Have throughly enjoyed reading through this thread again, excellent work as always @LewisGT 🥰 👏

Excited for this weeks numbers. I imagine PHM has closed the gap even more to Super Mario (in weekly). Idk about other sites ofc but Mario has fallen off a cliff where I work! PHM, Time Hoppers and a few shows of Akira are the only ones that really did much noise over this weekend.

I can see The Mummy being the highest new entry this week

17th April 2026 - 19th April 2026

 

1. (01) The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £2,552,081 (-54%) Weeks: 3 (£32,935,857)

2. (02) Project Hail Mary - £1,676,572 (-33%) Weeks: 5 (£30,344,276)

3. (03) The Drama - £1,205,060 (-32%) Weeks: 3 (£8,077,705)

4. (NE) Lee Cronin's The Mummy - £970,220 Weeks: 1 (£970,220)

5. (RE) Akira (2026 Re-Release) - £884,729 Weeks: 1 (£884,729)

6. (04) The Magic Faraway Tree - £857,125 (-49%) Weeks: 4 (£13,390,155)

7. (NE) Time Hoppers: The Silk Road - £219,142 Weeks: 1 (£219,142)

8. (NE) BTS World tour ‘ARIRANG’ in Japan: Live Viewing - £203,738 Weeks: 1 (£203,738)

9. (NE) All My Sons: NT Live 2026 - £196,211 Weeks: 1 (£597,806)

10. (NE) Bhooth Bangla - £187,172 Weeks: 1 (£221,250)

Falling out:

Hoppers (6 weeks)

BTS World tour ‘ARIRANG’ in Goyang: Live Viewing (1 week)

You, Me & Tuscany (1 week)

Undertone (1 week)

California Schemin' (1 week)

The Stranger (1 week)

Last week saw five new entries and five holdovers. This week goes a step further and four of those holdovers remain while we get six new entries. But it is the same top 3 for a third week in a row which means that ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ still leads the pack after a 54% drop puts it at £33 million. It’s now falling further off the pace of the original (£41,605,147 at this stage) and even further behind last year’s ‘A Minecraft Movie’ (£45,467,916 at this stage). I guess that it’ll just have to settle as being the third biggest video-game adaptation of all time. ‘Project Hail Mary’ is pushing it close after a 33% drop allows it to gain a fifth-week in the top-2. With £30 million in the bank, it has already made enough that it would have ranked as #9 out of 2025 releases and is showing no signs of slowing down yet. ‘The Drama’ makes it three weeks at #3 with another great -32% hold. It’s already outgrossed ‘Challengers’ and ‘Mickey 17’ from the lead two’s recent films and should comfortably pass £10 million within the next couple of weeks. Not many films that miss #1 or #2 go on to achieve this. The only other holder this week is ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ which drops 49% to land at #6 and ends the weekend having earned about £450k less in total than ‘Hoppers’ which itself drops to #11.

 

The highest new entry this week is ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ (£970,220, #4). Lee Cronin is the Irish director behind gnarly horror hits ‘The Hole In The Ground’ (£96,404, #17, 2019) and ‘Evil Dead Rise’ (£1,477,840, #2, 2023). As you might have guessed, this is a return to the franchise’s horror roots and is presumably why the director’s name is added to the title, to differentiate it from the action-adventure series of the same name. I wonder how many people went to see this thinking it was the upcoming Brendan Frasier/Rachel Weisz sequel expected in 2028. This represents the third biggest horror release of the year, just edging out ‘Iron Lung’ (£948,731, #4). Completing the top 5 is the re-release of the classic anime, 1988’s ‘Akira’ (£884,729, #5). This was first released in the UK in 1991 where it grossed about £1 million after debuting at #3 with £439,345 and was also re-released in 2020 (shortly after the first lockdown) where it reached #3 again with £201,124. Despite not hitting the same heights, this does mark its most successful weekend in UK cinemas.

