After only a week at the top
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu drop to number 2 after the viral horror idea
Backroom makes a strong debut at the top of the UK box office on its debut weekend.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 29th - 31st May 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 £4,281,936 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,660,970 over the weekend, a 59% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £11,329,181 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 14th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker which took £39,435,355 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,763,682 over the weekend, a 1% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £48,019,081 over 6 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 £1,565,341 over the weekend, a 18% increase from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £6,834,514 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 19th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £875,712 over the weekend, a 24% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £32,144,914 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada which took £12,717,312 at the box office after 5 weeks in cinemas.
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Backrooms - £4,281,936
- Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - £2,660,970
- Michael - £1,763,682
- Obsession - £1,565,341
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 - £875,712
- The Sheep Detectives - £711,254
- Tuner - £361,457
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £221,621
- Power Ballad - £203,650
- Passenger - £148,158
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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.
