- Final Destination: Bloodlines £4,009,856 – NE
Took £1.2m from the previews on last Friday’s Double Bill, and Weds/Thurs)
Took £919k 22.98% Friday; £1.1m 27.5% Saturday; £981k 24.53% Sunday.
415th biggest opening between Ant-Man and The Favourite (close to Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Rampage, Kick-Ass and X-Men: Dark Phoenix) and 609th biggest inflated opening between Evita and The Meg (close to Mars Attacks, What Lies Beneath, Alien3, and The Fugitive).
Of course, having three days of previews, there is an asterisk by its opening as it’s impossible to make direct comparisons. It’s not as simple to just take previews from its opening as previews have changed how audiences see films, now Weds/Thurs rather than Fri/Sat. Similarly, it’s been 25 years since the original opened back then was no IMAX/PLF/4DX to inflate BO.
20th biggest opening over the last 52 weeks between Twisters and Bad Boys: Ride or Die (close to It Ends with Us, Venom: The Last Dance, Snow White and Alien: Romulus) and 6th biggest 2025 opening between Nosferatu and Snow White.
8th biggest horror opening between The Nun and Paranormal Activity 2 (close to Nosferatu, The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case, The Final Destination and Paranormal Activity) and 23rd biggest inflated horror opening between What Lies Beneath and The Grudge (close to Scream 3, The Others, The Ring and Final Destination 3).
Opened in 622 cinemas, 185th widest opening, similar to Argylle, Scream and Hobbs & Shaw (close to Nosferatu, Venom: The Last Dance, Operation Mincemeat and Ready Player One; 256th 600+ cinema opening since 2015’s Jurassic World.
It’s interesting how many films are opening similar to 2017’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and 2019’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix, both seen at the time as disappointing openings, but now they are seen as good openings, as surely shows these films should be opening far bigger, especially with their extended openings.
2000’s Final Destination opened £1,498,519/£2,728,338, taking £10,218,118/£18,604,022
2003’s Final Destination 2 opened £1,675,057/£2,987,940, taking £5,232,764/£9,334,120
2006’s Final Destination 3 opened £2,219,978/£3,732,957, taking £8,870,775/£14,916,462
2009’s The Final Destination opened £3,633,395/£5,289,796, taking £12,654,235/£18,423,077
2011’s Final Destination 5 opened £1,450,464/£1,895,656, taking £5,250,665/£6,862,255
The trailer was viewed 178.7m worldwide within the first 24 hours, the second most-watched horror film trailer after It Chapter One.
It was interesting to review the embargo for Final Destination: Bloodlines ended on May 13th, 4 days after UK audiences got to see it as part of the double bill. (May 9th), But it’s not the first time an embargo has been in place after UK audiences have gotten to see the film during paid previews.
As with the first Final Destination 25 years ago, the young cast appeared in popular millennial TV shows, and the audience will surely return to see I Know What You Did Last Summer, the reboot of 1997’s teen horror I Know What You Did Last Summer. As with Scream and Final Destination, featuring a cast from popular teen TV shows, it was a horror for audiences who don’t normally see horror.
In 2020, The Craft: Legacy opened a sequel to the 1996 film. There are plans to remake 1998’s The Faculty and 1998’s Urban Legend, while there have been several attempts to reboot The Blair Witch, all have underwhelmed, as it was a moment in time in 1999, as audiences believed it was real, similar to British TV audiences watching Ghostwatch live on Halloween in 1992.
Before the release of Final Destination 5, there were plans to make sequels back-to-back, but after Final Destination 5 only took $42.58m in the US and $157.88m worldwide, the plans were cancelled. In 2019, New Line announced plans to make another film, which was going to be a “re-imagining” It was in development for several years, it was shot in 2023, and all of Tony Todd’s scenes were filmed before his death.
With Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opening Wednesday after previews on Mon/Tues, Final Destination: Bloodlines is likely to drop about 70% in its second weekend as the market cannibalises between The Final Reckoning and Lilo & Stitch, with the two films likely to take about 90% of the weekend’s BO.
- 2. Thunderbolts* £1,216,926 – £13,864,143
Down 48.5% in its third weekend
£312k 25.7% (-50.55% 631k) Fri; £516k 42.4% (-48.91% £1.01m) Sat; £388k 31.9% (-74.71% £721k) Sun
514th biggest third weekend between Eternals and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (close to Due Date, Liar Liar, Run, Fat Boy, Run and The Lost City) and 806th biggest inflated third weekend between The Guru and The Boxtrolls (close to Rush Hour 3, Kick-Ass, Taken and The Rock).
