10th October 2025 - 12th October 2025

 

1. (NE) Tron: Ares - £1,790,652 Weeks: 1 (£1,790,652)

2. (02) One Battle After Another - £1,241,616 (-37%) Weeks: 3 (£8,323,650)

3. (NE) I Swear - £1,185,756 Weeks: 1 (£1,185,756)

4. (03) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - £456,644 (-48%) Weeks: 5 (£16,905,398)

5. (04) The Smashing Machine - £353,341 (-59%) Weeks: 2 (£1,621,631)

6. (05) The Conjuring: Last Rites - £304,634 (-40%) Weeks: 6 (£17,830,713)

7. (NE) Night Of The Zoopocalypse - £263,691 Weeks: 1 (£263,691)

8. (NE) Good Boy - £230,214 Weeks: 1 (£230,214)

9. (09) The Bad Guys 2 - £166,854 (-37%) Weeks: 12 (£14,005,961)

10. (07) The Long Walk - £146,388 (-47%) Weeks: 5 (£4,426,945)

 

 

Falling out:

Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl (1 week)

Kantara A Legend: Chapter 1 (1 week)

Him (1 week)

Avatar: The Way Of Water (2025 Re-Release) (1 week)

Disney get their sixth #1 of the year with ‘Tron: Ares’ debuting atop the charts with £1,790,652. This is slightly less than the opening of ‘Tron: Legacy’ (£1,970,692, #1, 2010) but I feel like it will be a challenge for this to match the £10.5 million that film closed with. Stepping into the director’s chair this time is live-action Disney sequel regular Joachim Rønning who previously made ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’ (£5,238,049, #1, 2017) and ‘Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil’ (£3,300,000, #2, 2019) and continues the trend of each one opening lower.

 

The bigger story this week is the debut of ‘I Swear’ (£1,185,756) at #3. This is a brilliant result in what hasn’t been a banner year for British films and gives StudioCanal their second biggest opener of 2025 behind ‘We Live In Time’ (£2,843,517, #3) in the first weekend of the year. This is a drama about the real-life Tourette’s activist John Davidson who helped bring awareness of the syndrome to Britian in the 1989 BBC documentary ‘John’s Not Mad’. Audience reaction has been overwhelmingly positive for this film (100% on Rotten Tomatoes) which has seen it attain an 87% excellent rating in PostTrak; the highest score any film has ever achieved. Robert Aramayo is certainly a front-runner for a best-actor BAFTA nod and you should expect to see this one hang around.

 

Cinemas have been starved of options for kids in the past couple of months which has probably helped the French-Canadian animation ‘Night Of The Zoopocalypse’ debut in the top #10 with £263,691 (#7). This is a horror-comedy about a zoo where the animals become zombies and has become the biggest ever opening for its distributors Kazoo Films beating out their last release ‘Grand Prix Of Europe’ (£124,419, #16) from August.

 

Vertigo Releasing get their biggest debut of the year with the buzzy-horror ‘Good Boy’ debuting at #8 with £230,214. This is an indie-horror by first-time director Ben Leonberg with a big USP. This film is fully from the perspective of a dog, played by their director’s own pet. With a budget of $750k, this has a smash with $5 million already made worldwide and will, for sure, be a big streaming hit too.

 

‘One Battle After Another’ holds well again at #2 with a drop of just 37%. Currently up to £8.3 million, it’s for sure now going to pass £10 million which will be a solid result for it in the UK. However, the massive budget may stop it from being a money-maker overall. Out of the other former #1s, ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ falls 48% while ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ drops 40%.

 

‘The Smashing Machine’ is the only one of last weeks new entries to remain in the top 10, dropping 59%. It’s at £1.6 million overall. ‘The Long Walk’ drops 47% but reaches £4.4 million to outgross 2019’s ‘Pet Semetary’.

 

And, despite there finally being competition in the top 10 for kids films, ‘The Bad Guys 2’ manages to extent its reign at the longest running film in the top 10 with the (joint) best-best hold again (-37%).

 

There are no further new entries in the #11-15 section. However, there are three re-entries in that section: ‘Corpse Bride’ (#11), ‘Twilight’ (#14) and ‘Perfect Blue’ (#15).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Black Phone 2’, ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’, ‘Roofman’, ‘After The Hunt’, ‘Good Fortune’, ‘La Sonnambula: Met Opera 2025’ and ‘Souleymane’s Story’. We also see re-releases of ‘Constantine’, ‘Princess Mononoke’ and ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. Can any of them top the charts?

Black Phone 2 should nab #1 with ease

This coming Friday is a bloodbath for new releases . How am I supposed to squeeze them in between two Jade concerts 😅 Wish they’d spread them out a bit more !!!!

