UK-Ireland box office down 35% in March compared to last year

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UK-Ireland box office down 35% in March compared to last year

The UK-Eire field workplace suffered a gradual month in March, with takings dropping 35% in comparison with March 2024.

The £50.7m whole in March introduced year-to-date takings to £245.5m – on a par with 2024, having been 15% up on the finish of Fabruary.

The drop is partly defined by the college Easter holidays, that are but to happen in 2025 and fell throughout March 2024; but additionally by a weaker launch slate, with Dune: Half Two contributing £22.2m in March 2024.

UK-Eire March 2025 high 10
 Rank Title (origin)   Distributor Launch date March whole  2025 whole
 1
 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (Fr-UK-US)  Common  14/2/25  £7.5m  £45.8m
 2  Disney’s Snow White (US)  Disney  21/3/25  £7.3m  £7.3m
 3   Mickey 17 (S Kor-US)
 Warner Bros  7/3/25  £6.8m  £6.8m
 4   Black Bag (US)  Common  14/3/25  £3.3m  £3.3m
 5   Marching Powder (UK)
 True Brit  7/3/25  £3m  £3m
 6   Captain America: Courageous New World (US)
 Disney  14/2/25  £1.8m  £18m
 7   Ne Zha 2 (China)  Trinity/CineAsia  21/3/25  £1.4m  £1.4m
 8   L2: Empuraan (India)  RFT Movie  28/3/25  £1.3m  £1.3m
 9   Canine Man (US)  Common  7/2/25  £1.2m  £13.4m
 10   A Working Man (UK-US)  Warner Bros  28/3/25  £1m  £1m

Month-to-month figures from Mar 7-April 4, 2025, courtesy of ComScore

Nothing has come near that quantity in 2025, with February launch Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy because the highest-grossing launch with £7.4m – the second month it has topped the month-to-month chart. The Common title is the highest-grossing movie of 2025 with £45.8m – greater than two-and-a-half occasions the overall of the second-highest-grossing title, Disney’s Captain America: Courageous New World with £18m.

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This 12 months’s Easter Holidays run from April 5-22 for most colleges. Cinemas will look to regain the bottom misplaced in March with titles together with Warner Bros’ A Minecraft Film (opening right now), Common occasion title Six The Musical (Sunday 6) and Park Circus re-releases together with Babe (April 11) and Wallace And Gromit: Curse Of The Had been-Rabbit (April 18).

Takings are nonetheless up 9% in comparison with the identical interval from 2023.

March titles

Disney took second spot for March 2025, with musical adaptation Snow White taking £7.3m after two weeks. It would quickly overtake West Facet Story (£7.8m) to change into the second-highest-grossing title starring Rachel Zegler, behind The Starvation Video games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes (£18.2m).

March releases additionally took locations three-to-five within the chart: Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi thriller Mickey 17 in third for Warner Bros, Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag in fourth for Common; and the highest-grossing unbiased title of the month, Nick Love’s UK drug comedy Marching Powder for True Brit Leisure. With £3m, that movie is now Danny Dyer’s second-highest-grossing of all time, behind solely Imply Machine (£4.4m).

Main titles from worldwide territories took two spots on the UK-Eire record: Chinese language blockbuster Ne Zha 2, launched by Trinity Movie/CineAsia to £1.4m in March; and Bollywood motion movie L2: Empuraan, which opened on March 28 and has £1.3m already.

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