| Rank | Title (origin) | Distributor | August 1-3 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps (US) | Disney | £3.1m | £15.4m | 2 |
| 2 | The Naked Gun (US) |
Paramount | £1.8m | £1.8m | 1 |
| 3 | Jurassic World Rebirth (US) |
Universal | £1.33m | £31.6m | 5 |
| 4 | The Bad Guys 2 (US) |
Universal | £1.27m | £4.9m | 2 |
| 5 | Superman (US) |
Warner Bros | £1.26m | £24.3m | 4 |
Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps held off the challenge of Paramount’s The Naked Gun to top the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend.
First Steps added £3.1m on its second weekend – a 49% drop that brought it to £15.4m total. It has already taken more than five of the 36 Marvel Cinematic Universe films to date, and will top Ant-Man (£16.3m), Iron Man (£17.4m) and Ant-Man And The Wasp (£17.8m) in the next week.
The Naked Gun opened to £1.82m from 632 sites at a £2,880 average, with a few sites still to report. Among comedy comparisons, its opening is just above 1998’s Rush Hour and 2014’s Nativity 3 (both £1.81m), which ended on £7.4m and £7.6m respectively.
Animation The Bad Guys 2 posted a decent hold on its second weekend, falling just 19% with £1.33m taking it to £4.9m total. It is unlikely to catch the £13.7m of 2022’s The Bad Guys, but could still bring in a decent amount for Universal.
Studio stablemate Jurassic World Rebirth also performed well on its fifth weekend, dropping just 20% with £1.27m. The dinosaur feature is up to £31.6m, currently the fifth-highest-grossing of seven Jurassic Park films and with 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion (£35.1m) still within reach.
Both The Bad Guys 2 and Rebirth overtook Superman in the charts, with a 34% drop to £1.26m taking Warner Bros’ film from second to fifth on its third weekend. It is up to £24.3m total, behind only three of the fifteen titles from the previous DC Extended Universe.
Takings for the top five dropped a sharp 26% compared to the previous weekend, to £8.8m. Although July box office was up on last year, exhibitors will need Disney’s Freakier Friday to perform well next weekend to keep the run going.
More to follow.