39 minutes ago, Brett-Butler said:

Did “The Fountain” not get a UK cinema release?

I think it did on 26 January 2007 but the BFI reports for 2007 only quote the top 15 which it looks like it missed.

Box Office Mojo quotes it as opening at #21 with $106,872 but I don't know how accurate that is because I can't find any info about it on the sources I usually use.

How did K Pop Demon Hunters do?

14 hours ago, Big Fat Sue said:

How did K Pop Demon Hunters do?

Uk numbers wasn't released sadly 😢 but going by how it performed in America id bet my house it was top 10 easy probably top 5 maybe even top 3

5th September 2025 - 7th September 2025

 

1. (NE) The Conjuring: Last Rites - £6,777,552 Weeks: 1 (£6,777,552)

2. (01) The Roses - £1,517,315 (-31%) Weeks: 2 (£5,356,922)

3. (03) Weapons - £374,789 (-55%) Weeks: 5 (£11,231,965)

4. (05) Freakier Friday - £355,944 (-52%) Weeks: 5 (£8,192,283)

5. (04) The Bad Guys 2 - £331,219 (-59%) Weeks: 7 (£12,699,837)

6. (06) Caught Stealing - £305,031 (-47%) Weeks: 2 (£1,249,149)

7. (10) Lokah Chapter One: Chandra - £223,155 (-33%) Weeks: 2 (£822,730)

8. (09) The Fantastic Four: First Steps - £214,276 (-58%) Weeks: 7 (£23,593,399)

9. (NE) Inter Alia: NT Live 2025 - £188,706 Weeks: 1 (£959,337)

10. (NE) Honey Don't - £168,964 Weeks: 1 (£168,964)

 

 

Falling out:

Jaws: 50th Anniversary (1 week)

André Rieu’s 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz the Night Away (1 week)

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (20th Anniversary)

After a slow end to the Summer that saw the YTD box office drop from 18% above 2024 levels in July to just 8% at the end of August, there were worries that we were set for a poor September that wouldn’t be able to live up to the shock success of ‘Bettlejuice Beetlejuice’ last year and we’d end the month level with last year. However, the #1 debut of ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ has put those worries to bed. The reported ‘final’ ‘Conjuring’ movie has smashed all expectations, with a debut of £6,777,552 becoming a franchise best and the YTD 10^th best opening of 2025 (above ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ and ‘Thunderbolts*’). It is slightly under last year’s aforementioned ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ (£7,352,761, #1) but still brilliant for a straight horror. In fact, it’s the biggest horror opening of the year in what has been a banner year for the genre and is certain to become the 6^th horror hit to pass £10 million this year. It will need to hit £16.2 million if it wants to overtake ‘Sinners’ for the overall crown. ‘The Conjuring’ has always been a consistently successful franchise (see below for the opening weekends) but this opening has been something else. It’s been just as successful worldwide too where it has (unbelievably) somehow opened to $194 million, beating ‘It’ to have the biggest ever worldwide weekend for a horror film. Something tells me that this might not be the last time we see the Warrens.

 

There are two more new entries to discuss closing out the chart at #9 and #10. The NT Live theatre releases are always successful and ‘Inter Alia: NT Live 2025’ is no exception. Officially opening with £188,706, this is boosted to £959,337 when it’s Thursday gross is included which would have seen it open at #3 had this counted. Starring Rosamund Pike, this play is from the same creative team that created ‘Prima Facie’ which became on of the biggest event-cinema releases of all-time with Jodie Comer leading, including £5.5 million on original release in 2022 and an extra £3.1 million on re-release this time last year. With further encores inevitable, this will comfortably be another theatre release to make £1 million+.

 

Opening at #10 is ‘Honey Don’t’ (£168,964). This is the latest effort from Ethan Coen after his split from his brother after ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ underperformed last year (£278,082, #6). Opening with lower again is not a great sign, especially when big names like Chris Evans, Charlie Day and Aubrey Plaza have been recruited to join the returning Margaret Qualley.

