- Spider-Man: Brand New Day £2,787,943 – £92,816,098
Dropped 22.7% in its fifth weekend.
£732k 26.3% (-33.45% £1.1m) Fri; £1.09m 39.1% (-22.14% £1.4m); £954k 34.2% (-46.58% £1.76m) Sun
14th biggest fifth weekend between Mamma Mia! And The Kings Speech (close to Spider-Man: No Way Home, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Toy Story 4 and Barbie) and 38th biggest fifth weekend between Toy Story 3 and Sing 2 (close to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mrs. Doubtfire, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and The Lion King (1994).
Spider-Man is not just a hero; he is a symbol of resilience. He is the everyman who, through courage and determination, overcame impossible odds. That is why he is so huge in the US. He reminds them of how they moved on with their lives 25 years ago. He was that all-American regular boy who was able to do it. And that is why they embrace him far more than any other MCU or DC character, because they all think they could be Spider-Man.
Fifth weekends
2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming dropped 40.5% £927,957 and 88.2% of £30,380,216/£32,489,390
2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home dropped 49.6% £862,507/£956,881 and £32,909,785 88.8% of £37,037,828/£41,090,444
2021’s Spider-Man No Way Home dropped 28.2% £3,215,166 and £84,127,768 87.6% of £96,903,566; Scream #2 £2,468,510
The MCU Spider-Man films have been Avengers lit films including other MCU characters and move on the story from MCU films, Spider-Man: Homecoming was set up by Captain America: Civil War featuring Spider-Man and Black Panther. Spider-Man: Homecoming featured Tony Stark/Iron Man. It was only No Way Home and Brand-New Day when Spider-Man have had the Avengers bounce as previously MCU have benefited from Spider-Man as Avengers: Doomsday will hugely in December.
2019’s Avengers: Endgame dropped 59.6% £900,524 and £85,594,376 96.5% of £88,692,771/£98,397,382
2018’s Avenger Infinity War dropped 40.6% £1,215,206/£1,348,172 and £66,138,820 93.4% of £70,804,892/£78,552,242
2012’s Avengers Assemble dropped 68.9% £872,664/£1,097,337 and £46,891,709 90.3% of £51,910,045/£65,274,641
8th biggest between Avatar and Avengers: Endgame (close to Spectre, Barbie, Top Gun: Maverick and Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and 29th biggest inflated between Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Crocodile Dundee (close to The Spy Who Loved Me, Toy Story 3, Casino Royale, and Superman (1978)
Sony/Marvel will surely announced Spider-Man 5 as part of Phase Seven for release July 2029/30; Spider-Man will appear in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Sony Pictures will release Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse year, Sony Pictures have no plans for any more Spider-Man spinoff films.
- 2. The Odyssey £2,404,782 – £79,540,966
Dropped 13.4% in its seventh weekend.
£597k 24.9% (-21.34% £759k) Fri; £950k 39.6% (-17.39% £1.15m) Sat; £852k 35.5% (-30.84% £1.23m) Sun
4th biggest seventh weekend between Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone and Avatar: The Way of Water (close to Titanic, Arthur Christmas, The Full Monty, and The Greatest Showman) and 11th biggest inflated seventh weekend between Arthur Christmas and Mamma Mia! (close to Crocodile Dundee, LOTR: Fellowship of the Rings, Slumdog Millionaire and LOTR: Return of the King).
Over the last six weeks The Odyssey has held similar to James Bond and Lord of the Rings film in the UK as Christopher Nolan films are the equivalent to those films, 20+ years ago Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy were similarly epic films while the Jame Bond audience in the UK is similar to the Christopher Nolan target audience, they are not just films they are cultural moments.
Industry reaction for The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day taking over £175m has been predictably over the top, but with so many other films opening over the summer it is not healthy for the industry that the box office is split over two films.
Barbenheimer
2023’s Oppenheimer dropped 41.4% £960,504 #3 and £55,413,088 94.7% of £58.5m; £262k 27.3% Friday; £469k 48.8%; Saturday and £228k 23.7% Sunday Oppenheimer remained in the top five for seven weeks and the top ten for ten weeks.
Stayed second behind Barbie dropping 15.6% £1,641,410 and £92,584,022 96.7% of £95,671,481; £363k 22.1% Friday; £963k 58.8% Saturday and £338k 20.6% Sunday.
The Odyssey is expected to have a 100-day theatrical window, followed by PVOD in November and Sky Cinema in April 2027.
In the US over 50% of its sixth weekend was from IMAX and it must be similar in the UK with the 70mm IMAX cinemas taking about 10% of the weekend box office, this is why The Odyssey is having such small drops week after week and will continue so until it loses IMAX screens while it will take higher and higher percentage from IMAX. IMAX must have taken at least 20% of its total BO probably much higher as in the US its close to 30%.
Nolan comparisons seventh weekends
2010’s Inception dropped 35% £699,041 #7 339 screens and £33,085,858 93.8% of £35,264,403; dropped 40% in the eighth weekend £417,302; in top 10 for 8 weeks.
