| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Aug 21-23 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spider-Man: Brand New Day (US) | Sony | £3.6m | £87.2m | 4 |
| 2 | The Odyssey (US) | Universal | £2.8m | £75m | 6 |
| 3 | Insidious: Out Of The Further (US) | Sony | £2.2m | £2.2m | 1 |
| 4 | The End Of Oak Street (US) |
Warner Bros | £930,000 | £4.6m | 2 |
| 5 | Spa Weekend (US) | Black Bear | £493,000 | £494,000 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.36
Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey broke into the all-time top 15 at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office; as new titles Insidious: Out Of The Further and Spa Weekend made the top five.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland with £87.2m, ahead of Top Gun: Maverick (£83.8m) and just behind Avengers: Endgame (£88.7m). The Sony title put on £3.6m on its fourth weekend, a drop of 41%. It is still ahead Spider-Man: No Way Home’s £79.3m at the same stage, although took less than that film’s £4.5m on the equivalent session.
No Way Home ended on £97.3m and is currently fourth on the all-time chart; Brand New Day will retain hopes of catching it before the end of its run.
The Odyssey has crossed £75m, and is now the 15th -highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland. The Universal blockbuster added £2.8m on its sixth weekend in cinemas, falling just 26%. It is also the highest-grossing literary adaptation ever in the territory, overtaking Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (£73.2m).
Sony’s Insidious: Out Of The Further opened to £2.2m, from 527 sites at a £4,171 average. This was the third-biggest opening of the Insidious franchise, behind 2013’s Insidious 2 (£2.9m) and 2023’s Insidious: The Red Door (£2.3m); the latter has the highest total of the series, with £8.1m.
David Robert Mitchell’s thriller The End Of Oak Street put on £930,000 on its second session for Warner Bros. The 56% drop brought it to £4.6m total.
US comedy Spa Weekend, directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, opened to £493,000 for Black Bear, from 487 sites at a £1,013 average. The film, which stars Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau and Anna Faris, has £494,000 including previews.
The top five titles took a cumulative £10m, staying in eight-figure territory for a sixth consecutive weekend. Although 24% down on last weekend, the figure was still 189% up on the equivalent weekend from last year, showing a marked improvement in summer box office. Disney’s The Dog Stars and Universal romantic comedy One Night Only close out the month from next weekend.
Camp Miasma draws audiences
Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie had a £476,000 third weekend for Paramount – a 32% drop that was in the range of other family animated titles, and brought the film to £4.4m total.
Disney’s Toy Story 5 is up to £56.4m, after a 29% drop on its 10th weekend in cinemas. The animated franchise title added £379,000 to maintain a top 10 position and overtake animations including Incredibles 2 (£56.2m).
Jason Statham vehicle Mutiny began with £373,000 for Studiocanal, from 373 sites at a £999 average. It is the lowest opening for a Statham-led film since 2015’s Wild Card, which started with £195,000.
A24’s Tony starring Dominic Sessa posted an excellent 87% increase on its second weekend with £341,000, having expanded to 356 locations. The Anthony Bourdain drama has passed the £1m mark already in a strong performance.
Minions & Monsters put on £305,000 on its eighth weekend for Universal, a 24% drop that brought the animated title to £18.2m total.
Moana added £239,000 on its seventh weekend for Disney and is up to £13.5m total. With this 29% drop, it has recovered somewhat from a soft opening with a succession of decent holds.
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma opened to £226,000 at the weekend for Mubi, from 176 screens at a £1,287 average, healthy for an independent title and the second-best of the weekend among new English-language releases.
The Cannes 2026 title has £329,000 after decent previews, with London’s BFI Southbank as its top site but the Light House Dublin, Glasgow Film Theatre, Watershed Bristol and Duke’s at Komedia in Brighton showing regionality in rounding out the top five. It has already topped the £293,000 of 2024’s I Saw The TV Glow to become Schoenbrun’s highest-grossing film.
Disaster comedy Stop! That! Train! starring RuPaul took £74,000 on opening for Universal, from 153 sites at a £484 average. The film has £86,200 including previews.
Following its club night event at Edinburgh film festival a week previously, Park Circus’s Trainspotting re-release took £64,800 at the weekend. Danny Boyle’s film made £12.4m on its original 1996 release, with over £250,000 in additional takings from subsequent re-releases.
Olivia Wilde’s four-hander comedy The Invite put on £51,900 on its eighth weekend, a 43% drop for Black Bear that brought it to £4.2m total.
Religious animation David opened to £41,400 for Vue Lumière, and is up to £46,100 including previews.
Samuel Abrahams’ UK comedy Lady held well on its second weekend for MetFilm Distribution, dropping 32% with £34,000 taking it to £153,000 total.
Curry Barker’s Obsession continued its extraordinary box office run through a 15th weekend. The horror phenomenon added £26,900, a drop of 62%, and is up to £19.9m for Universal.
Early Man, the latest Park Circus re-release of Aardman Animations films for the company’s 50th anniversary, took £11,700 at the weekend, having brought in £11.2m on its original 2018 run.
Comedy Holy Days added £9,600 on its second weekend for Munro Film, and is up to £66,800.
True Brit Entertainment’s Sunny Dancer added £8,900 on its second weekend, an 89% drop from its opening that brought it to £206,000 in total.
Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man added £2,320 on its third weekend, and is up to £573,000 for Studiocanal.
Three days of previews of Looney Tunes animation Coyote vs. Acme took £325,000, with the film officially opening on Friday, August 28 through Altitude.
James: Getting Away With It, a UK documentary about the 90s indie band, took £195,000 last week from screenings on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, including a £1,403 screen average for its live broadcast on Monday, August 17.
Anime Ltd’s re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 Kiki’s Delivery Service, in Imax only on its opening weekend, took £102,000 including its previews on August 18, at a strong £2,040 location average.
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