31st biggest MCU third weekend between Eternals and Ant-Man and the Wasp (close to Black Widow, Thor, Ant-Man and Captain America: The First Avenger).
67th biggest comic book, third weekend between Eternals and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (close to Superman Returns, Batman and Robin, The Suicide Squad and Batman) and 79th biggest inflated third weekend between Kick-Ass and The Wolverine (close to Fantastic Four (2005), X-Men: Apocalypse, Dick Tracy and Superman IV)
The Thunderbolts title has an asterisk as they start as a group of antiheroes, and after saving the world, become The New Avengers, which was so predictable. 20th Century Fox had planned something similar with The New Mutants, developed in 2015 as a trilogy, which would have ended up seeing them join the X-Men. A decade later, The Thunderbolts will also join The X-Men in Avengers: Doomsday.
The problem is that these have been made by the numbers of MCUs using characters from TV series that make them far less accessible to those who just liked watching the films without having to do homework to understand them.
Audiences will not return to the MCU until Avengers: Doomsday opens in a year. It will be interesting to see how it compares to Infinity War and Endgame, as they were the end of the original MCU, while Doomsday is about bringing the X-Men into the MCU.
The problem is that when a campaign starts muted, it’s hard to build up energy for it, so the positive reviews are too late, as people have already made up their minds about whether they are going to see it. The energy and excitement for the MCU will return for Fantastic Four in July, but it’s the third version of Fantastic Four over the last 20 years, the last released a decade ago.
The 36 MCU films have taken £1.2bn since 2008 and £1.4bn inflated.
507th biggest between American Pie and Thor (close to Terminator Salvation, Flash Gordon, True Lies and The Devil Wears Prada) and 852nd biggest inflated between Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Along Came Polly (close to Cloverfield, Memphis Belle, The Fifth Element and LA Confidential).
70th biggest comic book film between The Suicide Squad and Thor (close to X-Men, Superman Returns, Shazam! and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) and 85th biggest inflated between Shazam! And Superman IV (close to The Suicide Squad, The Hulk, Watchmen and Blade).
According to a recent article in the WSJ, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige recently came to the realisation that Marvel has become a “no new fans club.” Telling his colleagues, “Watching every new Marvel TV show [and] film had started to feel more like homework than entertainment.” This has been the case since Avengers: Endgame, as Marvel has been doing the same thing Disney did with Star Wars, bringing in characters from TV series into the films.
This makes audiences need to see all the films and TV series to understand what’s happening. It never used to be like that at the start, as they were separate films, as the first Ant-Man was. The problem is that since Captain America: Civil War, they have felt episodic, making it hard to attract new audiences who just want to go to the cinema without doing homework before and after to understand what is going on. Surely that’s the reason why Thunderbolts* is revealing its new title, telling audiences it’s a film you can start your MCU adventure with, and likewise, Fantastic Four: The First Steps title.
- 3. Sinners £718,770 – £14,392,979
Down 34.8% in its fifth weekend
£226k 31.5% (-35.24% £349k) Fri; £275k 38.3% (-39.56% £455k) Sat; £217k 30.2% (-63.83% £297k) Sun.
The 296th biggest fifth weekend between The Bad Guys and The Revenant (close to Mission Impossible, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, Catch Me If You Can and Gosford Park) and the 530th biggest fifth weekend between Dumb and Dumber and Captain America: Civil War (close to War Horse, Ocean’s 13, Batman Begins and Beetlejuice)
Ahead of the opening, director Ryan Coogler originally had plans to turn the Sinners then called Damned into an intellectual property with franchise aspirations, but despite having post-credit scenes to suggest there were plans for a sequel, Ryan Coogler has since said that he has no plans for a sequel.
Comparison films fifth weekend
2018’s A Quiet Place dropped 57% £395,335 and £10,773,694 91.29% of £11,801,912; 2025’s Nosferatu dropped 41.6% £312,913 and £12,547,480 98.03% of £12,547,480.
