Super Mario Galaxy Movie Holds UK Box Office No 1
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- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie held No. 1 at the U.K. and Ireland box office for a second weekend, adding £5.5 million ($7.5 million) to lift its cumulative to £28.3 million ($38.2 million), per Comscore.
- Project Hail Mary (Sony) remained second in its fourth frame, adding $3.3 million for a cumulative $36.7 million — now the highest-grossing title in the market by total.
- The Drama (Entertainment Film Distributors) placed third in its second weekend with $2.4 million (cumulative $7.8 million), while the same distributor's The Magic Faraway Tree held fourth with $2.2 million ($15.7 million cumulative).
- BTS World Tour 'Arirang' in Goyang: Live Viewing (Trafalgar Releasing) debuted in sixth place on $454,000, marking a notable event-cinema showing mid-chart.
- Lee Cronin's The Mummy (Warner Bros.) leads the mid-April slate, opening alongside Lionsgate U.K.'s Glenrothan at 300 locations, Sony's Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Trinity Filmed Entertainment's Jet Li/Wu Jing action title Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert across 100-plus sites.
- Akira returns to cinemas via Anime Ltd. in IMAX across 300 locations, and Bridget Jones's Diary gets a 25th-anniversary re-release from Universal.
- The specialty/international sector is unusually crowded, with The Wizard of the Kremlin (Assayas, starring Jude Law and Alicia Vikander), Colours of Time, Endless Cookie, The Blue Trail, and Ferzan Ozpetek's Diamanti all debuting in the same window.
Why it matters: Universal is on track to push Super Mario Galaxy past £30M domestically in a soft market, while the mid-April pipeline is unusually heavy — five wide releases plus a Bridget Jones re-release and a 300-location IMAX Akira event compete for the same screens, meaning exhibitors face real programming trade-offs and several specialty titles will need strong word-of-mouth to survive overlap.