 

‘The Roses’ drops from the top spot after one week, but a 31% drop with another £1.5 million added to the bank is a promising sign. At £5.4 million, it’s comfortably pacing above where ‘The Naked Gun’ and ‘Freakier Friday’ were at the same stage and it will be targeting the £10 million figure. ‘Weapons’ is starting to lose a bit of steam. It remains in the top 3 for a fifth week but drops 55% as horror-fan flock to see the ‘Last Rites’.

 

Not having the Cineworld promotion this weekend sees big drops for the other holders, ‘Freakier Friday’ (-52%), ‘The Bad Guys 2’ (-59%) and ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ (-58%) all drop more than 50%. Despite this, ‘The Bad Guys 2’ increases it’s lead against where the original was at the same stage and is looking increasingly likely to end up being a bigger hit.

 

In what feels like a rare occurrence, the best holds in the top 10 all come from films that debuted last week. ‘The Roses’ had the best but Indian hit ‘Lokah Chapter One: Chandra’ runs it close (-33%) as it climbs from #10-#7. It’s reached £800k and looks set to become the 4^th £1 million Indian grosser of the year. ‘Caught Stealing’ has a slightly bigger drop (-47%) but it’s still better than what I was expecting. It holds at #6 and has reached £1.25 million.

 

There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Madharaasi’ (#15). ‘Jaws’ dropped to #11 if you’re interested.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’, ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle’, ‘The Long Walk’, ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’, ‘Dogs At The Opera’, ‘Islands’, ‘Holding Liat’, ‘The Man In My Basement’, ‘My Bigfoot Life’ and ‘From Ground Zero: Stories From Gaza’ Can any of them top the charts?

 

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The Conjuring Universe openings:

 

The Conjuring (£2,156,124, #3, 2013)

Annabelle (£1,939,963, #3, 2014)

The Conjuring 2 (£4,637,862, #1, 2016)

Annabelle: Creation (£1,960,203, #2, 2017)

The Nun (£4,098,198, #1, 2018)

The Curse Of La Llarona (£609,745, #3, 2019)

Annabelle Comes Home (£2,223,482, #3, 2019)

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (£2,708,455, #1, 2021)

The Nun II (£1,743,903, #1, 2023)

The Conjuring: Last Rites (£6,777,552, #1, 2025)

Blimey Charley, that’s a packed list of big films opening this week, although I would stick a fiver on “Demon Slayer” being the surprise #1 next week.

'The Long Walk' is going to have surprising longevity I think. It's unfortunate it has gone up against both 'Downton Abbey' AND 'Demon Slayer', but I think this will hit big with students in the coming weeks.

12th September 2025 - 14th September 2025

 

1. (NE) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - £4,390,303 Weeks: 1 (£4.390,303)

2. (NE) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle - £3,464,393 Weeks: 1 (£3,464,393)

3. (01) The Conjuring: Last Rites - £2,806,297 (-59%) Weeks: 2 (£12,351,371)

4. (NE) The Long Walk - £1,156,220 Weeks: 1 (£1,156,220)

5. (02) The Roses - £939,258 (-38%) Weeks: 3 (£7,344,459)

6. (05) The Bad Guys 2 - £281,476 (-15%) Weeks: 8 (£13,018,222)

7. (NE) Spinal Tap II: The End Continues - £215,115 Weeks: 1 (£215,115)

8. (04) Freakier Friday - £210,517 (-41%) Weeks: 6 (£8,527,756)

9. (03) Weapons - £130,352 (-65%) Weeks: 6 (£11,586,878)

10. (NE) Next To Normal - £121,974 Weeks: 1 (£121,974)

 

 

Falling out:

Caught Stealing (2 weeks)

Lokah Chapter One: Chandra (2 weeks)

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (7 weeks)

Inter Alia: NT Live 2025 (1 week)

Honey Don't (1 week)

