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Box Office Round-up
A Minecraft Movie continued its hugely impressive run, adding £5.3m from Friday to Sunday, which takes it to £45.4m, just £900k behind Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy as the second biggest film of 2025. Early this week it will overtake Bridget Jones to become the biggest film of 2025. It also has a chance of surpassing The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s final total of £54.9m.
Sinners opened in second with an impressive £2.4m from Friday to Sunday, the eighth biggest opening weekend of 2025. This is the fourth collaboration between Michael B. Jordan in a lead role, and Ryan Coogler as filmmaker. 2016’s Creed opened with £2.2m, and finished with a total of £5.9m, so Sinners is going to fly past that.
Steve Coogan comedy-drama The Penguin Lessons opened in third with £1.1m, which includes £286k from previews after a Wednesday launch. This film is written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope who have had three other films they’ve co-written together hit cinemas that also starred Coogan. The Lost King opened with £369k in 2022, Stan and Ollie opened with £2.4m in 2019 and Philomena opened with £1.5m in 2013.
Rami Malek thriller, The Amateur, had a great second weekend adding £903k across Friday to Sunday, which is down just 18% from last weekend. After 10 days in cinemas it is now up to £3m. Last week I compared its opening to March’s Black Bag, which is currently up to £3.8m, but it now looks like The Amateur will sail past this total.
Rounding out the top five is another new entry, Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s war-drama Warfare. It opened with £638k from Friday to Sunday. This time last year, Alex Garland directed Civil War, which opened with £1.8m and finished its run with £6.4m, so the less recognisable human faces in Warfare may have played against it.
Outside of the top five, Snow White had a good midweek last week and has crossed the £10m mark in sixth. It’s now up to £10.6m.
Next Weekend
The Accountant 2 is a sequel to the 2016 hit. Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) applies his brilliant mind and illegal methods to reconstruct the unsolved puzzle of a Treasury chief's murder.
Until Dawn is a big screen adaptation of the popular video game. A group of friends trapped in a time loop, where mysterious foes are chasing and killing them in gruesome ways, must survive until dawn to escape it.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith is a re-release of the third film in George Lucas’s prequel trilogy. It’s returns to cinemas for six days.
The Buzz
The Roses is a comedy-drama from Jay Roach (the Austin Powers franchise, Meet The Parents franchise) starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignite. It’s an adaptation of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel, The War Of The Roses, which was adapted into a film in 1989 by Danny DeVito, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, which was one of the biggest films of 1989. This new version has a great supporting cast too, including Ncuti Gatwa, Kate McKinnon, Allison Janney, Jamie Demetriou and Andy Samberg. It looks terrific and should be one of the best films in H2 for ABC1 women when it hits cinemas on 1 September. Here’s the first trailer: https://youtu.be/dKxhLv3EGlo?feature=shared.
Across The Pond
Sinners opened in the top spot with an impressive $48m debut. A Minecraft Movie fell to second, posting a $41.3m third weekend, taking its total after three weekends in cinemas to $344.6m. This is the first time in over a decade that a single studio has had two films gross over $40m in the same weekend. Congratulations to Warner Bros. Faith-based animation The King Of Kings added $17.3m across the Easter weekend for a new total of $45.3m. The Amateur added $7.2m in fourth for a new total of $27.3m, while Warfare added $4.9m in fifth for a new total of $17.1m.