| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Oct 23-25 | Total | Week |
| 1 | Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House (UK) | Lionsgate | £2.4m | £2.5m | 1 |
| 2 | Clayface (US) | Warner Bros | £1.9m | £2m | 1 |
| 3 | Ali G: Who Iz I? (UK-US) | Amazon MGM | £1.3m | £1.3m | 1 |
| 4 | Street Fighter (US) | Paramount | £1m | £4.3m | 2 |
| 5 | Wildwood (US) | Black Bear | £983,000 | £1m | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.34
New releases dominated the UK-Ireland box office top five this weekend, with Lionsgate comedy Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House rising to the top, grossing £2.4m from 642 sites, for a respectable site average of £3,827.
Simon Hynd directs, having helmed 15 episodes of the 2019-2023 BBC comedy series the film is based on. The poltergeists of Button House are faced with the unwanted arrivals of a group of teens and a protest group, leading the ghosts to discover the art of human possession. Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lolly Adefope, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby and Martha Howe-Douglas reprise their roles from the show. Including previews, it’s on £2.5m.
Warner Bros’ Clayface is in second place, opening with £1.9m this weekend from 576 locations for a site average of £3,350. Topped up with £82,000 in previews, its total is £2m. Tom Rhys Harries and Naomi Ackie star in the third film in the relaunched DC Universe franchise. James Watkins directs the story of a rising Hollywood star whose body gets turned into clay. The film has topped the weekend’s global box office chart.
Amazon MGM’s mockumentary Ali G: Who Iz I? opened to £1.3m from 458 locations, for a site average of £2,838. Despite advertising the film as a one-weekend only cinema release, the film will now remain open for UK-Ireland holdover bookings next weekend.
It is the sixth best opening for a comedy at the UK-Ireland box office this year but is down on Sasha Baron Cohen’s previous cinematic outings. The last Ali G film, Ali G Indahouse, opened to £10.3m in 2002. The Dictator and Bruno opened at around £5m in 2012 and 2009 respectively, while Borat grossed £6.2m in its opening weekend in 2006.
Morgana Robinson stars as Ali G’s pregnant girlfriend, with the titular character travelling to the US in a misguided attempt to revive his talk show and support his growing family.
Last weekend’s UK-Ireland box office number one, Paramount’s martial arts film Street Fighter, kicked up £1m in its second weekend, and is now on £4.3m overall.
Black Bear’s Wildwood grossed £983,000 in its opening weekend, which was the distributor’s widest ever release, at 655 sites. The location average for the Laika animation and BFI London Film Festival world premiere was £1,501, with a total including previews of £1m. Travis Knight, CEO of US animation studio Laika, directs.
Universal animation Forgotten Island dropped 25% in its second session for a weekend gross of £938,000 and an overall figure of £2.9m.
Amazon MGM’s Verity starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson added £642,000 in its fourth weekend, released via Sony, and is now on £10.8m overall.
Universal horror Other Mommy’s third weekend stirred up £432,000, a 50% drop on its second weekend, for a total of £4.7m.
Paramount’s survival thriller Heart Of The Beast, led by Brad Pitt, grossed £281,000 in its fifth weekend, now on just shy of £7m.
Sony’s Resident Evil grossed £229,000 in its sixth weekend, for a total of £14.2m.
Sky theatrical record
In its sixth weekend on release, Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom grossed £307,000, an increase of 16% on its previous session – likely boosted by the start of the school half-term holidays. It is now the highest-grossing theatrical Sky Original film of all time, beating previous record holder Ellen Kuras’s Lee, which brought in £4.5m in September 2024. Studiocanal handled the theatrical release on behalf of Sky.
In event cinema, Trafalgar Releasing BTS World Tour Arirang In Buenos Aires grossed £237,000 from 231 locations after a Sunday release, for a site average of £1,036. A mini-festival of other K-pop concert films were released the day before at 43 sites: Enhypen: World Tour (Blood Saga) grossed £11,200 (site average of £261); Tomorrow X Together World Tour ‘Act: Tomorrow’ grossed £8,100 (site average of £189); and Hybe Cheering Party grossed £3,300 (site average of £76).
Mubi started with £198,000 from 86 locations for Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cannes Competition title Fatherland, about Nobel-winning author Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, starring Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller. The site average is £2,302, and a total opening including previews of £310,000.
In its fifth weekend, Universal’s Sense And Sensibility brought in £193,000, just a 13% drop on its previous session. Georgia Oakley’s Jane Austen adaptation is up to £6.4m overall.
Universal’s The Odyssey was up 2% on its previous session in its 15th weekend on release, grossing £176,000, with a £88m total.
Taika Waititi’s BFI London Film Festival world premiere Klara And The Sun, an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 sci-fi novel starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, opened to £176,000 from 368 locations for Sony. The site average was £477.
Paramount animation Tad And The Magic Lamp opened to £175,000 from 502 sites, for a venue average of £349. Its cumulative figure including £102,000 in previews is £277,000.
Dogwoof’s Gaza documentary NAZA held strong on its second weekend, adding £134,000, a drop of only 23% from opening. Its total is now £548,000.
Sony’s The Social Reckoning brought in £118,000 in its third weekend, bringing its total to £1.6m.
Kazoo Films’ animation Monster Mia, about a young girl who starts at a monster academy as the only human and directed by Verena Fels, grossed £64,000 from 342 sites, for a location average of £187. Plus previews, it’s up to £166,000.
Warner Bros’ Tom Cruise-led Digger added £62,000 in its fourth session, now on just shy of £3m overall.
Trafalgar also released Noel Coward’s comedy play Fallen Angels, grossing £96,000 across the weekend, for a site average of £269 from 355 locations. Including previews, its total is £204,000.
On its 13th session, Spider-Man: Brand New Day added £61,000 for Sony, for a £100.2m total.
In its seventh weekend on release, Studiocanal’s Pressure added £49,000, a 47% drop on its previous weekend. Its total is now £7.3m.
Moviegoers Entertainment’s Hindi-language spy comedy Udta Teer, the directorial debut of Aakash Kaushik, opened to £46,000 from 78 sites, for a location average of £588.
Paramount’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie added £49,000 in its 12th weekend on release, cumulating £6.5m.
Park Circus’ Scream re-release scared up £33,000 from 297 locations, for a site average of £110.
A Scottish Ballet reimagining of Romeo And Juliet titled These Violent Delights, handled by Tull Stories, grossed £6,500 overall after an event opening on Wednesday (October 21), with £204 from three sites across the weekend, averaging £68.
Mubi’s documentary Making Marie Antoinette, directed by the late Eleanor Coppola about her daughter Sofia’s directing of 2006’s Marie Antoinette, opened to £1,302 from six locations, for a venue average of £217, and an overall figure including previews of £18,000.
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