‘Lilo & Stitch’ leads UK-Ireland box office with £8m; ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ takes £6.2m

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‘Lilo & Stitch’ leads UK-Ireland box office with £8m; ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ takes £6.2m

UK-Eire high 5, Could 23-25, 2025
 Rank Movie (origin)  Distributor Could 23-25 gross Complete  Week
1  Lilo & Sew (US)  Disney  £8m   £12.9m  1
 Mission: Unattainable – The Ultimate Reckoning  (US)
 Paramount  £6.2m  TBC  1
 Ultimate Vacation spot: Bloodlines  (US)
 Warner Bros  £1.7m  TBC  2
 The Phoenician Scheme  (US-Ger)
 Common  £770,562  £1.1m  1
 Thunderbolts*  (US)  Disney  £578,630  £15.2m  4

GBP to USD conversion charge: 1.36

Disney’s Lilo & Sew scored a robust £8m opening weekend to high the UK-Eire field workplace; as Mission: Unattainable – The Ultimate Reckoning made it a very good weekend for cinemas with £6.2m in second place.

Lilo & Sew made its £8m from 689 websites, at a wonderful £11,593 location common. This was comfortably the most important Disney opening of the 12 months up to now, forward of the £6.4m of Captain America: Courageous New World from February and £5m of Thunderbolts*  from final month.

Its full opening together with Wednesday and Thursday previews got here in at £9.6m. It now has a powerful £12.9m within the financial institution together with yesterday’s Financial institution Vacation Monday screenings.

The movie is nearing the £13.2m complete of 2002’s animated Lilo & Sew already. In comparison with different Disney live-action remakes, it has already topped the £11.5m of this 12 months’s Snow White, and the £9.5m of 2021’s Cruella.

It took a considerable £3.3m on the Financial institution Vacation Monday alone – the most important Monday of 2025 to this point, the most important Monday ever for a U-rated movie within the UK & Eire, and the twond-biggest Monday ever for a Disney live-action movie.

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Mission: Unattainable – The Ultimate Reckoning began with £6.2m from 747 websites, at a £8,274 web site common for Paramount. It was barely behind the £6.3m three-day opening of Mission: Unattainable: Useless Reckoning Half One from 2023, giving The Ultimate Reckoning the second-biggest opening of the eight-film franchise within the UK & Eire, forward of 2018’s Fallout with £5.5m.

The Ultimate Reckoning made £8.6m by way of Sunday, Could 25, with Monday figures nonetheless to come back.

Warner Bros’ Ultimate Vacation spot: Bloodlines added £1.7m on its second weekend – a 41% drop that introduced it to £7m by way of Sunday 25. It has already topped the totals of two of the Ultimate Vacation spot movies, with Ultimate Vacation spot 3 (£9m), Ultimate Vacation spot (£10.4m) and The Ultimate Vacation spot (£12.8m) all inside its sights.

Wes Anderson’s Cannes Competitors title The Phoenician Scheme began with £770,562 on the weekend, from 354 websites at a £2,177 common for Common.

That opening is down on the £1.1m of 2023’s Asteroid Metropolis, from 351 websites at a £3,155 common; and simply behind the £771,349 begin of The French Dispatch from 2021. Together with previews and Monday, The Phoenician Scheme has £1.1m.

Thunderbolts*  dropped 52% throughout its fourth weekend, with £578,630 contributing in direction of a £15.2m complete for Disney. It’s at present the 32nd -highest-grossing of 36 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, and can overtake Eternals (£16.2m) and Ant-Man  (£16.3m) shortly.

Takings for the highest 5 soared an enormous 221% in comparison with final weekend, boosted by the 2 sturdy openers; and are up 131% on the equal weekend from final 12 months. 2025 has been a robust 12 months to this point for cinemas, with Sony’s Karate Child: Legends and Black Bear’s The Salt Path trying to proceed the progress subsequent weekend.

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Sinners succeeds

'Sinners'

Sinners continues its sturdy theatrical run for Warner Bros, including £342,151 on its sixth weekend. This introduced it to £15.2m complete, past the £14.3m of 2023’s Creed III, additionally from Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.

A Minecraft Film prolonged its place because the highest-grossing movie of the 12 months up to now, including £246,952 on its eighth weekend for Warner Bros. The movie has simply wanting £56m in complete, forward of 2023’s The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film  (£54.9m) because the highest-grossing videogame adaptation ever within the territory.

Nature documentary Ocean With David Attenborough placed on £92,522 over the three-day weekend for Altitude, and has £1.3m complete – a very good end result for a non-fiction title.

Vue Cinemas’ Vue Lumiere distribution label has Bluey At The Cinema: Let’s Play Chef Assortment nonetheless on screens by way of 4 weekends, dropping simply 4% with £47,153 on its newest session to hit £544,179.

Occasion cinema launch Ballet To Broadway: Wheeldon Works placed on £42,367 on the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing. Together with its Thursday 22 opening day, the discharge has £210,539 complete.

Warner Bros’ The Accountant 2 starring Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal added £22,849 on its fifth weekend, and has £2.6m complete.

Artwork documentary Michelangelo: Love & Loss of life from Seventh Artwork Distribution’s Exhibition On Display sequence took £18,132 on the weekend; and together with its Tuesday 20 opening day has £85,956 complete.

Emmanuel Courcol’s French comedy The Marching Band, which was nominated for seven Cesar awards, added £15,869 on its second weekend for Vertigo Releasing and has £77,629 complete.

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Babak Anvari’s horror Hallow Street starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys added £17,063 on its second weekend, for a £168,572 complete.

Lionsgate’s Hurry Up Tomorrow starring Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan added £16,713 on its second weekend, and is as much as £242,516.

Icelandic drama When The Gentle Breaks opened to £7,046 on the weekend for Trendy Movies, and has £18,367 together with previews.

Sony horror Till Daybreak added £6,926 on its fifth session, and has nearly £1.8m complete.

The Penguin Classes starring Steve Coogan added £5,214 for Lionsgate, and is as much as £3.2m complete.

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