Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch comedy ‘The Roses’ opens top of UK-Ireland box office; ‘Jaws’ takes second place

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Disney’s The Roses was the pick of the bunch this weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, opening to £2.2m from 694 sites, for a location average of £3,170.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a couple whose loving marriage takes a nosedive when their gender normative roles are reversed. Jay Roach directs the Searchlight comedy, with further cast including Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, Zoe Chao and Jamie Demetriou.

The weekend’s opening comfortable beats Roach’s most recent effort, 2019’s Bombshell, which opened to £686,050 for Lionsgate.

In second place this weekend was Universal’s 50th anniversary re-release of Jaws, which stirred up an impressive £1.1m in takings from 679 locations, for a site average of £1,620.

Warner Bros’ horror-thriller Weapons continued to perform strongly with £838,351, with £10.4m after four weekends.

Universal’s The Bad Guys 2 was up 58% on its previous session, taking £807,222 in its sixth weekend, for a total of £11.9m. 

Disney’s Freakier Friday added £744,302 in its fourth weekend, totalling £7.4m. It has now overtaken the £6.6m of 2003’s Freaky Friday.

Dutch violinist Andre Rieu, the ever-popular event cinema stalwart, continued to lure in audiences for Piece of Magic with his latest, Andre Rieu’s 2025 Masstricht Concert: Waltz The Night Away. It grossed £562,217 from 638 sites across Saturday and Sunday only, with some reports still missing. As it stands, its site average is £881.

Sony’s Caught Stealing brought in £552,302 from 571 sites in its opening weekend, for a location average of £973. Including previews, it has taken £570,843. Austin Butler stars in Darren Aronofsky’s action film as a New York bartender who finds himself caught up in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith and Regina King also star.

The weekend’s figure doesn’t quite match up to Aronofsky’s 2023 opener The Whale, which took £614,906 for A24, and 2011’s Black Swan for 20th Century Fox, which opened to £2.8m.

Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps grossed £505,024, for a £23.1m overall figure.

Sony’s Materialists topped up £297,819 in its third weekend, for a £3.4m total.

Universal’s Jurassic World Rebirth was up 2% on its previous session, taking £269,057. Its total is now £35.6m.

Paramount added £255,000 for The Naked Gun in its fifth session, boosting its total to £7.2m.

A 20th anniversary re-release of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire stirred up £196,384 from 431 locations for Warner Bros, for a site average of £456. Including £311,383 in previews, the re-release has £507,768.

Warner Bros’ Superman brought in £146,972 in its eighth weekend, with a £27.8m total.

Paramount’s Smurfs added £130,000 in its sixth weekend. Its cumulative figure is now £5.4m.

All The Anime took an admirable £128,082 from a Sunday release of Japanese animated musical drama Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing, out at 174 locations, for a site average of £736. Hiroyuki Hata directs the film, which is based on a mobile phone game. Including £9,694 from previews, the film has grossed £137,794.

Universal’s Nobody 2 dropped 56% on its previous weekend, taking £108,694 in its third weekend, now standing on a £1.4m total.

It was a good weekend for Universal’s How To Train Your Dragon, up 111% on its previous session, with £103,675 in its 12th weekend, and an overall figure of just shy of £23m.

Studiocanal’s The Life Of Chuck added £100,964 in its second weekend, etching its total closer to the £1m mark, with a cumulative figure of £914,627.

Entertainment Film Distributors’ horror Together brought in £91,585 in its third weekend, for an overall figure of £1.5m.

Warner Bros’ F1: The Movie added £72,088 in its 10th weekend, now with a cumulative figure of £22.2m.

Universal’s Eddington dropped 69% in its second session, grossing £63,830, and a total of £506,126.

Yash Raj Films’ Saiyaara grossed £44,752 in its seventh weekend, now with a £3.2m total. The romance is the second highest-grossing Indian films of all-time in UK-Ireland and 2024 and 2025’s biggest Indian box office hit in the territory.

Signature’s Toxic Avenger Uncut took £40,939 from 281 locations in its opening weekend, for a site average of £146. Total box office, including previews, stands at £95,300. The Macon Blair-directed superhero horror comedy reboot premiered at Fantastic Fest and stars Peter Dinklage.

Picturehouse’s Sorry, Baby’s second weekend grossed £38,735, a 26% drop on its opening weekend – now up to a £188,885 total.

Curzon’s Young Mothers grossed £7,863 from 20 sites, for a location average of £393. With previews, the film has taken £12,260. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne direct the Cannes Competition drama set in a residential shelter for young mothers in Liege, Belgium, where five girls grapple with the challenges of parenting a newborn. It is Belgium’s entry for best international feature.

Slovenian filmmaker Urska Djukic’s debut feature Little Trouble Girls took £7,844 for BFI Distribution across the weekend, increasing to £10,863 with previews. From 17 locations across the weekend, its site average is £639. The drama previously played at the Berlinale and Edinburgh film festival and follows an introverted 16-year-old, played by newcomer Jara Sofija Ostan, who joins her Catholic school’s all-girls choir and experiences a sexual awakening.

Vertigo’s release of a 4k restoration of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth brought in £3,663 from 28 sites, for a location average of £131.

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