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Box Office Round-up
Wuthering Heights continues Warner Bros.’ incredible past year of adult drama, opening with £7.5m, the biggest opening weekend of 2026 to date. In the past 12 months Warner Bros. have released One Battle After Another, Sinners, and Weapons. It also continues an amazing year for female-centric drama, after The Housemaid and Hamnet. Hopefully Warner Bros.’ run continues with the launch of The Bride in a few weeks.
Goat is an original animation from Sony Pictures Animation (the Spider-Verse series) and it has opened with an impressive £3.5m, which includes £1.3m from previews. With half-term this week it should be looking at a bumper midweek too. This time last year, Dog Man was in cinemas for half-term and that opened with £3.3m on its way to £13.9m, so hopefully Goat can get to a similar total.
Crime 101 posted a solid opening in third, starting its run with £1.4m, which includes £137k from PLF previews on Wednesday and Thursday. Caught Stealing was a starry crime-drama that opened last August and launched with £571k and finished its run with £1.8m, so hopefully Crime 101 is heading for a total double that.
Sam Raimi’s Send Help fell to fourth adding £790k, which is down 50% from last weekend. That takes its total after two weekends in cinemas to £3.1m.
On its eighth week in cinemas, The Housemaid is still in the top five, adding £554k, down just 40% from last weekend – a particularly strong result when you consider Wuthering Heights is aimed at a similar audience. That takes its total to a huge £31.1m, and it’s the eighth highest grossing film released in 2025.
Outside of the top five, family title Stitch Head opened in eighth with £265k, which includes £202k from previews, while horror-title Whistle opened in ninth with £233k.
Next Weekend
Wasteman stars David Jonsson and Tom Blyth in a BIFA-winning drama. It follows parolee Taylor (Jonsson) whose fresh start hopes are jeopardized by cellmate Dee's arrival (Blyth). As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own parole chances.
The Moment is a mockumentary starring Charli XCX. A rising pop star navigates the complexities of fame and industry pressure while preparing for her arena tour debut.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You stars Rose Byrne in an Oscar-nominated role. While trying to manage her own life and career, a woman on the verge of a breakdown must cope with her daughter's illness, an absent husband, a missing person, and an unusual relationship with her therapist.
The Secret Agent stars Wagner Moura in an Oscar-nominated role. In 1977, a technology expert flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the refuge he seeks. It’s one of the best reviewed films of the year.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die stars Sam Rockwell in a sci-fi adventure from Gore Verbinski (Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Ring, Rango). Rockwell is from the future and arrives at a diner in Los Angeles, where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
Cold Storage is a horror-comedy starring Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell, Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson. When a highly dangerous fungus escapes from a secret laboratory, a former bioterrorism agent is called back into action. Alongside two young employees, he must confront an invisible and out-of-control threat.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is a new concert film directed by Baz Luhrman (Elvis, Moulin Rouge). It’s in IMAX from Friday and then other sites from 27 February.
The Buzz
Minions & Monsters is the third film in the wildly popular Despicable Me spin-off series. Set during classic Hollywood, the Minions are making a feature film (obviously) and they need some monsters for it, so they go on a journey to find frightening creatures to appear in the film. There have been three Despicable Me sequels and two Minions spin-offs prior to this one, and they have all grossed between £47m and £49m at the UK & Ireland box office, and delivered approximately 5m DCM admissions. There’s no reason to expect that this one won’t do the same. We’re forecasting this one to deliver 12 HP&CH TVRs and 10 16-34 adult TVRs when it hits cinemas on 1 July.
Across The Pond
On the President’s Day holiday weekend, Wuthering Heights topped the box office, opening with an impressive $34.8m from Friday to Sunday and an expected $40m for the four-day weekend. Goat opened in second with $26m for the three day, which could hit $32m by Monday. Crime 101 opened in third with a three-day total of $15.1m and it expected to be just shy of $18m by Monday. Send Help fell to fourth adding $9m for a new total of $47.9m, while Solo Mio rounded out the top five, adding $6.8m for a new total of $17.3m.