Project Hail Mary Tops UK Box Office with £7.4M Debut
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- Project Hail Mary (Sony) debuted at No. 1 at the UK and Ireland box office with £7.4 million ($9.9 million) in its opening weekend, per Comscore.
- Dhurandhar: The Revenge (Moviegoers Entertainment), the Ranveer Singh-starring Indian action sequel, opened second with $2.8 million, marking a strong start for the franchise.
- Disney's Hoppers moved to third in its third weekend, adding $1.6 million for a $12.7 million cumulative, while Universal's Reminders of Him placed fourth with $900,000 (cumulative $3.3 million).
- Disney's Ready or Not 2: Here I Come debuted fifth with $820,000, and RFT Films Ltd's Malayalam-language Aadu 3 opened sixth on $565,000.
- The Magic Faraway Tree (Entertainment Film Distributors), directed by Ben Gregor and starring Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, and Nicola Coughlan, is the key upcoming wide release, rolling out across more than 300 locations in the final week of March.
- Warner Bros' thriller They Will Kill You, Universal's comedy Splitsville (Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona), and Trafalgar's event-cinema Bring Me the Horizon: L.I.V.E. in Sao Paulo round out the week's wide and specialty pipeline.
Why it matters: Project Hail Mary's £7.4M debut outpaced the second-place Indian sequel by more than 3x in dollar terms, giving Sony a commanding market lead. The final March week tilts heavily family: the Garfield-led Magic Faraway Tree lands across 300+ locations, while Warner Bros and Universal counter with genre and comedy titles in a crowded release corridor.
