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The UK box office produced £10,070,914 from the top 15 this weekend, a quieter frame that nevertheless delivered a handful of headline moments: a major studio opener, a preview‑heavy launch, and several holdovers climbing career charts. Several new releases landed mid‑chart while long‑running titles continued to pad their totals.

Weekend roundup

• Hoppers: £4,789,170; 637 screens; Week 1. Includes £1,459,260 from 604 previews. A huge studio launch (Walt Disney Int’l) and the weekend’s clear winner, it posts the second best opening of the year, behind Wuthering Heights, and ranks as the 348th best opening ever, sitting just behind The Sixth Sense. Its start is 80% stronger than Elio’s opening last year. Total this weekend £4,789,170.

• Scream 7: £1,161,628; 593 screens; Week 2; down 70%. Total £6,142,533. Fall‑off without previews is 65%. The franchise continues to show strong cumulative momentum, it is on track to surpass Scream 6’s £7,718,688 by next weekend and has climbed to 5th on the yearly chart behind 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

• Wuthering Heights: £1,071,054; 667 screens; Week 4; down 52%. Total £23,094,991. The film’s sustained run has pushed it into the 270th place on the all‑time chart, now sitting just behind Gone Girl.

• The Bride!: £715,009; 630 screens; Week 1. A solid mid‑table launch for a wide new release. Total £715,009.

• Mother’s Pride: £707,634; 517 screens; Week 1. A strong opening for a targeted release. Total £707,634.

• Goat: £416,190; 616 screens; Week 4; down 54%. Total £12,368,104. A steady long‑runner with healthy cumulative returns.

• EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert: £335,316; 580 screens; Week 2; down 82%. Total £2,875,539. Fall‑off without previews is 71%, underlining how much of its early business was preview driven.

• Sinners: £97,708; 236 screens; Week 47; up 928%. Total £16,625,107. An extraordinary long tail, the title continues to accumulate and now sits just behind Hamnet on the all‑time list (see milestones).

• Hamnet: £73,616; 196 screens; Week 9; down 48%. Total £18,627,349. A prestige holdover with strong cumulative appeal; it now ranks 365th on the all‑time chart, with Sinners immediately behind in 366th.

• James Acaster — Cinemagoers Welcome: £83,012; 340 screens; Week 1. Includes £1,322 from 2 previews. A compact, preview‑light launch for a comedy event (CinemaLive).

Holdovers and milestones

• Hoppers’s opening places it among the year’s biggest debuts so far and marks a notable studio success in a quieter weekend.

• Scream 7’s cumulative £6,142,533 positions it to overtake the previous franchise instalment next weekend, driven by strong early legs despite a steep weekly drop.

• Wuthering Heights continues to climb the all‑time list and remains one of the year’s top performers by total gross.

• Hamnet and Sinners now occupy adjacent slots on the all‑time chart; Hamnet at 365th, Sinners at 366^th, a rare pairing of prestige and endurance in the upper reaches of the list.

Preview dynamics shaped several results: Hoppers and EPiC were both preview‑heavy, while Scream 7 and EPiC show large fall‑offs when previews are excluded.

Ones to watch next week

• The Revenant (10th Anniversary)

• The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond

• Reminders Of Him

• Scarlet

• Resurrection

• The Straight Story (4K Restoration)

• Munna 4K

• Zulu Dawn (4K Re Issue)

• One Last Deal

• The Tasters

• How To Make A Killing

• Arranged Love

• Broken English

• Band Melam

• Charak: Fair Of Faith

Final take

This weekend’s top 15 delivered £10,070,914, a modest total that reflects a market in need of a sustained breakout. Still, the frame was far from uneventful: Hoppers posted a major studio opening, Scream 7 continues to build a sizeable cumulative total and looks set to climb further, and several holdovers, notably Wuthering Heights, Hamnet and Sinners, reached noteworthy all‑time positions. With a broad and commercially varied slate due next week, cinemas should see a welcome injection of new audiences across both mainstream multiplexes and event cinema sites.