 

Opening at #7 is ‘Time Hoppers: The Silk Road’ (£219,142). A Canadian animation aimed at the Muslim market; there doesn’t seem to be a lot of information about this one online. It appears to be a time-travelling film where the superhero children meet a range of historical Muslim scientists during their trials. Opening just behind is ‘BTS World tour ‘ARIRANG’ in Japan: Live Viewing’ (£203,738, #8). The second concert release is two weeks, this opens about £130k under what last week’s one did.

 

Opening at #9 and #10 are two releases that opened midweek and would climb up to #7 and #8 if you included their midweek grosses. ‘All My Sons: NT Live 2026’ (£196,211, £597,806 in total, #9) is the second NT Live release to make the top 10 this year after the re-release of ‘The Audience: NT Live’ (£176,994) made #8 in March. Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste star in this one. ‘Bhooth Bangla’ (£187,171, £221,250 in total) opens at #10 (£187,172, £221,250 in total) and is an Indian horror-comedy who’s title translated as ‘Haunted Mansion’.

 

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

 

Next week sees the openings of ‘Michael’, ‘Mother Mary’, ‘Exit 8’, ‘Hitpig!’, ‘Rose Of Nevada’, ‘Surviving Earth’, ‘The North’, ‘Ultras’ and ‘Primavera’. We also see a re-release of ‘Fight Club’.  Can any of them top the charts?

Michael time. Is it gonna be the years biggest opening?

I can't see it debuting with a higher opening than Mario, personally!

I wonder how it will compare to recent biopics though... What did Back to Black open with? I'm thinking roughly what that did? Anything about 10 mil feels like alot

Michael will be on a similar level to Bohemian Rhapsody, I think.

Back To Black and One Love felt quite… “local” to me. I don’t think there was much promotion for them outside of the UK really. Whereas I believe Universal think this will fo $1bn and have gone big with promotion… plus he is considered the greatest popstar to have ever lived, so has that core fanbase.

Looks like it's Super Mario Galaxy's last week at #1 I think.

24th April 2026 - 26th April 2026

 

1. (NE) Michael - £11,574,192 Weeks: 1 (£11,574,192)

2. (01) The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £1,099,044 (-57%) Weeks: 4 (£34,464,302)

3. (02) Project Hail Mary - £838,094 (-50%) Weeks: 6 (£31,927,033)

4. (03) The Drama - £504,926 (-58%) Weeks: 4 (£9,204,414)

5. (04) Lee Cronin's The Mummy - £358,678 (-63%) Weeks: 2 (£1,792,416)

6. (06) The Magic Faraway Tree - £339,523 (-61%) Weeks: 5 (£13,907,993)

7. (NE) Rose Of Nevada - £172,025 Weeks: 1 (£172,025)

8. (NE) Exit 8 - £140,265 Weeks: 1 (£140,265)

9. (RE) Fight Club (2026 Re-Release) - £98,468 Weeks: 1 (£98,468)

10. (NE) The Magic Flute: ROH, London 2026 - £87,522 Weeks: 1 (£441,080)

Falling out:

Akira (2026 Re-Release) (1 week)

Time Hoppers: The Silk Road (1 week)

BTS World tour 'ARIRGANG' in Japan: Live Viewing (1 week)

All My Sons: NT Live 2026 (1 week)

Bhooth Bangla (1 week)

For the third week in a row, at least half of the chart consists of new entries but the only one to land above the holdovers and earning a #1 debut is ‘Michael’ (£11,574,192, £8.4 million without previews). It’s been an arduous road to get this film into cinemas. It was originally to be released last year but major reshoots ended up being required and the whole third-act needed to be scrapped to remove refence to Jackson’s abuse allegations after it was discovered that one of the victims had a clause in their settlement which meant they couldn’t be mentioned in any movie. But that hasn’t deterred audiences as this has had the biggest opening for a biopic of all-time, surpassing the £9,530,463 (#1) that ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ put up in 2018. That film went on to gross £47.2 million. That feels like it would be hard to catch but who knows. As you will see with the holds for other films, cinemas were hurt by the sunshine this weekend so this had potential to have been even bigger. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, this is already his biggest grossing film of all-time with the opening weekend being enough to beat ‘The Equalizer 3’ (£8.6 million, 2023).