There were serious worries going into this month that September was going to be a weak for the box office. Well, those worries have been fully put to bed after a frantic weekend of new releases sees ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ (£4.390,303) eventually come out on top. This is a very good result for the hit ITV-period-drama-turned-movie-trilogy as it’s well above the opening of the last film, 2022’s ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ (£3,072,762, #1) and continues the trend of 2025 being a solid year for adult-skewing British comedy-dramas (‘Bridget Jones’, ‘The Salt Path’, ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’). It does, however, slightly trail the opening weekend of the first big-screen effort, ‘Downton Abbey: The Movie’ (£5,180,865, #1, 2019) that had 3-weeks at #1 and legged out to a healthy £28.3 million. The sequel could only make £15.1 million and I feel like this is going to end up somewhere in between. If it can reach the £20 million mark, then I feel like Universal have to consider it to be a huge success.

 

Despite Downton’s success, I think the biggest story this week is the brilliant #2 debut for ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle’. A debut of £3,464,393 is historic and allows it to break multiple records. There’s too many to mention them all but I’ll focus on some of the biggest. It’s obviously the biggest opening weekend for an anime film of all-time, breaking the long-standing record of one of the most nostalgic films of my childhood: ‘Pokémon: The First Movie’ which debuted at #1 in 2000 with £2,833,721. That film ended with £10.8 million which I feel will be out-of-reach for this but the £5.1 million of ‘The Boy In The Heron’ seems an inevitable milestone it will pass. It’s also the biggest debut for an adult-animation (certificate 15 or 18 by the BBFC) beating the £2,690,156 achieved on debut for ‘Sausage Party’ (#1) in 2016. And more importantly, in an awful year for Western big-screen animation, ‘Demon Slayer’ has had the biggest debut for an animated film this year, finally dethroning ‘Dog Man’ (£3,252,537) which has somehow reigned since its February release.

 

The third of four Stephen King adaptations to hit cinemas this year, ‘The Long Road’ is the most-successful so far opening at #4 with £1,156,220. Director Francis Lawrence has overseen some big-box office hitters in his career (the last four ‘Hunger Games’ movies, ‘I Am Legend’) and while this isn’t on the same level as those, it is the best-debut for a King adaptation since ‘It: Chapter Two’ (£7,368,586, #1) in 2019. This was made on a very-responsible budget ($20 million) and has had great reviews so I feel like this is going to end up finding it’s audience and being successful. It’s a decent start but I think it’s gone under the radar a bit with the headlines that Downton and Demon Slayer have made.

 

With three successful new releases, it always felt like something had to suffer and, in the end, it’s ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ (that would have been for perfect subtitle for ‘Downton Abbey’!!!) that ends up taking the hit with an awful debut of £215,114 (#7). The 1984 original ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ is a cult-classic and the sequel has managed to fully get the band back together with original director Rob Reiner being joined by Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean but it feels like they’ve left it too long and picked the wrong week to release. Comedy has had a bit of an uptick of late with successful legacy-sequels (‘The Naked Gun’, ‘Freakier Friday’, ‘Happy Gilmore 2) but this has not managed to do the same. Perhaps it should have been a Netflix release like Happy Gilmore?

 

The final new entry this week is ‘Next To Normal’ (£121,974, £58k without previews) at #10. This is an event-cinema release and is a recording of a stage-musical which has won three Tonys and a Pulitzer Prize. It must be good but it’s literally never heard of it before now.

 

Last week it was ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ that was breaking all the records. However, it has been slightly dented by the stack of new releases as it drops 59% in weekend two. It is already up to £12.4 million though which already makes it the biggest ‘Conjuring’ film in UK cinemas. A record which was previously held by ‘The Nun’ with £11.3 million. It’s also already above ‘Weapons’ which drops 65% and looks to be on its last legs despite being a huge hit in its own right.

 

‘The Bad Guys 2’ remains to be a slow burner, having the best hold of any film again (-15%) while ‘The Roses’ isn’t doing too shabbily either, dropping 38% in weekend 3 and pushes it above £7 million. ‘Freakier Friday’ drops 41% and is up to £8.5 million.

