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Box Office Round-up
F1 The Movie takes the top spot on its opening weekend at the UK box office, with £7m, including Wednesday and Thursday previews. Across Friday to Sunday, F1 The Movie took £4.9m which is the eighth biggest opening weekend of the year to date.
Taking the second spot, we have 28 Years Later, adding £2.3m which is down 39% from its opening weekend. This now takes its total to £9.7m in its second week of release and in terms of 2025 horror it's behind only Nosferatu (£12.9m) and Final Destination: Bloodlines (£11.5m). Looking at the latest provisional film monitor data, about 72% of the film’s audience were ABC1, a significant uplift from original forecasts.
How To Train Your Dragon took third place. The film achieved £1.9m in it's third week in cinemas, dropping just 29% for a new total to £15.9m. The original animated How To Train Your Dragon released in 2010 grossed a total of £17.4m, so the remake is likely to reach similar figures by the end of its run.
Elio takes the 4th spot, dropping just 21% on it's second week in cinemas with £764k, taking its total to £2m.
Rounding out the top 5, Lilo & Stitch adds another £538k in its sixth weekend, which is down just 20% from last weekend. This now makes it the third highest grossing film of 2025, behind A Minecraft Movie (£56.6m) and Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (£46.3m).
Across the rest of the top 10, M3GAN 2.0 opens at no.6 this weekend with £508k, significantly lower than M3gan (2023) which opened with £2.3m. Taking the 7th spot, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning adds another £324k in week six of release taking its total over £25m, and it's closing in on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (£26.6m). Bollywood sequel Sardaar Ji 3 is at no.8, opening with £232k.
Next Weekend
Jurassic World Rebirth - Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
Hot Milk - With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.
The Buzz
Bugonia is the new Yorgos Lanthimos comedy sci-fi about two conspiracy-obsessed young men, who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Starring both Emma Stone and Jesse Plemmons, who were in Lanthimos’ last project Kinds of Kindness, Bugonia is also produced by Ari Aster, another prolific thriller/horror director known for his dark & whacky plots (Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid, Eddington). The teaser trailer released last week, garnering nearly 4m views within 24 hours so there’s an obvious appetite for these types of films. Perfectly timed to release on Halloween (31 October 2025) for all you comedy sci-fi fanatics.
Across The Pond
F1 The Movie takes the top spot this week, opening with $55.6m domestically. How to Train Your Dragon follows in second adding $19.4m, making its total now $200m. Elio is in 3rd with $10m, taking its total to $42m. New release M3GAN 2.0 grossed $10.2m on its opening weekend and 28 Years Later rounds out the top 5 with $9.7m taking its total to $50m.