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Box Office Round-up
Despite dropping 62% from its opening weekend, The Fantastic Four: First Steps still takes the top spot, bringing its total to £15.3m. The last Marvel title Thunderbolts* finished on £16.2m, so if Fantastic Four can exceed this, then it will take its place as 10th most successful film of 2025.
The Naked Gun opens with £1.8m, taking the second spot this week. Audiences are rating this film highly, seeing a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes (from 214 reviews) and an avg. score of 3.5/5 on Letterboxd.
The Bad Guys 2 took the third spot again this week with £1.3m, seeing a 19% drop which now takes its total to £4.8m. Releasing during the Easter holidays, The Bad Guys grossed a total of £13.8m, so hopefully the sequel can match the first film despite it releasing in the early summer holidays.
Jurassic World: Rebirth came in fourth again on its 5th weekend, dropping 20% but still adding £1.2m, bringing its total up to £31.5m, holding the title as the fourth biggest film of 2025 having just overtaken Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. It’s unlikely, but not completely impossible, for JRR to top the third biggest film of 2025 (Lilo & Stitch) which grossed £36.9m, but the likes of Wicked: For Good & Avatar: Fire & Ash is likely to ruin its chances.
Superman rounded out the top five, dropping 34% but adding £1.2m, taking its total to £24.2m and it’s now the sixth highest grossing film of 2025, just behind Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which Superman is likely to overtake.
Outside of the top five, Bring Her Back opened with £500k, which includes 443 previews. South Asian release Saiyaara added £488k on its third weekend, seeing the smallest drop of the chart with only -4%, which takes its total to over £2m.
Next Weekend
Weapons - When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Freakier Friday - Tess and Anna discover that lightning may indeed strike twice as they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge.
The Buzz
Project Hail Mary is an upcoming Sci-Fi adventure film based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling, who also produces the film, and Sandra Hüller, who is best known for her performances in the award-winning films Anatomy of a Fall and Zone of Interest. Project Hail Mary was written by same author who wrote The Martian, another big box office hit, grossing £23m at the UK box office and reaching over 2m admissions in 2015. Releasing on 20 March 2026, the film is likely to attract a young male audience and with an index of 173, Project Hail Mary is the most efficient blockbuster in Q1 for 16-34 Men - so ideal for tech or alcohol brands looking to reach this audience pre-Easter.