- Mickey 17 £2,132,080 – NE
Took £699k 32.79%; Friday £849k 39.82% Saturday; £584k 27.39% Sunday.
841st biggest opening between The Magnificent Seven and Dinosaur (close to The Bourne Identity, Stargate, The World’s End and Angel Has Fallen) and 1,291st biggest inflated opening between Apocalypto and Dumb & Dumber To (close to Eragon, Zathura, Beverly Hills Cop III and Dick Tracy).
The 33rd biggest opening over the last 52 weeks between Red One and Garfield (close to Back to Black, A Complete Unknown, Furiosa and Civil War).
59th widest opening in 6685 screens, similar to Inside Out 2 (close to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Ticket To Paradise and Where The Crawdads Sing); 247th 600+ cinema opening since 2015’s Jurassic World.
Only £72,547 separated Mickey 17 from Mad About the Boy #2 despite Mickey 17 having all IMAX/PLF/4DX/ScreenX/Dolby cinemas which likely took 40%+ of its opening.
Mickey 17 world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2025, followed by premieres in London and Paris.
It was originally set for release in March 2024 but was delayed due to the SAG strike and post-production delays to January 2025 and then April 18th before moving forward a month to 7th March. Moved to March to get IMAX screens for two weeks.
After three of Bong Joon-ho’s previous films premiered at the Cannes Film Festival- 2008’s Shaking Tokyo, 2017’s Okja, and 2020’s Parasite many expected Mickey 17 to also premiere at Cannes as its far more high-profile festival than Berlin. Had it opened at Cannes Mickey 17 would have only had one week with IMAX screens due to Thunderbolts and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
It was Bong Joon-ho’s first film since Oscar-winning Parasite opened £1,397,387 (137 screens taking £12,030,000 (COVID lockdown shortened its release); its release was affected by COVID with cinemas closing a month after opening, while it opened in 137 screens expanding over several weeks Mickey 17 will open wide in 600+ screens in IMAX/PLF screens.
As with director Todd Phillips (Joker: Folie à Deux) Bong Joon-Ho had the final cut approval for Mickey 17. Maggie Gyllenhaal also has the final cut for the $100m+ musical The Bride as Mickey 17; it’s reported to have had poor test screenings. Paul Thomas Anderson’s (One Battle After Another) and Alejandro G. Iñárritu films also have a final cut. This will likely see them more art-house than commercial as Warner Bros would have hoped them to be.
Warner made an alternative cut of Mickey 17, which tested better than the director’s cut but couldn’t release the version as the director had the final cut. Bong Joon-Ho gave Warner Bros his completed cut in November 2023
Mickey 17 has been compared to films like
1996’s 12 Monkeys open £1,363,967/£2,670,962 taking £6,106,751/£11,958,429
1999’s Fight Club opened £1,177,219/£2,214,626 322 screens taking £5,018,967/£9,441,857
2009’s District 9 opened £2,288,378/£3,352,642 taking £8,875,093 /£13,002,664
2016’s Arrival opened £2,924,059/£3,145,041 taking £9,144,719
Robert Pattinson starred in five Twilight films taking £135.5m and more recently 2020’s Tenet and 2022’s The Batman with The Odyssey set for release in 2026 and The Batman 2 in 2027
Warner has a very risky slate of films this year, The Alto Knights, A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, F1, Superman, The Battle of Baktan Cross, and The Bride! And Mortal Kombat 2.
- 2. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy £2,059,532 – £40,398,810
Dropped 50.1% in its fourth weekend.
£714k 34.7% (-47.9% £1.37m) Fri; £838k 40.7% (£1.67m -49.8%)) Sat; £507k 24.62% (-49.7% £1.09m) Sunday
99th biggest fourth weekend between Gladiator and Star Wars Attack of the Clones (close to A Star Is Born, The Greatest Showman, Moana 2 and The Secret Life of Pets) and the 202nd inflated fourth weekend between Cats and Dogs and The Santa Clause 2 (close to Billy Elliot, Bridesmaids, Hook and Two Weeks’ Notice).
