ was a big home-hit during COVID. His big gig was the Stephen King adaptation ‘The Boogeyman’ (£492,071, #5, 2023) which only made £1.9 million in total and it looked like other directors had stolen his momentum to become the next bigger auteur of the genre. This is the fifth biggest horror opening of the year.  

 

Opening at #5 is ‘The Social Reckoning’ (£621,262). This is the sequel to ‘The Social Network’ (£2,486,454, #2, 2010) and is directed by the Oscar-winning scribe of the film Aaron Sorkin after the departure of David Fincher. Jesse Eisenberg also drops out with Jeremy Strong stepping into the role of Mark Zuckerberg alongside Mikey Madison starring in her first role since winning an Oscar for Best Actress. The original went on to back £10 million+ which this one won’t be replicating. I am excited to check it out though.

 

The final new entry this week is ‘The Uprising’ (£541,444, #7). From Paul Greengrass (The Bourne trilogy, ‘Captain Phillips’) this sees Andrew Garfield star as peasant outlaw who may-or-may-not be called Robin Hood depending on if you’re following the UK or US marketing campaign. This is a stronger opening than the more openly Robin Hood-y ‘The Death Of Robin Hood’ (£316,129, #7) from last month.

 

Almost hanging on for a second weekend atop the chart, ‘Verity’ loses 44% in weekend two to add a further £1.9 million. It’s already the second biggest of the four Coleen Hoover adaptation with £7.3 million, overtaking the £6.2 million of ‘Reminders Of Him’. It’s not going to get near the £21.7 million of ‘It Ends With Us’ but it should be a lock to get above £10 million. Consistently holding at #3 for a third weekend is ‘Heart Of The Beast’ (-29%) which is up to £5.4 million and also looks like it will reach double figures.

 

‘Resident Evil’ drops another 42% to reach £12.7 million and overtake Cregger’s effort from last year, ‘Weapons’ (11.8 million). It will soon get past £13.1 million which will help it climb above ‘Backrooms’ as the second biggest horror film of the year. As spooky season approaches, ‘Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom’ is holding very impressively, losing just 11% this time around. It is still off the pace of previous Shaun adventures though.

 

‘Digger’ doesn’t have a great second week hold (-55%) but it’s not the huge fall-off I think a lot of people were perversely expecting. It’s up to £2.2 million and its awards hopes looking like they’re fading. With the ‘Endgame’ re-release also concluding, IMAX screens have been donated back to ‘The Odyssey’ in mass, helping it climb 72% in its 13^th weekend and re-enter the top 10. They’re really pushing for the £90 million but I don’t think it’s going to get there.

 

Concluding the top 10 discussion is ‘Sense And Sensibility’ which drops 40% in week three to climb above £5 million.

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-#15 section: ‘Queen Budapest’ (#13) and ‘Lalka’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Street Fighter’, ‘Whalefall’, ‘Forgotten Island’, ‘Hadestown: The Musical’, ‘The Influencer Project’, ‘Winter Of The Crow’, ‘Case 137’, ‘Macbeth: Met Opera 2026’. ‘Deadline’, ‘Naza’, ‘By Design’, ‘It’s My Time’ and ‘Always Lalisa’. We also see re-releases of ‘The Others’, ‘Dracula’ and ‘Arrietty’.  Can any of them top the charts?

That a second week in a row that we’ve seen a major big budget flop. I wasn’t expecting Social Network-level numbers, but still surprised that Reckoning’s only at #5 and didn’t even crack a million. “The Uprising” also opened lower than expected, but not sure if it was below expectations or not.

Another horror #1 despite its bad reviews. I really don't know what could top next week, outside of Lalisa I don't know what those other new movies are

Street Fighter is a 12a so I imagine it’ll be an easy win for that!

Also half term kicks in from Friday. Forgotten Island is Dreamworks new one. Whalefall I am really intrigued by coz I think that’ll perform decently!