Rank Film (origin) DistributorJan 10-12 gross Total Week 1 Mufasa: The Lion King (US) Disney £2.2m £23.9m 4 2 Nosfe
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Jan 10-12 gross | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mufasa: The Lion King (US) | Disney | £2.2m | £23.9m | 4 |
| 2 | Nosferatu (US) | Universal | £2m | £8.8m | 2 |
| 3 | Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (US) | Paramount | £1.5m | £20.9m | 3 |
| 4 | We Live In Time (UK-Fr) | Studiocanal | £1.3m | £5.2m | 2 |
| 5 | Babygirl (US) | EFD | £1m | £1.1m | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.21
Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller Babygirl took over £1m on its opening weekend at the UK-Ireland box office; as Mufasa: The Lion King held top spot for a fourth weekend.
Disney’s Mufasa added £2.2m – a 33% drop, that brought it to £23.9m total. It has now passed the £22.6m of the original 1994 Disney animation; although that was at substantially different rates, and it is well down on the £76m of 2019’s The Lion King.
Still, four weeks in first place is a mighty achievement for Barry Jenkins’ CGI title, which should enter the UK-Ireland all-time top 200 within the next week.
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu held on to second spot on its second weekend, with a £2m session – a drop of 36%. The horror film is up to £8.8m, already Eggers’ highest-grossing title ahead of The Northman (£4.7m total), and Universal’s highest-grossing horror since Five Night’s At Freddy’s (£10.6m) in 2023 – which it will pass within the next fortnight. It passed the £8.1m total of last year’s Longlegs this weekend, also topping 2024 horrors Speak No Evil, M3GAN, Scream VI and The Nun 2.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 added £1.5m on its third session for Paramount – a 43.8% drop, that brought it to £20.9m total. The animated adventure has now topped the £19.3m of 2020’s Sonic The Hedgehog, and could overtake the £27m of 2022’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2 before the end of its run.
Romantic drama We Live In Time starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh was one of the strongest performers of the weekend, falling just 19.3% with a £1.3m second weekend. The Studiocanal title is up to £5.2m, and will overtake the £6m of 2015’s Brooklyn within the next week to become director John Crowley’s highest-grossing title in the region.
Babygirl got off to a mighty start for Entertainment Film Distributors, with over £1m at a £1,808 screen average. It has £1.1m including previews, and is already the highest-grossing title for Dutch actress-turned-filmmaker Halina Reijn (topping the £916,909 of 2022’s Bodies Bodies Bodies).
With final figures still to come, Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain opened to £705,814 from 445 sites at a £1,586 screen average for Disney. The film, about two personality-divided cousins who go on a heritage tour in Poland, has £995,883 including previews.
Full results to follow.
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