UK-Ireland top five, May 23-25, 2025 RankFilm (origin) DistributorMay 23-25 grossTotal Week 1 Lilo & Stitch (US) Disney £8m £
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | May 23-25 gross | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lilo & Stitch (US) | Disney | £8m | £12.9m | 1 |
| 2 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (US) |
Paramount | £6.2m | TBC | 1 |
| 3 | Final Destination: Bloodlines (US) |
Warner Bros | £1.7m | TBC | 2 |
| 4 | The Phoenician Scheme (US-Ger) |
Universal | £770,562 | £1.1m | 1 |
| 5 | Thunderbolts* (US) | Disney | £578,630 | £15.2m | 4 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.36
Disney’s Lilo & Stitch scored a robust £8m opening weekend to top the UK-Ireland box office; as Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning made it a good weekend for cinemas with £6.2m in second place.
Lilo & Stitch made its £8m from 689 sites, at an excellent £11,593 location average. This was comfortably the biggest Disney opening of the year to date, ahead of the £6.4m of Captain America: Brave New World from February and £5m of Thunderbolts* from last month.
Its full opening including Wednesday and Thursday previews came in at £9.6m. It now has an impressive £12.9m in the bank including yesterday’s Bank Holiday Monday screenings.
The film is nearing the £13.2m total of 2002’s animated Lilo & Stitch already. Compared to other Disney live-action remakes, it has already topped the £11.5m of this year’s Snow White, and the £9.5m of 2021’s Cruella.
It took a substantial £3.3m on the Bank Holiday Monday alone – the biggest Monday of 2025 so far, the biggest Monday ever for a U-rated film in the UK & Ireland, and the 2nd-biggest Monday ever for a Disney live-action film.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning started with £6.2m from 747 sites, at a £8,274 site average for Paramount. It was slightly behind the £6.3m three-day opening of Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One from 2023, giving The Final Reckoning the second-biggest opening of the eight-film franchise in the UK & Ireland, ahead of 2018’s Fallout with £5.5m.
The Final Reckoning made £8.6m through Sunday, May 25, with Monday figures still to come.
Warner Bros’ Final Destination: Bloodlines added £1.7m on its second weekend – a 41% drop that brought it to £7m through Sunday 25. It has already topped the totals of two of the Final Destination films, with Final Destination 3 (£9m), Final Destination (£10.4m) and The Final Destination (£12.8m) all within its sights.
Wes Anderson’s Cannes Competition title The Phoenician Scheme started with £770,562 at the weekend, from 354 sites at a £2,177 average for Universal.
That opening is down on the £1.1m of 2023’s Asteroid City, from 351 sites at a £3,155 average; and just behind the £771,349 start of The French Dispatch from 2021. Including previews and Monday, The Phoenician Scheme has £1.1m.
Thunderbolts* dropped 52% across its fourth weekend, with £578,630 contributing towards a £15.2m total for Disney. It is currently the 32nd -highest-grossing of 36 Marvel Cinematic Universe films, and will overtake Eternals (£16.2m) and Ant-Man (£16.3m) shortly.
Takings for the top five soared a huge 221% compared to last weekend, boosted by the two robust openers; and are up 131% on the equivalent weekend from last year. 2025 has been a robust year so far for cinemas, with Sony’s Karate Kid: Legends and Black Bear’s The Salt Path looking to continue the progress next weekend.
Sinners succeeds
Sinners continues its robust theatrical run for Warner Bros, adding £342,151 on its sixth weekend. This brought it to £15.2m total, beyond the £14.3m of 2023’s Creed III, also from Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.
A Minecraft Movie extended its position as the highest-grossing film of the year to date, adding £246,952 on its eighth weekend for Warner Bros. The film has just miniature of £56m in total, ahead of 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie (£54.9m) as the highest-grossing videogame adaptation ever in the territory.
Nature documentary Ocean With David Attenborough put on £92,522 over the three-day weekend for Altitude, and has £1.3m total – a good result for a non-fiction title.
Vue Cinemas’ Vue Lumiere distribution label has Bluey At The Cinema: Let’s Play Chef Collection still on screens through four weekends, dropping just 4% with £47,153 on its latest session to hit £544,179.
Event cinema release Ballet To Broadway: Wheeldon Works put on £42,367 at the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing. Including its Thursday 22 opening day, the release has £210,539 total.
Warner Bros’ The Accountant 2 starring Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal added £22,849 on its fifth weekend, and has £2.6m total.
Art documentary Michelangelo: Love & Death from Seventh Art Distribution’s Exhibition On Screen series took £18,132 at the weekend; and including its Tuesday 20 opening day has £85,956 total.
Emmanuel Courcol’s French comedy The Marching Band, which was nominated for seven Cesar awards, added £15,869 on its second weekend for Vertigo Releasing and has £77,629 total.
Babak Anvari’s horror Hallow Road starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys added £17,063 on its second weekend, for a £168,572 total.
Lionsgate’s Hurry Up Tomorrow starring Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan added £16,713 on its second weekend, and is up to £242,516.
Icelandic drama When The Light Breaks opened to £7,046 at the weekend for Modern Films, and has £18,367 including previews.
Sony horror Until Dawn added £6,926 on its fifth session, and has almost £1.8m total.
The Penguin Lessons starring Steve Coogan added £5,214 for Lionsgate, and is up to £3.2m total.
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