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Box Office Round-up
Disclosure Day opened in the top spot at the UK box office with £5.5m, which includes £1.6m from previews after opening on Wednesday. The Friday to Sunday total of £3.9m is the ninth biggest opening weekend of the year and the biggest opening for a Steven Spielberg film since Ready Player One in 2018, which launched with £4m in March 2018.
Obsession came in second on its fifth weekend, its highest placing during its extraordinary run. It added £1.5m, which is down just 22% from last weekend. It is in the middle of a really incredible run and takes its total to £13.3m. It’s the biggest horror title of 2026 and it’s going to take some beating, especially if it continues with such amazing week-on-week holds. It has now surpassed 2025’s Final Destination: Bloodlines and Weapons, and there’s now a chance it will surpass last year’s biggest horror, The Conjuring: Last Rites, which finished on £18.3m.
Last weekend’s top film Scary Movie fell to third, adding £1.4m, which takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £7.2m. This is the sixth Scary Movie film and the last Scary Movie film, Scary Movie 5, finished its entire run with £2.5m, so this new film has smashed that total. The best performing film in the series is the first Scary Movie, which finished its run with £10.5m in 2000.
Backrooms, again came in fourth falling 57% to £968k. That takes its total after 17 days in cinemas to £10.7m, which is a terrific performance for a non-sequel, non-traditional IP horror. It would be the biggest horror title of the year, if it wasn’t for Obsession.
Masters Of The Universe rounded out the top five, adding £869k, which is down 59% from last weekend. That takes its total to £4.3m and the obvious comparison for this is Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, which opened in March 2023 with £3.4m and finished its run with £13.7m. Hopefully Masters Of The Universe can creep up a bit closer to that by the end of its run.
Outside of the top five, KPop stars BTS cracked the top 10 again as their ARIRANG concert film from Busan hit cinemas, grossing £291k.
Next Weekend
Toy Story 5 is the fifth film in the biggest animated series of all (in the UK & Ireland, at least). Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged when they are introduced to electronics, a new threat to playtime. It’s in cinemas from Thursday.
The Buzz
Whalefall is a striking thriller with a plot that is sure to generate a lot of buzz. It follows a scuba diver who, while looking for his father's remains, is swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has just one hour to get out before his oxygen runs out. We’ve seen so far this year, how films with original, interesting plots have broken out and this could genuinely be one of the next ones. It’s in cinemas from 16 October and it could be one of the best films for 16-34 adults that month.
Across The Pond
Disclosure Day opened in the top spot with $44m, the fifth biggest opening for a Spielberg film. Obsession came in second with yet another great hold, falling just 25% to $19m and an incredible new total of $188.4m. Scary Movie fell to third, adding $14.5m for a new total of $84.6m. Backrooms came in fourth, adding $11.3m which takes its total to $160m and Masters Of The Universe rounded out the top five, adding $8.7m for a new total of $46.7m.