20 hours ago, Josh! said:

This coming Friday is a bloodbath for new releases . How am I supposed to squeeze them in between two Jade concerts 😅 Wish they’d spread them out a bit more !!!!

Give me your jade ticket problem solved 🤣

17th October 2025 - 19th October 2025

 

1. (NE) Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie - £1,901,289 Weeks: 1 (£1,901,289)

2. (NE) Black Phone 2 - £1,100,233 Weeks: 1 (£1,100,233)

3. (03) I Swear - £867,009 (-27%) Weeks: 2 (£2,883,365)

4. (01) Tron: Ares - £837,797 (-52%) Weeks: 2 (£3,266,603)

5. (02) One Battle After Another - £791,183 (-36%) Weeks: 4 (£9,733,103)

6. (NE) Roofman - £679,368 Weeks: 1 (£679,368)

7. (NE) Good Fortune - £306,776 Weeks: 1 (£306,776)

8. (04) Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - £231,388 (-51%) Weeks: 6 (£17,587,321)

9. (NE) After The Hunt - £207,821 Weeks: 1 (£207,821)

10. (07) Night Of The Zoopocalypse - £165,622 (-37%) Weeks: 2 (£492,016)

 

 

Falling out:

The Smashing Machine (2 weeks)

The Conjuring: Last Rites (6 weeks)

Good Boy (1 week)

The Bad Guys 2 (12 weeks)

The Long Walk (5 weeks)

It’s a battle between Universal and Universal this weekend as they distributed the two big releases this weekend that debut in positions #1 and #2. Winning out, in the end, is ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’ (£1,901,289, £1.7 million without previews) which was able to overcome a deficit on Friday to leave ‘Black Phone 2’ (£1,100,233) having to settle for second place. A live-action/animation hybrid, ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’ is an adaptation of the popular Kids Netflix ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse’ and, just like in the rumoured plot for Shrek 5, sees Gabby have to enter the real-world. The original voice actor for the series, Laila Lockhart Kraner reprises the role in live-action that sees her battle for possession of her dollhouse against ‘crazy cat-lady’ Kristen Wiig (in an apparently very ‘committed’ performance). A responsible budget ($32 million) should see this be a decent hit for Dreamworks and I’m sure it will do gangbusters when it reaches Netflix. I said that we had been starved of kids films and the market was crying out for a new release and here is the proof. I don’t really know much else about this film but it feels like the predecessor for the inevitable CoComelon film.

 

‘Black Phone 2’ opens slightly lower than the original ‘The Black Phone’ (£1,384,344, #5, 2022). However, that film had excessive previews and would have opened to less than £1 million based on the 3-day gross. That one ended up with £4.6 million which would be a realistic aim for this one to try to match. The once ever-reliable Blumhouse had blundered recently an they were in desperate need of a solid hit like this, leading into the release of the highly-anticipated ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’ in December. The original was famously the film Scott Derrickson made after leaving stepping-down from his role to direct ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’ and was a huge success with over $160 million worldwide of a $16 million budget. This one was budgeted higher ($30 million) but has made $42 million in its opening weekend so should still be a good hit.

 

Opening at #6 is the comedy/drama ‘Roofman’ (£679,368) based on the true story of criminal Jeffrey Manchester who escaped prison and hid-out in a Toys ‘R’ Us while evading police. Channing Tatum leads this film and it compares similarly, but slightly worse, to his two films released in his comeback last year (‘Fly Me To The Moon’, £862,358, #4 and ‘Blink Twice’, £746,328, #6). It’s the first film in nine years for director Derek Cianfrance who found fame with ‘Blue Valentine’.

 

Opening just behind at #7 is ‘Good Fortune’ (£306,776). This is a body-swap comedy starring Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh and (also making his directing-debut) Aziz Ansari. If you’re wondering who does the body swapping, Aziz Ansari becomes Seth Rogen thanks to an angel played by Keanu Reeves. Based on the opening, I think ‘Freakier Friday 2’ will remain the body-swapping comedy of choice for 2025.

 

The final of five new entries this week is ‘After The Hunt’ (£207,821, #9). This is the latest from Luca Guadagnino and stars Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri. It’s a #MeToo psychological thriller that has seemed to have left audiences disinterested. It’s down on his two releases last year (‘Challengers’, £1,607,094, #1 and ‘Queer’, £293.041, #8) and is his third-worst opening overall. Random observation, but I think it’s quite funny that with the five new entries, the cast (arguably) gets starrier and starrier the lower you debut.

