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Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch comedy ‘The Roses’ opens top of UK-Ireland box office

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch comedy ‘The Roses’ opens top of UK-Ireland box office

UK-Eire high 5, August 29-31
Rank   Movie (origin) Distributor   August 29-31 Complete   Week
1 The Roses (UK-US) 
Disney £2.2m  £2.2m 1
Jaws  (US) Common £1.1m £1.1m 1
Weapons (US) 
Warner Bros  £838,351 £10.4m 4
The Dangerous Guys 2  (US) Common  £807,222  £11.9m 6
Freakier Friday (US)
Disney  £744,302 £7.4m 4

GBP to USD conversion price: 1.35

Disney’s The Roses was the decide of the bunch this weekend on the UK-Eire field workplace, opening to £2.2m from 694 websites, for a location common of £3,170.

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

The weekend’s opening comfy beats Roach’s most up-to-date effort, 2019’s Bombshell, which opened to £686,050 for Lionsgate.

In second place this weekend was Common’s fiftieth anniversary re-release of Jaws, which stirred up a powerful £1.1m in takings from 679 places, for a web site common of £1,620.

Warner Bros’ horror-thriller Weapons continued to carry out strongly with £838,351, with £10.4m after 4 weekends.

Common’s The Dangerous Guys 2 was up 58% on its earlier session, taking £807,222 in its sixth weekend, for a complete 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 occasion cinema stalwart, continued to lure in audiences for Piece of Magic together with his newest, Andre Rieu’s 2025 Masstricht Live performance: Waltz The Evening Away. It grossed £562,217 from 638 websites throughout Saturday and Sunday solely, with some stories nonetheless lacking. Because it stands, its web site common is £881.

Sony’s Caught Stealing introduced in £552,302 from 571 websites in its opening weekend, for a location common of £973. Together with previews, it has taken £570,843. Austin Butler stars in Darren Aronofsky’s motion movie as a New York bartender who finds himself caught up in the midst of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith and Regina King additionally star.

The weekend’s determine doesn’t fairly match as much as Aronofsky’s 2023 opener The Whale, which took £614,906 for A24, and 2011’s Black Swan for twentieth Century Fox, which opened to £2.8m.

Disney’s The Incredible 4: First Steps grossed £505,024, for a £23.1m general determine.

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

Common’s Jurassic World Rebirth was up 2% on its earlier session, taking £269,057. Its complete is now £35.6m.

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

A twentieth anniversary re-release of Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Hearth stirred up £196,384 from 431 places for Warner Bros, for a web site common of £456. Together with £311,383 in previews, the re-release has £507,768.

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

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

All The Anime took an admirable £128,082 from a Sunday launch of Japanese animated musical drama Colourful Stage! The Film: A Miku Who Can’t Sing, out at 174 places, for a web site common of £736. Hiroyuki Hata directs the movie, which relies on a cell phone sport. Together with £9,694 from previews, the movie has grossed £137,794.

Common’s No one 2 dropped 56% on its earlier weekend, taking £108,694 in its third weekend, now standing on a £1.4m complete.

It was a superb weekend for Common’s How To Practice Your Dragon, up 111% on its earlier session, with £103,675 in its twelfth weekend, and an general determine of simply shy of £23m.

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

Leisure Movie Distributors’ horror Collectively introduced in £91,585 in its third weekend, for an general determine of £1.5m.

Warner Bros’ F1: The Film added £72,088 in its tenth weekend, now with a cumulative determine of £22.2m.

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

Yash Raj Movies’ Saiyaara grossed £44,752 in its seventh weekend, now with a £3.2m complete. The romance is the second highest-grossing Indian movies of all-time in UK-Eire and 2024 and 2025’s largest Indian field workplace hit within the territory.

Signature’s Poisonous Avenger Uncut took £40,939 from 281 places in its opening weekend, for a web site common of £146. Complete field workplace, together with previews, stands at £95,300. The Macon Blair-directed superhero horror comedy reboot premiered at Incredible Fest and stars Peter Dinklage.

Picturehouse’s Sorry, Child’s second weekend grossed £38,735, a 26% drop on its opening weekend – now as much as a £188,885 complete.

Curzon’s Younger Moms grossed £7,863 from 20 websites, for a location common of £393. With previews, the movie has taken £12,260. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne direct the Cannes Competitors drama set in a residential shelter for younger moms in Liege, Belgium, the place 5 women grapple with the challenges of parenting a new child. It’s Belgium’s entry for greatest worldwide characteristic.

Slovenian filmmaker Urska Djukic’s debut characteristic Little Bother Ladies took £7,844 for BFI Distribution throughout the weekend, growing to £10,863 with previews. From 17 places throughout the weekend, its web site common is £639. The drama beforehand performed on the Berlinale and Edinburgh movie competition and follows an introverted 16-year-old, performed by newcomer Jara Sofija Ostan, who joins her Catholic college’s all-girls choir and experiences a sexual awakening.

Vertigo’s launch of a 4k restoration of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth introduced in £3,663 from 28 websites, for a location common of £131.

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