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Box Office Round-up
Mufasa: The Lion King continues to hold at No.1 for the third consecutive weekend, dropping only 23% to gross a further £3.2m. To date the film has grossed £20.7m, making it the 13th biggest release of 2024 and will soon displace Kung Fu Panda 4 (£22.1m) in the annual top 10.
The highest new opener for the weekend is Nosferatu, with £3.0m across the 3-day weekend. Including its Wednesday/Thursday shows, its total stands at £5.2m and it will rank at No.1 in the official box office chart. Across its opening five days it has already outgrossed the lifetime best of director Robert Egger’s previously highest grossing film (The Northman, £4.6m).
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is at No.3, adding £2.6m in its second weekend, a drop of 34% from its opening weekend. To date its grossed £18.7m, tracking 31% behind the lifetime total of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (£27.0m).
Moana 2 remains at No. 4 with £1.7m, dropping 21% in its sixth weekend. Disney’s musical sequel has a total of £38.2m to date, closing in on Dune: Part II (£39.6m) to become the fifth highest-grossing 2024 release.
The second-highest new opener this week is We Live In Time at No.5, with £1.6m 3-day weekend and a total of £2.8m since its Wednesday opening. The title will place at No.3 in the official chart.
Wicked follows at No.6 in its seventh weekend, a drop of 39% to add a further £1.6m. The musical has now achieved a total to date of £57.3m, making it the third-highest grossing musical of all time, behind only Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (£65.6m) and Wonka (£63.5m). This week it will overtake Deadpool & Wolverine (£57.5m) to become the second-biggest release of 2024.
Better Man is at No.7 with £925k, a drop of 27% from its opening weekend. The Robbie Williams biopic has a total to date of £3.8m.
Paddington In Peru sits at No.8 in its ninth weekend of release, dropping only 18% for a gross of £672k. The total to date now stands at £34.8m, 8% behind the lifetime total of 2014's Paddington (£38.0m).
Closing the chart at No. 9 and No.10 are Gladiator II (£294k, and a total of £31.1m) and Conclave (£286k, bringing its total gross to £6.1m).
The overall box office is down 1% from last weekend, and up 37% versus the equivalent weekend in 2024 when Wonka remained at No.1 in its fifth weekend and One Life opened at No.2 with £1.7m.
Year-to-date, 2025 starts 37% ahead of the same period in 2024.