 

Last week’s biggest opener, ‘Tron: Ares’ drops to #4 with a 52% drop to hit £3.3 million. ‘Tron: Legacy’ was at £4,086,744 at the same stage on its way to a £10 million+ total. This film will not be reaching those heights. In fact, it’s leapfrogged by ‘I Swear’ that is able to hold at #3 due to a solid -27% drop (-18% without previews). It’s already at £2.9 million which already puts it above ‘The Ballad Of Wallis Island’ which had a brilliant run over the summer. It’s good to see two low-budget British films have success like this. The other new entry from last week to hold in the top 10 is ‘Night Of The Zoopocalypse’ that has a surprisingly good hold (-37%) that sees it to £500k. If it can continue to hold well, it might have an outside shot of hitting £1 million.

 

There are only two films older than two-weeks in the chart now after the end of ‘The Bad Guys 2’ incredible 12-week run. ‘One Battle After Another’ holds well again (-36%) and will be the latest film to join the £10 million+ club later this week while ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ drops 51% despite being available to watch from home as of last week.

 

There is one further new entry in the #11-15 section, ‘Dude’ (#11). We also see a re-entry for ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’ at #15.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’, ‘Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc’, ‘Regretting You’, ‘The Mastermind’, ‘Pets On A Train’, ‘A Tooth Fairy Tale’, ‘Hedda’ and ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession: NT Live 2025’. We also see a re-release of ‘The Descent’. Can any of them top the charts?

 

~

 

Derek Cianfrance Openings:

 

Blue Valentine (£176,411, #15, 2011)

The Place Beyond The Pines (£671,119, #4, 2013)

The Light Between Oceans (£733,421, #6, 2016)

Roofman (£679,368, #6, 2025)

 

~

 

Luca Guadagnino Openings:

 

I Am Love (£171,959, #11, 2010)

A Bigger Splash (£347,704, #11, 2016)

Call Me By Your Name (£235,760, #11, 2017)

Suspiria (£166,257, #9, 2018)

Bones And All (£318,246, #6, 2022)

Challengers (£1,607,094, #1, 2024)

Queer (£293,041, #8, 2024)

After The Hunt (£207,821, #9, 2025)

I still need to find time to see it but that’s a great hold for ‘I Swear’! It’s proving popular at my place!

I wouldn’t be surprised to see a surprise #1 from Chainsaw Man next week. I’m just not sure UK audiences particulrly care *that* much about Bruce Springsteen… but I assume that will have the premium formats over Chainsaw Man so we will see.

24th October 2025 - 26th October 2025

 

1. (NE) Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - £1,306,627 Weeks: 1 (£1,306,627)

2. (NE) Regretting You - £1,275,980 Weeks: 1 (£1,275,980)

3. (NE) Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc - £1,110,945 Weeks: 1 (£1,110,945)

4. (01) Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie - £865,658 (-54%) Weeks: 2 (£3,232,146)

5. (02) Black Phone 2 - £629,376 (-43%) Weeks: 2 (£2,319,302)

6. (03) I Swear - £591,919 (-32%) Weeks: 3 (£4,111,387)

7. (05) One Battle After Another - £481,319 (-39%) Weeks: 5 (£10,629,511)

8. (NE) Pets On A Train - £443,107 Weeks: 1 (£443,107)

9. (04) Tron: Ares - £382,847 (-55%) Weeks: 3 (£4,109,880)

10. (06) Roofman - £306,213 (-55%) Weeks: 2 (£1,368,704)

 

 

Falling out:

Good Fortune (1 week)

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (6 weeks)

After The Hunt (1 week)

Night Of The Zoopocalypse (2 weeks)

We had a proper battle this weekend with three films all debuting with £1 million+ and ending up within £200k of each other. Ending up on top is ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ with £1,306,627 (£1.2 million without previews). Despite the #1 debut, this is the lowest opening out of the five big-name music-biopics in the past couple of years, opening less than the underperforming Robbie Williams ‘Better Man’ (£1,568,933, #5, 2024), although it’s practically equal if you take out the two films’ preview figures. It can’t quite match the £2,772,698 of ‘Back To Black’ (#1, 2024) or the 2,616,302 of ‘A Complete Unknown’ (#1, 2025) and is a mile-off the £6,950,773 of ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ (#1, 2024). Only time will tell if it can reach the same awards-success as Bob Dylan’s highly-nominated ‘A Complete Unknown’. Focusing on the recording of a particular album (Nebraska), this is not a traditional full-life biopic and tries to avoid the usual tropes. The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White takes leading-role here playing the Boss in his early-30s with Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser and Stephen Graham taking supporting roles. Scott Cooper directs and earns his best-ever debut, coming in slightly-higher than ‘Black Mass’ (£1,272,249, #5, 2015) thanks to it’s previews.

