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Box Office Round-up
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie made it three weeks in the top spot at the UK box office, adding £2.6m on its third weekend, which is down 54% from last weekend. That takes its total after 19 days in cinemas to £32.9m and it’s already the biggest film of 2026. It’s not far behind Zootropolis 2, which is currently on £36.2m and is the biggest animated film released in the last year. The first Super Mario Bros. Movie finished its run on £54.9m, so hopefully this sequel can continue to creep up towards that.
Project Hail Mary stayed in second but is still performing exceptionally strongly. It added £1.7m over the weekend, which is down just 33% from last weekend, and takes its total to £30.3m. Those stellar audience scores have seen it post amazing holds each weekend. Just a reminder that Ryan Gosling’s last film in cinemas was The Fall Guy, which finished on £12.4m, so Project Hail Mary has already more-than-doubled that and it soon will become the biggest film where he’s been in a lead role, surpassing La La Land’s £30.7m.
The Drama continued its excellent run, adding £1.2m on its third weekend, which is down just 32% from last weekend. That takes its total after 17 days in cinemas to £8.1m and it has flown past the final total of 2024’s Challengers (£6.5m). This is another great result for A24 and original drama.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opened in fourth with £970k. You may be wondering who Lee Cronin is and why does he get his name before the title, and he directed 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, which opened with £1.5m and finished on £5.5m.
The re-release of the classic 1988 Japanese anime, Akira, rounded out the top five, grossing a hugely impressive £885k. This receives a re-release every five years or so, and in October 2020 it grossed £358k and in September 2016 it grossed £115k.
Outside of the top five, family animation Time Hoppers: The Silk Road opened in seventh with £219k. Event cinema took the eighth and ninth spots as BTS WORLD TOUR ‘ARIRANG’ IN JAPAN saw the K-pop sensations back in cinemas, with £204k, and NT Live’s Olivier-winning All My Sons added £196k for a new total of £598k.
Next Weekend
Michael is a biopic of the hugely popular global pop star, Michael Jackson. His nephew, Jafar Jackson, plays the lead role. It’s in cinemas from Wednesday.
Mother Mary is a drama featuring the music of Charli XCX and FKA Twigs. Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer, Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), on the eve of her comeback performance.
Exit 8 is an adaptation of the popular walking simulator video game. A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.
Hitpig! is a family animation about a bounty hunter pig that finds himself trekking the globe with a free-spirited elephant he intended to capture.
The Buzz
A movie adapted from a major video game is topping the box office on both sides of the Atlantic at the moment and later in the year, another will hope to do the same. Street Fighter is an adaptation of the classic Capcom video game. The film follows street fighters Ryu and Ken, who reunite when Chun-Li recruits them for the World Warrior Tournament. As they face a hidden conspiracy, they must confront each other and their past-or face destruction. It looks very faithful to the video game, which should keep the millions of fans very happy. It’s one of the best films for 16-34 men in Q4 and it hits cinemas on 16 October.
Across The Pond
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie held on to the top spot, adding $35m for a new total of $355.2m. Project Hail Mary added $20.5m in second, which takes its total to $285.1m. Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opened in third with $13.5m, and The Drama fell to fourth, adding $4.8m for a new total of $39.7m. You, Me & Tuscany rounded out the top five, adding $3.8m for a new total of $14.4m.