The James Cameron directed
Avatar: Fire and Ash continues to dominate the UK box office as it spends its third weekend at the top of the box office chart.
The movie has now taken over £31 Million in the UK as it adds another £4.5 Million on its third weekend of release.
It is well behind the previous movie which at this point had taken £45 Million on its UK cinema run.
Highest movie of the weekend lands outside the top 5 this week as Song Sung Blue makes its debut at number 6 this weekend with just shy of £1 Million on its debut.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - Avatar: Fire and Ash (3rd Weekend)
- Highest debut - Song Sung Blue (@6)
- Longest run - Wicked: For Good (7 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Wicked: For Good (£46,484,064)
- Best Percentage change week on week - Marty Supreme (50%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £17,545,233
- Also new this weekend
- Back to the Past
- Happy Feet
- Peter Hujars Day
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 2nd - 4th January 2026
Avatar: Fire and Ash
- The movie remains at number 1 on this weeks UK box office
- It has spent 3 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £4,427,062 over the weekend, a 27% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £31,598,260 over 3 weeks of release
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of January
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water which took £44,971,330 at the box office after 3 weeks in cinemas.
The Housemaid~2025
- The movie Remains At Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £3,857,746 over the weekend, a 13% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £12,367,165 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2026
Marty Supreme
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,764,274 over the weekend, a 50% increase from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £6,002,922 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2026
Zootopia 2
- The movie Remains At Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £2,084,983 over the weekend, a 25% increase from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £27,522,024 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie is the 3rd top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Zootopia which took £22,212,103 at the box office after 6 weeks in cinemas.
The SpongeBob Movie: Search For Squarepants
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,177,468 over the weekend, a 61% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £5,996,385 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2026
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Avatar: Fire and Ash - £4,427,062
- The Housemaid - £3,857,746
- Marty Supreme - £2,764,274
- Zootopia 2 - £2,084,983
- The SpongeBob Movie: Search For Squarepants - £1,177,468
- Song Sung Blue - £936,254
- Anaconda - £802,726
- Wicked: For Good - £605,793
- Back to the Past - £251,825
- Sentimental Value - £182,435
See full chart
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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.