2013’s Django Unchained dropped 36.2% £685,389 and £13,707,266 91.07% of £15,050,558/£18,369,517
1998’s Saving Private Ryan dropped 31.5% £1,002,607/£1,982,823 and £14,965,532 79.82% of £18,748,640/£37,078,576
1996’s Seven dropped 18.8% £1,139,746/£2,231,886 and £15,589,464 81.08% of £19,226,287/£37,649,510
2002’s Signs dropped 38.4% £830,356/£1,542,643 and £14,462,720 89.92% of £16,084,656/£29,882,216
2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road dropped 50.5% £397,541 and £16,483,214 95.8% of £17,203,206/£19,016,581
1991’s The Silence of the Lambs dropped 47.1% £473,017/£1,244,206 and £12,702,476 74.2% of £17,119,333/£45,030,061
2011’s Black Swan dropped 35.2% £693,332/£911,857 and £14,277,599 90.9% of £15,708,154/£20,659,074
1995’s Interview with the Vampire dropped 31.6% £433,780/£1,063,762 and £9,526,477 90.6% of £10,515,385/£23,931,566
Jordan Peele’s
2022’s Nope dropped 20.9% £455,837 and £6,954,984 88.4% of £7,869,824
2017’s Get Out dropped 45.5% £596,746 and £8,046,042, 80.03% of £10,053,463
2019’s Us dropped 45.4% £508,318 and £9,071,603 92.56% of £9,071,603
Sinners took £266,393 from its 10 days at the BFI IMAX, showing the only 70mm IMAX copy outside of the US.
486th biggest between Napoleon and Star Wars (close to The Blair Witch Project, World War Z, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Fugitive) and 815th biggest inflated between The Santa Clause and Valiant (close to Presumed Innocent, Arachnophobia, Shutter Island and Alien Resurrection).
- 4. A Minecraft Movie £471,871 – £55,508,186O
Down 24.1% in its seventh weekend
£61k 12.9% (-25.61% £82k) Fri; £223k 47.3% (-24.92% £297k) Sat; £187k 39.7% (-44.51% £242k) Sun.
172nd biggest seventh weekend between There’s Something About Mary and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (close to Alice in Wonderland, Stuart Little, Sing and Ice Age II) and the 316th biggest inflated seventh weekend between Good Will Hunting and How To Train Your Dragon 2 (close to The Croods, Aladdin, Twins and Much Ado About Nothing)
The seventh week targeted a similar audience.
2023’s Super Mario Bros dropped 34.4% £858,444 and £51,077,190, 93.6% of £54,578,335
2014’s The Lego Movie dropped 18.3% £815,020/£876,614 and £31,128,785 94.6% of £32,887,286/£38,760,016
2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle dropped 37.1% £1,064,594 and £32,471,541, 92.1% of £36,968,605
2022’s Uncharted dropped 42.8% £605,723 and £22,704,081 94.2% of £24,091,881
38th biggest between Incredibles 2 and Casino Royale (close to Dunkirk, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Fantastic Beasts and Super Mario Bros) and 99th biggest inflated between Black Panther and Shrek (close to Back to the Future, Gladiator, A Bug’s Life and The Lion King).
- 5. Ocean With David Attenborough £213,568 – £1,044,627
Down 62.8% in its second weekend (34% Sun-Sun)
The documentary was released in cinemas on David Attenborough’s 99th birthday and will be released on Disney+ later this year, ahead of World Ocean Day on 8th June and the UN Ocean Conference 2025.
Event Cinema screenings used to be shown on one day, but they now have extended openings. What was interesting with Ocean With David Attenborough, was ComScore included the BO taken on Thursday, including it within its opening weekend, but then with Ateez World Tour last weekend counted the £32k taken on Wednesday as the previous weekend.
This, of course, asks the question why ComScore include BO taken for films ahead of their official Friday opening, so the BO taken for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Monday-Thursday will be included within its opening weekend. This of course makes it impossible to compare with other films that didn’t have extended openings.
Also opened.
Eurovision – Grand Final Live (2025) £32,878 from 71 cinemas
Compared to
Eurovision – Grand Final Live (2024) £34,435 77 cinemas
Eurovision – Grand Final Live (2023) £237,787 from 444 cinemas
UK box office in detail
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £7,108,411, up 30.6% from last weekend’s £5,440,835: 907,892 admissions, up 34.6% from 674,683 admissions.
