October 26Oct 26 I’m surprised the new Ali G film got to number 3 considering it was a 2 day screening only with evening showings
October 26Oct 26 Author 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 6th 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 21st 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?~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)
October 26Oct 26 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!
October 27Oct 27 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.
October 27Oct 27 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.
October 27Oct 27 Author 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.
October 27Oct 27 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?
October 27Oct 27 Author 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 Star Wars: The Force Awakens - £123.5 millionSkyfall - £102.8 millionSpider-Man: Brand New Day - £100.1 millionThe 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.
October 27Oct 27 1 minute ago, LewisGT said:The three £100 million grossers areStar Wars: The Force Awakens - £123.5 millionSkyfall - £102.8 millionSpider-Man: Brand New Day - £100.1 millionThe 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. 🥰
October 27Oct 27 The half term advantage helped Ghosts to beat Clayface Edited October 29Oct 29 by Hadji
October 27Oct 27 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.
November 2Nov 2 Author 30th October 2026 - 1st November 2026 1. (NE) Wicker - £1,757,185 Weeks: 1 (£1,757,185) 2. (NE) Primetime - £1,747,043 Weeks: 1 (£1,747,043) 3. (01) Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House - £1,524,677 (-38%) Weeks: 2 (£6,335,031) 4. (02) Clayface - £1,230,587 (-39%) Weeks: 2 (£4,685,885) 5. (04) Wildwood - £646,944 (-37%) Weeks: 2 (£2,813,351) 6. (06) Forgotten Island - £621,929 (-34%) Weeks: 3 (£5,162,524) 7. (05) Street Fighter - £477,941 (-53%) Weeks: 3 (£5,722,764) 8. (10) Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom - £282,186 (-10%) Weeks: 7 (£5,729,974) 9. (07) Verity - £265,076 (-59%) Weeks: 5 (£11,635,161) 10. (08) Other Mommy - £258,515 (-40%) Weeks: 4 (£5,382,469)Falling out:Ali G: Who Iz I? (1 week)Fatherland (1 week)Happy Halloween guys! On the spooky weekend, we did see a scarily close battle for #1 between two new entries with ‘Wicker’ (£1,757,185, less than £100k previews) eventually coming out on top by £10k and making it back-to-back British productions at #1. A potentially awkward film to promote, this is a romantic com-dram about a woman falls in love with a man made of wicker, they’ve done a great job at marketing to the niche and Olivia Colman has proved herself to be a very bankable British star. In fact, this opening is remarkably consistent with the £1,721,921 that ‘Empire Of Light’ (#3) opened to in 2023 and is above ‘Wicked Little Letters’ (£1,642,777, #2, 2024) which has a good hit and ended up just short of £10 million. This will be targeting a similar run and hoping to land towards the £10.3 million that ‘The Roses’ closed with last year. Also starring is Alexander Skarsgård, who is on a run of British films after ‘Lee’ and ‘Pillion’ and Richard E. Grant fresh off his brief spell on The Traitors. Pushing ‘Wicker’ close was ‘Primetime’ (£1,747,043, £1.3 million without previews, #2) but would have landed a place lower without its previews. This is still a very impressive opening for A24 who are starting to distribute more of their own films in the UK, having previously agreed deals for other companies to have the international rights. In fact, only ‘Backrooms’ (£4,281,936, #1) from earlier in the year has opened better for them. The film sees Robert Pattinson star as Chris Hansen, the host of ‘To Catch a Predator’, a controversial TV-segment where he confronted potential child predators in sting operations. That show never made it over to our shores so a lot of the success is on the star who is having a crazy year with ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘The Drama’ already in the bank and ‘Dune: Part Three’ still to come. On directing duties is Lance Oppenheim who also directs the new #1 film in America (the documentary ‘You Can See Everything’) which will be coming out here soon. Last week’s brand-new top three, all make way for the new entries, falling three places with very similar holds. ‘Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House’ is down 38% but is already at £6.3 