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Box Office Round-up
Hoppers topped the UK box office once again, adding £2.3m, which is down 31% from last weekend. That takes its total to £7.7m, and it has already surpassed the final total of last year’s Pixar film, Elio, which finished on £5.3m. Hoppers is going to more-than-double that total by the end of its run.
Reminders Of Him opened in second with £1.1m. This is the second Colleen Hoover adaptation in cinemas in the last six months, with Regretting You opening with £1.2m in October. That film finished its run with £6.3m, so hopefully Reminders Of Him can get pretty close to that total by the end of its run.
Glen Powell is back in the top five as crime-thriller How To Make A Killing opened in third with £885k, which includes £273k from previews after it hit cinemas on Wednesday. Another of Hollywood’s next crop of leading men, Austin Butler, starred in a gritty crime thriller in August – Caught Stealing. That opened with a very similar £571k and finished with £1.8m, so that’s the target for How To Make A Killing.
Mother’s Pride is quietly having an impressive box office run. It added £602k, which is down just 15% from last weekend, comfortably the best hold in the top 15. That takes its total to £2m, and it has a great chance of surpassing 2022’s Fisherman’s Friends: One And All, which finished on £3.2m.
Wuthering Heights rounded out the top five, adding £534k on its fifth weekend, which takes its total £24.3m. In the next couple of days it will overtake The Housemaid’s 2026 gross to become the highest grossing film of 2026 to date. It's a title it will likely hold until The Super Mario Bros. Galaxy Movie opens in a couple of weeks.
Outside of the top five, Scream 7 has surpassed the £7m mark in sixth and The Secret Agent has surpassed the £1m mark in 10th.
Next Weekend
Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as science teacher Ryland Grace, who wakes up alone on a spaceship light-years from Earth. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing the sun and save Earth. An unexpected friendship may be the key. It’s in cinemas from Thursday.
Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come is a sequel to the well-liked 2019 thriller. After surviving one deadly game, Grace (Samara Weaving) and her sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) must now outrun four rival families competing for a powerful throne - winner takes all.
Arco is a new animation. In 2075, a girl witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. She shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.
Midwinter Break stars Lesley Manville and Ciaran Hinds as a longtime couple who take a life-changing trip to Amsterdam.
Dead Man’s Wire is a new thriller from Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, To Die For). It’s a hostage thriller starring Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino.
The Buzz
Disclosure Day is the next unmissable blockbuster from the legendary Steven Spielberg (Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, E.T The Extra Terrestrial, Minority Report, Jaws, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Hook War Of The Worlds, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, amongst others). It involves humans discovering the truth about the existence of extra terrestrial life, but other than that, the plot is heavily under wraps. The typically excellent cast, includes Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo, and Colman Domingo and it’s set to be one of the best films for ABC1 men when it hits cinemas on 12 June, the first weekend of the football World Cup.
Across The Pond
Hoppers held on to the top spot, adding $28.5m for a new total of $86.8m. Reminders Of Him opened in second with $18.3m, while A24’s Undertone opened in third with $9.3m, from a reported $500k budget! Scream 7 added $8.4m in fourth for a new total of $106.5m, and GOAT rounded out the top five, adding $4.7m for a new total of $90.6m.