| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Jan 2-4 | Total | Week |
| 1 | Avatar: Fire And Ash (US) | Disney | £4.4m | £31.6m | 3 |
| 2 | The Housemaid (US) | Lionsgate | £3.9m | £12.4m | 2 |
| 3 | Marty Supreme (US) | Entertainment Film Distributors | £2.8m | £6m | 2 |
| 4 | Zootropolis 2 (US) | Disney | £2.1m | £27.5m | 6 |
| 5 | The SpongeBob Movie: The Search For SquarePants (US) | Paramount | £1.2m | £6m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35
Avatar: Fire & Ash held the top spot at the UK and Ireland box office for the third weekend in a row while Boxing Day releases dominated the rest of the top five.
Disney’s Avatar: Fire & Ash dropped 27% with £4.4m and is now up to £31.6m. It is currently tracking behind 2022’s The Way Of Water, which reached £76.9m by the end of its run.
In second place was Lionsgate’s The Housemaid which added £3.9m in its second session for a running total of £12.4m. The Paul Feig-directed thriller opened with £3.1m the previous weekend (commencing December 26). Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star.
Timothee Chalamet-starrer Marty Supreme was in third place after scoring £2.8m on its second week of play for Entertainment Film Distributors. With a £6m cume, Josh Safdie’s sports drama opened on December 26 in 130 cinemas, grossing £1.4m in its opening weekend for an impressive £10,425 location average. It is tracking just ahead of Chalamet’s last headline feature, A Complete Unknown, which had grossed £5.9m by the same point last year after opening in 700 locations.
Disney’s Zootropolis 2 added another £2.1m in its sixth weekend and is now up to £27.5m.
In fifth place, The SpongeBob Movie: The Search For SquarePants grossed £1.2m for Paramount in its second week of play and is up to £6m.
A million for Pillion
Another Boxing Day opener, Sony comedy Anaconda is up to £3.9m after taking in £974,441 on its second session. Starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, the film opened on Boxing Day and made £1.3m in its debut weekend.
Music biopic Song Sung Blue opened on £708,027 for Universal, with a £935,000 total including previews. Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star as the real-life couple who formed a Neil Diamond tribute band.
On its seventh weekend, Wicked: For Good collected £605,607 and is now on £46.6m for Universal.
Oscar contender Sentimental Value is on £605,867 for Mubi after two weeks. Joachim Trier’s Norwegian drama grossed £181,887 in its second weekend after opening on £117,087 the week prior. Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning star.
In Ireland, Wildcard Distribution released Saipan to the tune of £140,156 across the Republic and Northern Ireland. Including previews, the sports biopic is up to £375,264.
In Indian cinema, Dhurandhar became the fourth highest-grossing Indian release in the UK and Ireland after adding £135,387 to its £2.8m cume for Moviegoers Entertainment. Elsewhere, Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri is up to £132,520 after two weekends.
In re-releases, 2006 animation Happy Feet and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet made £53,621 and £8,731 for Park Circus, respectively.
Universal horror Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 added £46,057 for a £6.7m total and looks unlikely to match the £10.6m of the 2023 original.
Picturehouse Entertainment opened Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day on £30,000 for a total of £53,000 including previews. Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the Sundance premiere which is nominated for five Independent Spirit awards.
Also for Picturehouse, Pillion became the distributor’s fourth title to cross the £1m mark over the festive period and added £18,000 in its sixth session.
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