Mad About the Boy is still playing in 738 cinemas in its fourth weekend, 11 more than it did in its opening weekend. Only 7 films have opened in more than 738 cinemas.
With the industry average ticket price of £7.92, Mad About the Boy has had over 5.1m admissions since opening. It will top Bridget Jones’s Baby with 6.5m admissions but won’t get close to either The Edge of Reason’s 8.1m and Bridget Jones’s Diary’s 10.2m despite tasking much more box office. This, of course, is just the industry average price; the real average is about a third more.
Fourth weekends
2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary dropped 20.6% £2,768,335/£5,329,380 and £27,009,116 64.78% of £41,692,598/£80,263,286
2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason dropped 43.6% £1,696,588/£3,011,538 and £30,571,861 85.03% of £35,954,611/£63,821,436
2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby dropped 37.6% £2,997,832/£3,224,389 and £37,866,152 78.8% of £48,050,641/£51,681,998
87th biggest between Les Miserables and Indiana Jones …The Crystal Skull (close to Alice In Wonderland, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Inside Out and Fifty Shades of Grey) and 188th biggest inflated between X-Men 2 and Doctor Dolittle (close to The Bodyguard, Goldeneye, Sex and the City and Forrest Gump
Mad About the Boy took $104m from 75 territories; UK $51.1m; Australia $8.6m; Holland $5m; Poland $4.8m; Germany $4.1m; Bridget Jones’s Diary took $71.54m in the US, $210.45m internationally and $282m worldwide ($550m inflated); The Edge of Reason took $40.22m US; $224.9m internationally and $265.12m worldwide; Bridget Jones’s Baby took $24.25m US: $187.7m internationally and $212m worldwide.
So while Mad About the Boy has taken more than all other Bridget Jones films in the UK it will come short of the international BO of all other films not including inflation, this is of course what BO analysts forget to mention when they compare with previous instalments, in 2001 when Bridget Jones’s Diary opened average price was £4.14, there were no surcharges, no gimmicks just 35mm.
With Black Bag and Snow-White opening over the next two weeks Mad About the Boy will likely drop another 50% over the next two weeks so is unlikely to get to £50m.
- 3. Marching Powder £1,079,492 – NE
Took £431k 39.94% Friday; £411k 38.09% Saturday; £237k 21.96% Sunday.
1,626th biggest opening between Shall We Dance? And Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (close to Layer Cake, Get Shorty, Lucky Number Slevin and Snakes on a Plane) and 2,259th biggest inflated opening between Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce and O’ Brother, Where Art Thou (close to Side Effects, Warm Bodies, Family Business and The Nice Guys).
48th biggest opening over the last 52 weeks between The Bikeriders and The Monkey (close to Trap, Babygirl, Conclave and A Real Pain).
534th widest opening in 430 cinemas similar to The Last Samurai, Die Another Day. How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Sixth Sense.
With British films like Marching Power, distributors have to go as wide as possible as if they don’t find an immediate audience, screens and showtimes will drop off in its second weekend, which will surely still be the case with Marching Power despite opening with £1m.
While the UK film industry calls films like Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, We Live In Time and Paddington In Peru British films, they were financed by foreign companies, so it is probably the biggest opening for a British-made film since 2020 The Personal History Of David Copperfield £1,524,147.
Marching Powder, starring Danny Dyer is the first film released by new British independent distributor True Brit Entertainment, launched by former Lionsgate UK boss Zygi Kamasa in 2023 with plans to release a slate of British films. They planned to release 4-8 British films annually, co-financing $50m worth of films each year. Upcoming films include The Death Of Robin Hood, Sunny Dancer, 500 Miles, In The Shadows, The Scurry, Christmas Karma, Giant and The Dreadful.