The 44th biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks was between 07 March 2025 #1 Mickey 17 £2,132,080 (29.82%) and 17 May 2024 #1 IF £2,435,054 (35.05%)
167th biggest since cinemas reopened out of 235 weeks between #1 07 March 2025 #1 Mickey 17 £2,132,080 (29.82%) and 17 May 2024 #1 IF £2,435,054 (35.05%)
965th biggest top 10 of the last 24 years (out of 1,206) between 12 September 2014 #1 The Boxtrolls £2,000,597 (28.12%) and 12 April 2002 #1 Bend It Like Beckham £2,001,795 (28.2%) and 1,120th inflated between 25 August 2017 #1 American Made £1,067,075 (15.93%) and 23 June 2006 #1 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift £1,019,854 (23.6%)
The top 3 took (£5,945,552) 83.6% of the top 10; Final Destination: Bloodlines 56.4% (££4,009,856); Thunderbolts* 17.1% (£1,216,926); Sinners 10.1% (£718,770).
201st biggest percentage share #1 (56.41%) between 30 June 2017 #1 Despicable Me 3 £11,154,904 (56.82%) and 30 June 2006 #1 Over the Hedge £3,589,038 (56.41%)
672nd biggest admissions #1 (518,069) between 02 January 2015 #1 The Theory of Everything £3,749,293 (520,013) and 27 October 2006 #11 Saw III £2,522,521 (517,971)
Up 2.32% from 2024; (£6,947,311); IF (£2,435,054); The Strangers: Chapter 1 (£452,507); 42nd Street – The Musical (Re: 2024) (£119,585); Transformers: 40th Anniversary Event (£64,994); #1 IF £2,435,054 649 screens 1st week (35.05% of top 10)
Down 31.26% from 2023; (£10,340,735); Fast X (£5,895,674); Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (£327,197); Beau Is Afraid (£231,370); Don Giovanni – Met Opera 2023 (£99,842); Local Hero (40th Anniversary) (£16,033); #1 Fast X £5,895,674 1st week 653 screens (57.01%)
Up 13.85% from 2022 (£6,243,546); Lucia Di Lammermoor – Met Opera 2022 (£78,829); Robocop (35th Anniversary 4K Restoration) (£20,004); On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Re: 2022) (£11,114); #1 Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness £2,968,358 3rd week 699 screens 48% drop (47.5% of top 10)
2021 Lockdown
2020 Lockdown
Down 32.99% from 2019: (£10,607,906) John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum (£3,562,524); Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups (£521,504); Breakthrough £81,134; Batman 30th anniversary 4K (£38,112); Batman Returns (£7,906); Batman Forever (£293); Batman & Robin (£154); #1 John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum 1st week £3,562,524 (77.4% of top 10)
Down 58.29% from 2018: (£17,042,583); Deadpool 2 (£12,974,669); An American in Paris – The Musical (£68,201); On Chesil Beach (£67,017); 2001: A Space Odyssey (Re) (£4,646); #1 Deadpool 2 £12,974,669 636 screens 1st week (76.1% of top 10)
Down 31.24% from 2017: (£8,745,494); King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (£2,501,993); Snatched (£842,489); Colossal (£150,642); King Arthur: Legend of the Sword £2,501,993 564 screens 1st week (28.6% of top 10)
Down 49.04% from 2016: (£14,060,126); X-Men: Apocalypse (£7,354,293); A Hologram for the King (£378,759); Thomas & Friends: The Great Race (£147,617); Sing Street (£126,269); X-Men: Apocalypse £7,354,293 598 screens 1st week (52.3% of top 10)
Down 46.81% from 2015; (£13,363,529); Pitch Perfect 2 (£5,005,394); Mad Max: Fury Road (£4,538,933); #1 Pitch Perfect 2 £5,005,394 496 screens 1st week (37.4% of top 10)
Down 26.17% from 2014: (£9,627,777); Godzilla (£6,385,483); The Two Faces of January (£328,438); Concussion (£9,507); #1 Godzilla £6,385,483 550 screens 1st week (66.3% of top 10)
Down 61.69% from 2013: (£18,557,112); Fast & Furious 6 (£8,717,534) The Great Gatsby (£4,095,325); #1 Fast & Furious 6 £8,717,534 462 screens 1st week (46.9% of top 10)
Down 42.10% from 2012 ((£12,276,016); The Dictator (£4,963,745); The Raid (£417,596); 2 Days in New York (£87,385); #1 The Dictator £4,963,745 1st week 509 screens (40.4% of top 10)
