| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | June 20-22 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 Years Later (US-UK) | Sony | £3.9m | £4.8m | 1 |
| 2 | How To Train Your Dragon (US) | Universal | £2.8m | £12.7m | 2 |
| 3 | Elio (US) | Disney | £970,000 | £970,000 | 1 |
| 4 | Lilo & Stitch (US) | Disney | £670,000 | £34.3m | 5 |
| 5 | Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (US) | Paramount | £600,000 | £24.7m | 5 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.34
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later has got off to a fast start at the UK-Ireland box office, beginning with £3.9m for Sony for the biggest opening of the franchise.
Playing in 707 cinemas, the film took a £5,483 average across the weekend. It has £4.8m including previews.
Its £3.9m weekend opening is ahead of the full starts of previous titles 28 Days Later (£1.5m in 2002) and 28 Weeks Later (£1.6m in 2007) combined.
Those two films ended on £6.4m and £5.4m respectively; 28 Years Later should overtake both figures within the next fortnight. With Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple already shot, Boyle has said a fifth film in the series depends partly on the financial performance of 28 Years Later. This start will improve such prospects.
Last weekend’s number one How To Train Your Dragon added £2.8m on its second session for Universal. This drop of 51% brought it to £12.7m total; it could overtake the £17.4m of 2010’s animated How To Train Your Dragon, but the £20.1m of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and £27.6m of How To Train Your Dragon 2 will prove more challenging.
Disney opened original animation Elio to £971,000 from 599 sites, at a £1,621 average, with several sites still to report. This flat opening is in line with its slow international performance.
Lilo & Stitch, a Disney stablemate, continues to thrive at the box office, adding £670,000 on its fifth session. This 54% drop brought it to £34.3m – the third-highest-grossing 2025 release.
Also on its fifth weekend, Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning put on £600,000, a drop of 50%. It is now up to £24.7m, overtaking Fallout to become the second-highest-grossing Mission: Impossible film with just Dead Reckoning Part One (£26.6m) ahead of it.
The top five takings dropped 6% to £8.9m, and are down 15% on the equivalent weekend from last year. After a strong first six months to 2025, exhibitors will look to Warner Bros’ F1, opening this coming week, to boost takings into the summer.
More to follow.