| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | May 1-3 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Devil Wears Prada 2 (US) | Disney | £9.3m | £12.2m | 1 |
| 2 | Michael (US) |
Universal | £7m | £25.8m | 2 |
| 3 | The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (US) | Universal | £961,096 | £36.3m | 5 |
| 4 | Project Hail Mary (US) | Sony | £580,160 | £33.2m | 7 |
| 5 | Hokum (US-Ire) | Black Bear | £568,100 | £789,000 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35
The Devil Wears Prada 2 scored a strong £9.3m opening weekend at the UK-Ireland box office and has brought in 85% of the first film’s total already.
The Disney sequel took an excellent £12,785 average from 729 cinemas. It is the second-biggest opening of 2026, less than £100,000 behind the £9.4m of last month’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie; and will increase slightly with final figures still to come in.
Including the Monday Bank Holiday, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has £12.2m already banked – almost 86% of the first film’s total. It will pass the £14.2m of 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada ahead of next weekend; and has already topped the totals of films including Pretty Woman (a lower £12.2m), Cats (£12m), The Proposal (£11.9m) and Anyone But You (£11.7m).
It marks a great start for Disney, with the film now looking to pass the £35m mark across its run.
Despite falling from the number one spot on its second weekend, it was still good news for Universal’s Michael. The music biopic fell just 18% on its second session – a better performance than its North American drop, although slightly off its 16% international hold.
It added just over £7m on its second session; including Monday it is up to £25.8m, passing the total of Rocketman (£23.5m) and set to overtake Elvis (£27.8m) before the weekend.
The top two films dominated the chart, with no other title taking over £1m. In third was Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which dropped just 13% on its fifth weekend with £961,096. It is up to £36.3m, overtaking animated comparisons including Ice Age III (£35.2m) and Up (£34.8m).
Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary continued its strong box office run through a seventh weekend, with £580,160 – a 31% drop that brought it to £33.2m, ahead of Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (£33m) and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (£32.9m).
Black Bear horror Hokum made it two new titles in this weekend’s top five, with a £568,100 opening weekend, from 455 sites at a £1,249 average. The film is up to £789,000 in total.
Takings for the top five titles soared 64%, to a sizeable £18.4m – the biggest weekend of the year to date, ahead of Mario Galaxy’s opening weekend last month. The figures are also up 75% on the equivalent weekend from last year, forming more good news for cinemas after April was up on 2025. The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Michael will continue to dominate cinemas next weekend; with Warner Bros’ Mortal Kombat II and Amazon MGM Studios comedy The Sheep Detectives looking to find space.
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UK family title The Magic Faraway Tree held its spot in sixth place, falling a slim 20% on its sixth session with £270,352. It is now up to a sturdy £14.5m for Entertainment Film Distributors (EFD), with only Hamnet (£19m) ahead of it among UK-produced releases in 2026.
Also for EFD, Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama added £221,353 on its fifth session. This 56% drop brought it to £9.9m; it will cross the £10m mark by this time next week, marking an excellent result for the film.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy fell back 65% on its third weekend for Warner Bros, with £126,245 taking it to £2.2m to date.
Trafalgar Releasing’s latest opera title Eugene Onegin has £79,000 from screenings on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 alone.
Mark Jenkin’s Rose Of Nevada added £73,750 on its second weekend for BFI Distribution – a 33% drop from its opening, with the film at £396,580 in total, overtaking the £311,103 total of Jenkin’s previous film Enys Men.
Japanese action horror Exit 8 added £38,355 on its second weekend for Vertigo Releasing – a 66% drop that brought it to £283,567 total.
Comedy-horror Bhooth Bangla leads the slate of Asian film distributor Bakrania Media, adding £35,184 on its fourth weekend in cinemas, for a £450,256 total.
Disney animation Hoppers added £32,765 on its ninth weekend in cinemas, and is up to £14m total.
Bakrania Media opened action biopic Raja Shivaji to £24,330 at the weekend, from 58 sites at a £434 average. The film has £28,747 in total.
Anime Ltd’s re-release of Japanese favourite Akira added £21,651 on its third weekend in cinemas, for a cumulative total of £1.3m for the re-issue.
Power To The People: John And Yoko Live In NYC, a concert film shot in 1972, took £17,743 from Friday to Sunday for Trafalgar Releasing, and is up to £49,074 in total.
Francois Ozon’s The Stranger leads Curzon’s slate, adding £17,251 on its fourth weekend to hit £362,203 in total.
UK-US animation Hitpig! put on £15,376 on its second weekend for Kazoo Films, and is up to £65,000 total.
Music biopic Primavera added £11,462 on its second weekend, and is up to £79,852 for Curzon.
Indian drama Dhabkaaro started with £9,250 for Bakrania Media, from 13 sites at a 771 average; and with £11,871 in total.
On its third weekend in cinemas, Brian Cox’s directorial debut Glenrothan added £9,718. The UK film has £413,944 in total for Lionsgate.
With £8,998 on its seventh weekend in cinemas, Dhurandhar: The Revenge extended its lead as the highest-grossing Indian film of all time in the UK and Ireland, with £4.4m in total for distributor Moviegoers Entertainment.
AA Films UK’s romantic drama Ek Din, distributed by Bakrania Media, opened to £7,113, from 38 sites at a £192 average; and is up to £8,895.
Animation Time Hoppers: The Silk Road walked to a further £6,842 on its third weekend, and is at £279,586 for Miracle Comms.
Universal romantic drama You, Me & Tuscany is closing out with £4,808 on its fourth weekend in cinemas, for a £761,568 total.
Anime That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime: Tears Of The Azure Sea took £4,104 over the weekend for Sony, and is at £25,653 following screenings last week.
Yael Melamede’s Israeli documentary Ada: My Mother The Architect opened to £2,393 for Verve Pictures, from 11 sites at a £218 average. The film has £3,093 including Monday.
Vertigo Releasing’s re-release of James Gunn’s directorial debut Slither brought in £663 from 18 venues, and has £1,565 in total.
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