The first
Star Wars movie since
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was released in 2019 hits the top of the UK box office on its first weekend of release, although unusually hot weather in the UK give it the smallest debut of the series since
Solo: A Star Wars Story.
UK weekend box office top 5 breakdown 22nd - 24th May 2026
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 £6,440,000 over its debut weekend
- It is the 11th top debuting movie in the month of May
- The movie is the 18th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker which took £20,864,500 at the box office after 1 weeks in cinemas.
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 2 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,781,990 over the weekend, a 60% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £44,292,051 over 5 weeks of release
- The movie is the top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie Goes Up the Chart to Number 3 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,284,749 over the weekend, a 4% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £3,953,954 over 2 weeks of release
- The movie Goes Down the Chart to Number 4 on this weeks UK box office
- It grosses £1,149,500 over the weekend, a 64% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of £30,209,206 over 4 weeks of release
- The movie is the 4th top grossing film so far in 2026
- The movie is a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada which took £11,659,069 at the box office after 4 weeks in cinemas.
This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
- Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - £6,440,000
- Michael - £1,781,990
- Obsession - £1,284,749
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 - £1,149,500
- Drishyam 3 - £835,968
- The Sheep Detectives - £538,088
- Passenger - £335,576
- Finding Emily - £212,752
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie - £121,386
- The Christophers - £115,477
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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.
