- The Conjuring: Last Rites £6,777,552 – NE
Friday £2.516m 37.13%; Saturday £2.47m 36.45%; Sunday £1.791m 26.43%
209th biggest opening between Sing 2 and Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (close to King Kong, Terminator Salvation, Avatar and The Bourne Ultimatum) and 313th biggest inflated opening between Batman Returns and Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (close to Batman, Signs, Catch Me If You Can and Mr and Mrs Smith).
10th biggest 2025 opening between Superman and Captain America: Brave New World (close to F1, Thunderbolts, Nosferatu and 28 Years Later).
3rd biggest horror opening between It Chapter 2 and Hannibal (close to The Blair Witch Project, Five Nights At Freddy’s, Nosferatu and 28 Years Later) and 5th biggest inflated horror opening between It Chapter 2 and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (close to Red Dragon, Five Nights At Freddy’s, Interview with the Vampire and The Final Destination).
Warner Bros 7th different films to open #1 in 2025, with their films #1 for 14 weeks this year.
237th widest opening in 609 cinemas, similar to Sinners and Doctor Sleep (close to Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil, Independence Day: Resurgence, Dog Man and Inside Out); 274th 600+ cinema opening since 2015’s Jurassic World
Despite mixed reviews and four years since the last Conjuring film, The Devil Made Me Do It, the film was released the week after cinemas reopened after the second lockdown in May 2021, grossing £2,708,455.
What helped The Conjuring: Last Rites open so strongly was the trailer, which played with several horrors since May. Final Destination: Bloodlines opened with £4,009,856; 28 Years Later opened with £4,780,37, and Weapons opened with £2,818,535, attracting similar audiences.
The other reason is that Warner Bros have had strong success over the years opening horror films over the first weekend in September, including The Nun 2, It Chapter 2, The Nun, IT, Don’t Breathe, while comedy-horror Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened £7,352,760.
Also with schools returning, the market is quiet before the films that have premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festival open and also the big British film that often opens the second weekend in September, as Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale opens next weekend.
| Title | R-Date | AV P | OWE | xOWE | OWE Adm | OWE % | Total | 2025 BO |
| The Conjuring | 04/08/2013 | £6.53 | £2,156,124 | 4.86 | 330,187 | 20.59% | £10,471,087 | £12,780,178 |
| Annabelle | 12/10/2014 | £7.41 | £1,939,963 | 3.82 | 261,803 | 26.21% | £7,402,588 | £7,962,028 |
| The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case | 19/06/2016 | £7.41 | £4,637,862 | 2.35 | 625,892 | 42.56% | £10,896,992 | £11,720,516 |
| Annabelle: Creation | 13/08/2017 | £7.49 | £1,960,203 | 4.12 | 261,709 | 24.26% | £8,079,017 | £8,596,764 |
| The Nun | 09/09/2018 | £7.22 | £4,098,198 | 2.76 | 567,617 | 36.26% | £11,302,155 | £12,476,202 |
| Annabelle Comes Home | 14/07/2019 | £7.22 | £2,223,482 | 2.78 | 307,961 | 36.00% | £6,176,801 | £6,818,435 |
| The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It | 30/05/2021 | £7.52 | £2,708,455 | 3.46 | 360,167 | 28.91% | £9,367,720 | £9,928,288 |
| The Nun 2 | 08/09/2023 | £7.92 | £1,743,904 | 3.90 | 220,190 | 25.65% | £6,800,000 | £6,842,929 |
Would expect The Conjuring: Last Rites to drop about 60% in its second weekend, as these horrors, apart from the first film, are normally front-loaded and with four new wide audiences, even though none are horrors to directly compete against them, they will have an effect as it will lose premium screens.
