UK-Ireland top five, July 11-13 Rank Film (origin) Distributor July 11-13 TotalWeek 1 Superman (US) Warner Bros £7m £7m 1
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | July 11-13 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Superman (US) | Warner Bros | £7m | £7m | 1 |
| 2 | Jurassic World Rebirth (US) | Universal | £3.2m | £19.4m | 2 |
| 3 | F1: The Movie (US) | Warner Bros | £1.2m | £15.9m | 3 |
| 4 | How To Train Your Dragon (US) | Universal | £581,616 | £19.3m | 5 |
| 5 | 28 Years Later (US-UK) | Sony | £497,439 | £13.7m | 4 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35
Warner Bros’ Superman topped the UK-Ireland box office with a sluggish £7m opening weekend as a heatwave across the territory may have restricted takings for both novel titles and holdovers.
The opening gross fell far low of 2013’s Man Of Steel, (£11.2m) and 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (£14.6m).
Superman grossed between £2m-£2.7m on each day from Friday to Sunday. Its £7m total came from 685 sites, at an average of £10,180-per cinema.
It is the first film in the novel DC Universe of film and series releases from Warner Bros, after the conclusion of the 16-film DC Extended Universe that opened with Man Of Steel. The 2013 film finally grossed £30m. Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice went on to garner £36.6m in 2016 and remains the highest-grossing title in the DC Extended Universe.
Temperatures of up to 33 degrees celsius in the UK and Ireland this weekend seem to have reduced cinemagoing, with many of the robust slate of summer blockbuster holdovers dropping by more than 60% on the previous weekend.
Last weekend’s number one Jurassic World Rebirth added £3.2m for Universal – a 65% drop that brought it to £19.4m from two weekends.
For comparison, 2015’s Jurassic World dropped just 32% with a £11.1m second weekend for a huge £38.5m total at that stage; while Jurassic World: Dominion, the most recent title in the franchise, dropped 53% on its second session with £5.7m taking it to £21.8m.
Warner Bros’ F1: The Movie added £1.2m on its third weekend – a 62% drop that brought it to £15.9m total.
Universal’s live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake added £581,616 on its fifth weekend in cinemas – a 61% drop – and has a £19.3m total. It should catch the £20.1m of 2019’s How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in the next fortnight; but the £27.6m of 2014’s How To Train Your Dragon 2 will likely be beyond it.
Sony horror 28 Years Later held a top five spot for a fourth weekend. Danny Boyle’s film added £497,439 – a 65% drop that brought it to a robust £13.7m. It has now overtaken Nosferatu (£12.9m) to become the highest-grossing horror release of 2025; and should overtake fellow zombie film World War Z (£14.6m) from 2013 before the end of its run.
Takings for the top five dropped 22% compared to last weekend to £12.5m – another sign of the warm weather taking effect, as the robust summer slate should have held steady. The figures were also down 9% on the equivalent weekend from last year, when Despicable Me 4 opened. With cooler weather predicted for the coming days plus Paramount’s Smurfs opening next Friday, exhibitors will hope to see takings going in the right direction again soon.
Ballad nears £2m
James Griffiths’ The Ballad of Wallis Island added £43,996 on its seventh weekend in cinemas. It is up to £1.8m for Universal, and another few weeks in cinemas should see it cross the £2m mark.
Doll horror M3GAN 2.0 added £24,553 on its third weekend for Universal – an 85% drop that brought it to £1.1m total, well down on the £7.3m of the 2023 first film.
Johnny Depp’s second feature as director, Modi, Three Days On The Wing of Madness, opened to £4,888 for Miracle Comms/IN.2, from 12 sites at an average of £407.
More to follow.
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