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Box Office Round-up
The Housemaid is a sensation. The twisty-thriller added £3.5m this weekend, which is down just 9% from last weekend. Saturday and Sunday were both up 1% week-on-week. That takes its total to £17.9m and a total close £30m is not out of the question.
Major awards contender Hamnet opened in second with an impressive £3.2m, which includes £247k from previews. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is the biggest awards season title post-covid, and that opened with £2.3m in 2022 and finished its run with £15.6m, so that has to be a target for Hamnet and would represent a terrific result.
Avatar: Fire And Ash fell to third on its fourth weekend, adding £2.6m, which is down 41% from last weekend. That takes its total to £35.8m and its now the sixth highest grossing film released in 2025. The previous film, Avatar: The Way Of Water finished its run with £77.4m so this sequel still has a long way to go to match that.
Marty Supreme continued its terrific run, adding £2m, which is down just 26% from last weekend. That takes its total to £9.4m and its closing in on the final total of last January’s A Complete Unknown, which finished on £12.4m. After Wonka, Dune, and A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet is a bona fide movie star and Marty Supreme might be his most impressive achievement yet.
Zootropolis 2 is still performing strongly, rounding out the top five, adding £1.2m for a new total of £29.3m and it is the seventh biggest film of 2025 and the biggest animated film of 2025. It has also sailed past the final total of the first Zootropolis (£24.1m).
Outside of the top five, Giant, the biopic of Prince Naseem Hamed opened in ninth with £371k, which includes £13k from previews. It was also a great weekend for the 40th anniversary re-release of Labyrinth, which banked £321k over the weekend.
Next Weekend
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a sequel to last summer’s excellent 28 Years Later. As Spike (Alfie Williams) is inducted into Jimmy Crystal's (Jack O’Connell) gang on the mainland, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) makes a discovery that could alter the world.
Rental Family stars Brendan Fraser as an American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose who lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese "rental family" agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. He rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the beauty of human connection..
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Extended Editions sees a re-release for the longest versions of the much-loved fantasy trilogy. They are in cinemas for two weekends.
The Buzz
They Will Kill You stars Zazie Beetz as a woman takes a job as a housekeeper in a NYC high-rise, unaware of the building's history of disappearances. She soon realizes the community is shrouded in mystery. The solid cast also includes Patricia Arquette, Tom Felton and Heather Graham and the first trailer looks like a ton of action-packed fun. It should be one of the best films for 16-34s across the Easter period when it hits cinemas on 27 March.
Across The Pond
Avatar: Fire And Ash topped the box office in North America for the fourth straight weekend, adding $21.3m for a new total of $342.6m. Primate opened in second with $11.3m, which is a solid result and bodes well for its UK released on 30 January. The Housemaid added $11.2m in third which takes its total to $94.2m. Zootopia 2 added $10.1m in fourth for a new total of $378.8m and Greenland: Migration rounded out the top five, opening with $8.5m