- 2. The Roses £1,517,314 – £5,356,922
Down 30.5% in its second weekend
613th biggest second weekend between Mary, Queen of Scots and Insidious: The Red Door (close to Downton Abbey: A New Era, Miss Congeniality, What Happens in Vegas and Mean Girls (2024) and 1,114th biggest inflated second weekend between Point Break (1991) and Insidious: The Red Door (close to Presumed Innocent, Much Ado About Nothing, Anger Management and When Harry Met Sally
20th biggest 2025 second weekend between Weapons and The Salt Road (close to A Complete Unknown, Final Destination: Bloodlines, We Live In Time and The Bad Guys 2).
The Roses is the latest Disney reimagination of 20th Century Fox’s 1990s War of the Roses, dropping 24.8% £612,191/£1,725,464 and £2,463,886, 42.5% of £5,795,818/£16,335,544.
2024’s Wicked Little Lies dropped 28.6% £1,172,890 and £4,259,564, 44.5% of £9,558,513
Second weekends
2012’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) up 5.4% £2,342,095/£2,930,376 and £7,014,101 34.5% of £20,308,480/£25,250,104
Meet the Parents (2000) dropped 49.8% £1,135,411/£2,129,230 and £4,708,433, 31.2% of £15,107,452/£27,193,414.
1996’s The First Wives Club dropped 39.4% £915,539/£1,959,748 and £2,810,024 of £5,634,022/£12,059,852
2003’s Intolerable Cruelty dropped 33.6% £1,032,417/£1,853,235 and £3,682,322 of £6,465,278/£11,532,658
2005’s Mr & Mrs Smith dropped 59.7% £1,588,622/£2,688,178 and £7,560,580 56.1% of £13,375,272/£22,490,903
2005’s Closer up 1.2% £1,587,136/£2,685,663 and £4,047,398 48.3% of £8,330,847/£14,008,558
2006’s The Break-Up dropped 41.4% £1,414,268/£2,314,521 and £5,467,070 54.4% of £10,049,790/£16,343,806
2010’s It’s Complicated dropped 18.4% £1,300,580/£1,742,121 and 37.2% of £8,838,051/£11,764,263
2011’s Crazy, Stupid, Love dropped 39.4% £520,952/£685,146 and £1,981,995, 59.8% of £3,160,633/£4,130,728
Its director, Jay Roach, first film since 2019’s Bombshell and is best known for Meet The Parents and the Austin Powers trilogy.
It’s Olivia Colman’s first leading role since 2024’s Wicked Little Lies. Most recently had small roles in Paddington in Peru and Wonka. Benedict Cumberbatch starred most recently in The Phoenician Scheme, with his last leading role in 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
1,387th biggest between Clear And Present Danger and Daredevil (close to Under Siege, Mean Girls (2004), Sweet Home Alabama and Dangerous Minds) and 1,958th biggest inflated between The Death of Stalin and The Book Of Eli (close to A Simple Favour, Internal Affairs, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and From Hell).
- 3. Weapons £374,789 – £11,231,965
Down 55.3% in its fifth weekend
3rd biggest 18-rated horror after Smile (£11.6m) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (£11.5m).
668th biggest fifth weekend between The Artist and Dog Man (close to The Haunted Mansion (2004), While You Were Sleeping, Dog Man and Pitch Perfect 3) and 918th biggest inflated fifth weekend between The Boss Baby 2 and Dog Man (close to Dead Again, Dangerous Minds, Wicked Little Letters and A Haunting In Venice)
Recent horrors fifth weekend
28 Years Later dropped 11.9% £438,640 and £14,698,934 of £15,527,027
Final Destination: Bloodlines dropped 50.9% £304,740 and £11,117,651 of £11,407,110
Sinners dropped 34.8% £718,770 and £14,392,979 89.3% of £16,113,276
649th biggest between Smallfoot and Unbreakable (close to The Nun, Enemy of the State, Spice World and Smile) and 1,081st biggest inflated between Air Force One and Wolf (close to The Conjuring, Edward Scissorhands, Con Air, and Get Shorty).
- 4. Freakier Friday £355,943 – £8,192,283
Up 52.2% in its fifth weekend.
