The Paul Feig directed movie
The Housemaid is proving to be a massive UK box office hit as the movie moves back into the top spot for a second weekend.
It is a week with very little in the way of blockbuster new movies while the comedy starring Sydney Sweeney takes over £2 Million on its 5th weekend.
The movie is the top film of 2026 so far and has a total gross of just over £26 Million.
Top new movie of the weekend is at number 7 as Saipan makes its debut with £772,281.
UK box office QuickView
- Number 1 - The Housemaid (2nd Weekend)
- Highest debut - Saipan (@7)
- Longest run - Zootopia 2 (9 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Avatar: Fire and Ash (£40,168,959)
- Best Percentage change week on week - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (21%)
- Total UK top 15 this weekend - £12,300,051
- Also new this weekend
- Saipan
- No Other Choice
- Mercy
- Return to Silent Hill
- Border 2
- H Is For Hawk
- The History of Sound
- Check out the full UK box office.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 23rd - 25th January 2026
The Housemaid~2025
- The movie goes up the chart to number 1 on this weeks UK box office
- It has spent 2 weeks at the top of the UK box office.
- It grosses £2,038,034 over the weekend, a 28% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £26,081,648 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
Hamnet
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,964,266 over the weekend, a 25% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £12,063,897 over 3 weeks of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,228,023 over the weekend, a 64% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £5,748,976 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie is the 6th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to 28 Years Later which took £9,704,462 at the box office after 2 weeks in cinemas.
Avatar: Fire and Ash
- The movie Remains At Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,100,721 over the weekend, a 35% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £40,168,959 over 6 weeks of release
- The movie is the 2nd top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water which took £67,845,973 at the box office after 6 weeks in cinemas.
Zootopia 2
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 5 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,035,905 over the weekend, a 5% increase from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £31,655,747 over 9 weeks of release
- The movie is the 5th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Zootopia which took £23,144,354 at the box office after 9 weeks in cinemas.
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- The Housemaid - £2,038,034
- Hamnet - £1,964,266
- 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - £1,228,023
- Avatar: Fire and Ash - £1,100,721
- Zootopia 2 - £1,035,905
- Marty Supreme - £1,016,922
- Saipan - £772,281
- No Other Choice - £621,339
- Mercy - £612,349
- Return to Silent Hill - £579,967
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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.