Down 51.52% from 2011; (£14,816,587); Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (£11,634,860); Blitz (£266,148); Win (£155,463); Fire in Babylon (£107,312); Julia’s Eyes (£49,142); #1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides £11,634,860 1st week 569 screens (78.5% of top 10)
Up 2.35% from 2010: (£6,945,108); Streetdance (£2,493,948); Prince of Persia (£1,371,066); Bad Lieutenant (£178,953); Cop Out (£64,935); #1 Streetdance £2,493,948 1st week 412 screens (35.9% of top 10)
Down 53.39% from 2009; (£15,250,846); Angels and Demons (£6,054,627); Fighting (£991,180); Synecdoche, New York (£123,125); #1 Angels and Demons £6,054,627 506 screens 1st week (39.7% of top 10)
Up 23.50% from 2008; (£5,755,952); Caramel (£122,790); Charlie Bartlett (£97,181); Smart People (£88,235); Shutter (£72,574); #1 Iron Man £1,917,925 3rd 496 screens 3% drop (33.3% of top 10)
Up 20.46% from 2007: (£5,900,836); Zodiac (£818,369); Magicians (£366,188); Love Wrecked (£223,400); Spider-Man 3 £2,549,712 3rd week 508 screens 54% drop (43.2% of top 10)
Down 47.09% from 2006; (£13,433,839); The Da Vinci Code (£9,501,444); Waiting (£307,791); #1 The Da Vinci Code £9,501,444 1st week 523 screens (70.7% of top 10)
Down 59.16% from 2005: (£17,406,831); Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith (£14,361,469); Mysterious Skin (£39,382); Only Human (£26,574); #1 Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith £14,361,469 1st week 490 screens (82.5% of top 10)
Up 69.83% from 2004 (£4,185,573); The Football Factory (£207,683); Troy (platform) (£89,286); Shattered Glass (£46,921); #1 Van Helsing £2,403,036 2nd week 456 screens 56% drop (57.4% of top 10)
Up 21.95% from 2003 (£5,829,019); Kangaroo Jack (£764,917); The Actors (£226,860); Secretary (£165,318); Antwone Fisher (£59,976); To Kill a King (£59,701); Extreme Ops (£14,751); #1 X-Men 2 £2,115,011 3rd week 468 screens 31% drop (36.2% of top 10)
Down 51.74% from 2002 (£14,728,512); Star Wars Ep II: Attack of the Clones (£11,386,209); The Closet (£75,396); #1 Star Wars Ep II – Attack of the Clones £11,386,209 467 screens 1st week 32% drop (77.3% of top 10)
2024 Next week: (£8,968,008); The Garfield Movie (£2,121,270); Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (£1,969,140); Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In (£106,919); Trainspotting (4K Restoration) (£40,500). #1 The Garfield Movie £2,121,270 1st week 670 screens (23.65% of top 10)
US Box Office
- Final Destination: Bloodlines – Warner Bros
Opened $51.6m; received positive reviews (94% Rotten Tomatoes) and B+ CinemaScore (as FD 2,3, and 5)
Took $5.5m from Thursday previews; Scream VI $5.7m; Scream $3.5m.
Ahead of opening, it was expected to open between $35m-$40m and $70m worldwide.
286th biggest opening between Van Helsing and 8 Mile (close to The Nun, A Quiet Place: Day One, Venom: The Last Dance and The Village).
2000’s Final Destination opened $10.01m/$21.4m, taking $53.33m/$113.9m and $112.88m WW
2003’s Final Destination 2 opened $16.2m/$30.6m, taking $46.96m/$89.7m and $90.94m WW
2006’s Final Destination 3 opened $20.12m/$33.7m, taking $54.09m/$95.1m and $118.89m WW
2009’s The Final Destination opened $27.5m/$42.6m, taking $66.47m/$102.1m and $186.16m WW
2011’s Final Destination 5 opened $18.03m/$26.07m, taking $42.58m/$61.6m and $157.88m WW
RelishMix said the social media universe for Bloodlines is 353.3m across TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram and Facebook; 75% ahead of horror franchise norms Brec Bassinger 2m activated fans.
52% men; 25-34 34%, and 35+ group 27% so it’s going to be very front-loaded.
2022’s Scream opened $30.01m, taking $81.64m and $137.74m worldwide
2023’s Scream VI opened $44.44m, taking $108.39m and $166.57m worldwide
Took $7.6m from IMAX worldwide; $5.7m US and $1.9m international.
