Growing from the success of last years
Wicked,
Wicked: For Good tops the UK box office chart with a bigger opening than last years first movie.
The movie last year opened with just over £13.5 Million whereas the sequel (or part 2) opens this holiday season with an amazing £18.8 Million, making it the second largest November opening behind 2022's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but only just!
The box office, which has been on a low for the last few weeks, was ready for a big blockbuster movie, the next new release on the chart this week is Sisu: Road to Revenge at number 11 with holdover movies filling in the rest.
Last weeks top movie Now You See Me: Now You Don't falls to number 2 and has taken £4.3 Million so far in the UK.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Wicked: For Good (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Wicked: For Good (@1)
- Longest run - Regretting You (5 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Wicked: For Good (£18,858,825)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Laalo Krishna Sada Sahaayate (-3%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £22,657,866
- Also new this weekend
- Sisu: Road to Revenge
- Cbeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella
- Arabella: Met Opera 2025 Opera
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 21st - 23rd November 2025
Wicked: For Good
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 £18,858,825 over its debut weekend
- It is the 2nd top debuting movie in the month of November
- The movie is the 11th top grossing film so far in 2025
- The movie is a sequel to Wicked which took £13,696,056 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,111,688 over the weekend, a 53% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £4,345,774 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is a sequel to Now You See Me 2 which took £4,843,905 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.
The Running Man~2025
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £654,467 over the weekend, a 73% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £3,781,769 over 2 weeks of release
Nuremberg
- The movie Remains At Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £491,389 over the weekend, a 45% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £2,015,172 over 2 weeks of release
Predator: Badlands
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £375,130 over the weekend, a 59% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £5,030,808 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is a sequel to Prey which took £0 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Wicked: For Good - £18,858,825
- Now You See Me: Now You Don't - £1,111,688
- The Running Man - £654,467
- Nuremberg - £491,389
- Predator: Badlands - £375,130
- The Choral - £209,927
- Christmas Karma - £192,352
- A PAW Patrol: Christmas - £182,718
- Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution - £123,952
- Bugonia - £94,950
See full chart
ABOUT:
Robert Hyde
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.