702nd biggest fifth weekend between Sex and the City 2 and Me Before You (close to Waterworld, Look Who’s Talking, I, Robot and The Smurfs 2) and 953rd biggest fifth weekend between Taken 3 and The Lady In The Van (close to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Eyes Wide Shut, Bad Moms and Days Of Thunder).
22nd biggest 2025 film between We Live In Time and The Salt Road (close to Final Destination: Bloodlines, Weapons, Mickey 17 and Karate Kid),
Fifth weekends
2003’s Freaky Friday dropped 31% £362,971/£651,549, and £5,833,394, 91.2% of £6,393,998/£11,477,514
Similar films include.
2004’s Mean Girls dropped 79.9% £81,238/£144,202 and £5,246,906 96.96% of £5,411,323/£9,605,400
2024’s Mean Girls dropped 20.5% £383,317 and £8,544,708, 91.6% of £9,229,629
2001’s The Princess Diaries dropped 16.1% £336,831/£648,440 and £4,366,152 89% of £4,904,418/£9,441,597
2004’s The Princess Diaries 2 dropped 63.2% £100,831/£178,981 and £3,899,320/£6,921,510
923rd biggest between Collateral and Lincoln (close to The Rock, Kindergarten Cop, Knocked Up, and The Living Daylights) and 1,471st biggest inflated between The Island and Angel Has Fallen (close to Amelie, Thelma & Louise, Sea of Love and Friends with Benefits).
- 5..The Bad Guys 2 £331,218 – £12,699,837
Down 59% in its seventh weekend
285th biggest seventh weekend between Ice Age: Continental Drift and Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (close to War of the Worlds, St. Trinian’s, Cinderella and Evita) and 447th biggest inflated seventh weekend between Bruce Almighty and The Batman (close to The Usual Suspects, Tenet, Disney’s Christopher Robin and Despicable Me).
13th biggest Dreamworks Animation seventh weekend between Trolls and The Bad Guys (close to The Boss Baby, The Croods, Flushed Away, and Megamind), and 21st biggest Dreamworks Animation inflated seventh weekend between How to Train Your Dragon and Shrek Forever After (close to Bee Movie, Rise Of The Guardians, Shrek Forever After and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted).
Seventh weekend
2022’s The Bad Guys dropped 2.2% £304,695 and £11,040,668, 81.9% of £13,478,928
29th biggest Dreamworks Animation film between Dog Man and Rise Of The Guardians (close to the Wild Robot, The Bad Guys, Rise Of The Guardians and Over The Hedge); 36th biggest Dreamworks Animation inflated film between Dog Man and The Croods 2: A New Age.
566th biggest between Lyle, Lyle Crocodile and Rise of the Guardians (close to Wedding Crashers, Lilo & Stitch (2002), Wish and Sliding Doors) and 953rd biggest inflated between Horton Hears a Who and Philomena (close to Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Superman IV, Waking Ned Devine and Groundhog Day).
108th biggest animated film between Space Jam: A New Legacy and Rise of the Guardians (close to Chicken Little, Rio, The Lion King 3D and Early Man) and 136th biggest inflated animated film between Horton Hears a Who and Wish (close to The Cat in the Hat, Megamind, Treasure Planet and Snow White (1992 re-release).
Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie is the next DreamWorks Animation film to be released next month, ahead of half-term. Shrek 5 was due to open next summer against Toy Story 5, but has recently been delayed to summer 2027.
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The weekend’s top 10 box office took £10,456,946, up 28.1% from last weekend’s £8,161,723: 1,339,226 admissions, up 32.1% from 1,013,679 admissions.