Over the last 20+ years, so many British-based film distributors have been acquired by international companies, including Optimum by Studiocanal, Redbus by Lionsgate and Electric by eOne. The one surviving UK-based distributor, Entertainment Films, is making fewer films and is no longer the force it was 20 years ago. Despite hundreds of millions of Lottery funding and billions spent making films in the UK few are fully financed by British companies, and they haven’t been for over 30 years.
In the 90s British companies like First Independent Films and Rank Film Distributors closed while Polygram was sold to Universal Pictures, and Bridget Jones’s Diary was in development at Working Title Films when it was owned by Polygram. Working Title Films have had huge success with “British” films over the years since, but they are of course, now owned by Universal Pictures and Studiocanal.
The Critic, released last year via Lionsgate, was the first film acquired by True Brit Entertainment.
Danny Dyer starred in 2004’s The Football Factory, which opened £207,683 #4 from 159 screens, taking £676,395: 2005’s Business (£531k) and 2007’s Outlaw (£582k). Danny Dyer is similar to Jason Statham his films get slanted by critics, but audiences still come out to see them, and he will be back in the Christmas Karma opening later in the year.
- 4. Captain America: Brave New World £615,073 – £16,767,498
Down 57.7% in its fourth weekend
£137k 22.28% (-61.3% £354k) Friday; £297k 48.29% (-55.67% £670k) Saturday; £181k 29.43% (-57.6% £427k) Sunday
652nd biggest fourth weekend between Rush Hour 2 and Don’t Worry Darling (close to The Panic Room, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Specialist, and Pulp Fiction) and 943rd biggest inflated fourth weekend between The Amityville Horror (2005) and Bullet Train (close to Dead Again, Spy Kids 2, Platoon and Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery).
28th biggest MCU fourth weekend between Thor: The Dark World and Eternals (close to Ant-Man and the Wasp, Blade Widow, Ant-Man and Iron Man 2).
70th biggest comic-book fourth weekend between Kick-Ass and Eternals (close to Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer, The Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four (2005) and Ant-Man) and 82nd biggest inflated fourth weekend between Eternals and Justice League (close to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Superman IV, The Wolverine and Daredevil)
Brave New World’s fourth weekend was 282% more than The First Avenger: 26% less than Winter Soldier and 54% less than Civil War.
2016’s Captain America: Civil War dropped 52% £1,334,385 and £34,467,090 93.73% of £36,771,782/£43,585,543
2014’s Captain America: Winter Soldier dropped 53% £831,901 and £16,748,625 86.96% of £19,261,224/£20,648,459
2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger dropped 73% £161,144 and £9,216,634, 98.26% of £9,379,436
Currently the 30th biggest MCU between Ant-Man and Eternals (close to Blade Widow, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Iron Man and Thor; Brave New World will likely take a similar BO to Black Widow and less than Winter Soldier’s £19.3m; comparing it to other MCU after 4 weeks it’s the 25th biggest between Shang-Chi and Captain America: Winter Soldier (close to Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World, Blade Widow and Ant-Man and the Wasp)
397th biggest between The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists and Daddy’s Home (close to Planet of the Apes (2001), Mad Max: Fury Road, Batman Begins and Kingsman: The Secret Service) and the 684th biggest inflated between The Firm and Three Billboards (close to Rocky IV, In the Line of Fire, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Judge Dredd). The 35 MCU films have taken £1.16bn and £1.28bn inflated since 2008.
Next from MCU is Thunderbolts* in May and Fantastic Four in July. They are probably going to perform stronger than Brave New World but more likely similar to Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 than Deadpool & Wolverine, before of course more Avengers films in 2026. Will be interesting to see how these new Avengers films will perform after the huge BO of Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame.
- 5. Dog Man £374,780 – £12,500,063
Down 45.2% in its fifth weekend
Took £84k 12.35% (-90.3% £863k) Fri; £340k 50% (-41% £576k) Sat; £256k 37.6% (-56.9% £594k) Sun.
