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Box Office Round-up
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the third Marvel film of 2025 and has opened with £8.1m, with £2.1m of that from Thursday previews. The Friday to Sunday total of £6.1m is the eighth biggest opening weekend of 2025. In terms of this year’s Marvel titles, Captain America: Brave New World finished on £18m and Thunderbolts* finished on £16.2m, so that’s the targets for The Fantastic Four: First Steps and with most of the school holidays still to come, there’s a good chance it will top them. The ill-fated 2015 iteration of Fantastic Four finished its run with £6.2m, so First Steps has already surpassed that.
Superman added £1.9m on its third weekend, which is down 61% from last weekend. A pretty hefty drop likely driven by competition from The Fantastic Four and major sport on television. That takes Superman’s total after 17 days in cinemas to £21.4m and it’s now the seventh highest grossing film released this year, and it will overtake How To Train Your Dragon today to take sixth spot.
The Bad Guys 2 opened in third with £1.6m. The first film opened with £2.3m in April 2022 but that included £749k from previews, so the Friday to Sunday opening of £1.6m is almost identical to this sequel. The first film finished its run on £13.8m, but that was predominantly delivered during the Easter holidays. With this sequel out early in the summer holidays, hopefully it can finish on a total above the first.
Jurassic World: Rebirth came in fourth on its fourth weekend, adding £1.6m. That takes its total after four weekends in cinemas to £28.8m and it’s now the fourth biggest film of 2025, having just overtaken Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
F1 The Movie rounded out the top five, adding £651k on its fifth weekend. That takes its total to £19.7m and it’s now the eighth highest grossing film of 2025.
Outside of the top five, South Asian release Saiyaara added £507k on its second weekend, which takes its total to over £1m. It’s only the second South Asian release of 2025 to cross the £1m mark, and it’s likely to overtake L2: Empuraan (£1.4m) to become the biggest of the year so far.
28 Years Later has crossed the £15m mark in 10th and is now on £15.2m.
Next Weekend
The Naked Gun stars Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr in this updating of the classic 80s comedy. Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser co-star.
The Legend Of Ochi is a fantasy adventure starring Helena Zengel, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson and Finn Wolfhard. In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy girl is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when she discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.
The Buzz
Giant is the next film from new British film producer and distributor True Brit Entertainment, who call themselves ‘the home of British stories’. Giant is based on the remarkable real-life story of legendary British-Yemeni boxing champion Prince Naseem ‘Naz’ Hamed. Charting his inspiring rags-to-riches underdog tale from his humble beginnings in Sheffield to becoming champion of the world and a global sporting icon in the 1990s, the film explores the unlikely and tender relationship between Naz and his Irish boxing trainer Brendan Ingle, and the instrumental role that Ingle played on his road to success. Amir El-Masry plays Hamed and Pierce Brosnan plays his coach, Brendan Ingle. It’s in cinemas from 24 October.
Across The Pond
The Fantastic Four: First Steps opened in the top spot with a terrific $118m, the biggest opening for a Marvel film this year, ahead of Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*. Superman fell to second, adding $24.9m on its third weekend for a new total of $301.5m. Jurassic World: Rebirth fell to third, adding $13m for a new total of $301.5m. F1 The Movie came in fourth, adding $6.2m for a new total of $165.6m. Smurfs rounded out the top five, adding $5.4m for a new total of $22.8m.