As we roll into the middle of October we get another sequel movie trying to revive an aging franchise, this time is a sequel to the 80's movie
TRON as the third movie in the series
TRON: Ares makes its debut at the tp of the UK box office.
The Disney movie was expected to blast into cinemas on a wave of hype, but instead it sort of whimpers in with a £1.2 Million debut, less than the previous movie in the series.
The series which apart from the 3 live action movies has a number of animated shorts created to expand the series is struggling to make a mark in cinemas despite have a large fan base.
Last weeks top movie from Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl drops from the chart completely as it was only showing for a single weekend but it did take an amazing £4,679,450 that single week!
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - TRON: Ares (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - TRON: Ares (@1)
- Longest run - The Bad Guys 2 (12 weeks)
- Highest total gross - The Conjuring: Last Rites (£17,830,712)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 (57%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £6,683,332
- Also new this weekend
- Night of the Zoopocalypse
- Good Boy!
- Corpse Bride
- Perfect Blue
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 10th - 12th October 2025
TRON: Ares
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 £1,790,651 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of October
- The movie is a sequel to TRON Legacy which took £1,970,692 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
One Battle After Another
- The movie Remains At Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,241,615 over the weekend, a 37% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £8,323,649 over 3 weeks of release
I Swear
- The movie Is a New Entry At Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,185,756 over its debut weekend
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £456,643 over the weekend, a 47% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £16,905,397 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2025
- The movie is a sequel to Downton Abbey: A New Era which took £13,328,841 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.
The Smashing Machine~2025
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £353,340 over the weekend, a 59% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £1,621,631 over 2 weeks of release
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- TRON: Ares - £1,790,651
- One Battle After Another - £1,241,615
- I Swear - £1,185,756
- Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - £456,643
- The Smashing Machine - £353,340
- The Conjuring: Last Rites - £304,634
- Night of the Zoopocalypse - £263,691
- Good Boy! - £230,214
- The Bad Guys 2 - £166,854
- The Long Walk - £146,388
See full chart
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Robert Hyde
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