2020’s Tenet dropped 52% £296,049 #1 from 355 screens and £16,563,616 94.8% of £17,479,421; dropped 36% in the eighth weekend taking £187,275 held #1 for 8 weeks and in the top 5 for 9 weeks and top 10 for 10 weeks
2017’s Dunkirk dropped 6% £935,980 #2 545 screens and £53,735,483 94.6% of £56,797,955; dropped 32% in the eighth weekend taking £629,435 in the top 5 for 8 weeks and top 10 for 10 weeks.
2014’s Interstellar dropped 43% £120,355 #14 130 screens and £20,066,636 96.2% of £20,852,599: top 10 for 6 weeks.
2005’s Batman Begins dropped 51% £141,036 #9 from 89 screens and £15,851,987 94.7% of £16,733,960: top 10 for 8 weeks.
2008’s The Dark Knight dropped 35% £586,944 #7 from 328 screens and £46,997,023 95.1% of £49,411,323: top 10 for 8 weeks.
2012’s The Dark Knight Rises dropped 44% £759,838 #6 from 339 screens and £54,535,548 96.6% of £56,446,768: top 10 for 8 weeks.
13th biggest between Titanic and Avatar: The Way of Water (close to Top Gun: Maverick, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Lion King and Toy Story 3) and 43rd biggest inflated between Avatar: The Way of Water and Flash Gordon (close to Bridget Jones’s Diary, Independence Day, Quantum of Solace and The Dark Knight).
- 3. Insidious: Out Of The Further £1,345,763 – £4,902,3747
Dropped 38.8% in its second weekend.
£408k 30.3% -51.3% £837k) Fri; £512k 38.1% (-35.6% £795k) Sat; £424k 31.5% (-66.9% £569k) Sun
827th biggest second weekend between The LEGO Ninjago Movie and Tropic Thunder (close to The Panic Room, Ghost, The Flash and Rush) and 1,330th biggest inflated second weekend between Black Rain and The Color of Money (close to Species, 30 Days of Night, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Ruthless People).
29th biggest second weekend over the last 52 weeks between The Sheep Detectives and Obsession (close The Roses, Scary Movie, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Scream 7).
As with the last film and the first two films Insidious: Out Of The Further held far stronger than many other horrors, it was of course helped by being the only horror on release, the wide range of films and the lack of competition.
2023’s Insidious: The Red Door dropped 33.4% £1,516,987 and £5,128,647 65.3% £7,858,051
2011’s Insidious dropped 8.7% £1,315,358 and £3,872,900 55% of £7,035,245
2013’s Insidious 2 dropped 62.6% £1,076,295 and £4,943,940 70.7% of £6,996,519
2015’s Insidious Chapter 3 dropped 51.9% £692,560 and £2,836,965 73.2% of £3,874,112
2018’s Insidious: The Last Key dropped 44.3% £1,025,740 and £3,663,623 72.7% of £5,040,84
While original horror films like Obsession and Backrooms have strongly performed this year, horror sequels have not clicked as well with audiences and been very front-loaded as 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Scream 7 so surprising as it did not drop as heavily as it did in the US on its second weekend.
- 4. Coyote Vs. Acme £1,077,962 – NE
Includes from previews £703,257 Friday- Thursday
1,719th biggest opening between Marching Powder and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (close to Stray Kids: The Dominate Experience and Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce) and 2,370th biggest inflated opening between Inkheart and Consenting Adults (close to Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Down With Love, Sucker Punch and Definitely, Maybe).
54th biggest opening over the last 52 weeks between Reminders Of Him and The Dog Stars (close to Regretting You, Anaconda, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy and Shelter).
The film has a crazy history started development in 2018 was filmed in 2022 was due to be released in July 2023 (replaced by Barbie) and Warner Bros shelved the film (and Supergirl) as tax write off. There was a backlash to this decision with attempts to sell it, it was eventually sold to Ketchup Entertainment in March 2025 for $50m lower than the $80m they wanted to sell it for having spent $110m making it; Altitude acquired UK rights.
Films like Coyote vs Acme don’t have a chance in the current marketplace with exhibitors focused on tentpoles and not giving other films a chance, so sadly it’s no wonder why Warner Bros thought it made more sense as a tax write off, just surprised more films aren’t tax write offs as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom realised they could make more money from a flop than a hit. As most cinemas were only having a couple if shows a day of Coyote vs Acme mostly early morning with the latest at 4pm, it surely should been able to have all day shows after all the media coverage the film had generated and the very positive reviews, but as with Sunny Dancer two weeks ago exhibitors seemed to sabotage its release from the start.
It was previewed at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25 receiving positive reactions calling it the best live-action animated film since Who Framed Roger Rabit.
- 5. The Dog Stars £1,048,212 – NE
Includes £266,359 from previews Wednesday and Thursday
Took £218k 20.8% Friday; £304k 29% Saturday; £257k 24.52% Sunday.
1,759th biggest opening between Dredd and Ben-Hur (close to Zero Dark Thirty, Terrifier 3, The Next Three Days and The Chronicles of Riddick) and 2,405th biggest inflated opening between Carlito’s Way and The Tigger Movie (close to Death Race, Ready Or Not, Willow and An American Werewolf in Paris)
55th biggest opening over the last 52 weeks between Coyote Vs. Acme and Bugonia (close to The Black Phone 2, Reminders Of Him, Song Sung Blue and Evil Dead Burn).