The 29th biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 02 May 2025 #1 Thunderbolts* £5,979,242 (55.57%) and 17 January 2025 #1 A Complete Unknown £2,616,302 (25.58%)
100th biggest since cinemas reopened out of 251 weeks between 23 August 2024 #1 Alien: Romulus £2,021,921 (19.18%) and 10 March 2023 #1 Scream VI £3,043,922 (29.19%)
606th biggest top 10 of the last 24 years (out of 1,222) between 25 January 2008 #1 Sweeney Todd £4,525,246 (43.25%) and 23 October 2009 #1 Up £3,807,003 (36.41%) and 893rd inflated between 25 June 2021 #1 Fast & Furious 9 £6,014,132 (60.56%) and 05 October 2001 #1 Moulin Rouge £1,072,657 (19.63%)
The top 3 took £8,669,655 (82.9%) of the top 10; The Conjuring: Last Rites 64.8% (£6,777,552); The Roses 14.5% (£1,517,314); Weapons 3.6% (£374,789).
xth biggest percentage share #1 (64.81%) between 18 November 2022 #1 Black Panther Wakanda Forever £6,190,594 (65.09%) and 04 October 2024 #1 Joker: Folie A Deux £5,674,029 (64.75%)
104th biggest admissions (875,653) #1 24 October 2003 #1 Finding Nemo £3,887,996 (875,675) and 26 April 2002 #1 About A Boy £3,747,966 (873,652)
Down 8.32% from 2024; (£11,405,575); Beetlejuice 2 (£7,352,760); The Greatest Of All Time (£768,842); Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith RE (£159,314); Firebrand (£119,952); blur: Live At Wembley Stadium (£81,680); Spider-Man: Homecoming RE (£70,800); The Third Man (75th Anniversary Reissue) (£18,602); Batman Forever (Re: 2024) (£21,104); #1 Beetlejuice 2 £7,352,760 1st week 714 screens (64.47% of top 10).
Up 56.99% from 2023; (£6,660,831); The Nun 2 (£1,743,903); Jawan (£1,346,689); Past Lives (£515,509); My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (£411,191); School Of Rock (20th Anniversary) (£16,300); #1 The Nun 2 £1,743,903 1st week 561 screens (26.18%)
Up 108.81% 2022 (£5,007,757); See How They Run (£1,163,484); Tad the Lost Explorer and the Curse of the Mummy (£818,525); Jaws (Re: 2022) (£524,233); Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva (£516,943); Bodies Bodies Bodies (£351,159); #1 See How They Run £1,163,484 1st week 690 screens (23.2% of top 10)
Up 61.17% 2021 (£6,488,144); Respect (£424,514); Malignant (£409,299); Copshop (£198,225); #1 Shangi-Chi £3,583,848 2nd week 38% drop 653 screens (55.2% of top 10)
Up 179.10% 2020; (£3,746,637); The New Mutants (£686,407); After We Collided (£65,797); Les Misérables (£48,090); #1 Tenet £2,151,490 2nd week down 60% 613 screens (57.42% of top 10)
Down 12.68% 2019; (£11,975,243); It: Chapter Two (£7,368,586); #1 It: Chapter Two £7,368,586 1st week 652 screens (61.5% of the top 10)
Up 11.57% 2018: (£9,386,760); The Nun (£4,098,198); American Animals (£347,486); The Miseducation of Cameron Post (£142,996); Puzzle (£23,565); Final Score (£9,945); #1 The Nun £4,098,198 1st week 548 screens (43.6% of top 10)
Down 25.28% 2017: (£13,995,695); It (£10,002,443); Wind River (£437,899); Poster Boys (£24,964); #1 It £10,002,443 1st week 606 screens (71.4% of the top 10)
Up 40.91% 2016: (£7,420,952); Ben-Hur (£1,047,800); Don’t Breathe (£1,028,938); Kubo and the Two Strings (£844,027); Hell, or High Water (£552,230); Captain Fantastic (£280,614); Anthropoid (£227,591); #1 Sausage Party £1,219,972 2nd week 55% drop 533 screens (16.4% of the top 10)
Up 93.93% 2015; (£5,392,011); No Escape (£637,630); Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (£431,726); The Transporter Refuelled (£352,278); American Ultra (£347,401); Ricki and the Flash (£220,032); Dope (£39,787); #1 Straight Outta Compton £1,366,741 2nd week 456 screens (25.3% of top 10)
