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Box Office Round-up
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later opened in the top spot with £4.8m, which includes £903k from Thursday previews. That’s the eighth biggest opening of 2025 to date, and a huge increase on the £1.5m that 28 Days Later opened with in 2002. That film finished on £6.4m, so 28 Years Later will have overtaken that by this time next week. In August last year, Alien Romulus opened with £3.7m from Friday to Sunday and finished its run with £13.4m, so 28 Years Later has to be aiming for a similar total, if not more.
How To Train Your Dragon fell to second, adding £2.8m, which is down 51% from last weekend. That takes its total after 14 days in cinemas to £12.7m, and it’s now the 10th biggest film released in 2025. The original animated film finished on £17.4m in 2010 and this new live-action version looks headed for a similar total.
Elio opened in third with £971k, which is the lowest opening for a Pixar film of all-time. This is clearly a disappointing result but with the school summer holidays a month away, there’s still the opportunity for this film to have a long run in cinemas.
Lilo & Stitch added £670k on its fifth weekend, down 54% from last weekend. That takes its total to £34.3m and it cements its place as 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 delivered a good deal more than that.
Rounding out the top five, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning added £599k, down 50% from last weekend. That takes its total to £24.8m, which makes it the fourth biggest film of 2025 to date. In terms of Mission: Impossible films, it is now the second highest grossing of the eight films, having just overtaken Mission: Impossible - Fallout (£24.4m) and it’s now less than £2m behind the previous instalment, Dead Reckoning finished its run with £26.6m.
Outside of the top five, The Salt Path continued its strong run in sixth and is now up to £6.9m. Indian superstar Aamir Khan is back in cinemas with Sitaare Zameen Par which opened with £226k in seventh.
Next Weekend
F1 The Movie stars Brad Pitt as a Formula One driver who comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver. It’s set to feature the most immersive racing sequences ever seen. It’s in cinemas from Wednesday.
M3GAN 2.0 is a sequel to the hit 2023 comedy-horror. Two years after M3GAN's rampage, her creator, Gemma, resorts to resurrecting her infamous creation in order to take down Amelia, the military-grade weapon who was built by a defense contractor who stole M3GAN's underlying tech.
The Buzz
The Naked Gun stars Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. , the son of legendary member of Police Squad, Frank Drebin Sr. (Leslie Nielsen in the original trilogy). The original film is widely regarded as one of the funniest movies of all-time and this new iteration has so far released two very amusing trailers. Pamela Anderson plays Beth, Drebin’s love interest, and the cast also includes Paul Walter Hauser and Danny Huston. It’s shaping up to be one of the biggest films of August, particularly for ABC1 men.
Across The Pond
How To Train Your Dragon stayed in the top spot, adding $37m for an impressive new total of $160.5m. 28 Years Later opened in second with a strong $30m and Elio opened in third with $21m. Lilo & Stitch fell to fourth, adding $9.7m for a huge new total of $386.7m, while Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning rounded out the top five adding $6.6m for a new total of $178.4m.