 

Pushing Springsteen all the way, and almost being pushed to the top spot by its previews, was ‘Regretting You’ (£1,275,980, £1.1 million without previews). This is a dram-com from ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ director Josh Boone. This sees him adapt the popular Colleen Hoover novel of the same name. You might remember that last year’s surprise box-office juggernaut ‘It Ends With Us’ (£4,516,760, #1) originated from the same source. This has obviously opened lower but there’s, thankfully, no suggestion this one will end up anywhere near as controversial or headline grabbing with stars Allison Williams, Dave Franco, Mckenna Grace and Mason Thams all seeming pretty cordial with each other so far. A $30 million budget means that this should end up being another moneymaker for Paramount.

 

Picking up where ‘Demon Slayer’ left-off, ‘Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc’ provided another great opening for an anime, collecting a bronze medal with £1,110,945. This is enough to rank in fourth place in terms of historical anime openings behind the aforementioned ‘Demon Slayer’ film from this year as well as ‘Pokémon: The First Movie’ and ‘The Boy And The Heron’. This is the 6^th-biggest opening for an animated film in 2025. If only it could have found an extra £100k from somewhere as this would have put it in the top 5 above ‘Smurfs’ and meant that 3/5 of the biggest openings would have been Asian with ‘Ne Zha 2’ also remaining in the top 5.

 

The final new entry in the top 10 this week is ‘Pets On A Train (£443,107, £258k without previews, #8). This is a French-animation (originally called ‘Falcon Express’) and it’s plot basically seems to be ‘The But Job’ meets ‘Bullet Train’. Interestingly for a European kids animation, it looks like it’s kept it’s French cast for the UK release instead of hiring a bunch of random British B-list celebrities to provide the voices.

 

Last week’s Universal double-bill at the top of the chart both fall three places with the new entries with ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’ dropping 54% as it falls to #4 and ‘Black Phone 2’ shredding 43% as it drops to #5. ‘Gabby’ is currently at £3.2 million while ‘Black Phone 2’ is at £2.3 million, trailing the £2,637,337 that the original had at this stage. The other holder from last week is ‘Roofman’ which loses 55% to land at #10 with a total of £1.4 million.

 

‘I Swear’ has the best hold in the top 10 (-32%) as it continues to find its audience. It’s now overtaken ‘Marching Powder’ (£3.1 million) in terms of British films this year and is now in the overall top-40 films of the year with £4.1 million. It will have to double its current gross to reach the next-highest British film ‘The Salt Path’ (£8.1 million).

 

The final two holders are both ex-#1s with contrasting fortunes. ‘One Battle After Another’ has held well through it’s 5 weeks so far with a 39% drop allowing it to become the 24^th 2025 release to pass £10 million. While ‘Tron: Ares’ is almost out of the top ten after 3 weeks with a 55% drop seeing it fall to #9. It’s now grossed £2k less than ‘I Swear’ after it debuting in the same weekend with £605k more.

 

There are a further five new-entry in the #11-15 section, ‘The Mastermind’ (#11), ‘Thamma’ (#12), ‘Ek Deewane Ki Deewaniyat’ (#13), ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession: NT Live 2025’ (#14) and ‘Sketch’ (#15). Had its midweek release been included in the weekend gross, ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’ would have debuted at #5 with £640,495.

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Bugonia’, ‘Shelby Oaks’, ‘Relay’, ‘Baahubali: The Epic’, ‘Kenny Dalgleish’, ‘Ikk Kudi’, ‘Palestine 36’ and ‘Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical’. We also see a re-release of ‘Back To The Future’. Can any of them top the charts?

On 07/10/2025 at 04:04, Tafty said:

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'...

Maybe Spice Girls with Spiceworld? Although I don't think Spice up your life was #1 at the same time as the album if memory serves me correctly!?

2 hours ago, Spiceboy said:

Maybe Spice Girls with Spiceworld? Although I don't think Spice up your life was #1 at the same time as the album if memory serves me correctly!?

At the end of 1997 they had the number 1 single (Too Much), number 1 album (Spiceworld) and Cinema box office number 1 (Spiceworld - The Movie).

So Taylor isn't the first.

Well first solo female

They never had all three at the same time. Spiceworld (the album)’s last week at #1 was before the film and single was released.

31st October 2025 - 2nd November 2025

 

1. (NE) Bugonia - £986,194 Weeks: 1 (£986,194)

2. (02) Regretting You - £907,655 (-29%) Weeks: 2 (£3,854,463)

3. (RE) Back To The Future (40th Anniversary Re-Release) - £867,369 Weeks: 1 (£867,369)

4. (01) Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - £608,886 (-53%) Weeks: 2 (£2,862,133)

5. (04) Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie - £598,184 (-31%) Weeks: 3 (£5,246,517)

6. (05) Black Phone 2 - £418,804 (-33%) Weeks: 3 (£3,254,085)

7. (06) I Swear - £380,120 (-36%) Weeks: 4 (£5,003,994)

8. (03) Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc - £359,008 (-68%) Weeks: 2 (£2,076,116)

9. (08) Pets On A Train - £268,871 (-39%) Weeks: 2 (£1,390,442)

10. (07) One Battle After Another - £266,511 (-45%) Weeks: 6 (£11,243,681)

 

 

Falling out:

Tron: Ares (3 weeks)

Roofman (2 weeks)

For the first time since I started posting these charts, no film was able to gross £1 million this week with ‘Bugonia’ being the best of a bad bunch to debut at #1 thanks to previews (£986,194, £767,975 without previews). In fact, the last time we had a sub-£1 million #1 was just-over three years ago in the weekend of 18^th September 2022 where ‘See How They Run’ bagged a second week at the top with £984,779. ‘Bugonia’ is the latest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone after the double-bill of ‘Poor Things’ (£1,819,563, #2) and ‘Kinds Of Kindness’ (£322,142, #6) last year; the former of which won Stone her second Academy Award. This opening is pretty-much half-way between those two so expect the final gross to end up between the £1.1 million and £7.6 million of those two. This is an English-language remake of the South Korean dark comedy-horror ‘Save the Green Planet!’ and stars Stone as a CEO who is kidnapped by two men (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who think she is an alien. With a budget of about $50 million, this is Lanthimos’s biggest ever budget but I think it will have to settle as being his third-biggest grosser behind ‘Poor Things’ and ‘The Favourite’ (£17 million).

 

There are no other new releases making the top 10 this week but the 40^th anniversary re-release of ‘Back To The Future’ does have a solid debut at #3 (£867,369). The film previously made £12.1 million on release in 1985 and a further £3.5 million as 2014’s Secret Cinema release.

 

Unfortunate to miss out on #1 for two weeks in a row and being the true 3-day chart topper this weekend is ‘Regretting You’ which officially holds at #2 with a small 29% drop (24% minus previews). This is a brilliant hold even if it’s still not doing the numbers of last year’s ‘It Ends With Us’. With £3,854,462, it is currently tracking ahead of 2023’s ‘Anyone But You’ with had a brilliant run and ended up grossing £10 million+. I don’t think this will have the same legs but it is off to an impressive start.

 

Last week’s top release ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ has a weaker than expected 53% drop (51% without previews) as it falls to #4. At £2.9 million, it’s already well off the pace of ‘Better Man’ at the same stage (£3,846,444) which means this will be the worst-performing of the recent big-name music biopics. Last week’s other big release ‘Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc’ has a typical anime drop (-68%) but is still performing strong for an anime passing £2 million in total.  

 

‘Black Phone 2’ is the only horror film in the top 10 on Halloween weekend, taking advantage of the scarcity to have a small 33% drop. It’s currently at £3.3 million and still has hopes of reaching the £4.7 million of the original. ‘One Battle After Another’ is almost out of the top 10 with a 45% drop pushing it to £11.2 million. If it can pass £12.8 million, it will pass ‘The Departed’ and enter DiCaprio’s top 10 films. ‘I Swear’ has its biggest drop yet (-36%) but that’s still an impressive hold that sees it hit £5 million.

 

The two kids films in the market are both holding well too with ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’ bagging a third week in the top 5 with 31% that pushes it to £5.2 million. However, the biggest story is the hold of ‘Pets On A Train’. Officially, it drops 39% but it had extensive previews in it’s first weekend and its preview-less hold is actually a 4% increase. It’s already at £1.4 million. A very impressive result for a film I didn’t have on my radar as being a £1 million+ grosser.

 

There are a further three new-entries in the #11-15 section, ‘Shelby Oaks’ (#11), ‘Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical’ (#13) and ‘Dies Irae’ (#14).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Predator: Badlands’, ‘A Paw Patrol Christmas’, ‘The Choral’, ‘Anemone’, ‘Die My Love’, ‘Train Dreams’, ‘Dragonfly’, ‘Odyssey’, ‘The Marbles’ and ‘Belén’. We also see a re-release of ‘Dogma’. Can any of them top the charts?

Really impressed with that hold for "Regretting You"! I loved it personally, but the reviews are pretty poor so I didn't expect it to hold up that well, guess the lack of major competition helped.