Over recent years Ridley Scott has made several epic scale films including House of Gucci, Napoleon, and Gladiator II. He has directed many incredible films, but also many poor ones: 2014’s Exodus: Gods and Kings, 2013’s The Counsellor, 2010’s Robin Hood, 1997’s G.I. Jane, 1996’s White Squall, and 1992’s 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
Selected Ridley Scott openings
2021’s House of Gucci opened £2,425,627 talking £10,011,739
2014’s Exodus: Gods and Kings opened £2,607,453 taking £7,529,032
2007’s American Gangster opened £2,564,853 taking £9,336,495
2005’s Kingdom of Heaven opened £2,530,445 taking £7,755,814
2021’s The Last Duel opened £325,033 taking £859,877
2017’s All the Money in the World opened £1,161,476 taking £3,176,255
2015’s The Martian opened £6,531,734 taking £23,578,878
2014’s Exodus: Gods and Kings opened £2,607,453 taking £7,529,032
2013’s The Counsellor opened £815,051 taking £1,855,158
2010’s Robin Hood opened £5,750,332 taking £15,381,416
2008’s Body of Lies opened £991,979 taking £2,859,641
In 2021 Ridley Scott’ said “The best films are driven by the characters, and we will come to superheroes after this if you want, because I will crush it. I will fucking crush it. They are fucking boring as shit,” … and superhero movie “scripts are not any fucking good… are mostly saved by special effects, and that’s becoming boring for everyone who works with special effects, if you’ve got the money.”
He also blamed the failure of The Last Duel on millennials saying “I think what it boils down to — what we have got today [are] the audiences who were brought up on these fucking cell phones. The millennian do not ever want to be taught anything unless you are told it on the cell phone,” Scott continued. “This is a broad stroke, but I think we are dealing with it right now with Facebook. There is a misdirection that has happened where it has given the wrong kind of confidence to this latest generation, I think.”
It was originally dated for March 2026 but then moved to August 28. The end of August has traditionally been seen as the week studios dump their films. The exception is 2020’s Tenet, but that opened then only because of COVID, a studio would not purposely choose to open a major film at the end of August if they had faith in it.
When The Dog Stars was delayed in December 2025, it followed reports that the film had tested very badly. The delay was about damage control, not confidence.
Films like The Dog Stars are not films Disney have any interest in. They make them almost as a way to be seen to be supporting 20th Century Studios, while only seeing that studio as a source of sequels, reboots, and remakes. This will surely be the case when Paramount gets Warner Bros next year, despite promises made.
It was also the fourth post-apocalyptic film released in August after The End Of Oak Street, The Dog Stars, Colony, and The Last House on Netflix, while there have also been many far superior post-apocalyptic TV shows including The Last of Us, so why would audiences come out to see an inferior version of what they have seen at home.
Ridley Scott has had a first look deal at 20th Century Studios which goes back many decades from 20th Century Fox, Disney can reject projects that are similar to films they are developing why his next Treasure Island has been acquired by Sony Pictures as Disney are developing a reboot of Pirates of the Caribbean.
The Dog Stars was filmed in IMAX but due The Odyssey holding most IMAX screens it had limited IMAX shows, this will be the case with several other films over the coming weeks.
Also opened
• One Night Only – Universal Pictures
Opened £501,799 #9 from 504 screens.
It has been described as the Purge but for sex, one day a year single people are allowed to have sex; it is an interesting concept, but it runs out of steam in the 2-minute trailer, how possibly it could be stretched for 102 minutes as seen by its average reviews.
Will Gluck has directed several great rom-coms 2010’s Easy A, 2011’s Friends with Benefits, 2023’s Anyone But You and also the two Peter Rabbit films.
Monica Barbaro is best known for starring in Top Gun Maverick and 2024’s A Complete Unknown. Callum Turner has starred in a number of films and TV shows, is probably best known for starring in the first series of The Capture. He has been on the shortlist to be the next Jams Bond but after this film it could take him off the list of possibilities.
Likely plays to the same audience who saw Spa Weekend last week, dropped 42% in its second weekend £285,202 #15 and £1,240,689; One Night Only will also only last a week in the top 10.
- Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone (25th Anniversary) – Warner Bros
Opened £522,704 #7 from 442 screens.
Over recent years Warner Bros have been re-releasing the Harry Potter films for their 20th anniversaries; Warner Bros previously re-released the film in 2021 for its 20th anniversary opening with almost double £965,008 #6 from 494 screens. They have also re-released The Chamber Of Secrets, The Prisoner Of Azkaban and The Goblet Of Fire over the last few years and will re-release Order Of Phoenix next year for its 20th anniversary.
It is of course a massive year for Harry potter with the new TV series launching at Christmas with a new cast from the films. While the books are still beloved by children of all ages.
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2026 BO is currently up 22% from 2025.
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £11,335,669 down 5.6% from last weekend’s £12,010,454, 1,415,190 admissions, down 5.6% from 1,499,432 admissions.
