UK-Ireland top five Mar 14-16 RankFilm (origin)DistributorMar 14-16 gross TotalWeek 1 Mickey 17 (US) Warner Bros £1.24m £4.5m 2
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Mar 14-16 gross | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mickey 17 (US) | Warner Bros | £1.24m | £4.5m | 2 |
| 2 | Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (UK-Fr-US) | Universal | £1.2m | £42.9m | 5 |
| 3 | Black Bag (US) | Universal | £897,744 | £913,877 | 1 |
| 4 | Marching Powder (UK) | True Brit | £563,897 | £2.1m | 2 |
| 5 | Captain America: Brave New World (US) | Disney | £395,000 | £17.4m | 5 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.30
Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson retained the UK-Ireland box office lead on its second weekend as Steven Soderbergh thriller Black Bag started in third place.
Warner Bros’ Mickey 17 added £1.24m on its second weekend – a 41.6% drop. Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi has £4.5m in total – down on the huge £12.1m of his Palme d’Or-winning Parasite from 2020, but still a decent score with two weekends on top.
It held off Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy for the second consecutive weekend. The Universal romantic comedy added £1.2m on its fifth session – a 42% drop that took it to £42.9m total. It has now passed the £42.1m total of 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, and should catch the £48.3m of 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby by the end of its run to become the franchise’s highest-grossing title. Mad About The Boy is also the second-highest-grossing Working Title film of all time in the territory, behind only Baby.
Universal’s Black Bag was this weekend’s highest-grossing opener, making £897,744 from 645 sites at a £1,396 average. That is up on the £292,058 start of Soderbergh’s Presence from January this year; and only Magic Mike’s Last Dance (£1.5m) had a bigger opening among the director’s last nine films. Black Bag has £913,877 including previews.
British comedy Marching Powder held a top five spot for a second weekend for True Brit Entertainment. Nick Love’s film, starring Danny Dyer, dropped 47.6% across its second session with £563,897, and has £2.1m in total – already earning back beyond its £1.6m production budget.
Disney’s Captain America: Brave New World rounded out the top five, dropping 35.7% on its fifth weekend with £395,000 representing a better hold than most other titles. The superhero film now has £17.4m in total, as the 28th -highest-grossing of 35 Marvel Cinematic Universe films.
With the mid-February boost of Bridget Jones fading into the past, takings for the top five dropped again, down 31.2% to just £4.3m – the lowest level since September last year. Cinemas will look to the live-action remake of a film classic to turn things around, with Disney’s Snow White opening this weekend.
Mufasa continues to roar
Universal animation Dog Man dropped just 9% across its sixth weekend in cinemas, barking up £342,692 for a £12.9m total.
Entertainment Film Distributors’ survival thriller Last Breath starring Woody Harrelson opened to £307,429 from 475 sites, at a £647 location average. Including previews, the film has £328,301.
Still in cinemas after 13 weekends in cinemas, Barry Jenkins’s Mufasa: The Lion King added £133,000 to hit a £33.1m total – a mighty result for Disney of more than seven-and-a-half times its £4.4m opening weekend.
Osgood Perkins’s horror The Monkey leads Black Bear’s slate, adding £115,000 on its fourth weekend – a 51% drop that brings it to a near-£3m total.
Event cinema release Fidelio – Met Opera 2025 made £92,465 from Saturday and Sunday screenings at 96 cinemas in England, Scotland and Wales for Trafalgar Releasing.
Mark Anthony Green’s Sundance title Opus starring Ayo Edebiri opened to £91,647 for Warner Bros, from 424 sites at a £216 location average.
Now through a 20th weekend in cinemas, Oscar best picture winner Anora added £88,181 to hit £2.8m – continuing to benefit from its awards success for Universal.
Fantasy In The Lost Lands opened to £86,388 from 379 sites for Studiocanal, at a £228 site average.
Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 added £73,000 on its 12 weekend in cinemas, following a slim 9.9% drop. The animated franchise title has £26.3m in total, just behind the £27m of 2022’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2.
Sony comedy One Of Them Days saw a hefty 63.7% drop on its second weekend, adding £70,422 to hit a £385,697 total.
On an impressive 16th weekend in cinemas, Edward Berger’s Conclave added £56,000 for Black Bear, to hit a £9.4m total.
The Last Showgirl starring Pamela Anderson put on a further £55,000 on its third weekend for Picturehouse Entertainment. With £907,000, it is now the distributor’s third-highest-grossing title of all time, behind The Party (£1.1m) and The Wife (£1.7m).
Walter Salles’s Oscar-winning I’m Still Here leads Altitude’s slate, adding £46,453 on its third weekend to hit a £1.2m total – a good result for a film not in the English language.
Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown put on £43,000 on its ninth session for Disney, and has a mighty £12.2m in total, close behind the £12.3m of another recent music title, 2023’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.
Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight started with £39,904 for Altitude, from 86 sites at a £464 site average. The Film4-backed title, produced by the UK’s Wellington Films, has £59,695 including previews.
Wicked has played in cinemas across five different months and 17 separate weekends. The musical favourite added £35,581 for Universal, and has £61.1m in total, a fraction behind Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King as the 27th -highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland.
Disney animation Moana 2 added £35,000 on its 16th weekend in cinemas, and is up to £42.5m – more than double the £20.7m of 2018’s Moana.
CinemaLive’s latest event release, Night With Janis Joplin The Musical, took £33,389 at the weekend, and has £72,510 including its Thursday, March 13 opening day.
A fourth weekend of National Theatre Live’s theatre release The Importance Of Being Earnest added £22,152, and has a decent £1.5m total.
Now through an eighth weekend in cinemas, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist added £20,932 for Universal and is up to £3.8m.
Garry Khatrao’s Indian crime drama Six Each opened to £19,899 from 17 sites for Bakrania Media, at a £1,171 site average.
Macbeth: David Tennant and Cush Jumbo added £15,848 on its sixth weekend in cinemas in England, Scotland and Wales for Trafalgar Releasing, and has an impressive £2.3m in total.
Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain added £12,000 on its 10th weekend in cinemas for Disney, and has a robust £3.6m total.
Bollywood historical drama Chhaava added £11,639 on its fifth weekend in cinemas, and has a decent £828,171 total for Yash Raj Films.
Documentary Twiggy added £6,794 on its second session for Studio Soho Distribution, and has £112,135 in total.
A re-release of the Coen brothers’ comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? took £4,603 for Park Circus.
Moviegoers Entertainment’s re-release of 2016 musical Sanam Teri Kasam took £3,091 from 21 sites at a £147 average.
New Zealand horror The Rule of Jenny Pen took £2,266 from 25 sites for Vertigo Releasing, at a £91 site average.
Munro Film Services’ re-release of Away, the debut feature from Oscar-winning Flow director Gints Zilbalodis, made £1,888 from nine venues, typically single screenings at each; and has £2,123 including previews.
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