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Box Office Round-up
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy is still setting a terrific pace and a benchmark for the rest of 2025’s films. On its third weekend it added £4.1m, which is down 40% from its opening weekend. That takes its total after 18 days in cinemas to £36m. After its third weekend, the previous film Bridget Jones’s Baby was on £31.4m (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 £1.5m, a drop of 50% from last weekend. That takes its total after 17 days in cinemas to £15.7m, 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 £800k, which is down a hefty 67% from last weekend. That takes its total after four weekends in cinemas to £12.1m. The big family film from October half term, The Wild Robot, is currently on £13.8m, so it looks like Dog Man could 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 is proving a hit with the horror audience too. It added £604k on its second weekend, which is down 40% from last weekend. That takes its total to £2.2m and behind Nosferatu, it’s on track to be the second biggest horror film of 2025 to date.
The Last Showgirl was this weekend’s highest new entry, opening with £384k, which includes £93k from mid-February previews. This is the second highest opening of all-time for distributor Picturehouse Entertainment, behind 2018’s The Wife, which opened with £393k.
Outside of the top five, anime is back in the top 10 as Attack On Titan: The Last Attack opened in sixth with £384k, which includes £215k from previews. A number of Oscar Best Picture nominees climbed back up the chart too, with Conclave back in the top 10 on its 14th week of release! It added £197k for a new total of £8.9m. It’s now distributor Black Bear’s biggest film of all-time, having overtaken Longlegs (£8.1m).
Next Weekend
Mickey 17 is the latest film from Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho (Parasite). Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, known as an "expendable," who goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
One Of Them Days is a comedy starring Keke Palmer and SZA. When best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa discover Alyssa's boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.
Marching Powder reunites Danny Dyer with filmmaker Nick Love (The Football Factory, The Business). Dyer stars as Jack, arrested for drugs, strives in 6 weeks to repair marriage, curb bullying in-law, and guide stepbrother Kenny Boy, but his efforts fail as life spirals out of control.
The Buzz
The Phoenician Scheme is the latest film from Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Asteroid City, The French Dispatch). Known for his whimsical and heavily stylised stories, this new film is a dark tale of espionage following a strained father-daughter relationship within a family business. Twists revolve around betrayal and morally gray choices. As usual, Anderson has assembled just about the best cast of any film this year, including Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Riz Ahmed, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hope Davis, Jeffrey Wright, Bryan Cranston, Richard Ayoade, Bill Murray and more. Anderson is one of the most distinctive filmmakers working today and his films always play strongly with an upmarket, ABC1 audience and this will be no different when it hits cinemas on 23 May.
Across The Pond
Captain America: Brave New World made it three weeks in the top spot, adding $15m, a drop of 47% from last weekend. That takes its total after 17 days in cinemas to $163.7m. Last Breath opened in second with $7.8m, while The Monkey added $6.4m in third for a new total of $24.6m. Paddington In Peru added $4.5m in fourth for a new total of $31.4m, while Dog Man rounded out the top five, adding $4.2m for a new total of $84.1m.