Opened with $51m from 74 territories and $102m worldwide; Mexico $5.5m; UK $5.3m; Philippines $3.4m; France $3m; India $3m; Brazil $2.8m; Indonesia $2.8m; Germany $2.5m; Australia $1.8m; Colombia $1.8m.
- Thunderbolt* – Disney
Dropped 49% in its third weekend, $16.64m and $155.53m.
266th biggest third weekend between Justice League and Armageddon (close to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Star Trek Into Darkness, Sherlock Holmes and Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
25th biggest MCU third weekend between Doctor Strange and Ant-Man and the Wasp (close to Shang-Chi, Thor: Ragnarok, Thor and Captain America: Brave New World).
405th biggest between Creed III and What Lies Beneath; 1,053rd biggest inflated between Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie; 4th biggest in 2025 between Captain America: Brave New World and Dog Man; 71st biggest comic-book film between X-Men and X-Men: Apocalypse; 98th biggest Disney between The Waterboy and Elemental.
Next for Marvel is the fourth Fantastic Four film over the last 20 years, The Fantastic Four: First Steps in July, before Avengers: Doomsday in 2026, which incorporates X-Men into the Avengers, bringing back many of the actors who featured in the 20th Century Fox films.
Took $15.7m from 52 territories $170.3m total, and $325.7m worldwide; UK $18.4m; China $15.2m; Mexico $13.7m; France $8.6m; Australia $7.8m; Brazil $7.6m; Germany $7.2m; Japan $7.1m; S. Korea $6.4m; Italy $5.2m.
518th biggest worldwide between John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum and The Devil Wears Prada; 5th biggest in 2025 worldwide between Captain America: Brave New World and Sinners; 105th biggest Disney between Bolt and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
- Sinners – Warner Bros
Dropped 31% in its fifth weekend $15.2m and $240.57m
41st biggest fifth weekend between Jurassic Park and The Grinch (close to The Revenant, 1917, The Blair Witch Project and Forrest Gump).
164th biggest between Ghostbusters (1984) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding; 527th biggest, inflated between Remember the Titans and The Help; 2nd biggest 2025 film between A Minecraft Movie and Captain America: Brave New World; 4th biggest horror between The Exorcist and It: Chapter Two; 27th biggest Warner Bros between Twister and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Sinners shows again as William Goldman said, “Nobody Knows Anything”, five weeks ago Variety wrote, “$90 million price tag before global marketing expenses, so profitability remains a way away” Sinners has now taken almost double the US BO of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and getting close to its global box office.
Warner Bros acquired Sinners, accepting Ryan Coogler’s demands that included final cut, first-dollar gross, and a rights reversion clause giving him ownership 25 years after release. Quentin Tarantino demanded a similar deal with Sony Pictures for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, with Tarantino gaining ownership of the film after 30 years. This is not new, as James Cameron did something similar many years ago with The Terminator.
As Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther attracted audiences who didn’t go to see comic-book films, Sinners brought audiences who don’t see horror films, as it became a must-see film to see in the cinema. It’s films like Sinners that bring audiences back to the cinema who haven’t been for some time.
Sinners returned to 9 70mm IMAX cinemas in the US, taking $950k ($105k average) and taking $38.3m from IMAX worldwide.
Sinners is the biggest original film in the US since 2013’s Gravity $274.09m
Sinners is being called the first major Oscar contender this year; Horrors has been a rare Oscar winner, only The Silence of the Lambs and Get Out have won awards, but after Substance received five nominations, Sinners will get nominated next year.
Fifth weekends
2019’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood dropped 34.8%, $5m and $123.19m of $142.5m and $392.1m worldwide
2015’s Creed dropped 12.5% $4.38m, and $96.08m of $105.77m and $174.17m worldwide
2018’s Black Panther dropped 34.7% $26.65m, and $605.02m of $700.42m and $1.349bn worldwide
Similar films include.
2022’s Nope dropped 33.2% $3.58m, and $113.79m of $123.27m and $171.23m worldwide
2019’s US dropped 38.9% $4.15m and $170.34m of $175.08m and $256.07m worldwide
2017’s Get Out dropped 34.1% $8.85m, and $147.66m of $176.04m and $255.4m worldwide
Other comparisons include.
1994’s Interview With The Vampire dropped 56.7% $2.21m, and $94.55m of $105.26m/$260.9m and $223.66m/$554.5m inflated worldwide
2025’s Nosferatu dropped 51.8% $1.99m and $93.15m of $95.6m and $181.01m worldwide
Took $3.8m from 71 territories, $76m total, and $316.8m worldwide; UK $17.4m; France $8.1m; Australia $5.5m; Mexico $3.9m; Germany $3.1m.
