| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | March 6-8 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hoppers (US) | Disney | £3.3m | £4.8m | 1 |
| 2 | Scream 7 (US) | Paramount | £1.2m | £6.1m | 2 |
| 3 | Wuthering Heights (US) | Warner Bros | £1.1m | £23.1m | 4 |
| 4 | The Bride! (US) | Warner Bros | £714,927 | £714,927 | 1 |
| 5 | Mother’s Pride (UK) | EFD | £707,534 | £707,534 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.33
Disney original animation Hoppers leapt to the top of the UK-Ireland box office this weekend with a £3.3m opening session.
Playing in 632 sites, the Pixar title took a £5,269 site average. It has £4.8m including previews.
The £3.3m Friday-to-Sunday figure is the biggest opening weekend for an original Pixar animated feature since 2017’s Coco – and is less than £30,000 behind the £3.4m comparative mark of that title. Titles released since then which Hoppers has surpassed include 2020’s Onward (£2.6m opening), 2023’s Elemental (£2.9m) and last year’s Elio (£966,212).
With family animations having potential for long tails, and little competition in that space in the coming weeks, Disney will look to push Hoppers well beyond £10m, with £20m a possibility with strong word-of-mouth.
Last weekend’s number one Scream 7 moved to second place on its second session. The Paramount horror title added £1.2m – a 65% drop – and is up to £6.1m. It is already the fifth-highest-grossing of the seven Scream titles. The franchise is closely bunched together at the box office, between lowest mark Scream 4 (£5.6m) from 2011 and highest, first title Scream (£8.4m) from 1997, meaning Scream 7 could still become the highest-grossing in the series with another couple of weeks in cinemas.
Warner Bros’ romantic drama Wuthering Heights added £1.1m on its fourth weekend – a 52% drop, that brought it to £23.1m total, passing literary adaptations including Little Women (£22.2m) and Gone Girl (£22.6m).
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! started with £714,927 from 639 sites for Warner Bros at a £1,119 average, replicating its slow international launch in the UK and Ireland.
UK pub comedy Mother’s Pride began with £707,534 from 515 sites at a £1,374 average, for Entertainment Film Distributors. This marked the biggest debut of 2026 for a film with the UK as its primary production territory, ahead of the likes of Giant (£357,714), Wasteman (£279,592) and H Is For Hawk (£242,952).
Despite the presence of three new titles, takings for the top five dropped for the third successive weekend, falling 12% to just below £7m. While still up 12% on the equivalent weekend from last year, cinemas will need a strong run from Hoppers plus support from the likes of Studiocanal’s How To Make A Killing (March 11) this week, after year-on-year takings fell to 1% behind 2025 in February.
Interest in ballet
With Hoppers launching large in the market, fellow animated titles saw holdover drops. These included Sony’s GOAT, which fell 54% on its fourth session with £416,080 taking it to £12.4m.
Baz Luhrmann’s concert film EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert leads Universal’s slate, taking £334,964 on its second official weekend in cinemas. This 71% drop brought the release to £2.9m total.
Thriller Crime 101 added £193,287 on its fourth session for Amazon MGM, distributed by Sony. The film, starring Chris Hemsworth, is up to £4.1m total.
Trafalgar Releasing has had four event cinema titles starting release in the last week, with Bolshoi Ballet performance Giselle leading the slate, taking £120,476 from 150 sites at the weekend at an £803 average. Having launched on Tuesday, March 3, the release is up to £530,051.
The filmed production of Othello starring David Harewood and Toby Jones brought in £115,800 from 286 sites at the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing, at a £405 average. It is up to £338,469 having opened on Wednesday, March 4.
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent again posted one of the best holds in the chart on its third weekend, falling just 38%. The Oscar-nominated film added £111,560 to bring it to £967,273, and will cross the £1m mark within the next week for Mubi.
K-pop concert film Enhypen [Walk The Line Summer Edition] has brought in £110,034 for Trafalgar Releasing, having opened on Thursday, March 5.