31st biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 22 May 2026 #1 Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu £5,291,385 (45.35%) and 27 March 2026 #1 Project Hail Mary £4,776,660 (43.35%)
117th biggest since cinemas reopened out of 302 weeks between 06 September 2024 #1 Beetlejuice 2 £7,352,760 (64.47%) and 13 December 2024 #1 Moana 2 £3,613,290 (31.99%)
544th biggest top 10 of the last 25 years (out of 1,272) between 06 October 2017 #1 Blade Runner 2049 £6,071,625 (53.40%) and 24 June 2011 #1 Bridesmaid £3,445,395 (30.40%) and 920th biggest inflated between 01 December 2017 #1 Paddington 2 £2,883,617 (29.23%) and 10 March 2023 #1 Scream VI £3,043,922 (29.19%)
The top 3 took £6,538,488 (57.7%) of the top 10; Spider-Man: Brand New Day 24.59% (£2,787,943); The Odyssey 21.21% (£2,404,782); Insidious: Out Of The Further 11.87% (£1,345,763)
989th biggest percentage share #1 (24.59%) between 12 November 2010 #1 Due Date £1,898,324 (24.62%) and 02 September 2016 #1 Sausage Party £2,690,156 (24.59%)
980th biggest admissions (348,058) between 20 February 2004 #1 The Haunted Mansion £1,564,558 (348,454) and 15 February 2019 #1 The LEGO Movie 2 £2,472,489 (347,748)
Up 38.9% from 2025; (£8,161,723); The Roses (£2,183,190); Jaws (50th Anniversary) (£1,104,471); Caught Stealing (£570,843); Andre Rieu’s 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz The Night Away! (£566,325); Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (20th Anniversary) (£507,768); #1 The Roses £2,183,190 1st week 696 screens (26.75% of top 10)
Up 56.6% from 2024; (£7,236,745); Andre Rieu’s 2024 Maastricht Concert: Power Of Love (£629,653); Afraid (£216,620); The Amazing Spider-Man 2 RE (£129,875); The Terminator (4K Restoration – 40th Anniversary) (£97,668); The Italian Job (55th Anniversary 4K Re-Issue) (£20,097); #1 Despicable Me 4 £1,244,979 down 12% in 8th week 686 screens (17.20% of top 10).
Up 24.9% from 2023; (£9,073,887); The Equalizer 3 (£2,783,302); Sound Of Freedom (£760,060); Cobweb (£325,904); Jurassic Park (30th Anniversary) (£283,297); #1 The Equalizer 3 £2,783,302 1st week (30.67% of top 10)
Up 102.1% 2022 (£5,607,200); Spider-Man: No Way Home (Extended) £469,309; E.T. (40th Anniversary) (£438,715); Three Thousand Years Of Longing (£307,176); The Forgiven (£182,772); Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan – Director’s Cut 4K (40th Anniversary) (£96,105); #1 Minions: The Rise Of Gru #1 £1,056,163 up 84% 3rd weekend #1 over 10 weeks (National Cinema Day) (23.23% of top 10)
Up 29.4% 2021 (£9,037,234) Shangi-Chi (£5,759,504); Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins (£122,898); Annette (£86,670); Here Today (£28,577); #1 Shangi-Chi £5,759,504 640 screens 1st week (63.7% of top 10)
Up 82.1% 2020; (£6,099,807); Tenet (£5,335,654); Hope Gap (£72,769); Bring The Soul: The Movie (£39,085); #1 Tenet £5,335,654 611 screens 1st week (85.7% of top 10)
Up 51.1% 3.5% 2019; (£7,501,395); The Informer £301,424; #1 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood £1,841,873 3rd week 9% drop 697 screens (24.5% of the top 10)
Up 43.9% 2018: (£7,876,859); Searching (£765,050); The Happytime Murders (£694,044); Yardie (£438,088); Cold War (£228,780); Upgrade (£58,006); Action Point (£33,993); #1 Disney’s Christopher Robin £1,173,235 3rd week 646 screens (14.9% of top 10)
Up 83% 2017: (£6,193,484); The Limehouse Golem (£371,412); God’s Own Country (£167,824); Patti Cake$ (£121,446); Inhumans (£80,176); #1 American Made £968,068 2nd week 556 screens 9% drop (15.6% of the top 10)
Up 2.9% 2016: (£11,014,615); Sausage Party (£2,690,156); Brotherhood (£1,979,309); Cafe Society (£494,457); Morgan (£193,686); Equity (£12,923); #1 Sausage Party £2,690,156 1st week 525 screens (24.4% of the top 10)
Up 32.1% 2015; (£8,579,970); Straight Outta Compton (£2,498,231); Hitman: Agent 47 (£961,411); 45 Years (£331,196); We Are Your Friends (£260,715); #1 Straight Outta Compton £2,498,231 1st week 429 screens (29.1% of top 10)
Up 56.8% 2014: (£9,093,638); Let’s Be Cops (£1,650,912); Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (expansion) (£1,077,370); If I Stay (£505,704); As Above, So Below (£398,787); Million-Dollar Arm (£150,050); Obvious Child (£42,022); The Grand Seduction (£41,322); #1 Lucy £1,972,039 2nd week 504 screens (21.7% of top 10)