655th biggest fifth weekend between The Artist and Southpaw (close to The Haunted Mansion (2004), While You Were Sleeping, Pitch Perfect 3 and Charlotte’s Web) and 905th biggest inflated fifth weekend between The Boss Baby 2 and Little Man (close to Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Rango, Storks and National Treasure 2).
37th biggest Dreamworks Animation fifth weekend between Mr. Peabody And Sherman and Over The Hedge (close to Turbo, The Croods 2: A New Age, Abominable and The Boss Baby 2)
A spinoff to 2017’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie dropped 37.8% £171,804 and £6,853,284 84.61% of £8,100,263.
Recent Dreamworks Animation fifth weekends
2024’s The Wild Robot down 42% £387,352 and £13,247,169 97.32% of £13,611,793
2024’s Kung Fu Panda 4 up 5.1% £948,033 and £19,743,606 90.55% of £21,805,140
2023’s Trolls Band Together dropped 23.4% £734,140 and £14,814,608 96.72% of £15,316,583
2023’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish dropped 34.7% £1,151,520 and £22,143,133 86.38% of £25,633,299
2022’s The Bad Guys down 2% £723,039 and £10,180,547 75.53% of £13,478,928
560th biggest between Nosferatu and Jungle Cruise (close to Lilo & Stitch, Rise of the Guardians, Ghostbusters (1984) and IF) and 948th biggest inflated between Nosferatu and The Grand Budapest Hotel (close to Waking Ned Devine, Groundhog Day, Small Soldiers and Beetlejuice).
- Anora – Universal Pictures
Up 452.3% in its 19th weekend £179,044 #8 from 429 screens and £2,558,289
After winning five Oscars last weekend, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Micky Madison and Best Original Screenplay, Anora expanded its release in its 19th weekend.
While Mikey Madison gave a stunning performance as Anora, its Oscar wins were surprising as other films deserved the awards more than Anora. Even Mikey Madison won Best Actress she will surely get another chance to win, but it’s unlikely Demi Moore will have another chance to win Best Actress Oscar.
Anora shares how the rich and poor live in two separate worlds as Parasite, the Russian henchman, looks down on Anora at the start, calling her a prostitute, but then is shocked by how the mother treats he after Anora was so excited to meet her, with one of them asking her to apologise to Anora. At the end of the film, Igor takes Anora home, and he gives her back the wedding ring he took off her. She doesn’t know how to respond to his kindness as she thinks men only want her body, so she starts to have sex with him. he tries to kiss her, but she fights him and then starts crying as all the emotions come out.
As it’s a film, you keep thinking about it days and weeks after seeing it, unlike other Oscar contenders. Maybe that’s why it won so many awards. That said, the scene on September 5 when the producers realise the terrorists are watching their TV coverage in the hotel room, seeing the police preparing, had a similar impact, but that early Oscar favourite wasn’t even nominated.
After Oppenheimer was the biggest Best Picture Oscar winner in the UK since 2003’s LOTR: Return of the King (#1 1998’s Titanic £68,532,746), Anora became the third lowest between Moonlight and Nomadland (The Hurt Locker the lowest) since 1989’s Driving Miss Daisy (taking £1,817,528/£5,122,712). After the $1bn Oscars in 2023, this year was the $100m Oscars with the major winners Anora, Conclave, A Real Pain and The Brutalist taking just over $100m between them worldwide.
There were similarities between Anora and Pretty Woman, it would have been probably even closer had Pretty Woman been called 3,000 as the original script wasn’t a rom-comedy.
2,232nd biggest between Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Pompeii (close to Carlito’s Way, Van Wilder, Rock of Ages and The Running Man) and 2,720th biggest inflated between Youth In Revolt and The Black Dahlia (close to The Hard Way, Intersection, Money Monster and No Strings Attached).
