| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | July 3-5 | Total | Week |
| 1 | Toy Story 5 (US) | Disney | £5.7m | £38m | 3 |
| 2 | Minions & Monsters (US) | Universal | £3.5m | £4.4m | 1 |
| 3 | Supergirl (US) | Warner Bros | £786,451 | £4.5m | 2 |
| 4 | The Invite (US) | Black Bear | £747,000 | £797,000 | 1 |
| 5 | Obsession (US) | Universal | £493,595 | £17.6m | 8 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.33
Disney’s Toy Story 5 kept hold of the top spot at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, grossing £5.7m in its third session, with Universal’s Minions & Monsters unable to overtake.
Pixar animation Toy Story 5 saw a 38% dip on the previous weekend, with its overall figure now at £38m.
Minions & Monsters opened in second place, with £3.5m from 661 sites, and a site average of £5,295. The Pierre Coffin-directed animation has the lowest performing opening weekend in the territory of the whole franchise, a trend mirrored at the US box office.
The animated feature is the third entry in the Minions series and the seventh film overall in the Despicable Me franchise. The first Minions film opened to £11.6m in 2015, while Minions: The Rise Of Gru’ s first weekend grossed £10.4 m in 2022. The second-lowest performer at opening weekend in the franchise is now the first Despicable Me film, which started with £3.5m in 2010.
Minions & Monsters’ overall figure, including previews, currently stands at £4.4m. It follows the Minions’ attempts to make an Old Hollywood monster movie, with a cast including Allison Janney, Zoey Deutsch, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges and Jesse Eisenberg.
Warner Bros’ Supergirl added £786,451 in its second weekend, now on £4.5m overall.
Black Bear’s comedy The Invite, directed by and starring Olivia Wilde, alongside Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton as two couples whose dinner party goes in an unexpected direction, opened to £747,000 from 589 locations. Its site average is £1,268 and including previews. The Sundance world premiere has grossed £797,000.
Universal horror Obsession continues to hold strong in the top five chart on its eighth weekend, adding £493,595, for a total of £17.6m.
Universal’s Disclosure Day brought in £487,948 in its fourth weekend, now on £11.9m overall.
Paramount’s Jackass: Best And Last added £420,000 in its second session, now on £1.7m.
A24’s Backrooms added £200,384 on its sixth weekend, a 2% increase on its previous session. The horror is now on £12.7m.
Yash Raj Films’ Alpha, Shiv Rawali’s Hindi-language female-led action film, grossed £160,441 from 239 sites in its first weekend, for an average of £671.
Paramount’s Scary Movie stirred up £120,000 on its fifth weekend, now up to £9.2m overall.
Universal’s Michael topped up its total with £73,801 on its 11th session, with just shy of £53m in the territory across its run.
Vertigo Releasing’s Nirvanna: The Band The Show The Movie opened to £54,340 from 77 sites, for a location average of £706. Including £45,932 in previews, its total is £100,272. Matt Johnson’s comedy stars Jay McCarrol alongside Johnson as two musicians whose attempt to book a gig sees them accidentally travel back in time to 2008.
Holdovers
Bakrania Media’s Indian action title Welcome To The Jungle added £47,029 in its second weekend, now totalling £247,149. The distributor also brought in £32,296 in the second weekend for Bollywood family comedy Carry On Jatta 4, now on £176,244. After three sessions, Bakrania has also grossed £387,708 from romantic comedy Cocktail 2, with £17,388 in its third weekend.
Sony’s Masters Of The Universe brought in £42,100 in its fifth session, now up to a £5.3m total.
Anime’s Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War – The Calamity added £24,392 in its second weekend, now on £264,424 overall.
Picturehouse’s The Last Viking added £15,516 in its second weekend, totalling £91,722. It has now overtaken the last Anders Thomas Jensen and Mads Mikkelsen collaboration, Riders Of Justice, which grossed £89,000 overall.
Park Circus’ Taxi Driver re-release opened to £15,375 from 131 locations, for a site average of £117.
Trinity Film added £26,218 in its second weekend for Chinese box office hit Dear You, now on £134,580 overall.
True Brit’s 500 Miles added £12,370 in its second weekend for a cumulative figure of £168,424, with the distributor noting stronger mid-week box office results than weekend figures.
Curzon’s My Father’s Island opened to £2,014 from 15 sites, for a location average of £134. With previews, it’s up to £4,108. Vladimir de Fontenay’s Norwegian survival thriller, which world premiered at Sundance, follows a haunted young man who travels to a remote island to reconnect with his father.
Also newly released this weekend: Dogwoof’s Birds Of War, Zee Studios’ Nagabandham - The Secret Treasure, Tull Stories’ Oh My Goodness and Cinema Live’s Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical.
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