UK-Ireland top five, Oct 16-18 RankFilm (origin)DistributorOct 16-18 TotalWeek 1 Street Fighter (US) Paramount £2.3m £2.3m
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Oct 16-18 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Street Fighter (US) | Paramount | £2.3m | £2.3m | 1 |
| 2 | Forgotten Island (US) | Universal | £1.3m | £1.3m | 1 |
| 3 | Verity (US) | Sony | £1.1m | £9.5m | 3 |
| 4 | Other Mommy (US) | Universal | £924,000 | £3.8m | 2 |
| 5 | Jailer 2 (Ind) | Boleyn | £754,000 | £1.1m | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.33
Paramount’s Street Fighter fought off Universal animation Forgotten Island to top the UK-Ireland box office, as Bollywood action title Jailer 2 made the top five on opening weekend.
Kitao Sakurai’s Street Fighter opened to £2.3m from 594 locations, at a £3,872 average. That tops the £1.6m opening of fellow martial arts video game film Mortal Kombat 2 from May. The latter title went on to a £3.4m total; Street Fighter will look to beat that within the next week then move towards £5m.
Street Fighter’s opening was up on the £619,000 opening of the 1995 film of the same name, and only slightly behind its £2.3m total; it may yet pass it with final weekend figures still to come (figures are not adjusted for inflation).
Universal’s DreamWorks animation Forgotten Island opened to £1.3m from 628 sites at a £2,072 average. That is down on the £1.7m start of the latest DreamWorks title, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, from the equivalent weekend last year, but up on the £885,000 start of the last DreamWorks film not based on pre-existing material, 2023’s Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
Amazon MGM Studios’ latest Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity added £1.1m on its third weekend, falling just one place. Its 44% drop brought it to £9.5m total, well clear of the £6.3m of last year’s Regretting You and £4.5m of this year’s Reminders Of Him among Hoover adaptations, although still behind the £21.9m of 2024’s It Ends With Us. Sony handles the theatrical release.
Last weekend’s number one Other Mommy dropped 54% on its second weekend for Universal, with £924,000 taking it to a £3.8m total.
Bollywood action sequel Jailer 2, about a retired police officer whose life is disrupted when a criminal organisation threatens his family, opened to £754,000 from just 230 sites at a well £3,365 average, up on the £728,000 start of the first film in 2023. Jailer 2 has £1.2m already including previews, and will hope to top the £1.3m cume of the first film this week, for distributor TGS Cinemas, with bookings by Boleyn Cinema.
Takings for the top five increased by 3% on last weekend with £6.3m, and are 18% up on the equivalent weekend last year, with a decent spread of titles bringing in money. Next weekend also has a broad spread of genres starting out, including Black Bear stop motion animation Wildwood, Warner Bros’ comic book adaptation Clayface, Lionsgate TV spin off Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House, Amazon MGM Studios’ Ali G: Who Iz I?, and Sony’s literary adaptation Klara And The Sun.
Whalefall opens up
Trafalgar Releasing’s Greek myths-inspired Hadestown: The Musical did a well £627,000 from 542 sites at a £1,157 average, and has £1.5m in total having opened on Tuesday, October 13.
Disney opened Brian Duffield’s survival thriller Whalefall to £508,000 at a £1,015 average from 500 locations.
Heart Of The Beast starring Brad Pitt fell 38% on its fourth weekend for Paramount, continuing its well box office run. It is up to £6.4m lifetime.
Resident Evil is continuing its successful box office run towards Halloween, adding £477,000 – a 39% drop – and hitting £13.6m for Sony.
Sense And Sensibility starring Daisy Edgar-Jones added £310,000 on its fourth weekend for Universal, falling 48% and reaching £5.9m total.
Facebook drama The Social Reckoning put on £284,000 on its second weekend for Sony, a 54% fall that brought it to a flat £1.3m total.
Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom leads Studiocanal’s slate, with £257,000 on its fifth session, down 48% on the previous session. The stop-motion animation is up to £4.2m total.
Warner Bros’ Digger starring Tom Cruise took a bigger hit from its second to third weekend than on the previous session. It dropped 62% this time, with £184,000 taking it to £2.3m total.
NAZA, the documentary about Israeli military techniques used to kill Palestinians in Gaza, started with an impressive £173,000 from just 51 sites at a £3,395 average, one of the highest of the weekend. The film, distributed in cinemas by Dogwoof ahead of its free launch on The Guardian website in slow November, has £240,000 including previews, and was the number one title in 40 of its 51 sites.
The Odyssey posted a better hold than most titles this weekend, falling just 37% on its 14th session in cinemas. Christopher Nolan’s Mediterranean epic put on £165,000 and is up to £87.8m as the 10th -highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland.
Second World War drama Pressure starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser is up to £7.1m for Studiocanal, after an £85,900 sixth weekend.
Practical Magic 2 added £57,900 on its sixth weekend for Warner Bros after a steep 68% drop, and is up to £8.4m cume.
Summer blockbuster Spider-Man: Brand New Day is still playing well in cinemas, adding £41,500 on its 12th weekend in cinemas to hit £100.1m for Sony.
Thailand-set drama Deadline opened to £35,800 through DOVC UK on restricted showings, and has £50,600 including previews and festival showings.
Studio Ghibli title Arrietty took £29,200 on re-release through Anime Ltd, with £53,400 including previews, and £421,000 from its original 2011 release.
The fourth weekend of the Avengers: Endgame Encore extended re-release added £22,200 for Disney, with the film up to £6.4m total.
Bad Apples starring Saoirse Ronan put on £18,000 on its fifth session for Paramount, and is up to £1.6m total.
Always Lalisa, a documentary about the Thai pop singer, took £18,000 at the weekend from 143 sites with £126-per-cinema, and has £48,500 in total for Trafalgar Releasing.
Frank Berry’s Irish drama The Lost Children Of Tuam added £16,700 on its second weekend in England, Scotland and Wales, where it is up to £80,500 through Picturehouse Entertainment. It also put on £19,400 on its fourth weekend in Ireland and Northern Ireland through Volta, for a £411,000 total across the two territories.
The minions are finally starting to leave the cinema – for now – after a 16th weekend for Universal’s Minions & Monsters put on £14,800 for a £20.1m lifetime.
Concert film Queen Budapest added £12,500 on its second weekend for Trafalgar Releasing, and has a lifetime total of £474,000.
Animation Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie is closing out with £11,000 on its 11th session for Paramount, with £6.5m total as the third-highest-grossing film in the family franchise.
Dominik Moll’s Cannes 2025 title Case 137 started with £10,800 for Conic from 27 sites at a £400 average, and has £13,600 including previews.
A Park Circus re-release of Alejandro Amenabar’s 2001 horror The Others brought in £5,490, with the film having taken £11.9m on its original run.
Cannes Competition title Hope added £3,350 on its fourth weekend for Neon, released by Picturehouse Entertainment, and is up to £513,000.
Event cinema release English National Ballet Presents: The Sleeping Beauty took £34,700 across six days, having opened on Tuesday, October 13.