Up 23.5% 2013: (£9,874,123); One Direction: This Is Us (£3,471,872); Pain & Gain (£1,016,136); The Way, Way Back (£532,487); You are Next (£523,549); Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (£36,882); #1 One Direction: This Is Us £3,471,872 1st week 476 screens (35.1% of top 10)
Up 28.3% 2012 (£10,812,241); Total Recall (£2,493,230); The Watch (£2,235,933); The Possession (£979,192); A Few Best Men (£263,770); Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery (£108,503); Berberian Sound Studio (£45,516); Cockneys vs. Zombies (£11,474); Rec 3 (£1,263); #1 Total Recall £2,493,230 1st week 464 screens (23.1% of top 10)
Up 31.5% 2011; (£8,618,765); Friends with Benefits (£1,947,272); Jane Eyre (£1,012,111); Colombiana (£424,049); Troll Hunter (£200,607); #1 The Inbetweeners Movie £3,679,555 3rd week 475 screens 42% drop (24.9% of top 10)
Up 56.8% 2010: (£7,227,858); The Last Exorcism (£1,104,856); Dinner for Schmucks (£940,586); The Switch (£666,018); Jonah Hex (£36,456); #1 The Last Exorcism £1,104,856 1st week 313 screens (15.3% of top 10)
Up 23.5% 2009; (£9,177,873); The Final Destination (£3,633,395); Funny People (£1,001,152); The Hurt Locker (£308,887); Broken Embraces (£296,048); Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 (£57,978); The Final Destination £3,633,395 1st week 427 screens (39.6% of top 10)
Up 28.3% 2008; (£8,832,337); Stepbrothers (£1,681,492); The Strangers (£1,250,624); Babylon A.D. (£536,968); #1 Stepbrothers £1,681,492 1st week 362 screens (19.04% of top 10)
Up 46.6% 2007: :(£7,728,093); 1408 (£1,073,963); No Reservations (£512,657); Death Sentence (£260,733); Breach (£156,140); Hallam Foe (£132,972); Two Days in Paris (£110,284); Year of the Dog (£5,733); #1 The Bourne Ultimatum £2,232,971 3rd week 468 screens 22% drop (28.9% of top 10)
Up 80.6% 2006; (£5,908,103); Little Man (£1,090,761); The Wicker Man (£736,316); The Sentinel (£627,838); Crank (£450,141); Adrift (£337,718); #1 You, Me, and Depree £1,165,610 2nd week 412 screens 29% drop (19.7% of top 10)
Up 86.4% 2005: (£6,082,782); The 40-Year-Old Virgin (£1,757,540); Red Eye (£891,582); The Business (£531,267); On a Clear Day (£58,257); #1 The 40-Year-Old Virgin £1,757,540 1st week 394 screens (28.9% of top 10)
Up 30.5% 2004; (£8,683,904); Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (£2,200,271); The Chronicles of Riddick (£1,043,685); The Motorcycle Diaries (£333,368); Raising Helen (£209,201); #1 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story £2,200,271 1st week 315 screens (25.3% of top 10)
Up 49.5% 2003 (£7,578,928); Jeepers Creepers 2 (£1,069,346); The Lizzie McGuire Movie (expansion) (£405,205); Hollywood Homicide (£352,445); Intermission (£146,220); #1 The Pirates of the Caribbean 4th week (2nd #1) £2,037,014 444 screens 3% drop (26.9% of top 10)
Up 81.8% from 2002: (£6,235,380); Insomnia (£1,159,754); The Sweetest Thing (£592,722); Windtalkers (£388,212); #1 Insomnia £1,159,754 1st week 264 screens (18.6% of top 10)
Up 77.7% from 2001 (£6,378,036); A Knight’s Tale (£1,678,264); Angel Eyes (£162,648); What’s Cooking (£45,445); #1 A Knight’s Tale £1,678,264 1st week 377 screens (26.3% of top 10).
Next week: 2025 (£10,456,946); The Conjuring: Last Rites (£6,777,552); Inter Alia – NT Live 2025 (£188,706); Honey Don’t! (£168,964); Jumanji (30th Anniversary) (£42,501); #1 The Conjuring: Last Rites £6,777,552 1st week 609 screens (64.81% of top 10).
US Box Office
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day — Sony Pictures
Dropped 42.3% in its fifth weekend $22.51m and $891.82m.
11th biggest fifth weekend between The Sixth Sense and Paranormal Activity (close to The Odyssey, Barbie, Michael, and Project Hail Mary).
Took $53.2m from IMAX worldwide total from the US, China, Japan, and South Korea
3rd biggest film worldwide between Avengers: Endgame and Avatar: The Way of Water (close to Titanic, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Infinity War and Spider-Man: No Way Home).
While these films look like they are massive box office successes, they must be put it into perspective seen by 5th biggest film worldwide Ne Zha 2 taking $2.27bn from China alone as it shows that these films should be taking $5bn+ now as the industry is still comparing success with Titanic taking $2.26bn in 1997 now would be $6bn+.
