Coming from veteran horror director Sam Raimi this weeks new number 1 movie is
Send Help which tops the United Kingdom box office with a little over £1.5 Million.
Cinema is going through a period where there is no major blockbuster released at getting into released so when a movie likes this which got very little hype makes it to the top of the box office its worth celebrating.
Sam Raimi of course is no stranger to big buget blockbusters having direct the Toby Maguire Spider Man trilogy and the MCU movie Doctor Strage and the Multiverse of Madness.
Falling from the top this weekend is Hamnet which has been on the box office for 5 weeks and has taken over £16.5 Million to date.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 6th - 8th February 2026
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 £1,593,703 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of February
- The movie is the 13th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The Movie Is a New Entry At Number 2 On This Weeks UK Box Office
- It Grosses £1,083,888 Over Its Debut Weekend
- The Movie Is the 17th Top Grossing Film So Far In 2026
the Housemaid
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £929,423 over the weekend, a 34% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £30,085,266 over 7 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £830,376 over the weekend, a 41% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £16,618,821 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie Remains At Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £603,912 over the weekend, a 29% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £33,327,807 over 11 weeks of release
- The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Zootopia which took £23,560,056 at the box office after 11 weeks in cinemas.
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Send Help - £1,593,703
- Stray Kids: The DominATE Experience - £1,083,888
- The Housemaid - £929,423
- Hamnet - £830,376
- Zootopia 2 - £603,912
- Shelter - £480,129
- Marty Supreme - £431,698
- Avatar: Fire and Ash - £378,225
- Iron Lung - £362,066
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - £254,643
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