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Box Office Round-up
Lilo & Stitch stayed in the top spot at the uk box office, adding £3.5m on its third weekend, down 43% from last weekend. That takes its total after 19 days in cinemas to £31.2m, and it’s now the third biggest film of 2025. The big Disney live-action release in 2023 was The Little Mermaid, which finished its run with £27.4m, so Lilo & Stitch has flown past that and there’s plenty more in the tank too.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning stayed second with £2.3m, down 33% from last weekend. That takes its total to £21.6m, which makes it the fourth biggest film of 2025 to date, having overtaken Mufasa: The Lion King. In terms of Mission: Impossible films, it is now the third highest grossing of the eight films, having just overtaken Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (£21.2m) and next up is Mission: Impossible – Fallout (£24.4m). The previous instalment, Dead Reckoning finished its run with £26.6m, a series best, so that’s the target for The Final Reckoning.
Ballerina opened in third with £1.4m. This is a spin-off from the popular John Wick series, with Keanu Reeves appearing in the latter stages of Ballerina. All but the first John Wick film posted a bigger opening than this, with John Wick Chapter 2 the closest, opening with £2m in February 2017. That film finished on £6m, so hopefully Ballerina can get up to a total close to that.
After a great opening last weekend, The Salt Path posted a sensational hold, adding £1.4m, which is down just 8% from last weekend. That takes its total to £4.3m, and two years ago The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry opened with £789k and finished its run with £3.4m, so The Salt Path has already rambled past that.
Karate Kid: Legends rounded out the top five adding £1m, down 37% from last weekend. That’s a solid hold and takes its total to £4.2m. The last film in the Karate Kid series, 2010’s Karate Kid, starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith, opened with £4.9m and finished with £12.4m, so this new iteration hasn’t been received as warmly.
Outside of the top five, Final Destination: Bloodlines has crossed the £10m mark in sixth – a terrific result. Another playful horror, Clown In A Cornfield, hasn’t had quite the same impact opening with £350k, which was enough for eighth.
Next Weekend
How To Train Your Dragon is a live-action adaptation of the popular animation. As an ancient threat endangers both Vikings and dragons alike on the isle of Berk, the friendship between Hiccup, an inventive Viking, and Toothless, a Night Fury dragon, becomes the key to both species forging a new future together. Mason Thames, Nico Parker, and Gerard Butler star.
Tornado is John Maclean’s follow-up to Slow West. A Japanese puppeteer's daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang, led by Sugarman and his son Little Sugar. Kôki, Takehiro Hira, Tim Roth, and Jack Lowden star.
The Buzz
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey stars Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell as two strangers and asks the question: what if you could open a doorway and walk through it to re-live a defining moment from your past? Sarah (Robbie) and David (Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures. This is the biggest film yet from filmmaker Kogonada (Columbus, After Yang) and looks visually beautiful and moving. It’s one of the best films for ABC1 women in September and October.
Across The Pond
Lilo & Stitch held on to the top spot, adding $32.5m for a huge new total of $335.8m. Ballerina opened in second with $25m, while Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning fell to third adding $15m for a new total of $149.2m. Karate Kid: Legends came in fourth adding $8.7m for a new total of $35.4m, and Final Destination: Bloodlines completed the top five, adding $6.5m for a new total of $123.6m.