After Wicked only picked up a few technical awards, will the second part win any major awards next year? Likewise, could Daniel Day-Lewis win another Best Actor Oscar for Anemone, directed by his son, Ronan Day-Lewis? It will be Daniel’s first film since 2017’s Phantom Thread.
Other films include Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia and Nomadland’s Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor and also Scott Cooper’s Deliver Me from Nowhere Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White.
After Anora’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, some of the early contenders will be revealed soon when the film festival announces its lineup.
UK box office in detail
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £7,149,384, down 15.3% from last weekend’s £8,438,548: 923,693 admissions down 14.3% from 1,078,172 admissions.
43rd biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 30 August 2024 #1 Despicable Me 4 £1,244,979 (17.2%) and 17 May 2024 #1 IF £2,435,054 (35.05%)
160th biggest since cinemas reopened out of 225 weeks between 30 August 2024 #1 Despicable Me 4 £1,244,979 (17.2%) and 17 May 2024 #1 IF £2,435,054 (35.05%)
955th biggest top 10 of the last 22 years (out of 1,196) between 11 April 2003 #1 Johnny English £3,435,342 (48.02%) and 20 March 2009 #1 Marley & Me £2,166,270 (30.31%) and 1,111th inflated between 29 June 2018 #1 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom £2,001,876 (30.89%) and 07 October 2022 #1 Smile £1,715,678 (24.91%)
The top 3 took (£5,271,104) 73.7% of the top 10; Mickey 17 29.8% (£2,132,080); Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy 28.8% (£2,059,532); Marching Powder 15.1% (£1,079,492)
743rd biggest percentage share #1 (29.82%) between 19 October 2001 #1 American Pie 2 £2,823,776 (29.84%) and 30 March 2012 #1 The Hunger Games £2,986,317 (29.78%)
1,035th biggest admissions #1 (275,463) between 15 September 2023 #1 A Haunting in Venice £2,186,930 (276,128) and 11 August 2006 #1 Cars £1,340,219 (275,199)
Down 24.28% from 2024; (£9,441,790); Imaginary (£652,808); Shaitaan (£114,929); Titanic – The Musical (£112,010); La Forza Del Destino – Met Opera 2023/24 (£87,642); Soul (£79,251); Origin (£41,156); #1 Dune: Part II £5,851,155 2nd week 37% drop 726 screens (61.97% of top 10)
Down 31.43% from 2023; (£10,426,415); Scream VI (£3,043,922); 65 (£1,270,409); Champions (£376,816); Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (£10,115); #1 Scream VI £3,043,922 1st week 627 screen (29.2% of top 10)
Down 39.04% 2022 (£11,727,453); BTS Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing (£899,127); Red Rocket (£74,709); Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (Re: 2022) (£22,184); #1 The Batman £7,406,390 2nd week 715 screens 45% drop (63.1% of top 10)
2021 Lockdown
Down 22.8% 2020; (£9,259,952); Onward (£3,419,500); Military Wives (£968,468); Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island (£392,857); Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show (£313,001); Baaghi 3 (£165,177); The Photograph (£29,579); #1 Onward £3,419,500 1st week 632 screens (36.93% of top 10)
Down 58.48% from 2019: (£17,220,357); Captain Marvel (£12,750,000); The Sleeping Beauty – Bolshoi Ballet 2019 (£176,849); Everybody Knows (£118,080); Miss Bala (£18,832); #1 Captain Marvel £12,750,000 1st week 655 screens (74.1% of top 10)
Down 25.64% from 2018; (£9,614,433); You Were Never Really Here (£288,344); Gringo (£215,029); Walk Like a Panther (£91,333); Wonder Wheel (£42,976); #1 Black Panther £2,931,682 4th week 585screens 22% drop (30.5% of top 10)