 

There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘Mirai’ (#12).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’, ‘David Gilmour Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome’, ‘Diplo: The Mighty Dinosaur’, ‘Girls & Boys’, ‘The Glassworker’, ‘Solo’, ‘Tape’, ‘Can I Get A Witness?’, ‘Happyend’, ‘Queen Of The Ring’, ‘Ghost Trail’, ‘Conviction: The Case of Lucy Letby’ and ‘Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art Of Activism’ Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Francis Lawrence openings:

 

Constantine (£2,098,074, #3, 2005)

I Am Legend (£11,009,365, #1, 2007)

Water For Elephants (£1,270,483, #4, 2011)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (£12,189,733, #1, 2013)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (£12,654,109, #1, 2014)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (£11,255,566, #1, 2015)

Red Sparrow (£1,843,124, #2, 2018)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes (£5,420,681, #1, 2023)

The Long Walk (£1,156,220, #4, 2025)

Goodness I wasn't expecting that for Downton Abbey. I went to see it at the weekend and there were only 6 people in the whole screening room!

I wonder had Demon Slayer cane out before Demon Hunters if it would have had this big of a opening?

Love that horror is now outperforming Marvel.

19th September 2025 - 21st September 2025

 

1. (01) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - £2,267,005 (-48%) Weeks: 2 (£10,146,361)

2. (03) The Conjuring: Last Rites - £1,509,631 (-46%) Weeks: 3 (£14,980,906)

3. (02) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle - £906,833 (-74%) Weeks: 2 (£5,514,781)

4. (04) The Long Walk - £820,555 (-29%) Weeks: 2 (£2,649,547)

5. (02) The Roses - £602,555 (-36%) Weeks: 4 (£8,521,152)

6. (NE) A Big Bold Beautiful Journey - £533,931 Weeks: 1 (£533,931)

7. (06) The Bad Guys 2 - £232,309 (-17%) Weeks: 9 (£13,276,945)

8. (41) Inter Alia: NT Live 2025 - £215,507 (+2,072%) Weeks: 4 (£1,470,852)

9. (RE) The Sound Of Music (60th Anniversary) - £178,556 Weeks: 1 (£178,556)

10. (NE) Tesciowie 3 - £145,341 Weeks: 1 (£145,341)

 

 

Falling out:

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (1 week)

Freakier Friday (6 weeks)

Weapons (6 weeks)

Next To Normal (1 week)

After the busyness of last weekend, normality resumes as no new entry reaches the top #5 and ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ grabs a second week at #1 with a solid -48% drop pushing it’s total above £10 million. This continues the trend of the opening weekend where the third film is showing an improvement on part two: ‘A New Era (£7,671,735 at this stage) but trailing the pace of the original (£13,162,925 at this stage). Strong midweek showings means that this still has a good chance of hitting £20 million overall. Its closest competition is ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ that had a similar hold (-46%) that allows it to climb a position and land just short of £15 million. It’s pushing further and further above the gross of the other ‘Conjuring’ films and will soon pass the £16.1 million gross of ‘Sinners’ and become the biggest horror hit of the year.

 

The biggest new release this week is ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ which disappoints as it opens at #6 with £533,931. With a $45 million budget, this was a big swing and the first dip into mainstream filmmaking for director Kogonada following his critical-success with A24-indie ‘After Yang’ in 2022. Starring in her first role since ‘Barbie’ is Margot Robbie alongside Colin Farrell in this romance/fantasy hybrid about two strangers who go on an adventure that allows them to revisit moments of their past. This has been panned critically and I’m expecting a big drop next week.

 

The only other new entry this week is the Polish comedy ‘Tesciowie 3’ at #10 (£145,341). This has continues the upwards trend for this film series following the openings of ‘Tesciowie’ (£66,024, #16, 2021) and ‘Tesciowie 2’ (£99,077, #15, 2023). The title translates as ‘The In-laws’ and that’s about all I can find out about this one.

