Great to see Hadestown make the top 10 - really enjoyed that

I’m surprised the new Ali G film got to number 3 considering it was a 2 day screening only with evening showings

23rd October 2026 - 25th October 2026

 

1. (NE) Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House - £2,458,995 Weeks: 1 (£2,458,995)

2. (NE) Clayface - £2,011,765 Weeks: 1 (£2,011,765)

3. (NE) Ali G: Who Iz I? - £1,344,873 Weeks: 1 (£1,344,873)

4. (NE) Wildwood - £1,022,599 Weeks: 1 (£1,022,599)

5. (01) Street Fighter - £1,009,599 (-56%) Weeks: 2 (£4,282,557)

6. (02) Forgotten Island - £938,056 (-28%) Weeks: 2 (£2,871,500)

7. (04) Verity - £642,436 (-42%) Weeks: 4 (£10,822,989)

8. (05) Other Mommy - £432,371 (-54%) Weeks: 3 (£4,718,778)

9. (NE) Fatherland - £311,086 Weeks: 1 (£311,086)

10. (12) Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom - £305,893 (+16%) Weeks: 6 (£4,692,676)

Falling out:

Jailer 2 (1 week)

Hadestown: The Musical (1 week)

Whalefall (1 week)

Heart Of The Beast (4 weeks)

Resident Evil (5 weeks)

Sense And Sensibility (4 weeks)

In another busy weekend where over half of last week’s top 10 depart, it’s television spin-off ‘Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House’ that tops the chart with a debut of £2,458,995 with less than £100k previews. We only have to go back just over a year ago to see our previous TV-spin off at #1 (‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’, £4,390,303, #1). There was a time when British comedy series always seemed to get big-screen adventures (see more about this with the film at #3) but I think you have to go back to ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ (£3,642,038, #1, 2017) for the last non-Downton TV spin-off at #1 (depending on if you want to accept the Mission: Impossible franchise) and to ‘The Inbetweeners 2’ (£12,538,114, #1, 2014) for a British adaptation. For anyone unaware, ‘Ghosts’ was a British sitcom that ran from 2019-2023 written and starring the comedy-troupe Them There (‘Horrible Histories’, ‘Yonderland’) and has since been successfully adapted for an American version.

 

The third entry in James Gunn’s rebooted DC universe, ‘Clayface’ becomes the second-consecutive film to debut at #2 (£2,011,765, £1.9 million without previews) following ‘Supergirl’ (£2,725,612, #2) in June. Despite the lower opening, this is actually a great result for DC. Seeming that this can be described as “in the vein of Sony’s disastrous SPUMC universe” where they’ve made a film about a Batman villain with no Batman and its an 18-rated horror film, this is a great first weekend with the film already making $46 million worldwide against a $40 million budget. Written by Netflix’s go-to King adapter, Mike Flanagan and directed by James Watkins who has previous with big horror hits (‘The Woman In Black’, ‘Speak No Evil’), this has earned good reviews and looks set to be a Halloween choice for many next week. This is the 6^th biggest horror opening of the year and the second-certificate for a 18-rated film.

 

One of the early-trailblazers of the mockumentary format, Sacha Baron Cohen has seen his comedy-creations return big box-office in the past and it turns out, there’s still an audience awaiting his return as ‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ debuts at #3 (£1,344,873) despite a stunted release by Amazon who kept reducing and reducing its showtimes as the release date got closer. It was meant to be just this weekend but a second weekend has now been announced. It’s still a much lower opening than ‘Ali G Indahouse’ (£3,231,673, #1, 2002) nearly a quarter-of-a-century ago but it has beaten ‘Digger’ to be the second-biggest debut for a 15-certificate comedy of 2026. Cohen’s last film of the sort ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ was a success, receiving Oscar noms, but skipped cinemas for an Amazon Prime release.

 

Completing a brand-new top #4 is ‘Wildwood’ (£1,022,599, £983k without previews). This is the latest film from Laika studios and has a massive $100 million budget. Despite being a 12A, this has received their widest ever release. It’s not a great start but the reviews for this film have been outstanding so there’s a chance it can find its audience. Laika’s only real box office hit, remains their first release ‘Coraline’ (£2,427,244, #2, 2009) which made £8.7 million on original re-release and even opened better than this film on re-release in 2024 (£1,260,124, #4) where it added another £3 million+.

 

The final new entry this week is ‘Fatherland’ (£311,086, £198k without previews, #9). This is the strongest debut for Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski, beating the Oscar-nominated ‘Cold War’ (£228,780, #15, 2018), a film I did see but ashamedly remember nothing about.

 

Last week’s chart-topper, ‘Street Fighter’ falls to #5 after a 56% drop but does just about stay above £1 million. Five films above £1 million is nothing to be sniffed at during this time of the year. With £4.3 million, it’s already well above where ‘Mortal Kombat II’ ended up closing (£3.4 million). After a disappointing opening, ‘Forgotten Island’ showed positive signs in weekend two (-28%). But with an opening that low, this looks like too little too late.