Down 48.11% 2017: (£13,776,935); Kong: Skull Island (£6,230,997); La Traviata – Met Opera 2017 (Opera) (£323,284); Elle (£253,619); The Love Witch (£14,244); #1 Kong: Skull Island £6,230,997 1st week 567 screens (45.2% of top 10)
Down 40.49% 2016: (£12,014,397); Kung Fu Panda 3 (£4,771,131); The Divergent Series: Allegiant (£1,838,019); The Witch (£447,626); Anomalisa (£223,387); The Ones Below (£6,971); #1 Kung Fu Panda 3 £4,771,131 1st week 583 screens (39.7% of top 10)
Down 13.43% 2015; (£8,258,448); Chappie (£1,015,058); Still Alice (£401,565); Unfinished Business (£394,177); It Follows (£229,927); Romeo & Juliet – Bolshoi 2013 (£189,674); Kill the Messenger (£57,666); #1 The Second-Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (£1,957,256); 2nd week down 48% (23.7% of top 10)
Down 30.48% 2014: (£10,284,056); 300: Rise of an Empire (£2,761,612); The Grand Budapest Hotel (£1,532,239); Escape from Planet Earth (£395,392); #1 300: Rise of an Empire (£2,761,612) 1st week (26.85% of top 10)
Down 15.29% 2013: (£8,440,254); Oz: The Great and Powerful (£3,712,948); Side Effects (£904,746); Parker (£568,777); Guilt Trip (£432,068); Robot & Frank (£106,346); Broken (£68,423); Fire with Fire (£19,201); The Princess Bride (Re) (£11,273); #1 Oz: The Great and Powerful £3,712,948 1st week 530 screens (44% of top 10)
Down 16.46% 2012: (£8,558,124); John Carter (£1,960,414); The Raven (£299,254); Bel Ami (£296,341); Cleanskin (£27,405); #1 John Carter £1,960,414 1st week 456 screens (22.9% of top 10)
Down 16.28% 2011; (£8,539,922); Battle: Los Angeles (£1,792,913); Hall Pass (£900,936); Fair Game (£304,297); The Resident (£139,088); The Company Men (£36,785); #1 Battle: Los Angeles £1,792,913 1st week 420 screens (21% of top 10)
Down 49.49% 2010: (£14,154,973); Shutter Island (£2,250,178); Green Zone (£2,087,368); Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (£442,753); The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (£378,434); #1 Alice in Wonderland £7,343,506 2nd week 533 screens (51.9% of top 10)
Down 33.69% 2009; (£10,781,295); Watchmen (£3,243,001); The Young Victoria (£1,016,053); The Secret of Kells (£25,657); #1 Watchmen £3,243,001 1st week 419 screens (30.1% of top 10)
Up 9.15% 2008; (£6,550,070); Vantage Point (£1,454,636); The Other Boleyn Girl (£954,994); The Game Plan (£767,143); In Bruges (£343,760); Diary of the Dead (£201,571); #1 Vantage Point £1,454,636 1st week 350 screens (22.2% of top 10)
Up 1.71% 2007: (£7,028,900); Norbit (£1,962,913); Becoming Jane (£649,323); Outlaw (£582,434); #1 Norbit (£1,962,913) 1st week (27.93% of top 10)
Up 24.08% 2006; (£5,762,109); The Hills Have Eyes (£1,126,575); The Proposition (£205,594); Two for the Money (£165,003); #1 The Hills Have Eyes £1,126,575 1st week 331 screens (19.5% of top 10)
Up 4.59% 2005: (£6,835,834); Hitch (expansion) (£4,230,857); Hostage (£807,171); The Chorus (£132,636); #1 Hitch £4,230,857 2nd week 1st #1 7,894% increase 448 screens (61.9% of top 10)
Up 27.34% 2004; (£5,614,199); 21 Grams (£582,951); Torque (£503,318); Uptown Girls (£304,525); Suzie Gold (£65,089); #1 Along Came Polly £1,572,126 2nd week 385 screens 30% drop (28% of top 10)
Down 7.47% 2003 (£7,726,649); Maid In Manhattan (£2,424,584); Far from Heaven (£452,369); #1 Maid In Manhattan £2,424,584 1st week 422 screens (31.4% of top 10)
Down 0.73% from 2002: (£7,202,296); We Were Soldiers (E757,760); Hearts in Atlantis (£110,793); #1 Ocean’s Eleven £1,850,350 3-week #1 split 4th week 437 screens 29% drop (25.6% of top 10)
2024 Next week: (£6,812,873); Drive-Away Dolls (£278,082); Monster (£128,569); Fight Club (Re: 2024) (£82,580); #1 Dune Part 2 £4,046,492 3rd week dropped 32% 735 screens (59.39% of top 10)
Box office news.
