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Box Office Round-up
On a good weekend for the UK box office, seven films opened above £1m for the first time since 2017! Scary Movie opened in the top spot with £4.2m. This is the sixth Scary Movie film and it has delivered the highest opening weekend of the series. The last Scary Movie film, Scary Movie 5, finished its entire run with £2.5m, so this new film has already surpassed that from just its opening weekend. The best performing film in the series is the first Scary Movie, which finished its run with £10.5m in 2000.
The Amazing Digital Circus is another success story for the YouTube to cinema journey. This is an adult animated web series that premiered in 2023 on YouTube and this cinema release is the final two episodes. It opened on Thursday and is only in cinemas for five days but so far it has grossed a terrific £2.7m, with £912k from Thursday. It has one more day in cinemas, unless they decide to extend it.
Masters Of The Universe opened in third with £2.7m, which includes £519k from previews after opening on Wednesday. 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 get up close to that by the end of its run.
Last week’s top film, Backrooms, fell to fourth but posted a decent hold, falling 47% to £2.3m. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £8.7m, 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 rounded out the top five with remarkably its best weekend yet, increasing on last weekend by 22% to £1.9m. It is in the middle of a really incredible run and takes its total to £10.3m. 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.
Outside of the top five, Michael is now over £50m. It’s just £5m behind the final total of Bohemian Rhapsody. Tuner is having a decent run and went wider this week and duly increased its weekend total by 55%. It’s now up to £1.1m.
Next Weekend
Disclosure Day is the latest film from Steven Spielberg (Raiders Of The Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Jaws, Minority Report, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Lincoln, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Catch Me If You Can, War Of The Worlds, Bridge Of Spies, The Fabelmans, West Side Story, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, amongst others). It’s in cinemas from Wednesday.
The Buzz
The Invite had its European premiere at SXSW London on Wednesday night. It’s a comedy-drama starring Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton. Wilde and Rogen play Joe and Angela, whose marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. DCM’s very own Sophie Gale-Evans was in attendance at the SXSW premiere and said the film is ‘really, really great… so funny with a really moving ending’. This is an opinion that seems to be shared by all attendees at the SXSW screening if Letterboxd is anything to go by. It’s one of the best films for a premium, ABC1 women audience and it has real breakout potential when it hits cinemas on 3 July.
Across The Pond
Scary Movie opened in the top spot with $55m, another great result for the North American box office. Masters Of The Universe opened in second with $29.3m, and last week’s top film Backrooms fell to third, adding $25.9m for a new total of $152.1m. Obsession posted another incredible hold in fourth, falling just 7% to $25.6m, which takes its total to $152.1m. The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act rounded out the top five with $11.6m and has grossed $19.5m to date.