I'm pleased it's now ahead of the total of Springsteen, and that that is tracking behind "Better Man". What a bore of a biopic.

I think Back to the Future was 1985 not 1865! l

7th November 2025 - 9th November 2025

 

1. (NE) Predator: Badlands - £2,376,779 Weeks: 1 (£2,376,779)

2. (NE) The Choral - £917,177 Weeks: 1 (£917,177)

3. (02) Regretting You - £790,645 (-13%) Weeks: 3 (£5,247,189)

4. (01) Bugonia - £548,922 (-44%) Weeks: 2 (£2,067,196)

5. (NE) Die My Love - £396,243 Weeks: 1 (£396,243)

6. (04) Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - £331,790 (-46%) Weeks: 3 (£3,632,978)

7. (05) Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie - £308,587 (-48%) Weeks: 4 (£5,660,407)

8. (07) I Swear - £273,099 (-28%) Weeks: 5 (£5,572,229)

9. (NE) A Paw Patrol Christmas - £250,149 Weeks: 1 (£250,149)

10. (08) Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc - £188,929 (-47%) Weeks: 3 (£2,538,870)

 

 

Falling out:

Back To The Future (40th Anniversary Re-Release) (1 week)

Black Phone 2 (3 weeks)

Pets On A Train (2 weeks)

One Battle After Another (6 weeks)

After last week’s disaster, we’re back to the #1 grossing over £1 million, with ‘Predator: Badlands’ hunting down the top spot with £2,376,779. This marks the best 3-day opening of the long-running franchise with Shane Black’s 2018 ‘The Predator’ officially opening marginally higher (by less than £20k) thanks to its previews (£2,394,163, #1). That film held terribly and couldn’t even double it’s opening, closing with £4.6 million which means that ‘Predators’ (£2,203,193, #3, 2010) remains the biggest film in the franchise with £5.8 million. After the disappointment of the 2018 film, it looked like interested in the franchise has completely waned so this opening looks all the more impressive. Disney took a risk with the franchise by allowing Dan Trachtenberg to pivot the franchise to streaming with two Disney+ films (‘Prey’ and ‘Predator: Killer Of Killers’) but they were both incredibly well-received and it’s seemed to reignite passion which has crossed-over to the big screen. This is the first Predator film to be rated 12A and has great word-of-mouth so I expect this one to stick around and breeze past the other films in the franchise.

 

Opening at #2 is British drama ‘The Choral’ (£917,177, £900k without previews). Written by Alan Bennett and directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner, this is a WWI-set story about a choir that had to recruit teenagers after all the previous members enlist. Ralph Fiennes leads the cast with the film opening lower than last year’s ‘Conclave’ (£1,065,847, #5) did for him. This one is obviously targeting an older audience so expect it to hold well in midweek showings. The last collaboration between this writer/director pairing was ‘The Lady In The Van’ (£2,256,121, #2, 2015) which eventually closed to £13.2 million.

 

Sneaking into the top 5 thanks to previews is ‘Die My Love’ (£396,243, £290k without previews). This is the latest from Scottish director Lynne Ramsay and sees Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star as a young couple who struggle with their mental health after their child is born. This is only Ramsay’s fifth feature film in a 26-year career and is her first release in 8 years. Jennifer Lawrence, in particular, is looking likely to receive awards recognition.

 

The final new entry in the top 10 this week is the first Christmas release of the year, ‘A Paw Patrol Christmas’ (£250,149, #9). This is a long way off the openings of the Paw Patrol films (£2,410,496, #2, 2021 and £3,348,155, #3, 2023) but there’s still a lot of scope for this to improve as we get closer to the big day.  

Last week’s #1, ‘Bugonia’ drops 44%, although this is a much more solid 29% if you take out previews. It’s reached £2 million which means its already Lanthimos’s third biggest release. But recording the best hold of the week is ‘Regretting You’ (-13%) although it has to settle for bronze position. It’s showing great legs so expect to see even more Hoover adaptations in the coming years. With £5.2 million, it’s pretty much bang on where ‘Anyone But You’ was at the same stage (£5,369,706).