 

We also see the 60^th anniversary re-release of ‘The Sound Of Music’ impact, opening at #9. Although box-office records were not kept at the time, we do know that ‘The Sound Of Music’ was once the biggest-grossing film of all-time in the UK, with some suggestion that it was not overtaken until ‘E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial’ in 1982. It was the #1 film in cinemas from each year between 1965-1968. Also getting a major push is ‘Inter Alia: NT Live 2025’ which has a massive 2,072% rise in business as it re-enters the top 10 at #8. By this time last week, it had just squeezed past £1 million barrier, the 4^th event-cinema release of the year to manage this.

 

After a historic opening last weekend, ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle’ has an almost-as-historic drop, falling 74% despite remaining in the top 3. However, this was still almost enough for it to hit £1 million for the weekend. At £5.5 million, it has already passed the final total of ‘The Boy And The Heron’ and it is only the £10 million+ gross of ‘Pokémon: The First Movie’ that bests it in terms on anime. The early signs are good for ‘The Long Walk’ as it has a brilliant -29% hold in week two. It’s practically grossed the same as what 2019’s ‘Doctor Sleep’ had after two weekends (£2,563,603) and that’s with a weakier opening weekend so it should easily pass the £3.3 million final total of that to become the biggest King adaptation in the post ‘IT’ world.

 

It almost feels cliché to say it now but the best hold in the top 10 (again) goes to ‘The Bad Guys 2’ with -17%. It’s now about £500k from passing the total of the original film and should beat it within the next two weeks. A 9^th week in the top 10 also sees it equal ‘Lilo & Stitch’ for the longest run of any film this year. Another film that is quietly holding well is ‘The Roses’ (-36%) which is currently at £8.5 million, passing the total for other recent comedy ‘The Naked Gun’ and is only pennies behind ‘Freakier Friday’. £10 million looks touch-and-go but that would be a brilliant performance if it can hit it.

 

There are three further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Jolly LLB 3’ (#11), ‘David Gilmour: Live At The Circus Maximus, Rome’ (#13) and ‘Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe’ (#14).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘One Battle After Another’, ‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’, ‘Dead Of Winter’, ‘Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback’, ‘Brides’, ‘Mother’s Pride’, ‘OG’, ‘Paris 75’, ‘Hamilton’, ‘A Night Like This’, ‘The Librarians’ and ‘Ellis Park’. We also see re-releases for ‘Spider-Man 2’ and ‘Bullet Boy’. Can any of them top the charts?

Hamilton next weekend

I thought The Long Walk would hold well. It wasn’t for me tbh.

26th September 2025 - 28th September 2025

 

1. (NE) One Battle After Another - £2,471,784 Weeks: 1 (£2,471,784)

2. (NE) Hamilton (10th Anniversary) - £1,769,826 Weeks: 1 (£1,769,826)

3. (01) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - £1,294,900 (-43%) Weeks: 3 (£13,416,773)

4. (02) The Conjuring: Last Rites - £834,053 (-45%) Weeks: 4 (£16,405,305)

5. (04) The Long Walk - £466,628 (-43%) Weeks: 3 (£3,569,143)

6. (05) The Roses - £344,991 (-44%) Weeks: 5 (£9,232,098)

7. (NE) The Strangers: Chapter 2 - £331,535 Weeks: 1 (£331,535)

8. (NE) They Call Him OG - £324,500 Weeks: 1 (£324,500)

9. (03) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle - £322,370 (-64%) Weeks: 3 (£6,246,424)

10. (07) The Bad Guys 2 - £234,508 (+1%) Weeks: 10 (£13,528,980)

 

 

Falling out:

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (1 week)

Inter Alia: NT Live 2025 (1 week*) *In this run

The Sound Of Music (60th Anniversary) (1 week)

Tesciowie 3 (1 week)

