| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Oct 2-4 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verity (US) | Sony | £3.4m | £3.4m | 1 |
| 2 | Resident Evil (US) |
Sony | £1.3m | £11.2m | 3 |
| 3 | Heart Of The Beast (US) | Paramount | £1.1m | £4.1m | 2 |
| 4 | Digger (US) |
Warner Bros | £1.1m | £1.1m | 1 |
| 5 | Sense And Sensibility (UK-US) | Universal | £974,000 | £3.7m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.32
Verity starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson topped the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend, as Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Digger replicated its international struggles.
Amazon MGM Studios’ Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity started with £3.4m from 639 sites at a decent £5,316 average. The opening of Michael Showalter’s film, released theatrically by Sony, is down slightly on the £4.5m start of fellow Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us from 2024; but well up on the £1.2m start of Regretting You from October 2025 and £1.1m of Reminders Of Him from March this year.
Those three films went on to £21.9m, £6.3m and £4.5m respectively; Verity will look to pass the latter two, then head towards the £10m mark across its first few weeks.
Resident Evil added £1.3m on its third weekend in cinemas for Sony, falling less than its previous drop with 40%. It is up to a strong £11.2m, with more than double the total of the next highest grossing title in the series (2010’s Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D with £4.8m).
David Ayer’s Heart Of The Beast starring Brad Pitt posted a solid hold on its second weekend, falling just 26% with £1.1m. This was enough to maintain its third place from its opening session, with a £4.1m total for Paramount.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Digger posted a low opening weekend, with just shy of £1.1m from 660 sites at a £1,640 average. While a low opening for star Tom Cruise compared to his blockbuster output, it is in line with the starts for his most recent original role - 2017’s American Made, with a lower £1.1m – and his last comic role, 2012’s Rock Of Ages, which started with £1m.
Sense And Sensibility maintained a top five spot on its second weekend for Universal, with a 37% drop that was better than the market average. Georgia Oakley’s film added £974,000, and is up to £3.7m total.
The top five titles brought in a cumulative £7.9m, down 22% on the previous session, although still up 3% on the equivalent weekend from last year. With total box office for the year nearing £1bn, exhibitors will look to Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising through Entertainment Film Distributors, Universal horror Other Mommy, and Sony’s The Social Reckoning from next weekend to continue momentum across October.
Drishyam’s final part
Last weekend’s number one Avengers: Endgame Encore dropped 83% on its second session, with a £712,000 weekend. The re-release, with extra footage, has £5.9m in total for Disney, in addition to the £88.7m from its original 2019 run.
Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom leads Studiocanal’s slate, with a £551,000 third weekend, down 32% on its previous session. The Aardman title is up to £3.2m, down on the £13.8m and £7.1m totals of the first two Shaun The Sheep films but still a healthy result so far for a UK independent animation.
Bollywood crime drama Drishyam: The Conclusion began with £471,000 for Zee Studios. The film is the third in the series of Hindi remakes of the Malayalam franchise, the highest grossing of which is Drishyam 3, with £1.1m earlier this year. The Conclusion has already overtaken the totals of the two previous Hindi titles, including 2022’s Drishyam 2 (£455,000).
Susanne Bier’s Practical Magic 2 added £373,000 on its fourth weekend in cinemas, a 52% drop that brought it to £7.9m for Warner Bros.
Pressure experienced its biggest box office drop so far, falling 52% across its fourth weekend in cinemas. The Second World War drama put on £279,000, and is up to £6.4m for Studiocanal.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day put on £190,000 on its 10th session for Sony, after a 39% drop. With final figures still to be confirmed, it is up to £99.8m as the third highest grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland.
The Odyssey experienced a steep drop in the context of its excellent box office run, falling 62% across its 12th weekend for Universal. It remains one of the theatrical success stories of the year, adding £151,000 to hit £87.1m as the 10th highest-grossing title of all time.
Music documentary Linkin Park: Unshatter, about the nu-metal band’s reformation following the death of lead singer Chester Bennington, took £122,000 from 150 sites at the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing, at an £813 average. Having opened on Wednesday, September 30, the film is up to £255,000.
UK title Bad Apples starring Saoirse Ronan added £105,000 on its third weekend for Paramount, a 60% drop that brought it to £1.4m total.
Trafalgar Releasing’s release of the Met Opera’s 2026 performance of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte took £63,200 across 105 sites on Saturday and Sunday, at a £602 average.
Insidious: Out Of The Further added £40,000 on its seventh weekend for Sony. This took it beyond the £8m mark, and another couple of weekends could still see it catch the £8.1m of 2023’s Insidious: The Red Door to become the top title in the series.
Padraic McKinley’s US-Germany co-production The Weight starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe opened to £39,100 for MetFilm Distribution, from 155 sites at a £253 average. Including previews, the film is up to £41,100.
Animation Coyote Vs. Acme added £36,000 on its sixth session for Altitude, and is up to £2.3m lifetime.
Universal animation Minions & Monsters topped up by £32,000 on its 14th weekend after a 25% drop, taking it past the £20m mark and close behind 2019’s How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (£20.1m).
Paramount’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie put on £31,000 on its ninth session, and has £6.4m total.
Extra Geography, the UK debut feature from Molly Manners starring Marni Duggan and Screen Star of Tomorrow Galaxie Clear, opened to £30,000 for Vertigo Releasing, from 42 sites at a £714 average. The film, produced by Sarah Brocklehurst for her Brock Media, has £39,000 including previews.
De Gaulle: Part 2 – Liberté added £27,300 on its third weekend, falling 50%, and reaching £257,000 as the top title on Entertainment Film Distributors’ slate this session.
Indian action title Baththa starring Vijay Sethupathi started with £23,700 for Zee Studios, and has £30,800 including previews.
Hayley Kiyoko’s LGBTQ+ romance Girls Like Girls opened to £22,000 for Universal, from 144 sites at a £157 average. Including previews, the film is up to £29,500.
Studiocanal’s Manhunter: The Final Cut added £17,700 on a second session, and is up to £79,100 lifetime.
Toy Story 5 is finally approaching the end of its theatrical run after 16 weekends in cinemas. The Disney animation added £17,100 on its latest session, and is up to £58.5m, as the third-highest-grossing of the five films.
De Gaulle: Résistance added £17,000 on its sixth weekend for Entertainment Film Distributors, and is up to £566,000.
Thriller sequel Fall 2 added £14,200 on its fourth session for Signature Entertainment. It is up to £933,000, up 54% on the £607,000 lifetime of the 2022 first film.
BFI Distribution’s re-release of Take It Or Leave It, Dave Robinson’s 1981 documentary about UK ska band Madness, took just shy of £10,000, with £25,400 including previews.
Indian action title The Vvaan added £2,000 on its second weekend for Bakrania Media, and is up to a £44,000 cume.
Sundance documentary Knife: The Attempted Murder Of Salman Rushdie opened to £1,490 at the weekend for Altitude, and £12,490 including previews.
Iberian drama The Portuguese House took £808 from one cinema for AX1 Films, and has £2,220 including previews.
US sci-fi April X starring Heated Rivalry lead Connor Storrie started with a £14,000 full opening including previews, for Vertigo Releasing.
Eleanor Mortimer’s festival favourite documentary How Deep Is Your Love, about marine biologists racing to collect and name the undiscovered species of the abyss, took £6,150 including previews for Tull Stories.
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