Spider-Man and Avengers fifth weekends
2021’s Spider-Man No Way Home dropped 38% $20.09m and $698.01m of $814.86m and $1.91bn worldwide
2017’s Spider-Man Homecoming #6 dropped 33.3% taking $8.84m and $294.93m 88.2% of $334.2m and $880.16m WW
2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home #3 dropped 36.5% taking $7.9m and $360.47m 92.3% of $390.53m and $1.13bn WW
2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron #5 dropped 47.4% taking $11.4m and $427.55m 93.1% of $459m
2018’s Avengers Infinity War #3 41.3% taking $17.29m and $622.48m 91.7% of $678.81m
2019’s Avengers Endgame #3 dropped 42.6% taking $17.2m and $798.53m 93.1% of $858.37m
It is now impossible to compare Brand New Day with earlier films of this series and all other Spider-Man films made since 2002 as the only films they can be compared to are Avengers films and Spider-Man No Way Home.
As Homecoming and Far From Home feel likely they are now part of a completely different film series, but it shows how Spider-Man finally started benefitting from being part of the MCU since No Way Home. While Marvel benefited from the addition of Spider-Man since 2016’s Captain America: Civil War as Spider-Man as Black Panther changed the dynamics of the MCU series.
International
Spider-Man: No Way Home took $33.4m (down 48.2%) from 63 territories (18,400+ screens) $926.21m total and $1.625bn worldwide; the UK took $112.1m; South Korea $58.5m; Australia $50.6m; Germany $40.4m; Japan $22m; 8th biggest film worldwide between The Lion King and The Avengers (46th film to take over $1bn worldwide since Jurassic Park in 1993).
Brand New Day took $44m from 67 territories taking $1.441bn total international and $2.332bn WW; France $74.3m; Germany $57.5m; China $227.4m; UK $125.2m; Mexico $88.2m; France $81.6m; Brazil $70.2m; Germany $62.8m; South Korea $62.7m; India $61.5m; Australia $57.1m; Spain $42.6m.
• Coyote Vs Acme – Ketchup
Opened $15.91m; received positive reviews (95% Rotten Tomatoes) and A CinemaScore.
Took $1.7m from Thursday previews; The Garfield Movie $1.92m; PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie $1.8m; The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part $1.5m; The Bob’s Burgers Movie $1.5m
Took 6% from PLF screens.
After acquiring Coyte Vs Acme for $50m Ketchup Entertainment spent $10m marketing the film far less than studios normally spend marketing films.
Its hard to compare the film opening with other live-action animated films as none had the history behind it, in normal circumstances films like Space Jam or Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but it’s similar to exactly a Markiplier’s Iron Lung ($17.8m opening) as it was released far differently than it was originally conceived to be. As Ketchup Entertainment had previously acquired Warner Bros Animation The Day the Earth Blew Up (opened $3.1m taking $8.8m), but Coyte Vs Acme was a far bigger and high-profile acquisition.
The trailer was released in April getting 25m views in its first 24 hours.
Coyote vs. Acme followers across TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram, and Facebook were 115.5m less than 2021’s Warner Bros live-action animation Tom & Jerry 159m.
Coyote Vs Acme had a long history after Warner Bros announced development of a Wile E. Coyote film in 2018 and basing the film on a 1990 New Yorker article Coyote v. Acme. The film started production in May 2022 and was originally dated for 23rd July 2023 in December 2020, but before the film started shooting in April 2022 Barbie took its July release date, so Warner Bros must of hand underlining issues with the film long before they used the film as a tax right off. Warner Bros also wrote off Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt but these two films were never completed.
In November 2023 Warner Bros allowed the producers to sell the film to other studios the problem was Warner Bros wanted $80m for the film and none of the studio were willing to pay so much despite Netflix and Amazon paying much more to acquire films previously; Amazon paid $125m for Coming 2 America in 2020 and also paid $200m for The Tomorrow War in 2021, so it was surprising they weren’t willing to pay $80m for Coyte Vs Acme.
In March 2025 Ketchup Entertainment acquired the film.
- The Dog Stars – 20th Century Studios
Opened $7.7m; received poor reviews (40% Rotten Tomatoes) and C+ CinemaScore.
Took $850k from Thursday previews; The Amateur $2m.
Took 27% from PLF screens.
Opened similar to last years Caught Stealing $7.8m taking $19m and $33.25m
As soon as Disney moved The Dog Stars from mid-March to August 28 it was obviously, they were dumping the film, this delay was soon after it had reportedly test screened very badly, but its not a film Disney have any interest in making, and the go through the motions with its marketing, this was seen by Disney opting to have the world premiere in the UK. Several years ago, Disney would regularly use the UK to hold world premieres, but in recent years as seen with Toy Story 5 they had a footage Q&A premiere in the UK but then its European premiere was on the continent.
Disney are continuing 20th Century Fox’s long relationship with Ridley Scott that goes back decades, but many of his films made by 20th Century Fox recently including 2013’s The Counsellor (opening $7.8m) and The Last Duel (opening $4.7m) have been far less successful than the films he has directed foe other studios.
The film had 181m followers on social media across TikTok, YouTube, X, Instagram, and Facebook
Opened $11.3m internationally and $19.3m worldwide.
- Insidious: Out Of The Further – Sony Pictures
Dropped 59.4% in its second weekend $10.2m and $43.73m.