million which is not bad at all for a fully-British produced film. It’s already outgrossed ‘Supergirl’! Speaking of DC, ‘Clayface’ (-39) was the top horror film of Halloween weekend as it added another £1.2 million. ‘Wildwood’ completed the top 5 after a 37% drop. The strong word-of-mouth is starting to kick in but it still looks like it might be too dark to appeal to kids but the stop-motion is putting off adults. More successful at being a spooky option for kids, ‘Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom’ has the best hold of the week (-10%) as it climbs two places in its 7th week. The second horror in the top 10 is ‘Other Mommy’ which lost 40% as it fell to #10 in week 4. It has £5.4 million and I think it will fall away completely now Halloween is over. ‘Forgotten Island’ is sticking in our memories with another good hold (-34%) but the same can’t be said for ‘Street Fighter’ (-53%) that has it’s second consecutive 50%+ drop as it falls behind the kids film, despite beating it to #1 on opening weekend. ‘Verity’ is the longest-consecutive-running film in the top 10 with a 59% drop in its fifth week. There are two further new entries in the #11-#15 section: ‘BTS World Tour ‘ARIRANG’ In Sao Paulo: Live Viewing’ (#13) and ‘I Love Boosters’ (#15). We also see a re-entry for ‘Ken Russell’s The Devils’ at #11 having the best per-screen average of any film this week. Next week sees the openings of ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’, ‘Wild Horse Nine’, ‘I Play Rocky’, ‘Ramayana: Rise Of A Legend’, ‘Onwards & Sideways’ ‘George Michael: The Faith Tour’, ‘Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint’, ‘La Bola Negra’, ‘Misty Green’, ‘Manipulation’ ‘Think Of England’, ‘Stray Kids World Tour ‘RUN IT’ Live Viewing’ and ‘Amazing Grace’. We also see re-releases of ‘V For Vendetta’ and ‘Rocky’. Can any of them top the charts?
November 2Nov 2 Excited to see what Godzilla Minus Zero can do!GREAT holds for Ghosts & Clayface holding up extremely well, I wonder if the Halloween effect is what kept them going or whether they will actually appeal beyond their “horror”-lite gimmicks?The former I can see holding up but we’ll see about Clayface!Need to see Wicker still. Olivia is so warm and likeable as an actress and this premise seems so out there lol. Primetime was solid though. I wanted to like it slightly more than I did but I do hope we get more A24 movies around the same time as the US and not a month or so later when it’s hitting digital…!
Yesterday at 20:091 day Author Based on the numbers from Friday and Saturday we're going to see quite a record-breaking, exciting #1 film come tomorrow! 👀
4 hours ago4 hr Author 6th November 2026 - 8th November 2026 1. (NE) Ramayana: Rise Of A Legend - £2,148,158 Weeks: 1 (£2,148,158) 2. (NE) Wild Horse Nine - £1,477,229 Weeks: 1 (£1,477,229) 3. (NE) Godzilla Minus Zero - £1,391,128 Weeks: 1 (£1,391,128) 4. (01) Wicker - £1,127,892 (-36%) Weeks: 2 (£4,311,180) 5. (NE) George Michael: The Faith Tour - £1,023,440 Weeks: 1 (1,023,440) 6. (02) Primetime - £843,456 (-52%) Weeks: 2 (£3,480,144) 7. (03) Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House - £747,374 (-51%) Weeks: 3 (£7,776,437) 8. (04) Clayface - £683,058 (-44%) Weeks: 3 (£6,075,307) 9. (NE) I Play Rocky - £607,741 Weeks: 1 (£607,741) 10. (NE) Stray Kids World Tour 'RUN IT' Live Viewing - £594,832 Weeks: 1 (£594,832)Falling out:Wildwood (2 weeks)Forgotten Island (3 weeks)Street Fighter (3 weeks)Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom (2 weeks*) *In this runVerity (5 weeks)Other Mommy (4 week)There are six new entries to discuss this week and the biggest of which is ‘Ramayana: Rise Of A Legend’ (£2,148,158, £1.7 million without previews). This is the first ever Indian film to reach #1 in the UK Box Office and just about beats ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ (£2,064,355, #2) from earlier in the year. With £4.4 million, the later is the biggest ever Indian hit in the UK and it will be an interesting race to see if this can beat it. Just like ‘Wicked’, this is only a part one with a follow-up coming next year. With a reported budget of $420 million over the two parts, this is the most expensive Indian production of all-time but a $55.7 million debut worldwide is a promising start. Based on a Hindi epic poem, it tells the life story of the deity Rama. Opening at #2 thanks to its previews is the film that I did check out