531st biggest worldwide between Lethal Weapon 3 and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island; 6th biggest in 2025 between Thunderbolts* and Disney’s Snow White; 16th biggest horror between Resident Evil: Afterlife and Split; 94th biggest Warner Bros between Lethal Weapon 3 and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.
- A Minecraft Movie – Warner Bros
Dropped 22% in its seventh weekend, taking $5.95m #4 and $416.72m
134th biggest sixth between Darkest Hour and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (close to Despicable Me 4, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Liar Liar and Shrek 2)
40th biggest between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic Park; 185th biggest, inflated between Lethal Weapon 2 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2; 2nd biggest film based on a video game between The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Sonic the Hedgehog 3; 4th biggest Warner Bros film between The Dark Knight Rises and Wonder Woman.
Next April sees the release of Super Mario Bros 2, and Warner Bros will surely be announcing A Minecraft Movie Part 2 for March 2028
Seventh weekends
2023’s Super Mario Bros dropped 23.9$% $9.6m and $549.09m of $574.93m and $1.36bn worldwide
2014’s The Lego Movie dropped 46.1% $4.14m and $243.38m of $257.96m and $470.75m worldwide
2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle dropped 32.3% $10.93m, and $352.57m of $404.54m and $962.54m WW
2023’s Barbie dropped 32.4% $10.21m and $609.09m of $636.23m and $1.447bn WW
Took $8.3m from 78 territories $512m total, and $928.6m worldwide; UK $72.1m; Germany $37.6m; Australia $34.6m; Mexico $32.5m; China $28.7m.
73rd biggest worldwide between Shrek 2 and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; 2nd biggest video game worldwide between The Super Mario Bros. Movie ($1.359bn) and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 ($489.9m); 13th biggest Warner Bros film worldwide between Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
UK Box Office Top 10
UK Box Office Preview
With Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Lilo & Stitch both opening this weekend should be the highest weekend since Barbie and Oppenheimer opened in July 2023, as with Barbenheimer, Mission: Stitch play to two quite different demographics who could cross over to both films. Both films have extended openings, with Mission: Impossible having 4 days of previews and Lilo & Stitch having two days of previews, and then next week is a half-term holiday, which will be very lucrative for both films.
With its 7-day opening, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will open bigger than the previous film, 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opened £10,391,016, taking £26,579,966 and had the biggest opening of the film series.
1996’s Mission Impossible opened £4,161,780/£8,149,726, taking £18,351,333/£35,936,148
2000’s Mission: Impossible II opened £4,621,948/£8,667,512, taking £17,291,606/£32,426,847
2006’s Mission: Impossible III opened £5,378,013/£8,801,389, taking £15,342,575/£25,108,896
2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol opened £8,188,209/£10,768,981, taking £17,536,984/£23,064,317
2015’s Mission: Impossible- Rogue Nation opened £5,351,344/£5,915,425, taking £21,074,999
2018’s Mission: Impossible- Fallout opened £7,300,103/£8,058,424, taking £24,373,443
The 7 Mission: Impossible films have taken £140m+ at the UK BO and £200m+ inflation-adjusted since 1996; While Tom Cruise films since 1986’s Top Gun have taken £460m+ and £725m inflation-adjusted. His next film is currently untitled, from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant), due for release in October 2026, it will be his first original film since 2017’s American Made. Deadline reported that the next film he may star in is Deeper, starring Ana de Armas, reteaming with Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Liman, an underwater supernatural thriller that has been in development since 2016 with $200m+ budget. (he was to star in a film in space for Universal.), He has talked about Top Gun 3 and Days of Thunder 2
Having its world premiere at Cannes, Paramount Pictures is trying to repeat the success it had with Top Gun: Maverick three years ago. They have marketed the film similarly to the franchise legacy, and the first 90 minutes have a lot of flashbacks to the previous films and a lot of exposition. It has a running time of 169 minutes, 6 minutes longer than Dead Reckoning Part One, which felt far too long. Just reading the reviews felt exhausting. Several weeks after Dead Reckoning opened, Skydance released Heart of Stone on Netflix, which was a shorter, sillier and far more enjoyable similar film.