Up 53.58%% 2014: (£6,808,576); Sex Tape (£1,431,058); Before I Go to Sleep (£790,271); The Hundred-foot Journey (£694,875); The Guest (£313,003); They Came Together (£21,951); Island of Lemurs: Madagascar (£3,341); #1 Sex Tape £1,431,058 1st week 440 screens (21.1% of top 10)
Up 31.66% 2013: (£7,942,235); About Time (£1,761,079); Riddick (£1,415,141); #1 About Time £1,761,079 1st week 556 screens (22.2% of top 10)
Up 68.75% 2012: (£6,196,846); Dredd (£1,049,345); Lawless (£973,234); Anna Karenina (£875,702); That’s My Boy (£254,621); #1 Dredd £1,049,345 1st week 415 screens (16.9% of top 10)
Up 21.33% 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 £2,147,393 4th week 475 screens 42% drop (24.9% of top 10)
Up 58.22% 2010: (£6,609,071); Resident Evil: Afterlife (£1,690,655); Tamara Drewe (£615,553); Going the Distance (£436,361); Cyrus (£429,687); The Runaways (£59,443); #1 Resident Evil: Afterlife £1,690,655 1st week 361 screens (25.6% of top 10)
Up 20.14% 2009; (£8,704,321); District 9 (£2,288,378); 500 Days of Summer (£1,242,631); #1 District 9 £2,288,378 1st week 447 screens (26.3% of top 10)
Up 17.10% 2008; (£8,929,646); Rocknrolla (£1,565,439); The Duchess (£1,402,200); Disaster Movie (£925,655(; Bangkok Dangerous (£307,420); #1 Rocknrolla £1,565,439 1st week 362 screens (17.53% of top 10)
Up 49.31% 2007:(£7,003,476); Run, Fat Boy, Run (£2,010,250); Atonement (£1,634,065); Rise of the Footsoldier (£85,903); #1 Run, Fat Boy, Run £2,010,250 1st week 413 screens (28.7% of top 10)
Up 173.06% 2006; (£3,829,476); Right at your Door (£441,548); Little Miss Sunshine (£349,810); Pulse (£210,409); Beerfest (£208,782); Snow Cake (£23,944); #1 You, Me and Depree £746,602 3rd week 410 screens 36% drop (19.5% of top 10)
Up 77.74% 2005: (£5,883,345); The Longest Yard (£1,255,334); Cinderella Man (£614,346); Green Street (£446,369); The Man (£329,233); #1 The Longest Yard £1,255,334 1st week 379 screens (21.3% of top 10)
Up 63.52% 2004; (£6,394,789); The Terminal (£1,451,168); Hellboy (£1,058,375); Stage Beauty (£128,035); #1 The Terminal £1,451,168 1st week 436 screens (22.7% of top 10)
Up 99.64% 2003 (£5,237,796); Blackball (£376,233); Camp (£245,183); #1 The Pirates of the Caribbean 5th week (3rd #1 over 5 weeks) £1,542,745 456 screens 24% drop (29.4% of top 10)
Up 65.84% from 2002: (£6,305,370); The Bourne Identity (£2,150,511); Importance of Being Earnest (£554,413); Once Upon A Time In The Midlands (£129,920); #1 The Bourne Identity £2,150,511 1st week 419 screens (34.1% of top 10)
Up 39.92% from 2001 (£7,473,347); Moulin Rouge (£2,403,378); Scary Movie 2 (£1,553,796); #1 Moulin Rouge £2,403,378 1st week 284 screens (32.1% of top 10)
2024 Next week: (£8,847,393); Speak No Evil (£1,424,999); Lee (£705,643); Prima Facie – NT Live 2022 (Re: 2024) (Theatre) (£556,471); The Critic (£353,075); Spider-Man: Far From Home RE (£77,914); Batman & Robin (Re: 2024) (£15,189); #1 Beetlejuice 2 £4,272,202 2nd week 738 screens 42% drop (48.29% of top 10)
US Box Office
- The Conjuring: Last Rites – Warner Bros
Opened $84m; received mixed reviews (55% Rotten Tomatoes) and B CinemaScore
Took $8.5m Thursday previews; Weapons $5.7m; The Nun $5.4m; The Conjuring 2 $3.4m; The Conjuring $3.3m; The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It didn’t have Thursday night previews.