While audiences have embrace original horrors this year including Obsession and Backrooms sequel have underwhelmed, so bit might seem a great idea to do a sequel to a successful horror they often struggle to be as successful second time around as the scares are more predictable even though they up the gore.
Social media 282.2m across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube more than 2023’s Insidious: Red Door 182m and more than 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 195m.
2010’s Insidious dropped 29.4% $9.37m and $26.72m of $54m and $100.1m worldwide
2013’s Insidious: Chapter 2 dropped 65.7% $13.8m and $60.15m of $83.58m and $161.91m worldwide
2015’s Insidious: Chapter 3 dropped 67.8% $7.31m and $37.38m of $52.21m and $112.98m worldwide
2018’s Insidious: The Last Key dropped 58% $12.41m and $48.66m of $67.74m and $167.88m worldwide
2023’s Insidious: The Red Door dropped 60.6% $13m and $58.08m of $82.15m and $189.08m worldwide
Took $18.7m internationally from 64 territories $66.6m total and $110.2m worldwide.
- The Odyssey – Universal Pictures
Dropped 27.2% in its seventh weekend $14.35m and $563.87m.
9h biggest seventh weekend between The Passion of the Christ and Aladdin (close to Top Gun: Maverick, Toy Story 2, The Blind Side and Frozen II).
Premium-format impact
EntTelligence said average ticket prices for Odyssey were general $15.32; 70MM $22.46 and 70MM IMAX $27.77
The six weeks run to date at the TCL Chinese Theatre has taken $4.4m showing how much BO these 41 70mm IMAX cinemas have taken compared to regular formats.
Took $8m from IMAX in the US over 50% of the weekends box office and $195m total (33.5% of total)
The Odyssey will play in IMAX cinemas until September 24th; took $24.6m worldwide over the weekend ($8m US and $5.5m China and $11.1m internationally) and $406.5m total (almost 30% of total BO from IMAX)
Oppenheimer comparison
2023’s Oppenheimer dropped 30% $5.75m and $308.78m of $330.07m and $975.81m worldwide; in the top ten for ten weeks, taking more than $1m every week during that run; over 6 weeks took $84.1m from the IMAX in the US
Other Nolan benchmarks seventh weekends
2020’s Tenet dropped 26.5% taking $1.54m #3 $50.65m 86.6% of $58.5m and $365.3m WW; dropped 17.4% in the eighth weekend taking $1.27m; stayed in top 10 for 13 weeks.
2017’s Dunkirk up10.8% taking $4.37m #6 taking $179m 95.2% of $188.045m and $525.24m WW; up 57.4% in the eighth weekend taking $1.86m in the top 10 for 9 weeks.
2014’s Interstellar dropped 50.4% $2.7m #11 taking $173.53m 92.3% of $188.02m and $677.89m WW; up 11.1% in the eighth weekend taking $3m.
2010’s Inception dropped 37.8% $4.87m #7 taking $270.51m 92.5% of $292.57m and $825.79m WW; dropping 6.2% in the eighth weekend $4.57m staying in the top 10 for 11 weeks.
2008’s The Dark Knight dropped 18.2% $8.62m #3 taking $502.29m 94.2% of $533.34m and $1.003bn WW; dropped 36% in the eighth weekend $5.51m stayed in the top 10 for 10 weeks.
2012’s The Dark Knight Rises dropped 15.3% $6.11m #7 taking $431.43m 96.3% of $448.13m and $1.081bn WW; dropped 47.4% in the eighth weekend $3.21m; stayed in the top 10 for 8 weeks.
Internationally
Oppenheimer took $49.7m (up 63.5% due to $30.4m opening in China $9.3m IMAX) from 81 territories $542.7m total and $851.3m worldwide (expected to take $900m+); UK $70.7m; Germany $45.4m; France $39.3m; China $30.3m; Australia $25.3m; took $170m internationally from IMAX.
The Odyssey took $48.7m from 83 territories $988.8m total and $1.553bn worldwide UK $100.6m; Korea $56m; France $75.3m; Germany $52.2m; Italy $59.8m; Australia $39.9m; playing in 441 IMAX cinemas including seven 70mm IMAX internationally.
UK Box Office Top 10
Box Office Preview
After five weeks sitting behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey could return #1 in its eighth weekend of release over National Cinema Day weekend.
As The Odyssey has dropped far less than Brand New Day over the last few weeks due to IMAX sales and with many IMAX cinemas like BFI IMAX, Science Museum and Vue Manchester selling out there IMAX shows for this weekend weeks ago they would be full priced £25 compared NCD Sat/Sun £4 for Brand New Day. This would see The Odyssey having a minimal seventh weekend drop despite NCD. This again shows how IMAX has manipulated the box office this summer.
The Odyssey would likely drop 15-20% in its seventh weekend taking £1.8m-£2m with NCD having no impact on its weekend box office as audiences will use NCD as a chance to see both The Odyssey and Brand-New Day again in cinemas.
