Box Office Round-up
Resident Evil continues the recent success of films based on video games, opening with £4.2m at the UK box office. That’s by far the biggest opening weekend for a Resident Evil film and is bigger than the lifetime total of every Resident Evil film (there’s been seven in cinemas before this one), except 2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife, which finished its run with £4.8m. The last Resident Evil film in cinemas was 2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City which finished its run with £585k.
Practical Magic 2 fell to second, adding £1.5m, which is down 46% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £5.6m and the first Practical Magic finished its run in 1999 with £3.4m, so this sequel has already comfortably surpassed that.
Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom opened in third with £1.5m, which includes £454k from previews. The first Shaun The Sheep Movie finished its run with £13.8m in 2015 and the sequel, Farmageddon, finished with £7.1m in 2019. This third film is likely to finish closer to Farmageddon than the first film.
Pressure came in fourth, adding £1.1m, which is down just 26% from last weekend. That takes its total to £4.3m after two weekends in cinemas. This is a World War II drama and in November last year we had two of those in cinemas, The Choral finished on £4.3k and Nuremberg finished on £3.6m, so Pressure has already surpassed both of those, with plenty more to come.
The Odyssey rounded out the top five, adding £587k, which is down 34% from last weekend. That takes its total to a HUGE £85.8m and it is now the 11th biggest film of all-time in the UK & Ireland. It would have been comfortably the biggest film of the year in 2024 and 2025 and it has now overtaken Top Gun: Maverick, the biggest film of 2022, which finished with £83.9m.
Outside of the top five, Spider-Man: Brand New Day has crossed the £99m mark in sixth, making it the third biggest film of all-time in the UK & Ireland. Bad Apples opened in eighth with £487k, which includes £51k from previews over National Cinema Weekend.
Next Weekend
Sense & Sensibility is a new version of the classic Jane Austen novel. It’s a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.
Avengers Endgame: Encore is a re-release of one of the biggest films of all-time, ahead of the next Avengers film, Avengers: Doomsday, in December.
Heart Of The Beast stars Brad Pitt. After a harrowing plane crash, a Special Forces officer and his combat dog find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements. It’s in cinemas from Wednesday.
Hope is a Korean sci-fi. A mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. The residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before.
The Buzz
Wife & Dog is the latest crime-drama from Guy Ritchie. It follows the relentless greed of the Fairbank family and their associates who fuel betrayal and murder in the battle for succession. The classy cast includes Anthony Hopkins, Rosamund Pike, Benedict Cumberbatch, and James Norton. It’s one of the best films for ABC1 men in Q1.
Across the Pond
Resident Evil opened in the top spot with $60m, which is by far the biggest opening in the franchise. Practical Magic 2 fell to second, adding $12.2m for a new total of $50m. Spider-Man: Brand New Day came in third, adding $6.5m for a huge new total of $944.5m and it’s now the biggest film of all-time in North America. The Odyssey fell to fourth, adding $4.9m, which takes its total to a huge $609.8m. Coyote vs. Acme rounded out the top five, adding $4.5m for a new total of $54.8m.