Standup comedy release James Acaster – Cinemagoers Welcome brought in £83,012 for CinemaLive, from 388 venues at a £214 site average.
On its ninth weekend in cinemas, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet dropped 48%, with £73,616 taking the film to £18.6m total for Universal – passing titles including Billy Elliot and Moulin Rouge (both £18.4m).
Disney’s Zootropolis 2 dropped 59% on its 15th weekend in cinemas, with £73,170 taking it just beyond the £36m mark.
Cal McMau’s Wasteman leads Lionsgate’s slate, adding £58,395 on its third weekend – a 53% drop that brought it to £795,180.
Sony put anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle back in cinemas, taking £53,816 to cross the £7m mark. The film originally launched in UK-Ireland cinemas on September 12 last year.
Oliver Laxe’s Oscar-nominated Sirat added £51,805 on its second weekend – a 44% drop that was better than the market average this weekend. It is up to £270,422 for Altitude.
Sam Raimi’s Disney horror Send Help added £43,531 on its fifth session – a 61% drop that brought it to £4.3m total.
Comedy sci-fi Cold Storage starring Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell and Liam Neeson added £31,261 on its third weekend for Studiocanal – a 78% drop that brought it to £911,591.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You starring Oscar-nominated Rose Byrne added £31,171 on its third session – a 54% drop that brought it to £345,550 for Picturehouse Entertainment.
Still in cinemas after 11 weekends, Lionsgate’s The Housemaid starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried added £30,543, and is almost at £32m overall – the distributor’s second-highest-grossing film of all time in the territory.
Mona Fastvold’s The Testament Of Ann Lee dropped 70% on its second weekend for Disney, with £29,889 taking it to £268,323 total.
Bollywood romance Ishqa’n De Lekhe opened to £27,963 for Shree, distributed by Bakrania Media. Playing in just 10 locations, the film took an outstanding £2,796 site average. Gurnam Bhullar and Isha Malviya lead the cast, with Bhullar also producing and composing for the film.
Mascha Schilinski’s Sound Of Falling opened to £24,157 for Mubi, from 25 cinemas at a £966 site average. The film, which launched in Cannes Competition last year, is up to £39,980 including previews.
Independent horror Dolly opened to £23,992 for Vertigo Releasing, from 100 cinemas at a £240 average.
Charli XCX mockumentary The Moment added £16,102 on its third weekend for Universal – a 62% drop that brought it to £562,438 total.
The SpongeBob Movie: Search For Squarepants is finally approaching the end of its run after 11 weekends for Paramount, adding £16,000 on its latest session to hit £8.9m total as the highest-grossing SpongeBob film ever in the territory.
Norwegian pop artist concert film Aurora: What Happened To The Earth? has a £15,711 cume for Trafalgar Releasing, from 40 cinemas at a £393 average.
Hong Kong comedy Night King added £13,838 on its third weekend for Trinity Film, and has reached £258,688.
Family animation The Scarecrows’ Wedding added £11,427 on its fifth weekend for Magic Light Pictures, and is up to £300,740.
Philippa Lowthorpe’s H Is For Hawk starring Claire Foy added £11,192 on its seventh weekend in cinemas for Lionsgate, taking it to almost £1.5m.
Bollywood comedy Viyaah Kartaare Da added £10,681 on its second weekend for Bakrania Media, taking it to £56,831 in total.
Black Bear action thriller Shelter starring Jason Statham added £4,000 on its sixth weekend and is up to £2.5m, down on 2024’s The Beekeeper (£3.8m) but up on last year’s A Working Man (£1.9m), both also starring Statham.
East London-set musical La Bohème is up to £2,737 for Munro Film, having opened on March 3 and played in one venue over the weekend.
Corin Hardy’s horror Whistle added £656 on its fourth session for Black Bear and is up to £444,000.
Anime title All You Need Is Kill is closing out on £34,570 from two weekends for Anime Ltd.
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