122nd biggest opening between Solo: A Star Wars Story and The Passion of the Christ (close to Fifty Shades of Grey, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Five Nights at Freddy’s and Halloween); #101 It: Chapter Two $91.06m; #54 It $123.4m
Took 40% from IMAX/PLF
It’s the 7th Warner Bros film to open consecutively this year after A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines, 1: The Movie, Superman and Weapons. Warner Bros are the first studio to open seven films back-to-back, opening with $40m+, after having a disappointing star of the year with Mickey 17 and Alto Knights, but as both had been delayed, neither was expected to open strongly.
The big question is, can Warner Bros make it 8 with One Battle After Another opening in two weeks? The Paul Thomas Anderson-directed film starring Leonardo DiCaprio has a $130m budget, twice as much as the director’s biggest film to date.
2007’s There Will Be Blood took $40.2m US and $76.4m worldwide. It was a surprising decision after Warner Bros delayed its release from August, it never had a world premiere at either Vennie or Toronto Film Festivals, but maybe the studio was wary of premiering it at either film festival after last year’s fiasco Joker: Folie à Deux, which should have never premiered at Venice Film Festival with a three-week gap before opening.
Ahead of opening, Warner Bros were predicting an opening of $35m with analysts predicting $50m, but across the weekend the opening increased higher and higher.
After the openings of the previous three Conjuring films, its opening was very surprising, especially after the poor reviews, and it has been 4 years since the last film.
What The Conjuring: Last Rites did have was it was trailed before Final Destination: Bloodlines, opening $51.6m, taking $138.13m and $307.43m worldwide and Weapons opening $43.5m, taking $143.04m and $251.54m worldwide.
Took $14.3m worldwide from IMAX; US $9.4m and $4.9m international.
The Conjuring Universe 8 films have taken $800m in the US and $2.3bn since 2013.
2021’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It opened $24.1m, taking $65.63m and $206.43m WW; 20% of the opening came from IMAX (8.8% $1.2m)/PLF/Dolby Cinema; it opened the week after A Quiet Place Part 2 opened.
2019’s Annabelle Comes Home opened $20.26m, taking $74.15m and $228.51m worldwide
2019’s The Curse of La Llorona opened $26.34m, taking $54.73m and $121.66m worldwide
2018’s The Nun opened $53.8m, taking $117.45m and $36.39m worldwide
2017’s Annabelle: Creation opened $35.01m, taking $102.1m and $305.38m worldwide
2016’s The Conjuring 2 opened $40.4m, taking $102.47m and $310.2m worldwide
2014’s Annabelle opened $37.13m, taking $84.27m and $256.86m worldwide
2013’s The Conjuring opened $41.85m, taking $137.4m and $317.78m worldwide
Warner Bros is currently the #1 studio in the US, internationally and worldwide, taking $1.73bn US $2bn international and $3.77bn worldwide, but with only One Battle After Another still to be released this year, they will soon be overtaken by Disney when they release Zootopia 2 and Avatar 3.
Opened $110m internationally from 66 territories and $194m worldwide; Mexico $13.3m; UK $8.8m; Brazil $7.7m; India $6.7m; Germany $5.6m; Indonesia $5.6m; Spain $5.1m; Philippines $4.5m; Italy $4.3m; Australia $3.6m.
- Hamilton (10th anniversary) – Disney
Opened $10.11m; received positive reviews (98% Rotten Tomatoes)
Took $850k from previews; Jaws 50th Anniversary $950k; Titanic 25th Anniversary $650k.