 

For the first time since I started posting these charts, no film was able to gross £1 million this week with ‘Bugonia’ being the best of a bad bunch to debut at #1 thanks to previews (£986,194, £767,975 without previews). In fact, the last time we had a sub-£1 million #1 was just-over three years ago in the weekend of 18^th September 2022 where ‘See How They Run’ bagged a second week at the top with £984,779. ‘Bugonia’ is the latest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone after the double-bill of ‘Poor Things’ (£1,819,563, #2) and ‘Kinds Of Kindness’ (£322,142, #6) last year; the former of which won Stone her second Academy Award. This opening is pretty-much half-way between those two so expect the final gross to end up between the £1.1 million and £7.6 million of those two. This is an English-language remake of the South Korean dark comedy-horror ‘Save the Green Planet!’ and stars Stone as a CEO who is kidnapped by two men (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who think she is an alien. With a budget of about $50 million, this is Lanthimos’s biggest ever budget but I think it will have to settle as being his third-biggest grosser behind ‘Poor Things’ and ‘The Favourite’ (£17 million).

Ex #1, ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ drops 46% on week three but a £3.6 million total is enough for it to be director Scott Cooper’s biggest film. ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie’ drops 48% and ‘Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc’ drops 47% but ‘I Swear’ is still holding around well with a 28% drop. Despite some good holds, this weekend is a massive 51% down from the equivalent weekend last year and, after being well ahead all year, we are now only 6% ahead of 2024 year-to-date with a danger of falling off the pace soon. We need ‘Wicked For Good’, ‘Zootropolis 2’ and ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ to really hit big to stand a chance as last November and December was particularly strong.

 

There is one further new-entry in the #11-15 section, ‘Dom Dobry’’ (#13).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘The Running Man’, ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’, ‘Nuremberg’, ‘Keeper’, ‘Christmas Karma’, ‘Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution’, ‘Predators’, ‘Alpha’, ‘Valley Of The Shadow Of Death’ and ‘Harley Flanigan: Wired For Chaos’. We also see re-releases of ‘The Wild Geese’ and ‘City On Fire’. Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Lynne Ramsay Openings:

 

Ratcatcher (£52,378, #12, 1999)

Morvern Callar (£82,014, #15, 2002)

We Need To Talk About Kevin (£492,297, #7, 2011)

You Were Never Really Here (£288,344, #12, 2018)

Die My Love (£396,243, #5, 2025)

I won't be able to post the full chart post until tomorrow but, for a bit of hype, this might be the closest battle for #1 that I've ever seen.

Interesting if that’s between The Running Man and Now You See Me 3 coz TRM has completely BOMBED at my place. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was actually between NYSM3 and Predator!

14th November 2025 - 16th November 2025

 

1. (NE) Now You See Me: Now You Don't - £2,384,018 Weeks: 1 (£2,384,018)

2. (NE) The Running Man - £2,383,269 Weeks: 1 (£2,383,269)

3. (01) Predator: Badlands - £919,262 (-61%) Weeks: 2 (£4,259,697)

4. (NE) Nuremburg - £898,314 Weeks: 1 (£898,314)

5. (NE) Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution - £837,563 Weeks: 1 (£837,563)

6. (02) The Choral - £601,580 (-34%) Weeks: 2 (£2,564,840)

7. (NE) Christmas Karma - £487,528 Weeks: 1 (£487,528)

8. (03) Regretting You - £383,731 (-51%) Weeks: 4 (£5,947,217)

9. (09) A Paw Patrol Christmas - £258,395 (+3%) Weeks: 2 (£554,208)

10. (04) Bugonia - £257,907 (-53%) Weeks: 3 (£2,650,482)

 

 

Falling out:

Die My Love (1 week)

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (3 weeks)

Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (4 weeks)

I Swear (5 weeks)

Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc (3 weeks)

I promised you a close battle and here we have £750 separating the top 2 as ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ (£2,384,018) eventually ends up claiming top spot from ‘The Running Man’ (£2,383,269). In fact, this weekend was so tight, that the original reporting I saw suggested that ‘The Running Man’ was going to win out thanks to previews before the final figures came in. But as Tafty hinted at, the battle wasn’t so close if you take out previews completely with ‘NYSM:NYD’ making £2 million over the 3-day weekend while ‘The Running Man’ could only gross £1.7 million. This is the first film in the ‘Now You See Me’ franchise to top the UK charts after the original hit #2 (£2,898,997) and the second film opened at #3 (£2,964,641). As you can see from those figures, this is officially the lowest opening of the three. However, again when you take out previews, it actually becomes the biggest opening of the three with the others only making £1.8 million and £1.6 million when you strip them out. The first film ended up reaching £11 million while the second closed at £6.3 million so Paramount will be looking for this to hit double-figures after a decent start. This is the third-best opening for director Ruben Fleischer. See below for a full list.