Don’t understand why films like The Final Reckoning need to be as long as the earlier films were much tighter in length.
Tom Cruise announced in 2019 that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back. Filming started in March 2022 but was stopped in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike restarting in March 2024 and ending in November 2024. It was originally titled MI – Dead Reckoning Part Two, but after the first film underperformed, it was retitled The Final Reckoning.
2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opened £10,391,016; taking £4,047,040 from 4 days of previews (39% of opening); £1.15m Mon (11.06%); £1.09m Tues (10.5%); £0.98m Weds (9.43%); £0.83m Thurs (7.98%); taking £1.7m Fri (16.36%); £2.8m Sat (26.94%) and £1.8m Sun (17.32%) and took £792k on second Mon (29% drop); £817k Tues (21.5% drop) £12m total after 8 days; opened in 52 IMAX cinemas, taking about 12% of the weekend BO, similar to Top Gun: Maverick. The Final Reckoning will have IMAX cinemas for at least 2 weeks.
Early reactions for Lilo & Stitch called it the best Disney reimagination for years, but reviews were quite different, showing again have to take immediate reactions with a pinch of salt. Lilo & Stitch is an unusual reimagination as the original film wasn’t a huge hit in the cinema but became a bigger hit on home video over the last 23 years. Making it impossible to compare Lilo & Stitch’s reimagination with the others Disney have made over the last 15 years since Alice in Wonderland.
In 2002, Lilo & Stitch opened £1,516,249/£2,799,229 #1 280 screens, taking £12,892,631/£23,801,780; there were three straight-to-video sequels, including 2003’s Stitch! The Movie and 2005’s Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. Several TV animated series and several video games.
Would expect Lilo & Stitch to open similar to 2010’s Alice in Wonderland £10,555,220; 2016’s The Jungle Book £9,901,921 and 2019’s Aladdin £7,066,773
The Phoenician Scheme is the latest Wes Anderson film; similar to Paul Thomas Anderson’s films, Wes Anderson always receives critical acclaim, but they often struggle to break out into wider audiences. 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and 2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox were the only two films that have done so.
2023’s Asteroid City opened £1,176,972; £372k Friday (31.6%); £393k Saturday (33.4%); £412k Sunday (35%) taking £4,923,619
2021’s The French Dispatch opened #6 with £867,672 from 315 screens taking £4,167,060
2018’s Isle of Dogs £1,641,509 on 487 screens (£194,905 from previews) taking £6,009,438
2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel opened £1,532,239 on 287 screens (dropped only 20% in the second weekend, taking £1,309,103, adding 90 screens and £4,115,618), taking £10,978,014
2009’s Fantastic Mr Fox opened on 481 screens for £1,517,312 (increased 2% in second weekend taking £1,545,325 (due to half-term) £5,589,484) taking £8,707,283.
2012’s Moonrise Kingdom opened #7 £251,760 from 163 screens (dropped 16% in the second weekend £210,804 and £724,870), taking £1,378,748
2007’s The Darjeeling Limited opened £435,198 #6 from 192 screens taking £1,323,698
2004’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou opened £455,722 #9 from 207 screens taking £1,323,544
2002’s The Royal Tenenbaums opened #4 £700,025 from 169 screens taking £2,674,161
1998’s Rushmore took £424,055
With these three films opening, Final Destination: Bloodlines will drop about 70% in its second weekend, taking £1m-£1.2m
With Thunderbolts dropping 60%, the only film that might drop less than 50% could be Sinners.
Opening in three weeks
- How To Train Your Dragon – Universal Pictures (Monday 9th June)
A fantasy live-action remake of the 2010 DreamWorks Animation film starring Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz, Murray McArthur and Gerard Butler and directed by Dean DeBlois.
Plans to remake How to Train Your Dragon was announced in February 2023; a sequel is set for release in June 2027. How to Train Your Dragon was screened at CinemaCon in April, receiving a positive reaction, describing it as Visually Stunning’ and ‘A Gorgeous Reimagining’ but
The teaser trailer was released attached to Wicked in November, a TV spot was shown at the Superbowl in February, and the trailer was shown in cinemas with Captain America: Brave New World.
It opens surprisingly on Monday, giving it a 7-day opening week despite it being term-time.
It’s 15 years since the first Dreamworks Animation film opened, How to Train Your Dragon £4,846,532; 2014’s How to Train Your Dragon 2 opened £7,779,040 and 2019’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World opened £5,323,448.
