‘Disclosure Day’ tops UK-Ireland box office with best Spielberg start since 2018, ‘Obsession’ scores highest placement to date

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Universal’s Disclosure Day has topped the UK-Ireland box office with the best opening for a Steven Spielberg film since 2018; as horror phenomenon Obsession climbed back up the chart with its highest placement to date.

Disclosure Day opened with £3.9m from 727 locations, at a £5,353 average. This marks the biggest opening for a Spielberg film since 2018’s Ready Player One, which began with a £4m weekend at a £5,809 average. Disclosure Day has topped the full openings of 2022’s The Fabelmans (£1.1m) and 2021’s West Side Story (£1.3m), as well as 2018’s The Post (£2.2m).

The sci-fi, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor – both previous Screen UK-Ireland Stars of Tomorrow – is up to £5.5m having opened last Wednesday, June 10.

Curry Barker’s Obsession posted another outstanding hold for Universal, with a 22% drop on its fifth session far better than the market average; and better than its 25% drop this weekend in North America. Its £1.5m weekend moved it up from fourth last time out to its highest chart ranking yet of second place, overtaking Scary Movie, Backrooms and Masters Of The Universe.

It recorded more on its fifth session than on either its first or second weekends (both £1.3m). Such achievements are extremely rare in box office reporting, bucking the typical trend of films moving down the chart with each passing weekend.

It is up to an excellent £13.3m in the UK and Ireland, overtaking last year’s Nosferatu (£13.1m), 2009’s The Final Destination (£12.8m – the top title in that franchise) and 2018’s A Quiet Place (£12.2m).

Paramount’s Scary Movie moved to third spot with a £1.4m second weekend, a drop of 66%. It is up to £7.2m total, overtaking the £5.9m of 2006’s Scary Movie 4 and behind only the £10.5m of 2000’s Scary Movie and £9.1m of 2004’s Scary Movie 3 in the six-film horror parody franchise.

A24’s Backrooms has crossed the £10m mark on its third weekend, in a great result for the horror title. It added £968,217 on its latest session – a 57% drop that brought it to £10.7m to date, ahead of A24’s other major 2026 success The Drama (£10.2m), which was released by Entertainment Film Distributors in UK-Ireland.

Travis Knight’s Masters Of The Universe fell 59% on its second weekend, with £865,119. The Amazon MGM Studios fantasy adventure is up to £4.3m, distributed by Sony in the territory.

Takings for the top five titles fell below a cumulative £10m for the first time since mid-April. The £8.7m figure was down 30% on last weekend, with hot weather across much of UK-Ireland. Box office figures have generally been good in the past few months, so cinemas will look to Disney’s Toy Story 5 to get numbers going in the right direction from next weekend.

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