February’s UK BO was £100.7m up 20% from 2024’s £83.8m; the total 2025 box office is £195m, up 15% from 2024’s £169.1m and up 21% from 2023.
- Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy £38.3m
- Captain America: Brave New World £16.1m
- Dog Man £12.1m
- Mufasa: The Lion King £3.2m
- A Complete Unknown £2.9m
- The Monkey £2.5m
- Sonic The Hedgehog 3 £1.9m
- The Brutalist £1.6m
- September 5 £1.5m
- The Importance Of Being Earnest NT Live £1.4m
March is likely to be softer with Mickey 17, The Alto Knights, and Disney’s Snow White.
US Box Office
- Mickey 17 – Warner Bros
Opened $19m; received mixed reviews (80% Rotten Tomatoes) and B CinemaScore
Took $2.5m from Thursday previews; Inception $3m; Interstellar $2.7m; Fantastic Four (2015) $2.7m; The Martian $2.5m; Terminator: Dark Fate $2.35m; Edge of Tomorrow $1.6m
Opened in PLFs, Imax, Dolby Cinema and 4DX screens taking 48% from IMAX/PLF; IMAX $3m 16%; $6.3m from IMAX worldwide 12% of BO.
65% male 25-34-year; 38% 35+
It’s Bong Joon Ho’s first film since 2019’s Oscar-winning Parasite, It didn’t expand into over 1,000 screens until its 16th weekend and 2,000 screens till the 19th (opened $393,216 from 3 screens) taking $53.36m and $258.12m worldwide.
2019’s Ad Astra opened $19m taking $50.18m and $127.46m worldwide
2023’s The Creator opened $14.07m taking $40.77m and $104.27m worldwide
2015’s Jupiter Ascending opened $18.37m taking $47.38m and $184.28m worldwide
2017’s Blade Runner 2049 opened $32.75m taking $92.07m and $276.6m worldwide
2016’s Arrival opened $24.07m taking $100.54m and $212.75m worldwide
2025’s Nosferatu opened $21.65m taking $95.6m and $179.62m worldwide
It was expected to open with $18m-$20m and about $45m worldwide; with a budget of $118m, it will need to take over $300m to become profitable.
Took $24.5m from 66 territories (28,500 screens) and $34.2m and $53.3m worldwide; France $2.9m; Korea $14.6m; UK $2.7m; Germany $1.3m; Mexico $1.3m.
- Captain America: Brave New World – Disney
Dropped 44% in its fourth weekend taking $8.38m and $176.46m
473rd biggest fourth weekend between The Butler and Wayne’s World (close to Rush Hour 3, Men in Black II, Kingsman: The Secret Service and Hancock)
28th biggest MCU fourth weekend between Ant-Man and the Wasp and Eternals (close to Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and Captain America: The First Avenger)
315th biggest between There’s Something About Mary and Ice Age; 885th biggest inflated between The Toy and Life of Pi; 66th biggest comic-book film between Captain America: The First Avenger and Black Adam; 84th Disney film between Pretty Woman and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,
Fourth weekends
2016’s Captain America: Civil War dropped 53.3% $15.39m and $372.87m of $408.08m and $1.155bn WW
2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier dropped 36.6% $16.21m and $225.05m of $259.76m and $714.42m WW
2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger dropped 44.6% $7.21m and $156.97m of $176.65m and $370.56m WW
MCU films have taken $12.5bn in the US and $31.2bn worldwide.
