UK-Ireland top five, August 15-17 Rank Film (origin) DistributorAugust 15-17 Total Week 1 Weapons (US) Warner Bros £1.6m £6
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | August 15-17 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weapons (US) | Warner Bros | £1.6m | £6.3m | 2 |
| 2 | Freakier Friday (US) | Disney | £915,007 | £4m | 2 |
| 3 | Materialists (US) | Sony | £830,564 | £1.3m | 1 |
| 4 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps (US) | Disney | £687,828 | £20.8m | 4 |
| 5 | The Bad Guys 2 (US) | Universal | £542,002 | £8.8m | 4 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35
Warner Bros horror Weapons held the UK-Ireland box office lead for a second weekend; as Sony romantic comedy Materialists opened in third place.
Weapons added £1.6m on its second session – a 39% drop that was below than its 33% overall international drop, but still brought it to £6.3m, a powerful result for an 18-rated title.
Disney comedy Freakier Friday fell below the £1m mark on its second weekend, with a 48% drop to £915,007 taking it to just beyond £4m in total. It should still catch the £6.6m of 2003’s Freaky Friday before the end of its run.
Celine Song’s Materialists started with £830,564 from 687 sites at a moderate £1,209 site average. Having opened last Wednesday, August 13, the film has £1.3m in total, and should catch the £3.1m of Song’s 2023 Past Lives in the coming weeks.
Marvel Cinematic Universe title The Fantastic Four: First Steps fell 50% on its fourth weekend in cinemas, with £687,828 taking it to £20.8m. In doing so it overtook fellow MCU titles Captain America: The Winter Soldier (£19.4m), Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania (£19.3m) and Thor: The Dark World (£20.1m), and is currently 23rd of 36 films in the series by box office.
Universal animation The Bad Guys 2 put on £542,002 on its fourth weekend – a 33% drop that was better than the market average, and brought it to £8.8m total, down on the £13.8m of 2022’s The Bad Guys.
Takings for the top five dropped a pointed 40% to just £4.5m – the lowest mark since the end of March. After a powerful first half of the year, August has been a tardy month for cinemas, which will hope that Disney’s UK production The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will draw in audiences from August 29.
Mononoke draws audiences
Paramount comedy The Naked Gun just slipped out of the top five, falling 52% on its third weekend with £532,000 taking it to £5.7m total. It has overtaken the £5.3m of 1994’s The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, but will struggle to catch the £7.8m and £8.8m of the first two releases in the series.
Nobody 2, the second film in the series starring Bob Odenkirk, started with £475,480 from 490 sites at a moderate £970 average for Universal. It is above the £376,067 opening of the 2021 first film, which ended on £1.4m.
Together, Michael Shanks’ body horror starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, started with £462,061 for Entertainment Film Distributors, from 525 sites at a £880 average. Including previews, the film has £502,062.
On its seventh weekend in cinemas, Jurassic World Rebirth added £330,856 – a 50% drop that brought it to £34.3m total. Another fortnight or so in cinemas should see it overhaul the £35.1m of 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion, the lowest of the three Jurassic World titles.
Superman flies on at the box office, adding £323,066 on its sixth session – a 50% drop that brought it to £26.9m. The Warner Bros title is ahead of all but three of the 15 features from the previous DC Extended Universe, but will likely finish behind the £30m of 2013 Superman story Man Of Steel.
A dazzling spot at the box office this weekend was Elysian Film Distribution’s re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 anime Princess Mononoke. The 4K restoration grossed £184,092 from just 51 sites for a £3,540 site average – the highest in the market this weekend. Princess Mononoke made just £22,197 on its original confined release; then £143,019 in a 2005 re-release by Studiocanal.
F1: The Movie starring Brad Pitt added £138,900 on its eighth weekend for Warner Bros – a 51% drop that brough the racing drama to £21.8m total.
On its fourth weekend in cinemas, Smurfs added £100,000 for Paramount – a 49% drop that brought the animated title to £4.8m total.
The live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake dropped 31% on its 10th session, with £64,298 taking it to £22.6m for Universal.
Universal comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island plays on in cinemas through a 12th weekend, adding £21,481 on its latest session to hit £2.4m total.
The Philippou brothers’ Bring Her Back leads Sony’s slate of horrors, adding £20,012 on its third weekend to hit £1.8m total.
Curzon’s 21-screen re-release of Walter Salles’s Central Station brought in £12,836 at a £611 average, and has £12,932 including previews.
Anime Ltd’s latest Mamoru Hosoda re-release, Wolf Children, took £11,822 on its opening weekend, mainly from Sunday screenings.
I Know What You Did Last Summer put on £8,747 on its fifth weekend for Sony, and has £2.8m in total.
Event cinema release The Grateful Dead Movie 2025 Meet-Up took £8,507 across the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing, and has £24,268 following its main release day on Thursday, August 14.
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later is closing out after nine weekends for Sony, adding £8,247 on its latest session to hit a £15.5m total – more than the first two films in the franchise combined.
Love, the second release in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Love Sex Dreams trilogy, started with £5,614 from 19 sites at a £295 average for Modern Films. Including previews the film has £6,767, slightly down on the £9,009 full opening for Dreams two weeks ago.
Live-action French title Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods started with £3,589 from 59 sites at a £61 average for Miracle63, with almost that number sites again still to report.
Park Circus’s re-release of Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai took £3,371 including previews from the previos weekend. The Park Circus Sense & Sensibility re-release added £3,110 on its second session for a £82,712 total.
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