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Box Office Round-up
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is setting a terrific pace and a benchmark for the rest of 2025’s films. It added £6.9m on its third weekend, which is down just 33% from its opening weekend. That takes its total after 11 days in cinemas to £27.3m, and after its second weekend, the previous film, Bridget Jones’s Baby, was on £21.2m (from one fewer day) so this sequel is tracking well ahead of previous instalments. Bridget Jones’s Baby finished on £48.3m, so we could be looking at the first film in the series to crack the £50m mark.
Captain America: Brave New World stayed in second, adding £2.9m, a drop of 54% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £13.2m and the target is still the £19.4m that Captain America: The Winter Soldier finished on. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which released in February 2023, finished on £19.3m, so that would be a good target too.
Dog Man stayed in third adding £2m, which is up 9% from last weekend – the benefit of Friday being a half term day. That takes its total after 17 days in cinemas to £11m. According to the internet, Wales and parts of England are on half term this week, so hopefully Dog Man will have a solid midweek this week too. The big family film from October half term, The Wild Robot, is currently on £13.8m, so it looks like Dog Man is going to have the legs to get past that, which would be a terrific result.
Osgood Perkins had a big breakout hit last year with Longlegs, and his follow-up The Monkey made a decent debut too, opening with £1.1m, which includes £69k from previews. Aside from Nosferatu, the horror/thrillers that have opened this year have all opened around £660k (Companion: £672k, Wolf Man: £654k), so The Monkey has opened much more strongly than them.
Mufasa: The Lion King rounded out the top five, adding £586k on its 10th weekend, and that total is up 29% from last weekend. That takes its total to £32.4m and it’s creeping up towards the £37.3m that Aladdin finished with.
Outside of the top five, Brazilian drama I’m Still Here opened in sixth with £486k, which includes £231k from previews. It’s nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture, so if it wins one or two next weekend, it could have a long and fruitful run.
Next Weekend
Attack On Titan: The Last Attack is a film from the popular anime series. The fate of the world hangs in the balance as Eren unleashes the ultimate power of the Titans. With a burning determination to eliminate all who threaten Eldia, he leads an unstoppable army of Colossal Titans towards Marley. It’s in cinemas from Wednesday.
The Last Showgirl stars Pamela Anderson as a seasoned showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Jamie Lee Curtis and Dave Bautista co-star.
The Buzz
Last April, British writer-director Alex Garland had his biggest hit to date with Civil War, a hot-button thriller with hugely powerful action sequences. This April he has a new action-thriller hitting cinemas in Warfare, which he co-directed with ex-Navy Seal Ray Mendoza, and the film is based on Mendoza’s real-life experiences during the Iraq War. Similarly to Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down in 2001, Warfare features a who’s-who of up-and-coming actors, including Joseph Quinn, Will Poulter, Kit Connor, Charles Melton and Noah Centineo. Like Civil War, it looks tense, immediate, and a film that needs to be seen on the big screen. It’s one of the best films for ABC1 men in Q2 when it hits cinemas on 18 April.
Across The Pond
Captain America: Brave New World made it two weeks in the top spot, adding $28.2m, a drop of 68% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to $141.2m. The Monkey opened in second with $14.2m, the second highest opening ever for distributor Neon. Paddington In Peru added $6.5m in third for a new total of $25.3m. Dog Man added $5.9m in fourth which takes its total to $78.8m, and Chinese phenomenon Ne Zha 2 rounded out the top five, adding $4.4m on its second weekend for a new total of $14.9m.