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Box Office Round-up
Final Destination: Bloodlines sees the return of the playful horror series, and it has lost none of its popularity as it opened with £4m, which includes £1.2m from Wednesday and Thursday previews. That’s not the best Friday to Sunday opening of the series, which is held by the fourth instalment, confusingly titled The Final Destination, which opened with £3.6m in 2009. In terms of final totals, The Final Destination holds that title too with £12.8m, while the lowest performing film in the series, surprisingly was the follow up, Final Destination 5, which finished its run with £5.5m. Final Destination: Bloodlines will finish somewhere between the two, but a total close to £10m looks achievable.
After two weeks on top, Thunderbolts* fell to second adding £1.2m, a drop of 48% from last weekend. Captain America: Brave New World fell 50% on its third weekend back in early-March, so Thunderbolts* is holding up slightly better. After 18 days in cinemas the Marvel blockbuster has banked a solid £13.9m, which makes it the sixth highest grossing film of 2025 to date.
Sinners fell to third and posted another strong hold, falling 35% to £719k. That takes its total after five weekends in cinemas to £14.3m and it is now the fifth biggest film of 2025 and the biggest horror since It: Chapter Two in 2018.
A Minecraft Movie continued its hugely impressive run adding £472k, down just 24% from last weekend, which takes its total to a HUGE £55.5m. It has now overtaken the final total of The Super Maro Bros. Movie. With half-term on the horizon, there should be a bit more to come from A Minecraft Movie.
Ocean With David Attenborough rounded out the top five, adding £214k, which is down just 34% from last weekend. That takes its total to over £1m, which is a strong result. The last time David Attenborough attached his name to a big screen release was in cinemas in 2020 with David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet which grossed £485k, so Ocean has more than doubled that.
Outside of the top five, this weekend’s other new entries disappointed, with Hurry Up Tomorrow opening in sixth with £165k, and Hallow Road opening in eighth with £82k.
Next Weekend
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the eighth instalment in the best blockbuster series around. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt and it’s in cinemas from Wednesday.
Lilo & Stitch is the live-action updating of the massively popular 2002 Disney animation. A lonely Hawaiian girl befriends a runaway alien, helping to mend her fragmented family. It’s in cinemas from Wednesday.
The Phoenician Scheme is the latest all-star comedy-drama from Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Asteroid City, The French Dispatch). Benicio Del Toro stars as wealthy businessman, Zsa-zsa Korda, who appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.
The Buzz
Superman is the latest updating for the most famous superhero of all. Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned. David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan look perfectly cast as Clark Kent and Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult continues his great year, after Nosferatu. It should be one of the biggest films of the summer, if not the year, and we’re forecasting it to deliver 8 16-34 adult TVRs, and if this really takes off, it could do even more.
Across The Pond
Final Destination: Bloodlines took the top spot with a terrific $51m. Thunderbolts* fell to second, adding $16.5m for a new total of $155.4m. Sinners continued its extraordinary run in third, adding $15.4m for a new total of $240.8m and it’s only the fourth R-rated film in history to break the $200m barrier. A Minecraft Movie added $5.9m in fourth, for a huge new total of $416.6m, while The Accountant 2 rounded out the top five adding $5m for a new total of $59.1m.