| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Dec 5-7 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zootropolis (US) | Disney | £4.2m | £11.7m | 2 |
| 2 | Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 (US) |
Universal | £3.3m | £3.3m | 1 |
| 3 | Wicked: For Good (US) | Universal | £3.2m | £37.7m | 3 |
| 4 | Andre Rieu’s 2025 Christmas Concert: Merry Christmas (Neth) |
Piece Of Magic | £840,000 | £840,000 | 1 |
| 5 | Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (US) | Lionsgate | £345,965 | £6.1m | 4 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.33
Disney animation Zootropolis 2 rose to top spot at the UK-Ireland box office on its second weekend, with a £4.2m session.
Falling just 29% on its opening, the creature feature is now at £11.7m total. Its second weekend was 57% up on the £2.7m second weekend of 2016’s Zootropolis, although that film’s cume was slightly higher at this stage with £12.6m.
It will soon overtake Universal’s Dog Man (£13.8m) to become the highest-grossing fully animated release of 2025.
Universal horror sequel Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 was this weekend’s highest-grossing new title, starting with £3.3m from 567 sites at a £5,771 average.
It scored marginally ahead of the £3.2m three-day opening of Five Nights At Freddy’s from 2023, on top of the chart. That film ended on £10.6m; pushing past it would represent a success for Universal on the sequel.
Freddy’s 2 narrowly pipped the third weekend of Universal musical Wicked: For Good by less than £40,000. John M. Chu’s film dropped 58% on its third session, with £3.2m; and is up to £37.6m total, overtaking Lilo & Stitch (£37.3m) and Jurassic World Rebirth (£35.9m) to become the third-highest-grossing film of the year.
It has, however, fallen behind last year’s Wicked at the same stage; that film added £5.3m on its third weekend, for a £37.7m running total. It ended on a huge £61.4m; that will likely be beyond For Good, but Universal will still hope to push it past £50m before the end of its run.
Piece Of Magic Entertainment’s Andre Rieu’s 2025 Christmas Concert: Merry Christmas has brought in £840,000 from just Saturday and Sunday so far. With final figures still to come and upcoming encore screenings, the distributor predicts the film will make over £1m before the end of its run.
Magician thriller Now You See Me: Now You Don’t added £345,965 on its fourth weekend for Lionsgate – a 43% drop that brought it to £6.1m. It should overtake the £6.4m of 2016’s Now You See Me 2 within the next week; but the £11.2m of the 2013 first film will be beyond it.
Takings for the top five came in at £11.9m – down 32% on last weekend, and down 26% on the equivalent weekend from last year. With year-to-date takings falling back to almost level with 2024 in November, cinemas will need strong performances from the likes of Disney’s Ella McCay and Entertainment Film Distributors’ Fackham Hall next weekend.
Outside of the top five, Moviegoers Entertainment’s Indian title Dhurandhar scored an excellent £306,678 from just 137 locations, at a £2,239 location average. Aditya Dhar’s Hindi-language drama is inspired by the political conflict between India and Pakistan.
Bifa and Gotham winner Pillion posted the best hold of any non-family title in the top 15, falling just 33% on its second weekend. The feature debut of Screen Star of Tomorrow Harry Lighton added £142,000, and is up to a healthy £666,231 for Picturehouse Entertainment and Warner Bros.
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