8th August 2025 - 10th August 2025

 

1. (NE) Weapons - £2,818,535 Weeks: 1 (£2,818,535)

2. (NE) Freakier Friday - £1,758,698 Weeks: 1 (£1,758,698)

3. (01) The Fantastic Four: First Steps - £1,379,974 (-55%) Weeks: 3 (£19,034,074)

4. (02) The Naked Gun - £1,103,887 (-39%) Weeks: 2 (£4,401,634)

5. (03) The Bad Guys 2 - £812,771 (-39%) Weeks: 3 (£7,382,165)

6. (04) Jurassic World: Rebirth - £663,735 (-48%) Weeks: 6 (£33,403,993)

7. (05) Superman - £650,520 (-48%) Weeks: 5 (£26,013,718)

8. (08) F1 - £281,670 (-42%) Weeks: 7 (£21,436,325)

9. (07) Saiyaara - £244,273 (-50%) Weeks: 4 (£2,638,546)

10. (NE) Stans - £212,163 Weeks: 1 (£352,326)

 

 

Falling out:

Bring Her Back (1 week)

Smurfs (3 weeks)

Chal Mera Putt 3 (1 week) 

You wait 5 months for an 18-certificated film to open above £1 million and then you get two in consecutive weeks as ‘Weapons’ smashes all expectations to bag Warner Bros. a sixth #1 hit in an insane year for the production company after some high-profile failures in 2024 (‘Joker: Folie à Deux’, ‘Horizon: An American Saga: Chapter 1’). When you consider one of their only releases that hasn’t hit #1 is ‘Sinners’ which spent 4-weeks at #2 and became one of the biggest horror hits of all-time in the US, you can really see how 2025 belong to them. The opening of £2,818,535 (£2.6 million without previews) means that ‘Weapons’ has had the biggest opening weekend for an 18-rated flick since ‘Scream VI’ opened with £3,043,922 (#1) in March 2023. Zach Cregger’s horror hit is another example of a strong marketing campaign can do wonders for horror hits after inventive ads have helped ‘M3GAN’ (£2,356,356, #2, 2023) and ‘Longlegs’ (£1,371,352, #3, 2024) in recent years. It also shows just how successful the comedian-turned-horror-auteur path has become with Cregger first finding fame as part of the sketch-group ‘The Whitest Kids U' Know’ before his break-out horror hit ‘Barbarian’. This follows Jordan Peele going from ‘Key & Peele’ to ‘Get Out’ to ‘Us’ and last week’s ‘Bring Her Back’ where directors Danny and Michael Philippou started off with the horror-comedy YouTube channel ‘RackaRacka’ before releasing ‘Talk To Me’.

 

Opening at #2 is Lindsay Lohan’s comeback to the big screens in ‘Freakier Friday’ (£1,758,698). Have we finally cracked the code for legacy-sequels as ‘Freakier Friday’ is another critical-smash following ‘The Naked Gun’ last week? Aside from her cameos in last year’s ‘Mean Girls’ and 2013’s ‘Scary Movie 5’, this marks Lohan’s first appearance in a film that has reached the UK Box Office charts since ‘Bobby’ (£285,057, #12) in 2007. Lohan’s struggles in this intermittent period has been well-documented but she has found her footing again with a successful-slew of Netflix films since 2022 and it’s great to see her back in a major role. Despite being a success overall and becoming a cult-hit, the first ‘Freaky Friday’ starring Lohan was never a massive hit in the UK. It opened at #4 with £1,214,559 on its way to a £6.6 million total. So, the sequel has started off stronger and Disney will be hoping that it can end up beating the first film overall, especially with the strong reviews. Just eking out ‘Freaky Friday’ to be Lohan’s most successful time to date is ‘Herbie: Fully Loaded’ (£774,412, #5, 2005) that closed with £6.7 million.

 

There is one final new entry in the top 10: ‘Stans’ (£212,163, #10). This actually opened in the week but didn’t have that gross included with previews. Had this been included the film would have opened slightly higher at #8 with £352,326. This is a documentary that follows the career of Hip-Hop legend Eminem through the eyes of some of his biggest fans. Compared to other musical documentaries of recent years, this falls short of February’s ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ (£417,768, #8) but is above the two from last year: ‘Blur: To The End (£147,981, #8) and 'Piece By Piece' (£186,978, #10).

 

Falling to #3 after two weeks at the top is ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ after another steep drop (-55%). It has done enough this weekend to pass the other two MCU films of 2025 and enter the top 10 in the YTD chart but it’s now running £2.5 million behind where ‘Superman’ was at after 3-weeks (£21,423,043) and is having harsher drops than that film has had. It’s official that DC will are beating Marvel this year. ‘Superman’ drops 49% this weekend as it falls to #7.

 

‘The Naked Gun’ was the biggest new entry last week and it has a solid hold this weekend, dropping 39% and bagging a second week over £1 million. It’s at £4.4 million in total which means it’s closing in on the £5.3 million total of ‘The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult’ from 1994. However. that was over 30-years ago so comparisons are almost pointless to make. ‘Wicked Little Letters’ was at £4,259,564 at this stage last year so there’s still a chance it can leg-out well like that did and potentially be an exceedingly rare-comedy that can hit the £10 million milestone. Closing out the top 5 is ‘The Bad Guys 2’ in it’s fifth week. A 39% drop sees it hit £7.4 million, amazingly similar to where the original film was at after 3 weekends (£7,587,779). Great consistency for the animated franchise!

 

‘Saiyaara’ has its first significant drop as it loses 50% of business to fall to #9. However, it’s total of £2.7 million is very impressive for an Indian film and, as reported by Screen Daily, allows it to enter the top 5 grossing Indian films of all-time in the UK. It will be top 3 by next weekend but, for now, see below for the full top 5.

 

‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ is still plodding along nicely with a 48% drop seeing it climb to £33.4 million. It’s now looking likely that it will overtake the £35.1 million of ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ and stop itself from being the worst-performing film of the ‘World’ era of Jurassic films. ‘F1’ is also sticking around, dropping 42% in its 7^th week to hold at #8.

 

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

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Nobody 2’, ‘The Materialists’, ‘Together’, ‘Coolie’, ‘War 2’, ‘Super Charlie’, ‘Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods’, ‘Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love’, and ‘Motherboard’. We also get a re-releases of ‘Princess Mononoke’, ‘Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai’ and ‘Central Station’.

 

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Top Indian Films (All-Time)

 

1. Pathaan (£4.4 million, 2023)

2. Jawan (£3.1 million, 2023)

3. Dhoom 3 (£2.7 million, 2013)

4. Bajrangi Bhaijaan (£2.7 million, 2015)

5. Saiyaara (£2.7 million, 2025)

That's fantastic for Weapons! Do we know Barbarian's overall gross or opening? That was definitely more of a slow burner and I think the similar rug pull that that had probably helped this one.

Freakier Friday AND Naked Gun 2 being no.2 flops?! Unbelievable!!!

20 hours ago, Chez Wombat said:

That's fantastic for Weapons! Do we know Barbarian's overall gross or opening? That was definitely more of a slow burner and I think the similar rug pull that that had probably helped this one.

Barbarian opened with £380,812 (#8, 2022) and eventually made about £1.3 million.

For some reason, in my head I remembered it as being a Disney+ release when cinemas were closed so I didn't even think to look at it's box office 😄