Took $9.2m from 52 territories $194.2m total and $370.8m worldwide; UK $21.2m; Mexico $14.5m; China $14.3m; France $12.8m; Korea $11.2m.
416th biggest worldwide between Shark Tale and Captain America: The First Avenger; 69th biggest comic book worldwide between Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D and Captain America: The First Avenger; 91st biggest Disney between Black Widow and Toy Story.
UK Box Office Top 10
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With Mickey 17 likely to drop 40%+ in its second weekend with Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris and Pierce Brosnan and set in London, opening #1 after receiving positive reviews (Steven Soderbergh’s best-reviewed film in 35 years). In 2013 Steven Soderbergh announced his retirement from directing after Behind the Candelabra but three years later he returned to direct the self-financed 2017’s Logan Lucky opened £705,087 taking £3,207,543
Steven Soderbergh’s second film directed this year after Presence opened #10 £365,390 from 457 screens.
Previously directing
2023’s Magic Mike’s Last Dance opened £1,529,155, taking £5,680,002
2018’s Unsane opened £478,451 taking £990,093
2013’s Behind the Candelabra opened £513,288 taking £3,199,254
2013’s Side Effects opened £904,746 taking £4,749,799
Steven Soderbergh is best known for directing three Oceans films and films including Contagion, Erin Brockovich, and Out of Sight. Traffic and of course, Sex, Lies, and Videotape. He also produced Ocean’s 8 and will produce another Ocean’s film. Comparisons have been made with John Le Carre and Agatha Christie rather than James Bond.
Over recent months, there have been many Spy TV dramas including Lack Doves, The Day of the Jackal, Slow Horses and The Agency.
Black Bag will likely open between £1.5m-£2m
With Mickey 17 dropping about 40% taking £1m-£1.3m and Mad About The Boy about 50% could see it remain #2 with Mickey 17 dropping to third and Marching Powder and Brave New World dopping about 50%.
The other new releases Last Breath and Opus are likely to struggle to find audiences. Opus has been described as The Menu meets Blink Twice meets Glass Onion meets Midsommar meets Nine Perfect Strangers meets A Murder at the End of the World.
Opening in three weeks
- A Minecraft Movie – Warner Bros
Fantasy adventure starring Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge and directed by Jared Hess based on the 2011 video game Minecraft.
Has its world premiere in London on March 30th
Warner Bros started development of a Minecraft film in 2014 Several different directors were attached until Jared Hess was signed in 2022.
Unlike many recent video game film adaptations, Minecraft is an open sandbox game similar to Lego with no plot, so the film can go in any direction, as was the case with 2014’s The Lego Movie.
The first teaser trailer was released in September 2024, reaction was negative, a second trailer was released with MGMT’s Time to Pretend and received positive reactions, and the final trailer was released in February.
2014’s The Lego Movie opened £8,051,140/£9,488,844 taking £32,887,286/£38,760,016
2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle opened £8,154,548 taking £36,968,605
2019’s Pokemon Detective Pikachu opened £4,951,838 taking £13,842,524
2020’s Sonic The Hedgehog opened £4,733,768 taking £19,280,822
2021’s Free Guy opened £2,477,891 taking £16,866,112
2022’s Uncharted opened £4,705,948 taking £24,091,881
2023’s Super Mario Bros opened £15,691,810 taking £54,578,335
- Death Of A Unicorn – Entertainment Films
Comedy horror starring Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, and Richard E. Grant and directed by Alex Scharfman.
Received its world premiere at the South by Southwest Festival on March 8th.