 

Previews help ‘Rose Of Nevada’ (£172,025, £109k without previews, #7) to be the next highest new entry. The latest film from Cornish director Mark Jenkin who known for making low-budget, experimental films set in the region where he wears many hats (director, writer, editor, cinematographer, composer). His openings are getting bigger each time with this being well-above ‘Bait’ (£48,044, #25, 2019) and ‘Enys Man’ (£103,250, #14, 2023). ‘Bait’ was a huge word-of-mouth hit, closing with £540k. This is his most ambitious film yet, focusing on a the spooky reappearance of a fishing boat that went missing 30-years earlier and has his starriest cast with George McKay and Callum Turner taking lead roles.

 

Opening at #8 is ‘Exit 8’ (£140,265). Adapted from a videogame, this is a Japanese horror about a man stuck in a lopping subway corridor. The other new entry at #10 is the latest from the Royal Opera House ‘The Magic Flute’ (£87,521, #10). With its midweek showings, it’s up to £441,080 which would have been enough for it to rank in the top 5. We also see a re-release of ‘Fight Club’ enter at #9 with £98,468.

 

The past two weeks have seen eleven new entries in the top 10 and the only one that’s held on for a second week is ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ which holds at #5 despite a 63% drop. It’s at £1.8 million which puts it above ‘M3GAN 2.0’ and ‘Drop’ in terms of recent Blumhouse releases but behind popular sequels ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’ and ‘Black Phone 2’.

 

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ loses top spot after 3-weeks with a 57% drop. There’s no point comparing it to the original anymore as it’s way off that film’s pace now but it is now less than £2 million behind the final total of ‘Zootropolis 2’ which was the highest-grossing animated film last year. The other kids film, ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ has an even harsher fall (-61%) but is now only about £50k off overtaking the gross of ‘Hoppers’.

 

‘Project Hail Mary’ continues to do well, having the strongest hold this week (-50%). It has now overtaken ‘La La Land’ (£30.7 million) to be Ryan Gosling’s 2^nd biggest hit. The final holdover this week is ‘The Drama’ which has its worst drop yet (-58%) but still looks well on track to reach double figures soon.

 

There are two further new entries in the #11-15 section: ‘Mother Mary’ (#13) and ‘Primavera’ (#15).

 

Next week is the official start of the summer movie season and sees the openings of ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’, ‘Hokum’, ‘That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime: Tears Of The Azure Sea’, ‘Dhabkaaro’, ‘Wild Foxes’, ‘Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer’, and ‘I’ve Seen All I Need To See’. We also see a re-release of ‘Slither’.  Can any of them top the charts?

'Project Hail Mary' managed to overtake 'La La Land'!?? WOW! I imagine it's quite a way off from 'Barbie' but that's still insane to think about. 3 weeks before the movie was released I fully expected an absolute BOMB (comparative to it's budget). I thought it'd level out and finish at about $400m Worldwide... So, SO pleased for it.

Word of Mouth is strong for 'Michael'. It's getting the "Feel-good" kind of hype from audiences. I've not seen it yet but should be a stabiliser.

What a bomb for "Mother Mary", the anticipation must've just been from a very small circle of online gays (or there was only room for one popstar this week)! Can't have helped that cinemas showing it + showtimes appeared to be limited. At least Anne Hathaway won't need to dwell on it for too long and will be looking at a MUCH higher opening next weekend

In comparison, I'm surprised "Rose of Nevada" did as well as it managed. I'd only heard of it by seeing the trailer a couple of times at Curzon in the past couple of weeks and as a result I thought it would be mostly just playing at Curzon/Everyman/Picturehouse etc and get a small, niche audience.

Not suprised at the opening for Michael been hearing a lot of people talk about it from very different backgrounds can see it holding strong for a few weeks at least