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Box Office Round-up
Superman is the launch of the new DC extended universe and they needed a hit, and they’ve got one. It opened with £7m at the UK box office, which is the fifth biggest opening weekend of the year to date. The last Superman film in cinemas was 2013’s Man Of Steel, which opened with £11.2m but did not have good legs and finished on £30m, and although that’s a bigger opening weekend, with the school holidays starting next week, that’s still a realistic target for this new incarnation.
Jurassic World: Rebirth fell to second and took a bit of a hit on a very sunny summer weekend, falling 65% to £3.2m. That takes its total after 12 days in cinemas to £19.4m and it’s now the fifth highest grossing film of 2025. The target is still the previous film in the series, Jurassic World: Dominion which finished on £35.1m.
F1 The Movie fell to third and also took a hit, falling 62% to £1.2m. That takes its total after three weekends in cinemas to £15.9m and it’s now the 11th highest grossing film released in 2025, and it’s also surpassed the total of the last major F1-themed film, 2013’s Rush, which finished on £10.1m.
How To Train Your Dragon came in fourth, adding £582k, which is down 65% from last weekend (it fell 26% last weekend). That takes its total after five weekends in cinemas to £19.3m and it’s now the sixth biggest film released in 2025. The original animated film finished on £17.4m in 2010, so this new version has soared past its source material.
Rounding out the top five is Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, which added £498k which is down 65% from last weekend. That takes its total after four weekends in cinemas to £13.7m. In August last year, Alien Romulus, another high-profile legacy horror sequel, finished its run with £13.4m, so 28 Years Later has now surpassed that, which bodes well for January 2026’s follow-up 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
Outside of the top five, Lilo & Stitch has crossed the £36m-mark in seventh and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning has crossed the £26m mark in ninth.
Next Weekend
Smurfs is a new animation featuring the famous blue characters. When Papa Smurf is taken by evil wizards Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission to the real world to save him. Rihanna takes the role of Smurfette.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a sequel to the 1997 horror hit. A group of friends are terrorised by a stalker who knows about a gruesome incident from their past.
Friendship stars Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson in an awkward comedy where a suburban dad falls hard for his charismatic new neighbour.
The Buzz
I Swear is the true-life story of John Davidson. Diagnosed with Tourette's at 15, he struggled with a condition few had witnessed. Campaigning for Tourette's as an adult, he accepted his MBE from the Queen in 2019. This dramatization of Davidson’s story stars Robert Aramayo (TV’s The Rings Of Power), alongside Maxine Peake, Peter Mullan, and Shirley Henderson. It’s an inspiring true story and it’s set to be one of the most-talked about British films of Q4 when it hits cinemas on 10 October.
Across The Pond
Superman opened in the top spot in North America with a terrific $125m. Jurassic World: Rebirth fell to second, adding $40m for a new total of $232.1m. F1 The Movie fell to third, adding $13m for a new total of $136.2m. How To Train Your Dragon came in fourth, adding $7.8m, down 44% from last weekend, which takes its total to $239.8m. Elio rounded out the top five, adding $3.9m for a new total of $63.7m.