A surprisingly strong September concludes with a new #1 as Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film ‘One Battle After Another’ debuts at the top-spot with a career-best £2,471,784. This has been reported as Anderson’s mainstream debut and the results back this up as it is the first time one of his films has reached such heights and it’s already out-grossed the final total a few of his other films. It’s continued a good trend as his previous highest opening was his last film, ‘Licorice Pizza’ (£879,373, #3, 2021), despite having a relatively unknown lead cast. However, this was also, by far, the most expensive film in his filmography (reported budget of ~$150 million) and it needed more to justify such an expense. ‘There Will Be Blood’ is currently Anderson’s biggest film with £4.9 million and there is no doubt that this will end up clearing that comfortably. This stars Leonardo DiCaprio, who we most recently saw in Martin Scorcese’s similarly expensive epic ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ (£2,531,393, #2, 2023) and that feels like an apt-comparison to make here. That film did end up sneaking past £10 million overall which feels like the same-sort of ballpark this will likely achieve.

 

Despite already being available to watch on Disney+ for half-a-decade, the recording of the smash-Broadway musical ‘Hamilton’ finally gets the cinema-release that Covid ruined and pulls is some very impressive numbers (£1,769,826) while debuting at #2. This is the second-best opening for an event cinema release in 2025, behind ‘Six: The Musical (£2,139,374, #2) which really makes you wonder just how massive this could have been had it been released as planned during the close-to-peak Hamilton-fever times of 2020. I think this was a one-weekend-only release but, don’t fret, we have another big event-cinema release next week to make up for it.

 

Two more films see debuts this weekend: ‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ (£331,535, #7) and ‘They Call Him OG’ (£324,500, #8). ‘The Strangers: Chapter 2’ is the sequel that it felt like no-one was asking for and the debut reflects that as it opens lower than the £452,507 ‘Chapter 1’ achieved as it opened at #4 in May last year. That did manage to reach £1.8 million with 4-weeks in the top 10, but I don’t see this managing the same. ‘They Call Him OG’ is the latest Indian-actioner and would have just missed out on the top 10 had it not been saved by previews.

 

‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ drops to #3 after two weeks atop the chart. A 43% drop sees it hit £13.4 million and close in on the £15.1 total that ‘A New Era’ closed with in 2022. In fact it was the week of mid-40% drops as ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ (-45%), ‘The Long Walk’ (-43%) and ‘The Roses’ (-44%) all having near-identical holds. This is enough for ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ to overtake ‘Sinners’ to become the biggest horror hit of the year and ‘The Roses’ to overtake ‘Freakier Friday’ to become the second-biggest comedy of the year behind ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy’.

 

The only two films that didn’t land in this mid-40% drops region are the animated holdovers which had contrasting fortunes. ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle’ had another big drop (-64%) but passes £6 million which is a crazy-result for an anime but having the best hold again is ‘The Bad Guys 2’ which actually has a 1% increase in its 10^th weekend. This means it’s now untied in its position as the longest running film in the charts this year and means it only needs another £300k to overtake the original film.

 

There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section: ‘The Dead Of Winter’ (#14). We also see a re-release of ‘Spider-Man 2’ enter at #13.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl’, ‘The Smashing Machine’, ‘Him’, ‘Urchin’, ‘Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight’, ‘The Shadow’s Edge’, ‘Plainclothes’, ‘Dora: Magic Mermaid Adventures’, ‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror’, ‘Power Station’, ‘Mr Blake At Your Service’ and ‘The Kitchen Brigade’. We also see a re-release of ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’. Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Paul Thomas Anderson Openings:

 

Boogie Nights (£792,712, #4, 1998)

Magnolia (£428,435, #5, 2000)

Punch-Drunk Love (£151,494, #13, 2003)

There Will Be Blood (£215,490, #11, 2008)* *Opened in limited release

The Master (£65,701, #14, 2012)* * Opened in limited release

Inherent Vice (£363,133, #9, 2015)

Phantom Thread (£727,104, #10, 2018)

Licorice Pizza (£879,373, #3, 2021)

One Battle After Another (£2,471,784, #1, 2025)

3rd October 2025 - 5th October 2025

 

1. (NE) Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl - £3,471,544 Weeks: 1 (£3,471,544)

2. (01) One Battle After Another - £1,974,028 (-21%) Weeks: 2 (£6,033,200)

