‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ nears £33m at UK-Ireland box office as ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’, ‘Akira’ make top five

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie neared £33m on its third weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, as new releases Lee Cronin’s The Mummy and Akira entered the top five.

Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie added £2.6m – a 54% drop that brought it to £32.9m total. It is down on the £4.3m third weekend of 2023 predecessor The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which was at £41.6m by this stage and ended on £54.9m; but has extended its position as the highest-grossing release of 2026, passing the totals of Deadpool 2  (a lower £32.9m), Shrek Forever After  (£32.7m) and The Incredibles (£32.4m).

Amazon MGM Studios’ Project Hail Mary, distributed by Sony, topped up by £1.7m on its fifth weekend in cinemas – a 32% drop. The sci-fi is at £30.3m total, comfortably the highest-grossing Amazon production, and has passed the totals of Jurassic World Rebirth  (£30.3m), King Kong  (£30.1m) and Man Of Steel  (£30m).

For the second successive weekend, Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson posted the best hold of the top 20 titles. The Entertainment Film Distributors release fell 32%, slightly less than Project Hail Mary. It is up to an impressive £8.1m from three weekends, and is now likely to cross the £10m mark across its run.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy was the highest-grossing new film this weekend, with £970,220 from 550 sites at a £1,764 average for Warner Bros. The film is a reimagining of The Mummy franchise, which dates back to 1932, and which hit a box office peak in the late 90s and early 00s with The Mummy (£3.4m opening; £17.8m total) and The Mummy Returns (£5.9m; £20.4m).

A re-release of Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime Akira completed the top five, with £881,306 from 412 sites for Anime Ltd, at a £2,139 average. This surpasses the combined totals of previous re-releases of the film, including £357,792 in 2020, and £114,952 in 2016. The 2026 re-release has £883,200 in total.

Cumulative takings for the top five titles fell 38% on last weekend, and are now down for consecutive weekends since Mario Galaxy opened. The figures are also down 27% on the equivalent weekend from last year; exhibitors will be looking for a headline performance from Universal’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael from Wednesday 22 to keep year-to-date ahead of 2025.

Tree  proves Magic for EFD

Despite dropping out of the top five, UK independent title The Magic Faraway Tree posted another solid weekend. It fell 49% with £857,125 on its fourth session, and is now up to £13.4m total for Entertainment Film Distributors.

Independent US animation Time Hoppers: The Silk Road opened to £219,142 for Miracle63, from 291 sites at a £753 average.

BTS World Tour Arirang In Japan, the latest concert film from Kpop superstars BTS, took £203,738 at the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing, from 246 sites at an £828 average.

National Theatre Live screenings of Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons starring Bryan Cranston took £196,211 from Friday to Sunday, from 797 sites at a £246 average, The filmed play has £597,807 in total including its Thursday 16 opening.

Bollywood comedy-horror Bhooth Bangla leads Bakrania Media’s slate, taking £187,526 on its opening weekend from 129 sites at a £1,454 site average. Including previews, the film is up to £221,605.

Hoppers leads Disney’s slate, with £178,133 on its seventh weekend in cinemas – a 56% drop that brings it to £13.9m total, overtaking family animations including Pokemon Detective Pikachu and The Bad Guys (both £13.8m).

Glenrothan, the directorial debut of Succession actor Brian Cox, opened to £159,407, from 470 sites at a £339 average for Lionsgate.

Universal romantic comedy You, Me & Tuscany fell 61% on its second session, adding £117,454 to hit £655,281 total.

North American horror Undertone  put on £76,675 for Vertigo Releasing on its second weekend – a 72% drop that brought it to £515,162 total.

James McAvoy’s California Schemin’ leads Studiocanal’s slate, adding £68,182 on its second weekend – a 62% drop that brings it to £429,382 total.

A 25^th anniversary re-release of Bridget Jones’s Diary brought in £57,686 for Universal, from 519 sites at a £119 average. The original film took £42.1m in 2001.

Francois Ozon’s The Stranger posted a decent hold, adding £51,459 on its second weekend for Curzon – a 37% drop that sees it at £249,723 total.

Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother  fell 42% for Mubi on its second weekend, with £50,501 taking it to £245,490 total.

Moviegoers Entertainment’s Dhurandhar: The Revenge will become the highest-grossing Indian film ever in the UK & Ireland today. It added £45,451 on its fifth weekend, putting it at £4.4m, and just £1,461 behind the £4.4m of current record-holder Pathaan from 2023.

Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come added £29,615 on its fifth weekend for Disney – a 55% drop that brought it to £2.1m total, ahead of the first film’s £2m.

Vue Lumière’s Bluey At The Cinema: Playdates With Friends added £29,360 on its fourth weekend in cinemas, and is up to £630,071 total.

Curzon’s Amélie re-release added £29,246 on its third weekend, and is up to £249,801 total.

Event cinema release Paul Smith: Pablo Live took £28,152 for CinemaLive.

Universal romantic drama Reminders Of Him added £27,386 on its sixth weekend in cinemas, and is up to £4.4m total.

Woo-Ping Yuen’s Chinese action adventure Blades Of The Guardians: Wind Rises In The Desert started with £22,034 from 76 sites at a £290 average, and has £34,865 including previews for Trinity CineAsia.

David Mackenzie’s Fuze added £21,672 on its third weekend for Studiocanal, and is up to £683,398 total.

French drama Colours Of Time started with £15,005 from 29 sites at a £547 average for Studiocanal.

UK pub comedy Mother’s Pride is up to £3.7m for Entertainment Film Distributors, having added £14,179 on its seventh weekend in cinemas.

Venice 2025 title The Wizard Of The Kremlin started with £11,423 for Signature Entertainment, from 58 sites at a £208 average. The film has £15,273 including previews.

Indian comedy Khushkhabri started with £11,324 for Bakrania Media, from 23 sites at a £492 site average.

Gabriel Mascaro’s sci-fi The Blue Trail started with £9,888 for MetFilm Distribution from 30 sites at a £330 average, and has £22,643 including previews.

Bill Condon’s musical Kiss Of The Spider Woman starring Jennifer Lopez took £6,856 from 145 sites for Sony, at a per-site average of just £47.

A second weekend of Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me on re-release brought in £5,196, for a £117,763 total – the biggest total for a re-release of the film to date.

Christian Petzold’s Cannes 2025 Directors’ Fortnight entry Miroirs No. 3 started with £4,805 for New Wave Films, from 13 screens at a £370 average. Including previews, the film has £8,796.

Gavin Lin’s Taiwanese musical drama Sunshine Women’s Choir started with £3,045 for Central City Media.

Ferzan Ozpetek’s Diamanti started with £2,908 from 21 sites at a £138 average for Vue Lumière, and has £7,413 in total.

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