in cinemas this weekend, ‘Wild Horse Nine’ (£1,477,229, £1 million without previews). The latest from Martin McDonagh, this is a similar opening to his previous ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ (£1,643,220, #2, 2022) but falls further behind when you take out previews. That film was a major awards player and this is expected to be the same with John Malkovich in particular getting a lot of buzz. I can’t see this getting close to the £10 million of ‘Banshees’ but could still stick around. Making it a historic all-Asian top 2 on the pure 3-day gross, ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ (£1,391,128, £1.1 million without previews) eventually lands at #3. This has broken quite a few records of its own: it becomes the biggest opening for distributor Anime Ltd. (overtaking their re-release of ‘Akira’ [£884,729, #5] from earlier this year) and it’s the biggest opening for a live-action Japanese film in the UK. But the records it’s broken in other countries are even more impressive (highest opening day for a live-action film in Japan, biggest ever opening for a foreign-language, live-action film in the US). The film it beat for the UK opening was its predecessor ‘Godzilla Minus One’ (£816,891, #2, 2023) and its beat it comfortably. With a budget reported to be about $18 million, a $63 million opening weekend worldwide mean that this is already a massively profitable film for Toho Studios. Perfectly times to coincide with Wham taking over the airwaves, ‘George Michael: The Faith Tour’ is the fifth film this weekend to gross above £1 million as it opens with £1,023,440. This is a solid number, but it is lower than three other music-related event cinema releases this year from Oasis, Billie Eilish and Stray Kids. In fact, the latter also charts their second top 10 concert-film of the year this week with ‘Stray Kids World Tour ‘RUN IT’ Live Viewing (£594,832) rounding out the top 10, following on from ‘Stray Kids: The Dominate Experience’ (£1,083,889, #2) from February. This one was only in cinemas on Saturday. The final new entry to discuss this week is ‘I Play Rocky’ (£607,741, £566k without previews, #9). Coming from Peter Farrelly (who’s ‘Green Book’ won Best Picture don’t forget), this is a biopic about Sylvester Stallone and, in particular, his struggle to develop 1976’s Rocky movie. This has been a bit of crowd-pleaser since its debut at the Toronto Film Festival and is set to expand into wider-release next week. I think this is one that will stick around in the coming weeks. It missed the top 10, but it would be remiss not to mention ‘La Bola Negra’ opening at #11 (£536,474). This is one of the front-runners for the big awards this year so keep an eye on it and catch it on the big screen if you can. It will be released on Netflix next month, which makes it’s #11 position even more notable as their films usually don’t have their box office numbers reported. They agreed a deal with Altitude to distribute this one so that’s why we know the numbers. Last weeks #1, ‘Wicker’ drops to #4 but with a good hold (-36%), the best of the week. With £4.3 million already in the bag, this is ticking along very nicely indeed and should enter the YTD top 40 by next weekend. ‘Primetime’ has a harsher fall (-52%) but a much nicer -34% when you take out the previews. That one is at £3.5 million. The two longest-runners in the top 10 (at a measly 3-weeks) round out the chart with ‘Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House’ (-51%) and ‘Clayface’ (-44%) losing ground now Halloween is out of the way. Both have performed well overall with £7.8 million and £6.1 million totals respectively. There are two further new entries in the #11-#15 section: ‘Lo Bola Negra’ (#11) and ‘Scene’ (#14). Next week sees the openings of ‘Prima Facie’, ‘Ebenezer’, ‘Fjord’, ‘How To Rob A Bank’, ‘The Mosquito Bowl’, ‘Whispers In The Woods’, ‘Being Heumann’ and ‘Festive Fun With Peppa Cinema Experience’. We also see re-releases of ‘Marie Antoinette’ and ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’. Can any of them top the charts?~Martin McDonagh Opening Weekends:In Bruges (£343,760, #11, 2008)* *Opened only in IrelandSeven Psychopaths (£1,121,679, #3, 2012)Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri (£2,361,782, #3, 2018)The Banshees Of Inisherin (£1,643,220, #2, 2022)Wild Horse Nine (£1,477,229, #2, 2026)
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