3. (03) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - £867,282 (-34%) Weeks: 4 (£15,581,565)

4. (NE) The Smashing Machine - £863,078 Weeks: 1 (£863,078)

5. (04) The Conjuring: Last Rites - £511,055 (-39%) Weeks: 5 (£17,295,399)

6. (NE) Kantara A Legend: Chapter 1 - £343,984 Weeks: 1 (£343,984)

7. (05) The Long Walk - £276,169 (-41%) Weeks: 4 (£4,115,824)

8. (NE) Him - £275,705 Weeks: 1 (£275,705)

9. (10) The Bad Guys 2 - £264,827 (+13%) Weeks: 11 (£13,819,836)

10. (RE) Avatar: The Way Of Water (2025 Re-Release) - £254,394 Weeks: 1 (£254,394)

 

 

Falling out:

Hamilton (10th Anniversary) (1 week)

The Roses (5 weeks)

The Strangers: Chapter 2 (1 week)

They Call Him OG (1 week)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle (3 weeks)

Unless you live under a rock, I’m sure you’ll have found Taylor Swift unavoidable this week and it turns out, you couldn’t even get relief and the cinemas as she’s decided to dominate those too with ‘The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl’ debuts at #1 with £3,471,544. This beats out the impressive debut of ‘Six: The Musical Live!’ (£2,139,374, #2) from April to be the biggest event-cinema debut of the year. In fact, the only bigger event cinema release ever released was Taylor’s own ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ (£5,729,998, #1) back in 2023. For any cinema purists that think only films should be in big screens, don’t fret: this was a three-day only release and won’t have the chance to match the £12.2 million total of her last release. I wonder if this success might inspire other artists to try a similar thing with their next album release. Obviously, no-one would have this level of success but this must have been a cheap release to make so if feels like it could be an easy-win if there’s any hype.

 

The other big release this week was The Rock’s awards-bait turn ‘The Smashing Machine’ (£863,078, #4). This is a biopic of early-MMA pioneer Mark Kerr and as is adaptation of the 2002 documentary subtitled ‘The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr’. This is the first-solo film from director Benny Safdie who previously worked alongside his brother Joshua to make indie hits ‘Heaven Knows What’ and ‘Uncut Gems’. He’s also an occasional actor and you may have seen him as the villain in another sports-hit this year ‘Happy Gilmore 2’. There’s been a lot of headlines about Dwayne Johnson now wanting to be taken seriously and starring in this A24-produced drama but it has been a personal success for him. He’s earned the best reviews of his career and gained a lot of Oscar-buzz but in financial terms, it faces an uphill battle to be profitable based on its $50 million budget.

 

Climbing from outside from the top 10 to #6 based on its previews, ‘Kantara A Legend: Chapter 1’ (£343,984, £218,675 without previews) has been a big hit in India and is one of the top 5 debuts for an Indian film of the year over here. This is a mythological-epic and a prequel to 2022 film ‘Kantara’ which opened to just £7,791 (#38).

 

The final new entry in the top 10 this week is ‘Him’ (£275,705, #8). This is a rare-misfire from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and has had an overly-negative reaction despite pre-release buzz. Being a horror based around American Football, there was already challenges to this performing well in the UK, but releasing it two weeks after it already bombed in America and allowing time for the poor reviews to spread (31% on Rotten Tomatoes) has fully killed of its chances. Directing is Justin Tipping in his second feature after 2016’s ‘Kicks’. I’ve seen so many people mistakenly thinking this is a Jordan Peele film so it will be interesting to see if this effects his personal reputation and buzz, especially with his next film being delayed from its original October 2026 release date.

