| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Dec 5-7 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zootropolis 2 (US) | Disney | £4.2m | £11.7m | 2 |
| 2 | Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 (US) |
Universal | £3.3m | £3.3m | 1 |
| 3 | Wicked: For Good (US) | Universal | £3.2m | £37.7m | 3 |
| 4 | Andre Rieu’s 2025 Christmas Concert: Merry Christmas (Neth) |
Piece Of Magic | £840,000 | £840,000 | 1 |
| 5 | Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (US) | Lionsgate | £345,965 | £6.1m | 4 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.33
Disney animation Zootropolis 2 rose to top spot at the UK-Ireland box office on its second weekend, with a £4.2m session.
Falling just 29% on its opening, Zootropolis 2 is now at £11.7m total. Its second weekend was 57% up on the £2.7m second weekend of 2016’s Zootropolis, although that film’s cume was slightly higher at this stage with £12.6m.
It will soon overtake Universal’s Dog Man (£13.8m) to become the highest-grossing fully animated release of 2025.
Universal horror sequel Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 was this weekend’s highest-grossing new title, starting with £3.3m from 567 sites at a £5,771 average.
It scored marginally ahead of the £3.2m three-day opening of Five Nights At Freddy’s from 2023, on top of the chart. That film ended on £10.6m; pushing past it would represent a success for Universal on the sequel.
Freddy’s 2 narrowly pipped the third weekend of Universal musical Wicked: For Good by less than £40,000. John M. Chu’s film dropped 58% on its third session, with £3.2m; and is up to £37.6m total, overtaking Lilo & Stitch (£37.3m) and Jurassic World Rebirth (£35.9m) to become the third-highest-grossing film of the year.
It has, however, fallen behind last year’s Wicked at the same stage; that film added £5.3m on its third weekend, for a £37.7m running total. It ended on a huge £61.4m; that will likely be beyond For Good, but Universal will still hope to push it past £50m before the end of its run.
Piece Of Magic Entertainment’s Andre Rieu’s 2025 Christmas Concert: Merry Christmas has brought in £840,000 from just Saturday and Sunday so far. With final figures still to come and upcoming encore screenings, the distributor predicts the film will make over £1m before the end of its run.
Magician thriller Now You See Me: Now You Don’t added £345,965 on its fourth weekend for Lionsgate – a 43% drop that brought it to £6.1m. It should overtake the £6.4m of 2016’s Now You See Me 2 within the next week; but the £11.2m of the 2013 first film will be beyond it.
Takings for the top five came in at £11.9m – down 32% on last weekend, and down 26% on the equivalent weekend from last year. With year-to-date takings falling back to almost level with 2024 in November, cinemas will need strong performances from the likes of Disney’s Ella McCay and Entertainment Film Distributors’ Fackham Hall next weekend.
Pillion gets into gear
Outside of the top five, Moviegoers Entertainment’s Indian title Dhurandhar scored an excellent £306,678 from just 137 locations, at a £2,239 location average. Aditya Dhar’s Hindi-language drama is inspired by the political conflict between India and Pakistan.
Lionsgate’s release of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – Quentin Tarantino’s two Kill Bill films playing back-to-back – took £233,052. Vol.1 originally made £11.7m in 2003; with Vol. 2 taking £9.2m the following year.
Sky Cinema’s Nuremberg, released by Studiocanal, added £160,157 on its fourth session – a 36% drop that brought it beyond the £3m mark.
Bifa and Gotham winner Pillion posted the best hold of any non-family title in the top 15, falling just 33% on its second weekend. The feature debut of Screen Star of Tomorrow Harry Lighton added £142,000, and is up to a healthy £666,231 for Picturehouse Entertainment and Warner Bros.
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man leads Paramount’s slate, adding £104,000 on its fourth weekend – a 61% drop that brought it to £4.7m total.
Paramount animation A Paw Patrol Christmas dropped just 14% on its fifth weekend, with £89,000 taking it just beyond the £1m mark.
Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident started with £71,982 for Mubi, from 58 locations at a strong £1,285 location average. It is comfortably the biggest opening for Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Including previews the film has £162,216, making it Panahi’s second-highest-grossing film in the territory to date behind 2015’s Taxi Tehran -which it is sure to overtake within a week.
Disney sci-fi adventure Predator: Badlands put on £60,602 on its fifth weekend in cinemas – a 58% drop that brought it to £5.5m total, as the second-highest-grossing film in the franchise behind 2010’s Predators (£5.8m).
A seasonal re-release of Richard Curtis’s Christmas favourite Love Actually took £58,950 from 244 sites at a £281 average for Universal.
Park Circus’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas re-release took £55,999 from 304 sites at a £184 average.
Nicholas Hytner’s UK drama The Choral leads Sony’s slate, adding £44,613 on its fifth session for a £3.9m total.
On its second weekend in cinemas, Indian action musical Tere Ishk Mein added £37,578 for AA Films UK, released by Bakrania Media. The film is up to £188,805 total.
Richard Linklater’s awards contender Blue Moon added £34,711 on its second weekend for Sony – a 52% drop that brought it to £185,105 total.
A re-release of music documentary The Doors: When You’re Strange took £26,887 at the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing, and £55,360 in total; in addition to £78,849 from the film’s original 2010 run.
Gurinder Chadha’s Christmas Karma added £22,489 on its fourth weekend for True Brit Entertainment – a 67% drop. The True Brit Entertainment title is now up to £1.1m.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia topped up by £16,306 on its sixth weekend in cinemas, and has a decent total just beyond £3m for Universal.
Already the highest-grossing Gujarati film ever in the UK and Ireland, Bakrania Media’s Laalo: Krishna Sada Sahaayate added a further £16,189 on its fourth session, taking it to a strong £337,827 total.
Lindsay Utz and Michelle Walshe’s documentary Prime Minister, chronicling Jacinda Ardern’s time as prime minster of New Zealand, started with £14,955 at the weekend, from 29 locations, at a £516 average. Including previews, the film has £33,584; and will expand to over 90 screens for week two.
Japanese anime Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution added £11,488 on its fourth weekend for Sony, and is up to £1.3m total
A Park Circus 75th anniversary re-release of Billy Wilder’s classic noir Sunset Boulevard took £9,419 at the weekend, and has £13,604 including previews.
Lynne Ramsay’s Cannes Competition title Die My Love added £7,869 on its fifth weekend in cinemas for Mubi, taking it beyond the £1m mark. It is currently Ramsay’s third-highest-grossing film, behind 2011’s We Need To Talk About Kevin (£2.2m) and 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, and is less than £30,000 behind the latter.
K-pop concert title Monsta X: Connect X In Cinemas made £4,555 for Trafalgar Releasing at the weekend, with £8,767 in total.
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor’s directorial debut Dreamers began with £3,403 for We Are Parable, and has £10,476 including previews.
Action sequel Sisu: Road To Revenge put on £2,690 on its third weekend in cinemas, and is up to £172,931 for Sony – down on the £432,827 total of the 2023 first film.
A Curzon re-release of Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante took £2,514 from 10 sites at a £251 average, with £6,158 including previews and additional screenings booked throughout December and January.
Paramount romantic drama Regretting You is closing out, with £1,300 on its latest session adding up to a £6.2m total.
Event cinema release Westlife: Royal Albert Hall added £501 from three cinemas on a second weekend, and is up to £553,696 for CinemaLive.
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