Took 6% from PLFs
10 years after the show opened on Broadway and five years after Disney acquired world rights for $75m to a filmed version of the musical shot in 2016. Disney planned to give it a theatrical release in October 2021, but due to COVID and, more likely, the launch of Disney+, opted to send it straight to streaming in July 2020.
Hamilton’s stage show has taken $1.5bn+ in the US; about $400m in the UK, with about £1m in weekly sales since 2017 and over $2.2bn worldwide since its debut in January 2015.
- Weapons – Warner Bros
Dropped 50% $5.22m in its fifth weekend, taking $142.9m
566th biggest fifth weekend between Fried Green Tomatoes and Wonder (close to It: Chapter Two, Batman Forever, World War Z and Edward Scissorhands)
2022’s Barbarian dropped 22.3% $2.19m and $36.54m of $40.84m and $45.35m worldwide
Sinners dropped 31.2% $15.2m and $240.57m of $278.57m and $363.87m worldwide.
Final Destination: Bloodlines dropped 37.9% $4m and $130.75m of $138.13m and $285.33m worldwide.
28 Years Later dropped 52% $1.32m and $68.72m of $70.44m and $150.44m worldwide.
2017’s Get Out dropped 34.1% $8.85m and $147.66m of $176.04m and $255.4m worldwide
Took $4.6m from 74 territories $108.5m total, and $251.5m worldwide.
- The Roses – Searchlight Pictures
Dropped 56% in the second weekend $2.75m and $12.23m
1989’s War of the Roses dropped 26.5% $6.97m and $19.18m of $86.9m/$237m
2025’s Black Bag dropped 44% $4.26m and $14.74m of $21.47 m and $43.53m worldwide
2022’s The Menu dropped 39.2% $5.47m and $18.94m of $38.5m and $79.62m worldwide
Took $5.8m from 44 territories $20m total, and $32.3m worldwide; UK $7.2m; Germany $1.5m; Holland $1.4m; France $1.3m; Australia $1.1m.
UK Box Office Top 10
Box Office Preview
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale will open closer to the first film between £4m-£5m, released in September 2019, £5,180,865 from 728 screens, taking £28,248,361; taking £9,882,483 in its opening week; 52.4% (£5,180,865) Fri-Sun and £4,701,618 Mon-Thurs.
While the sequel opened much lower than expected, some believed older audiences still hadn’t returned to the cinema after COVID, but after No Time To Die’s BO and the popularity of the original film and the TV series older audiences would have surely seen it if they wanted to; 2022’s Downton Abbey: A New Era opened £3,072,762, taking £14,894,086.
As Downton Abbey is part of the Gosford Park Cinematic Universe, 2001’s Gosford Park opened with £837,169, taking £12,259,248 and £22,268,006 inflation-adjusted. This led to the Downton Abbey TV series on ITV, launched in 2010 and ran for 52 episodes until 2015.
Since the final episode was broadcast on ITV on Christmas Day 2015 had been rumours of a spinoff film. In July 2018, it was announced that a film would be made, and Universal Pictures would release the film worldwide.
The Downton Abbey TV series was made by Carnival Films, but the films were financed by Universal Pictures instead of a British film distributor, highlighting the failure of the UK film industry over the last 30+ years. As Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale is seen as a British film with a British cast and filmed in the UK, but it’s as British as The Thursday Murder Club made by Netflix.
After the hundreds of millions of funding from the Lottery to the British Film industry, there shouldn’t be any reason why a film like Downton Abbey was made by a British Film company and released by a British distributor?
Would expect The Conjuring: Last Rites to have s similar second weekend drop as other films In the film universe, dropping about 60% taking £2.6m-£3m, which will see.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle will open similarly to 2024’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashira Training £641,878, and 2021’s Demon Slayer: Mugen Train £693,081.
The other new releases are likely to struggle to find an audience.
Opening in three weeks, The Long Walk, based on the 1979 novel by Stephen King by Richard Bachman, starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Mark Hamill and directed by Francis Lawrence.