 

Aside from ‘The Smashing Machine’ the rest of the top 5 is made up of ex-#1 hits. ‘One Battle After Another’ departs from the top spot after just one weekend but has a really impressive hold (-21%) that sees it above £6 million which already makes it Paul Thomas Anderson’s biggest ever release. ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ holds at #3 dropping 34%. This also has reached a nice milestone as £15.6 million puts it above the closing total of the last Downton film, 2022’s ‘A New Era’ (£15.1 million). That will be where it has to remain as the £28.3 million of the original ‘Downton Abbey: The Movie’ is too far ahead. ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ earns a fifth week in the top 5 (-39%) and, at £17.3 million, looks like it might be the second biggest horror film that doesn’t feature either Pennywise or Hannibal. Daniel Radcliffe’s star-power was enough to help ‘The Woman In Black’ to an insane £21.3 million in 2012.

 

‘The Long Walk’ is still doing well with a 41% drop in week 4 that puts it at £4.1 million. 2019’s ‘Pet Semetary’ (£4.2 million) is the only non-IT King adaptation that has done more in recent times and that will be overtaken this week. But, as ever, the best hold in the top 10 is ‘The Bad Guys 2’ which increases 13% (!!!) in week 11 and finally overtakes the gross of the original film. What an insane run that’s having which you can’t help but feel has been helped by there being literally no other major kids films being released in months.

 

Before the release of the third film this year, ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ gets a re-release that grosses £254,394. It previously made £77.2 million in its original run in 2022.

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Urchin’ (#14) and ‘Dora: Magic Mermaid Adventures’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Tron: Ares’, ‘Good Boy’, ‘I Swear’, ‘Raavi De Kande’, ‘Night Of The Zoopocalypse’, ‘Plainclothes’, ‘A Want In Her’ and ‘Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird’. We also see re-releases of ‘Corpse Bride’ and ‘Perfect Blue’. Can any of them top the charts?

The Perfect Blue re-release will be interesting. In the USA it has already outgrossed its original run & its 2017 re-release COMBINED in its first weekend (admittedly from a small base), so I wonder if it’s ever-increasing reputation will see it enter the top 10.

Taylor is about to get a number 1 cinema release, single AND album in the same week... did Gaga manage this with 'A Star Is Born'? If not, has this even happened before? (Whitney for 'The Bodyguard', perhaps?)

What an incredible hold for 'One Battle After Another'! I can actually see that causing an "upset" next week and reclaiming the number 1 over 'Tron: Ares'...

I heard Prince is apparently the only other person to do this

Only in the US

Here's the list of artists who've had the UK #1 single and album simultaneously. None of them are looking likely to have done it. List of artists who have achieved simultaneous number-one UK single and album - Wikipedia

I thought Wet Wet Wet might kinda have done it but, remarkably, they didn't get the #1 single and album until the week after 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' was knocked off the top spot of the box office (after 9 weeks at #1). 9 weeks for the film, 15 weeks for the song and 5 weeks for the album and at no point were they all there at the same time!

While Taylor will obviously be #1 in all the published charts at the weekend, I think, technically, this weeks singles/album chart will correlate with the Box Office chart announced on Monday so won't go down in the record books

49 minutes ago, LewisGT said:

Here's the list of artists who've had the UK #1 single and album simultaneously. None of them are looking likely to have done it. List of artists who have achieved simultaneous number-one UK single and album - Wikipedia

I thought Wet Wet Wet might kinda have done it but, remarkably, they didn't get the #1 single and album until the week after 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' was knocked off the top spot of the box office (after 9 weeks at #1). 9 weeks for the film, 15 weeks for the song and 5 weeks for the album and at no point were they all there at the same time!

While Taylor will obviously be #1 in all the published charts at the weekend, I think, technically, this weeks singles/album chart will correlate with the Box Office chart announced on Monday so won't go down in the record books

Surely not? 3-5 October for cinema release, 3-9 for Album/single? so all 3 officially announced as #1 before any of the other charts are published, no?

38 minutes ago, Tafty said:

Surely not? 3-5 October for cinema release, 3-9 for Album/single? so all 3 officially announced as #1 before any of the other charts are published, no?

It probably made more sense when the singles/albums chart was announced on a Sunday that it would relate with the box office chart announced the following day but with the singles moving to Friday, I'm pretty sure it would be considered in the same way.