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Weekend roundup:

The UK box office delivered £13,928,117 across the top 15 titles, marking the 5th best weekend of the year. A wave of new releases pushed the market upward, led by a major studio launch and one of the strongest Hindi openings ever recorded in the UK. Several holdovers also crossed key milestones, while a handful of smaller titles posted steep second‑week drops after preview‑inflated starts.

• Project Hail Mary: £7,403,542; 692 screens; Week 1.Includes £2,776,008 from 642 previews. This is the 2nd top opening of the year, and the 185th biggest opening weekend of all time, sitting just behind 1917. With 692 locations it becomes the 60th widest release ever, and the 3rd widest of the year. A commanding debut that sets the tone for the spring corridor.

• Dhurandhar: The Revenge: £2,064,355; 282 screens; Week 1.Includes £425,793 from 270 previews. This lands as the 8th biggest opening of the year, just behind Hamnet, and ranks among the strongest Hindi-language openings in UK history. Its screen average of £7,320 is one of the weekend’s highest.

• Hoppers: £1,231,382; 641 screens; Week 3; down 46%.A sharper fall after two strong frames, but its total of £9,510,888 keeps it comfortably within the year’s upper tier of performers.

• Reminders Of Him: £675,230; 542 screens; Week 2; down 38%.Includes £116,571 from 79 previews. A moderate hold for a drama‑led title, now at £2,462,691.

• Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come: £615,448; 469 screens; Week 1.Includes £18,033 from 113 previews. This is the 23rd best opening of the year, behind No Other Choice. It opens below the first film, which debuted to £947,958 in 2019 and finished with £1,785,254. The sequel will need strong word of mouth to match that trajectory.

• Aadu 3: £424,078; 174 screens; Week 1.Includes £130,037 from 157 previews. A concentrated regional performer with a preview‑driven start.

• How To Make A Killing: £255,014; 492 screens; Week 2; down 71%.Fall off without previews is 58%. A steep drop after a front‑loaded opening, now at £1,512,486.

• Mother's Pride: £235,703; 504 screens; Week 3; down 61%.Total now £2,779,502. A sizeable fall but still a respectable cumulative figure for a modestly scaled release.

• Scream 7: £199,074; 364 screens; Week 4; down 59%.Now at £7,594,886, making it the 6th top grossing film of the year, just behind 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The original Scream remains the highest grossing film in the franchise in the UK with £8,252,781, a figure Scream 7 is on track to surpass. Adjusted for inflation, the original would equal £19,195,968.

• The Good Boy: £191,862; 241 screens; Week 1.Includes £69,283 from 252 previews. A preview‑heavy launch for a mid‑scale thriller.

• Wuthering Heights: £191,522; 416 screens; Week 6; down 64%.A sharper fall this week, but its total of £24,794,995 continues to place it among the year’s strongest prestige performers.

• Goat: £125,587; 485 screens; Week 6; down 50%.Now at £12,880,205, maintaining a solid cumulative position after a front‑loaded start.

• Broken English: £125,341; 58 screens; Week 1.Includes £116,571 from 79 previews. A preview‑driven boutique opening.

• Tristan Und Isolde – Met Opera 2026 (Opera): £100,579; 97 screens; Week 1.A standard event‑cinema debut with a focused audience.

• La Grazia: £89,400; 46 screens; Week 1.Includes £41,336 from 18 previews. A small‑scale arthouse launch.

Holdovers and milestones

• Scream 7 continues its climb up the yearly chart, now the 6th highest grossing film of 2026, with a clear path to overtaking the original Scream’s lifetime total.• Wuthering Heights remains one of the year’s most durable prestige titles, now approaching the upper tiers of the all‑time list for literary adaptations.• Goat crosses £12.8 million, maintaining its position as one of the year’s most consistent mid‑budget performers.• Hoppers edges closer to the £10 million mark, a strong result for a genre‑blended release in its third frame.

Ones to watch next week

A varied slate arrives, with a handful of titles expected to lead the market, followed by a solid middle tier with family, repertory and cultural appeal. The rest of the lineup is made up of more specialised and regionally focused releases that will depend on targeted audiences and word‑of‑mouth.

• Splitsville

• The Magic Faraway Tree

• Bluey At The Cinema: Playdates With Friends

• Romeo + Juliet (30th Anniversary)

• London 2026 (Opera) Siegfried – ROH

• The Loved One

• No Ordinary Heist

• Underland

• All And Nothing

• They Will Kill You

• Two Prosecutors

• The Last Blossom

• Redoubt

• Orwell 2+2=5

• Nuodas

Final take

A strong set of new releases lifted the market to its 5th best weekend of the year, with Project Hail Mary delivering a major studio‑level opening and Dhurandhar: The Revenge posting one of the most impressive Hindi‑language debuts in recent memory. Several holdovers continued to build meaningful cumulative totals, while Scream 7 moved closer to becoming the franchise’s top UK performer. Next weekend’s mix of wide releases, event cinema, and culturally targeted titles should provide another healthy boost across the country’s cinemas.