Previously directed 2005’s Constantine, 2007’s I Am Legend, 2011’s Water for Elephants, 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; 2014’s 2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1; 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2; 2018’s Red Sparrow; 2022’s Slumberland; 2023’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and will next direct 2026’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
It’s Mark Hamill’s second Stephen King film that he has starred in this year, after the wonderful Life of Chuck, and The Long Walk will open similarly to The Life of Chuck, £486,294.
The big unknown is Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, a sequel to 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner and directed by Rob Reiner.
The original film has been a cult classic for over 40 years. The question is there an audience for the sequel 41 years later, and can it be as good as the original film?
Rob Reiner has directed some classic films over the last 41 years, including The Sure Thing, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few Good Men. Then came North in 1994, and he has struggled with the films he has directed over the last 21 years.
- The Smashing Machine – Entertainment Films
Biographical sports drama starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten and Oleksandr Usyk and written, directed by Benny Safdie. It was shot on 16mm film and 70mm IMAX film cameras; the first A24 film to be shot with IMAX.
Had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival and received positive reviews from critics (83% Rotten Tomatoes); the first trailer was released in April.
- Avatar: The Way of Water (re-release) – Disney
Disney will re-release the film ahead of the release of Avatar: Fire and Ash in December, as they did with Avatar in September 2022.
Avatar opened with £1,218,692; Friday £276k; including 19% from 51 IMAX screens (£231,551) with 86% from 3D and 3D IMAX.
Other wide re-releases include.
2012’s Titanic 3D opened £2,856,540 taking £10,964,978; 3.85x opening
2011’s The Lion King 3D opened £2,746,763 taking £12,154,600; 4.45x opening
1998’s The Exorcist opened £2,186,977 (£4,384,807 inflation inflated) #1 249 screens taking £7,143,595 (£14,322,642 inflation inflated) 3.3x opening.
2000’s A Clockwork Orange opened £618,615 (£1,207,345 inflation inflated) taking £1,694,263 (£3,306,678 inflation inflated) 2.75x opening
Avatar re-release can only really be compared with the Star Wars trilogy 1997 re-release; Star Wars; A New Hope Special Edition opened £3,770,206 (£7,484,832 inflation inflated); The Empire Strikes Back £2,023,379 (£3,949,010 inflation inflated); Return of the Jedi £1,695,114 (£3,308,338) as Disney have heavily promoted Avatar: The Way of Water re-release far more than the other recent re-releases.
In the 80s and 90s, before Disney got into the reimagination game, they would regularly re-release one of their animated classics, and they would always find an audience as cinemagoers always enjoyed seeing them in the cinema, e.g., 1993’s The Jungle Book opened £579,602 (£1,458,936 inflation adjusted), taking £6,924,777 (£17,430,591 inflation adjusted) 12x opening.
Ahead of the re-release of Avatar, James Cameron said that “Young film fans never had the opportunity to see the film in a movie theatre,” and “Even though they think they may have seen the film, they really haven’t seen it.” Sounding like he was quoting from the 1996 Star Wars re-release trailer, ‘for an entire generation people have experienced Avatar the only way it’s been possible on the TV screen, but if you’ve only seen it this way you haven’t seen it at all.”
Avatar opened in December 2009 £8,509,050/£12,466,384, taking £93,442,625/£136,900,316.
Avatar: The Way of Water opened in December 2022 £11,187,562, taking £75,746,774 with almost half of Avatar’s admissions, 9,977,249 vs 17,176,953.
Avatar was #1 for 8 of its opening 10 weeks, compared to Avatar: The Way of Water for 7 weeks; the difference was that rival studios kept their distance from Avatar 2, with Universal Pictures holding back Puss In Boots: The Last Wish until February.
- Him – Universal Pictures
Sports horror starring Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, and Jim Jefferies and directed by Justin Tipping and produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
Based on a spec script, GOAT (greatest of all time), it was on the 2022 Blacklist