Brand New Day will drop more about 20-25% taking £1.9m-£2.2m
Would have expected The Death Of Robin Hood to open third having a five-day opening, but as with Coyte Vs Acme its having very limited showtimes sharing screens again, so Insidious: Out Of The Further will likely hold third down 40-50% taking £600-£800k.
Coyote Vs. Acme and The Dog Stars will both drop heavily 70% and probably both drop out of the top 10, which makes it hard to see what films will replace it, will the bottom of the top 10 be filled with re-releases including Cars: 20th Anniversary, The Hunger Games, Obsession, as much will depend on the cinemas that aren’t part of NCD as their box office will inflate the weekend box office and alao if Friday box office will be affected with people waiting to see the films on Sat/Sun instead.
As would expect all of the five new films that were in the top ten last week all to drop out, the question is what will be the five films that replace them will they just be Obsession, Minions & Monsters, Cars: 20th Anniversary, The Death Of Robin Hood and The Incomer due to Irish box office.
This highlights the problem with NCD as audiences will opt to see films they have seen before as there aren’t any new films opening they will want to see, this was what was so different about when NCD first launched in the UK it wasn’t over the lowest weekend that followed a previous low weekend bring in June it was part of the early summer as Fete Du Cinema has been in France for over 30 years.
It just makes me think of Harry Stamper in Armageddon “And this is the best that you c – that the-the government, the *U.S. government* can come up with? I mean, you-you’re NASA for cryin’ out loud, you put a man on the moon, you are geniuses! You-you are the guys that think this shit up! I am sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them up! You are telling me you do not have a backup plan, that these eight boy scouts right here, that is the world’s hope, that is what you are telling me?”.
Coming Soon
- Resident Evil – Sony Pictures
Horror starring Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Johnno Wilson, and Paul Walter Hauser and directed by Zach Cregger.
It is the second reboot of the Resident Evil film series, based on Capcom’s Resident Evil video game franchise, based on events featured in 1998’s Resident Evil 2 video game.
After the disappointing performance of the seventh film of the franchise 2021’s of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and the 2022 Netflix TV series.
Zach Cregger previously directed Barbarian and Weapons both were critical and box office successes (he (he also directed possibly the worst film ever made 2009’s Miss March).
2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City £253,199 #8 from 329 screens
2002’s Resident Evil opened £801,628 taking £2.68m
2004’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse opened £801,171 taking £1.82m
2007’s Resident Evil: Extinction opened £931,991 taking £2.37m
2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife opened £1.69m taking £4.12m
2012’s Resident Evil: Retribution opened £792,265 taking £1.79m
2017’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter opened #8 £463,691
Being directed by Zach Cregger and with a strong new marketing campaign that included a docking slip that has the address of Raccoon City but doesn’t mention the film feels like its targetting passionate fanbase rather than going for a more generic style horror as the other films have should revitalise Resident Evil having its biggest opening of the franchise £1.6m-£2m.
- Bad Apples – Paramount Pictures
Comedy thriller starring Saoirse Ronan, Eddie Waller, Nia Brown, and Kerry Howard and directed by Jonatan Etzler based on Rasmus Lindgren’s novel De Oönskade.
Was acquired by Paramount Pictures in 2024; premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year and UK premiere at the London Film Festival receiving positive review.
There have been many different versions of this plot over the years with films including Ruthless People and The Ref, but Bad Apples is a darker version of it similar to Promising Your Woman and Fargo. About an accidental kidnapping.
- Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom – Studiocanal
British stop motion animated fantasy comedy featuring the voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes and Kate Harbour and directed by Steve Cox and Matthew Walker.
Based on the TV series which was a spinoff 1995’s Wallace & Gromit short film A Close Shave and is the third film in the series after 2015’s Shaun the Sheep Movie and 2019’s A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon.
Made by Aardman Animations as the first two films its released in the UK by Studiocanal, but this third fil, was acquired by Sky Cinema and Studiocanal are releasing it on behalf of Sky Cinema in the UK as they have done with many other films Sky Cinema acquired for the UK.
It was surprising Sky Cinema acquired UK rights for the film as Studiocanal are releasing the film in many international countries and selling the film worldwide especially as the UK is the biggest territory for the films.
2025 was the 30th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave, the first time Shaun The Sheep made an appearance.
2019’s A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon opened £1,305,511 #3 taking £7,081,393
2015’s Shaun The Sheep Movie opened £2,095,061 taking £13,675,389
Aardman Animations previously made.
2000’s Chicken Run opened £3,848,755/£6,315,457 taking £29,514,237/£48,430,180
2005’s Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit opened £9,374,932/£14,370,915 taking £32,007,310/£49,064,284
2006’s Flushed Away opened £3,106,874/£4,606,084 taking £10,749,860/£15,937,164
2011’s Arthur Christmas opened £2,112,516 taking £20,994,673
2012’s The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! opened £2,176,195 taking £16,539,738
2018’s Early Man opened £2,020,653 taking £11,205,643
While Shaun The Sheep is a beloved character, the films haven’t been as successful as other Aardman Animations films as they play strongest to a younger audience, but its 7 years since the last film opened the fanbase are now teenagers, that said a seventh series of Shaun The Sheep was shown on the BBC last summer and Aardman Animations TV shows are broadcast across 170 territories around the world.