As January comes to a close with no major new releases coming to cinemas the heavily Oscar nominated
Hamnet swaps places with
The House Maid to climb to number 1.
The movie takes nearly £1.4 Million this weekend, its 4th weekend of release, and has a total gross of nearly £15 Million.
Highest new movie of the weekend is Shelter starring Jason Statham which makes its debut on the box office with a shade under £1 Million.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Hamnet (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Shelter (@3)
- Longest run - Zootopia 2 (10 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Avatar: Fire and Ash (£41,299,900)
- Best Percentage change week on week - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (86%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £10,157,692
- Also new this weekend
- Primate
- Is This Thing On?
- Kangaroo
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 30th - 1st February 2026
Hamnet
- The movie goes up the chart to number 1 on this weeks UK box office
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £1,412,612 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £14,841,238 over 4 weeks of release
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of January
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2026
The Housemaid~2025
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,399,261 over the weekend, a 31% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £28,480,667 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
Shelter~2026
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
- It grosses £964,903 over its debut weekend
- The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2026
Iron Lung
- The movie Is a New Entry At Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £948,731 over its debut weekend
- The movie is the 14th top grossing film so far in 2026
Zootopia 2
- The movie Remains At Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £855,208 over the weekend, a 17% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £32,609,792 over 10 weeks of release
- The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Zootopia which took £23,461,047 at the box office after 10 weeks in cinemas.
ABOUT:
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.
