‘Regretting You’ leads ‘Bugonia’, ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ at UK-Ireland box office as no film tops £1m

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Romantic drama Regretting You usurped Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere to claim top spot at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, on a flat session when no release took more than £1m.

It marks a worryingly low Halloween weekend for exhibitors and distributors alike, compared to the equivalent weekend from 2024, when three films took more than £1m on the weekend alone. It is the first weekend this year where no release has topped £1m.

Amid the bleak overall picture, Paramount’s Regretting You posted a strong hold on its second weekend, falling just 24% with £905,000. The latest adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel is now up to £3.8m.

In a sign of the dearth of new titles in the market, a 40^th anniversary re-release of Back To The Future by Universal took second place with a £862,167 weekend. Playing in 605 sites, it took a £1,471 average. Robert Zemeckis’ sci-fi adventure classic made £12.2m on its original run – a huge total for 1985 – as well as £3.5m as a Secret Cinema event in 2014.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia was this weekend’s top new entry, starting with £767,975 for Universal. Playing in 565 sites, it took a £1,362 average, and has £986,251 in total, from previews including 35mm screenings across the past week at sites including Picturehouse Central, Barbican, Watershed Bristol, Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Tyneside Cinema, and Dublin’s IFI and Lighthouse.

It is the third-highest opening for Lanthimos, after 2019’s The Favourite with £2.2m (ending on £17m) and 2024’s Poor Things with £1.6m (ending on £7.6m).

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere dropped 51% on its second weekend for Disney, with £608,784. The Bruce Springsteen biopic is at £2.9m total.

Kids live-action animation hybrid Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie fell 31% on its third weekend for Universal, with £597,920 taking it to £5.2m total.

Takings for the top five dropped 25%, falling for the second weekend in a row; and are now at the lowest level since the end of August. The figures are also down 49% on the equivalent weekend from last year. Exhibitors will hope that a stronger November slate can push the year towards ending on a high, with upcoming wide releases including Disney’s Predator: Badlands (November 7), Paramount’s The Running Man (November 12) and Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (November 14).

Palestine ’36  starts well

On a Halloween weekend without a major horror title, Universal sequel Black Phone 2 made the most of the absence with a £419,228 third session – a 33% drop which brought it to £3.3m total. A strong tail throughout November could still see it catch the £4.7m total of 2022’s The Black Phone.

UK independent comedy-drama I Swear has crossed the £5m mark in an excellent result for the Studiocanal release. Kirk Jones’s film posted another decent hold on its fourth weekend, falling 36% with £379,914.

Sony anime Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc added £359,008 on its second session, having dropped 67%. The film is up to £2.1m, having flown past the £1.2m of another recent Sony anime, 2021’s Demon Slayer: Mugen Train.

Altitude animation Pets On A Train added £268,000 on its second weekend – a 4% increase on its previous session, that brings it to £1.4m in total.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another leads Warner Bros’ slate, with £266,511 – a 45% drop – on its sixth weekend taking it to a decent £11.2m total.

Disney sci-fi Tron: Ares dropped 49% on its fourth weekend, with £194,540 bringing it to a £4.8m cume.

CinemaLive’s event cinema release Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical made £163,270 at the weekend, and has £402,322 in total including its Thursday, October 30 release day.

Horror Shelby Oaks started with £152,000 for Altitude, from 404 sites at a £376 average. Including previews, the film has £235,000.

Paramount real-life comedy-drama Roofman starring Channing Tatum added £125,000 on its third weekend – a 59% drop that brought it to £1.8m total.

Independent animation Night Of The Zoopocalypse has crossed the £1m mark, after a strong half-term weekend saw its takings increase 16% to £119,000. The Kazoo Films release has £1.1m in total.

Now on a lengthy 15^th weekend in cinemas, Universal animation The Bad Guys 2 saw a half-term-influenced 3% increase on its previous session, with £66,918 taking it to a £14.5m total.

Another long runner, Warner Bros’ The Conjuring: Last Rites, added £66,776 on its ninth weekend – a 40% increase, that brought it to £18.3m total as one of the top titles so far in the second half of the year.

Annemarie Jacir’s Palestinian Oscar entry Palestine ’36 started with £62,814 for Curzon, from just 45 locations at a strong £1,396 average – above that of Universal’s Bugonia. Including previews the BFI-backed historical drama has £79,634.

Family live-action-animation hybrid Sketch added £62,783 on its second weekend for Kova International – a 40% drop that brought it to £454,404 total after strong midweek half-term showings.

Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind added £60,400 on its second weekend for Mubi – a 37% drop that brought it to £356,337.

S.S. Rajamouli’s latest Baahubali film Baahubali: The Epic started with £55,119 for AA Films UK, distributed by Bakrania Media, from 131 sites at a £445 average. The film has £104,797 in total, and follows 2017’s Baahubali: The Conclusion, which grossed over £1.4m across releases in various Indian languages.

National Theatre Live’s latest event cinema title Mrs Warren’s Profession added £38,608 on its second weekend, and is up to £835,473.

Disney Junior Cinema Club 2025 added £38,496 on a second weekend in cinemas – a 53% drop that brought it to £254,663 total.

A re-release of Catherine Hardwicke’s 2008 Twilight was Lionsgate’s highest-grossing title this weekend, adding £38,495 to its takings to hit £369,318.

Universal’s Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale put on £38,208 on its eighth weekend – a 63% drop that brought it to £18.1m total.

A re-release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 through Lionsgate added £37,685 at the weekend for an £82,123 total, as well as the impressive £35.9m from the film’s 2012 original run.

Lionsgate comedy Good Fortune added £35,093 on its third weekend in cinemas, and is up to £773,917.

Indian comedy-horror Thamma fell 77% on its second weekend with £24,273, and is up to £236,810 in total for Yash Raj Films.

Luca Guadagnino’s cancel culture drama After The Hunt added £21,875 on its third weekend, falling 65% and up to £502,259 in total for Sony.

Indian family drama Madhaniyan opened to £20,881 for Shree Films distributed by Bakrania Media, from 34 sites at a £633 average.

Concert release Depeche Mode: M took £19,904 from Friday-to-Sunday for Trafalgar Releasing, and has £367,327 in total having opened on Tuesday, October 28

Indian arranged marriage comedy Ikk Kudi opened to £17,611 from 45 sites at a £391 average for Moviegoers Entertainment.

Trafalgar Releasing’s ParaNorman re-release added £16,084 on its second session and has £240,572 in total, in addition to the £6.4m from the film’s original release.

Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk is approaching the end of its road, adding £14,983 on its eighth weekend in cinemas for a decent £4.7m total.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle is approaching the end of its impressive run for Sony, adding £8,895 on its latest session to hit a £6.9m cume.

Asif Kapadia’s footballer documentary Kenny Dalglish is up to £30,000 in total, after a two-day release on October 29 and 30.

• Chainsaw Man leads global box office in quiet session; Bugonia is top new entry with $9m total