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Micheal goes back to the top of the UK box office on its 4th weekend of release making it now the top movie of 2026, meanwhile
Obsession is the top new movie at 4.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Michael (2nd Weekend)
- Highest debut - Obsession (@4)
- Longest run - Project Hail Mary (9 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Michael (£40,515,865)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Michael (-13%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £13,654,453
- Also new this weekend
- Top Gun
- The Christophers
- Shrek
- Athiradi
- Karuppu
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 15th - 17th May 2026
Michael~2025
- The movie goes up the chart to number 1 on this weeks UK box office
- It has spent 2 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £4,432,922 over the weekend, a 13% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £40,515,865 over 4 weeks of release
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £3,177,721 over the weekend, a 39% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £27,295,315 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada which took £9,395,649 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.
The Sheep Detectives
- The movie Remains At Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,380,614 over the weekend, a 58% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £5,454,156 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 18th top grossing film so far in 2026
Obsession~2025
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weeks UK box office chart.
- It grosses £1,342,900 over its debut weekend
Mortal Kombat II
- The movie Remains At Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £603,111 over the weekend, a 62% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £2,854,242 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is a sequel to Mortal Kombat which took £465,162 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Michael - £4,432,922
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 - £3,177,721
- The Sheep Detectives - £1,380,614
- Obsession - £1,342,900
- Mortal Kombat II - £603,111
- Top Gun - £520,907
- The Christophers - £397,537
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £374,394
- Shrek - £242,889
- Athiradi - £241,737
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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.
