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Box Office Round-up
Scream 7 opened with a terrific £3.8m, comfortably the biggest opening weekend in the series. That figure includes £541k from Thursday previews, but the Friday to Sunday total of £3.3m is still the biggest opening weekend of the series. There’s been two Scream films in this post-covid refresh. 2022’s Scream (the fifth film) opened with £2.5m and 2023’s Scream VI opened with a Friday to Sunday total of £2.4m. Scream VI finished on £7.6m and this seventh instalment looks heading to a total north of that.
Wuthering Heights continued its impressive box office run, adding £2.2m on its third weekend, down 42% from last weekend. That takes its total to £20.8m, and over the next week it will surpass the £21.9m that It Ends With Us finished with in 2024. The Housemaid is currently the biggest film of 2026 to date with £24.2m, and Wuthering Heights has a good chance of overtaking that.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert opened in third with £1.9m, which includes £738k from IMAX-only previews last week.
Goat took a bit of a hit this weekend, thanks to Hoppers previews which will be on next week’s chart. The Sony Pictures animation added £903k, which is down 67% from last weekend. That takes its total to £11.8m and it’s £2m behind Dog Man’s final total of £13.9m from this time last year. With Easter just a month away, it should have the legs to get there but Hoppers and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie might have something to say about that.
Crime 101 rounded out the top five, adding £412k, which is down 46% from last weekend. That takes its total to a healthy £3.7m. Caught Stealing was a starry crime-drama that opened last August and finished its run with £1.8m, so Crime 101 has already more than doubled that.
Outside of the top five, Pegasus 3 opened in ninth with £166k, which includes £19k from previews. This sequel is on its way to being one of the biggest films of all time in China.
Next Weekend
The Bride stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale in an updating of The Bride of Frankenstein. In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change. It may or may not be a musical.
Hoppers is the new Pixar film about technology that allows humans to have their consciousness transferred into synthetic beavers.
The Buzz
Backrooms is the big screen debut for 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons. It started as a thread on 4Chan about photos of liminal spaces, which Parsons turned into YouTube series called The Backrooms, the first episode of which has been viewed over 71 million times. A24 have developed this feature film with Parsons and he’s managed to get an impressive cast, including Oscar-nominee Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor. This is a film that could connect with 16-34s in the way that Iron Lung did earlier this year. Its in cinemas on 29 May.
Across The Pond
Scream 7 has opened with the biggest opening weekend of the series, delivering a punchy $64.1m. Goat fell to second, adding $12m, down 29% from last weekend, which takes its total to $74m. Wuthering Heights fell to third, adding $7m in second for a new total of $72.3m. Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined opened in fourth with $4.3m, while another concert film, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert added $3.5m in fifth for a new total of $7.8m.