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Box Office Round-up
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has come around 28 weeks after 28 Years Later (please don’t fact check this) and, like that film, has topped the box office. The gnarly, but brilliant, sequel opened with £3.4m, which includes £958k from previews. The previous film opened with a Friday to Sunday total of £3.9m, so this sequel is a bit of a way down on that, but 28 Years Later had F1 The Movie, Jurassic World: Rebirth, and Superman following on consecutive weekends, so had a lot more competition. The Bone Temple doesn’t have any films of that size to contend with, so hopefully it can hold up well. Audience scores suggest it might.
The Housemaid is still a sensation. The twisty-thriller added £2.8m this weekend, which is down just 9% from last weekend. Saturday and Sunday were both up 1% week-on-week. That takes its total to £17.9m and a total close £30m is not out of the question.
We have an awards season blockbuster! Hamnet topped the box office across the week last week with £5.5m, and then added £2.6m this weekend, which is down just 14% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £8.4m and it has already overtaken the final total of 2024’s big awards season film, Poor Things, which finished with £7.6m. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is the biggest awards season title post-covid, and that finished on £15.6m. Hamnet is coming for it!
Avatar: Fire And Ash came in fourth again on its fifth weekend, adding £1.7m, which is down 35% from last weekend. That takes its total to £38.3m and its now the fourth highest grossing film released in 2025.
Marty Supreme rounded out the top five, adding £1.5m, which is down just 28% from last weekend. That takes its total to £11.9m and its closing in on the final total of last January’s A Complete Unknown, which finished on £12.4m. After Wonka, Dune, and A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet is a bona fide movie star and Marty Supreme might be his most impressive achievement yet.
Outside of the top five, Zootropolis 2 crossed the £30m mark in sixth, while Brendan Fraser’s Rental Family opened in seventh with £522k. The extended editions of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy are back in cinemas for a 25th anniversary re-release of The Fellowship Of The Ring, and The Fellowship Of The Ring cracked the top 10, opening in eighth with £473k.
Next Weekend
No Other Choice is the latest film from revered Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, The Handmaiden, Decision To Leave). Lee Byung-hun stars as a man who, after being unemployed for several years, devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
H is For Hawk is a drama starring Claire Foy. After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel.
Return To Silent Hill is an adaptation of the popular video game series. When a man receives a mysterious letter from his lost love, he is drawn to Silent Hill, a once familiar town now consumed by darkness.
Mercy is a sci-fi starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson. In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced A.I. Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.
Saipan stars Éanna Hardwicke as Roy Keane and Steve Coogan as Mick McCarthy. On the eve of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Irish captain Roy Keane forfeits his place in the squad at the team's preparation base in Saipan, following a heated disagreement with the Irish manager Mick McCarthy.
The History Of Sound stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor as two young men during World War I who set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
The Buzz
The Bride stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penelope Cruz, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Annette Bening. In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein (Bale) asks Dr. Euphronius (Bening) to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change. It’s a gothic / punk musical-horror and it’s a wild swing that could pay off big time. Maggie Gyllenhaal proved herself a hugely talented filmmaker with The Lost Daughter and this is coming from Warner Bros, who in the last year have given us One Battle After Another, Sinners, and Weapons. This is one of the most intriguing prospects of H1 2026 and looks ideal for ABC1, 25+ women.
Across The Pond
Avatar: Fire And Ash held on to the top spot for the fifth successive weekend, adding $13.3m for a new total of $363.5m. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple opened in second with $13m, while Zootopia 2 added $8.8m in third for a new total of $390m. The Housemaid added $8.5m in fourth, which takes it over the $100m mark to $107.1m. Marty Supreme rounded out the top five, adding $5.5m for a new total of $79.7m.