In a box office battle similar to
Barbie V
Oppenheimer,
Lilo & Stitch live action and the last
Mission:Impossible movie
Mission:Impossible the Final Reckoning get released on the same day for a box office battle.
The winner in the end was the Disney movie Lilo & Stitch which took a very respectable £9.5 Million to get to the top.
This makes it the fifth top debut in the UK for a Disney live action remake with the top one being the Beauty and the Beast remake.
The remakes have had a hard time of late with this years Snow White set to be the lowest grossing so this is a nice boost for the company.
Mission:Impossible the Final Reckoning enters the box office at number 2 this weekend and its debut gross of £8.5 Million falls just short if Mission:Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 which took £10.3 Million on its debut.
Lat weeks top movie, Final Destination: Bloodlines, falls to number 3 on its second weekend on the box office and has taken nearly £7 Million.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 23rd - 25th May 2025
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £9,568,923 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
- The movie is the 12th top grossing film so far in 2025
Final Destination: Bloodlines
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,660,795 over the weekend, a 59% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £6,950,824 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 17th top grossing film so far in 2025
- The movie is a sequel to Final Destination 5 which took £3,807,664 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £578,630 over the weekend, a 52% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £15,231,675 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2025
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Lilo & Stitch - £9,568,923
- Mission:Impossible - The Final Reckoning - £8,579,185
- Final Destination: Bloodlines - £1,660,795
- The Phoenician Scheme - £770,562
- Thunderbolts* - £578,630
- Sinners - £342,151
- A Minecraft Movie - £246,952
- Ocean With David Attenborough - £94,522
- Narivetta - £54,856
- Bluey At the Cinema: Lets Play Chef Collection - £47,153
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