 

‘Verity’ loses 42% as it becomes the 21^st member of the £10 million club of 2026 while ‘Other Mommy’ drops another 54% as it climbs towards £5 million.

 

Climbing back into the top 10 after a week’s absence is ‘Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom’ with its 16% climb helping it hit £4.7 million and break a record. It is now the highest-grossing Sky Original of all-time, surpassing ‘Lee’ (£4.5 million) from 2024.  

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-#15 section: ‘Tad And The Magic Lamp’ (#12) and ‘BTS World Tour ‘ARIRANG’ In Buenos Aires: Live Viewing’ (#13).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Wicker’, ‘Primetime’, ‘Animol’, ‘I Love Boosters’, ‘Arnie & Barney’, ‘Everest: The Other Side’, ‘Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning’, ‘BTS World Tour ‘ARIRANG’ In Sao Paulo: Live Viewing’, ‘Peter Asher: Everywhere Man’, ‘In The Shadows’, ‘Nightborn’, ‘City Of Masks’, and ‘Bad Day At The Office’. We also see re-releases of ‘Donnie Darko’, ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ and ‘Ken Russell’s The Devils’.  Can any of them top the charts?

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Laika Opening Weekends:

 

Coraline (£2,427,244, #2, 2009)

ParaNorman (£1,393,123, #2, 2012)

The Boxtrolls (£2,000,259, #1, 2014)

Kubo And The Two Strings (£844,027, #5, 2016)

Missing Link (£644,649, #7, 2019)

Wildwood (£1,022,599, #4, 2026)

I know the reviews have been rather bad but for 'Klara & the Sun' to not even land within the top 15 is a DREADFUL result

Excited for the releases of 'Wicker' and 'Primetime' this weekend!

A shame that Wildwood couldn't have done better, I guess it's marketed a bit darkly for a kids film, I just saw it today and the animation is absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous and if there's any film to see just to support the hard work and craft of these animators, it's that one.

Interested to see how Primetime does, Robert Pattinson could well be on course for a third smash in a row in one year.

Oh, pleased to see Ghosts made #1! I really adored that TV series, and I'm watching the US one now as well which is also really good (took me while to adjust to it from the British one).

I've not been keeping up with this thread apologies @LewisGT, it really is one of the best threads on the site, thank you for all your amazing hard work. ❤️ Have had a read back through and seeing that 99 million for Spiderman, in UK numbers alone!?!? I'm guessing it has gone over 100 million now, utterly astonishing! 🫨 Guessing the new Avengers film is going to smash big time too based on the re-release getting over 4 million itself. Marvel really smashed it out of the park franchise wise.

5 hours ago, Scary Spiceboy said:

Oh, pleased to see Ghosts made #1! I really adored that TV series, and I'm watching the US one now as well which is also really good (took me while to adjust to it from the British one).

I've not been keeping up with this thread apologies @LewisGT, it really is one of the best threads on the site, thank you for all your amazing hard work. ❤️ Have had a read back through and seeing that 99 million for Spiderman, in UK numbers alone!?!? I'm guessing it has gone over 100 million now, utterly astonishing! 🫨 Guessing the new Avengers film is going to smash big time too based on the re-release getting over 4 million itself. Marvel really smashed it out of the park franchise wise.

Thank you

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' has indeed passed £100 million. It was on £100,135,058 as of last week. Only the third film to ever do this in the UK.

1 minute ago, LewisGT said:

Thank you

'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' has indeed passed £100 million. It was on £100,135,058 as of last week. Only the third film to ever do this in the UK.

Amazing!

What are the other three films? I'm guessing Avengers End Game maybe? Star Wars? Titanic? Avatar?

1 minute ago, Scary Spiceboy said:

Amazing!

What are the other three films? I'm guessing Avengers End Game maybe? Star Wars? Titanic? Avatar?

The three £100 million grossers are

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - £123.5 million

2. Skyfall - £102.8 million

3. Spider-Man: Brand New Day - £100.1 million

The rest of the top 10 is 'No Time To Die', 'Spider-Man: No Way Home', 'Avatar', 'Barbie', 'Spectre', 'Avengers: Endgame' and 'The Odyssey'.

Titanic is 13th.

1 minute ago, LewisGT said:

The three £100 million grossers are

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - £123.5 million

2. Skyfall - £102.8 million

3. Spider-Man: Brand New Day - £100.1 million

The rest of the top 10 is 'No Time To Die', 'Spider-Man: No Way Home', 'Avatar', 'Barbie', 'Spectre', 'Avengers: Endgame' and 'The Odyssey'.

Titanic is 13th.

Wow James Bond!!! Skyfall was huge wasn't it! 🫨

Titanic 13th!! Still my fave film ever. 🥰

The half term advantage helped Ghosts to beat Clayface

Edited Thursday at 09:532 days by Hadji

I feel like I am being gaslit into believing that 'Clayface' was any good! LMAO! I really did not like it and I'm so sad that I guess I'm in the minority in thinking this aha.

'Ghosts' & 'Wildwood' though, both excellent! The former is just pure joy.