The Michael Jackson biopic
Michael makes its debut at the top of the UK box office this weekend with £11.5 Million knocking 2 week champ
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie down to number 2.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Michael (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Michael (@1)
- Longest run - Hoppers (8 weeks)
- Highest total gross - The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (£34,464,302)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Project Hail Mary (-50%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £15,542,143
- Also new this weekend
- Rose of Nevada
- The Exit 8
- Fight Club
- The Magic Flute: ROH London 2026
- Mother Mary
- Primavera
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 24th - 26th April 2026
Michael~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 £11,574,192 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of April
- The movie is the 12th top grossing film so far in 2026
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,099,044 over the weekend, a 57% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £34,464,302 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie which took £45,780,596 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.
Project Hail Mary
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £838,093 over the weekend, a 50% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £31,927,033 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2026
The Drama
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £504,925 over the weekend, a 58% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £9,204,414 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2026
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £358,678 over the weekend, a 63% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £1,792,415 over 2 weeks of release
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Michael - £11,574,192
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £1,099,044
- Project Hail Mary - £838,093
- The Drama - £504,925
- Lee Cronin's The Mummy - £358,678
- The Magic Faraway Tree - £339,522
- Rose of Nevada - £172,024
- The Exit 8 - £140,264
- Fight Club - £98,468
- The Magic Flute: ROH London 2026 - £87,521
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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.