 

#2 seems to be Edgar Wright’s favourite position to land with ‘The Running Man’ being his fourth (out of seven feature releases) to land in second spot. This is a big increase on his most recent film ‘Last Night In Soho’ (£731,950, #8, 2021) and is more in line with the opening of Cornetto-trilogy closer ‘The World’s End’ (£2,123,576, #2, 2013). ‘Baby Driver’ (£3,605,705, #2, 2017) was his last attempt to go full-Hollywood and ended up with £13.2 million. The reviews haven’t been as strong with this one and with ‘Wicked: For Good’ looking to demolish all competition next week, I’m not sure if this can even make half of that. The £5 million of ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World’ feels like a fairer battle. The £4.6 million of ‘The Long Walk’ is the total it needs to beat for the 2025 Stephen King adaptation crown.

 

Opening at #4 is ‘Nuremburg’ (£898,314). This is the latest Sky Cinema release and is a drama about the true-life Nuremburg Trials where key-leaders of the Nazi party where tried for their atrocities.  Russell Crowe stars as Göring while Rami Malek plays Douglas Kelly, the psychiatrist who was assigned to ensure he was mentally-fit for trial. This is written and directed by James Vanderblit who has previously scribed hits such as ‘Zodiac’, ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ and the two latest ‘Scream’ films. This feels like a decent opening for a film that is likely to play well during the week.

 

Rounding out the top #5 is ‘Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution’ (£837,563). It feels like we’re in a bit of a golden age for anime at the UK Box Office with this opening strongly within weeks of ‘Demon Slayer’ and ‘Chainsaw Man’. This is pretty much level with the £825,529 that 2021’s ‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’ opened with in 2022 and that film closed to £1.4 million. A third £1 million+ anime grosser of the year is looking certain’.

 

The final new entry this week is ‘Christmas Karma’ (£487,528, #7). This is a Bollywood-inspired British-musical retelling of ‘A Christmas Carol’ from Gurinder Chadha where Scrooge is played by The Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar. Everything about this movie feels like it’s been picked out of a hat with a smorgasbord of supporting actors including Eva Longoria, Hugh Bonneville, Boy George, Billy Porter, Danny Dyer and Pixie Lott and original music from Gary Barlow and Shaznay Lewis. It’s the second release from new distributors True Brit Entertainment after their other Danny Dyer film, ‘Marching Powder' (£1,079,492, #3) from earlier in the year. This would need to reach £3.1 million to outgross that. Christmas films usually have good legs so maybe it can.

 

In such a busy week, ‘Predator: Badlands’ wasn’t able to find much footing with a 61% drop that sees it land at #3. However, it is still already at £4.3 million and should have no trouble passing ‘Predators’ to become the biggest film in the franchise. ‘The Choral’ drops from #2-#6 but with a much more respectable -34%. It’s at £2.6 million and is within the top 10 British films of the year. And it’s actually a case where the lower you go, the holds get better for last week’s new entries as ‘A Paw Patrol Christmas’ actually increases 3% in week two as it holds at #9. It’s already passed £500k in total.

 

There are only two films in the top 10 that are older than two weeks: ‘Regretting You’ and ‘Bugonia’. ‘Regretting You’ has it’s first big drop (-51%) while ‘Bugonia’ (-53%) is nearing the end of it’s top 10 run and is at £2.7 million.

 

There are two further new-entry in the #11-15 section, ‘Keeper’ (#11) and ‘De De Pyaar De 2’ (#14).

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Wicked: For Good’, ‘Sisu: Road To Revenge’, ‘The Thing With Feathers’, ‘The Carpenter’s Son’, ‘CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella’, ‘The Ice Tower’ and ‘Arabella: Met Opera 2025’ and ‘Paddington: Winter Warmers’.  Can any of them top the charts?

 

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Ruben Fleischer’ Openings:

 

Zombieland (£1,240,984, #2, 2009)

30 Minutes Or Less (£260,337, #10, 2011)

Gangster Squad (£2,090,614, #3, 2013)

Venom (£8,031,342, #1, 2018)

Zombieland: Double Tap (£1,242,352, #4, 2019)

Uncharted (£4,705,948, #1, 2022)

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (£2,384,018, #1, 2025)

 

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Edgar Wright’s Openings:

 

Shaun Of The Dead (£1,603,410, #3, 2004)

Hot Fuzz (£5,918,149, #1, 2007)

The World’s End (£2,123,576, #2, 2013)

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (£1,604,545, #2, 2010)

Baby Driver (£3,605,705, #2, 2017)

The Sparks Brothers (£123,005, #11, 2021)

Last Night In Soho (£731,950, #8, 2021)

The Running Man (£2,383,26, #2, 2025)

We're gonna go from the closest battle to Wicked storming far ahead of everyone else.

Wow so close! Saw TRM last week and absolutely loved it, so shame it got pipped to the post!