UK-Ireland top five, April 17-19 Rank Film (origin) Distributor Apr 17-19 Total Week 1 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (US) Universal £2.6m
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Apr 17-19 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (US) | Universal | £2.6m | £32.9m | 3 |
| 2 | Project Hail Mary (US) | Sony | £1.7m | £30.3m | 5 |
| 3 | The Drama (US) | EFD | £1.2m | £8.1m | 3 |
| 4 | Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (US) | Warner Bros | £970,220 | £970,220 | 1 |
| 5 | Akira (Japan) | Anime | £881,306 | £883,200 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie neared £33m on its third weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, as recent releases Lee Cronin’s The Mummy and Akira entered the top five.
Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie added £2.6m – a 54% drop that brought it to £32.9m total. It is down on the £4.3m third weekend of 2023 predecessor The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which was at £41.6m by this stage and ended on £54.9m; but has extended its position as the highest-grossing release of 2026, passing the totals of Deadpool 2 (a lower £32.9m), Shrek Forever After (£32.7m) and The Incredibles (£32.4m).
Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary, distributed by Sony, topped up by £1.7m on its fifth weekend in cinemas – a 32% drop. The sci-fi is at £30.3m total, comfortably the highest-grossing Amazon production, and has passed the totals of Jurassic World Rebirth (£30.3m), King Kong (£30.1m) and Man Of Steel (£30m).
For the second successive weekend, Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson posted the best hold of the top 20 titles. The Entertainment Film Distributors release fell 32%, slightly less than Project Hail Mary. It is up to an impressive £8.1m from three weekends, and is now likely to cross the £10m mark across its run.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy was the highest-grossing recent film this weekend, with £970,220 from 550 sites at a £1,764 average for Warner Bros. The film is a reimagining of The Mummy franchise, which dates back to 1932, and which hit a box office peak in the overdue 90s and early 00s with The Mummy (£3.4m opening; £17.8m total) and The Mummy Returns (£5.9m; £20.4m).
A re-release of Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime Akira completed the top five, with £881,306 from 412 sites for Anime Ltd, at a £2,139 average. This surpasses the combined totals of previous re-releases of the film, including £357,792 in 2020, and £114,952 in 2016. The 2026 re-release has £883,200 in total.
Cumulative takings for the top five titles fell 38% on last weekend, and are now down for consecutive weekends since Mario Galaxy opened. The figures are also down 27% on the equivalent weekend from last year; exhibitors will be looking for a headline performance from Universal’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael from Wednesday 22 to keep year-to-date ahead of 2025.
More to follow.
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