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Box Office Round-up
Hamnet continues to be the biggest awards season title post-covid. It posted another great hold, adding £1.4m, down just 28% from last weekend. That takes its total after four weekends in cinemas to a terrific £14.8m, and it is closing in on the final total of Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, the biggest awards season title post-covid, which finished on £15.6m. With the BAFTA nominations announced last Tuesday (Hamnet received eleven), and both the Oscars and BAFTAs still to come, there should be lots left in the tank.
The Housemaid continues to be a genuine box office sensation. The twisty-thriller added £1.4m this weekend, which is down just 29% from last weekend. That takes its total to a huge £28.4m and a final total over £30m is now assured. An amazing result, especially when you compare that to some of last summer’s biggest films – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning finished on £26.4m, and Superman finished on £28.1m.
Jason Statham is back near the top of the box office, as Shelter opened in third with £965k. Last year, Statham was in A Working Man, which opened with £658k and finished on £1.9m, and in 2024 he was in The Beekeeper, which opened with £957k and finished on £3.8m.
Horror title Iron Lung is something of a minor sensation. The first film from YouTuber Markiplier (he has 38m subscribers on the platform), it is self-distributed and only came on to the schedule two weeks ago. It opened with a terrific £948k, which includes £114k from previews.
Zootropolis 2 rounded out the top five, posting an excellent hold, falling just 17% to £855k. That takes its total to £32.6m and with February half-term on the horizon, a final total over £35m looks achievable.
Outside of the top five, a couple of new entries landed in the lower end of the top 10, Primate opened in eighth with £659k, which includes £149k from previews. Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On opened in 10th with £602k, which includes £167k from previews.
Next Weekend
Send Help stars Rachel McAdams as a put-upon employee who gets stranded on a deserted island with her insufferable boss, the only survivors of a plane crash. They must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, will they make it out alive? It’s in cinemas from Thursday.
The Strangers: Chapter 3 is the final film in the trilogy. Maya collides with the masked killers, and finds the only way out of the nightmare...is in.
Hamlet is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, starring Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark and Joe Alwyn (who also starred in Hamnet).
100 Nights Of Hero was the closing night film at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival. When a charming house guest arrives at a remote castle, the delicate dynamic between a neglectful husband, his innocent bride Cherry, and their devoted maid Hero, is thrown into chaos. Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, and Charli XCX star.
The Buzz
Pressure stars Andrew Scott as Captain James Stagg, who along with General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser), faces an impossible choice in the tense 72 hours before D-Day. This is set to be a gripping historical drama, that also stars Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis, and Chris Messina. It’s set to be one of the best films for a super-premium, 45+ audience when it hits cinemas on 9 September.
Across The Pond
Send Help opened in the top spot with a strong $20m, while Iron Lung opened in second with a very impressive $17.8m. Melania opened in third with $7m and Zootopia 2 added $5.8m in fourth for a new total of $409m. Shelter rounded out the top five, opening with $5.5m.