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Spider-Man: Brand New Day swings to the top spot this weekend, taking home over £5m every day (£8m on Saturday!) to gross a combined total of £36.3m and hold a new record for opening weekend ticket sales for the superhero. For comparison, Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) took home £31.9m in its opening weekend with a total gross of £97.3m, becoming the 4th biggest film at the UK box office of all time, which puts the sequel in contention to reach or even surpass the same number. The top 3 biggest films of all time are No Time to Die (2021) with £98m, Skyfall (2012) with £102m and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) with £123m.
The Odyssey continues its box office journey, taking the second spot with £6.8m, which is down just 43% from last weekend to take its total to £50.4m. Whilst Brand New Day is likely to be the biggest film of 2026, there’s potential for The Odyssey to surpass our current leading films, Toy Story 5 (£50.8m) and Michael (£53.1m). In 2023, Nolan's Oppenheimer took home a total of £59m, and with The Odyssey already grossing £50m, it’s in pole position to overtake soon. In fact, Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Dunkirk (2017) and Oppenheimer (2023) only managed to gross over £50m in each film's total run, making The Odyssey's figure even more impressive.
In its seventh weekend, Toy Story 5 takes the third spot adding £1m, a drop from last weekend to reach £51.9m. It’s currently the second biggest film of 2026 to date, but Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey are likely to surpass it.
Minions & Monsters added £776k on its fifth weekend, seeing a drop of 43% from last weekend to reach £14.4m. However, with a month of school holidays left, there’s still plenty of time for family favourites like Toy Story 5 and Minions & Monsters to go even further. We’re likely to see this film reach similar figures to the first Despicable Me (2010) and reach around £20m.
The live-action Moana rounds out the top 5, adding £718k on its fourth weekend, a 48% drop from last weekend. That takes its total to £10.4m, and again with another month of families attending the cinema will hopefully see it surpass Snow White’s £11.7m or Jungle Cruise’s £12.5m.
Outside of the top five, The Invite sees the smallest drop in the chart of -38% to gross a further £190k, and take its total to £3.4m. Obsession, now on its 11th weekend, racked up another £139k to reach a total of £19.3m, making it the fourth most successful horror of the past 5 years, sitting just behind The Woman in Black (2012) with £21.2m.
Next Weekend
- Ice Cream Man, Eli Roth’s new horror that turns an idyllic summer into a season of sheer terror as an ice cream man serves up sweet delights with horrifying results.
- PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie. When their ship gets caught in a storm, the PAW Patrol pups wash up on a tropical island that's teeming with dinosaurs. They soon befriend Rex, a baby dino who's been stranded on the island for years. When Mayor Humdinger's mining plans cause a huge volcano to erupt, the pups spring into action to save Rex's home before everything becomes extinct.
The Buzz
Continuing on from the success of Wuthering Heights, the new period-drama, Sense & Sensibility, is likely to be a more faithful iteration of Jane Austin's literary classic. An adaptation akin to Pride and Prejudice (2005) or Little Women (2019), its talented cast includes leads Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People, Where the Crawdads Sing) and George MacKay (1917, Femme), this Jane Austen adaptation is likely to attract a strong affluent audience, with 40% forecasted to be ABC1 Women (vs a GB population of 22%). You can watch the trailer here: