Alien: Romulus has opened at the top of the UK box office after making £3.7 million across its opening weekend in cinemas.
The seventh entry in the Alien franchise has recorded the series’ second-highest opening, behind only the £4.8 million debut of Alien: Covenant (2017). Romulus is set between the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) and James Cameron’s Aliens (1986).
Romulus has moved It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively, into second place. Justin Baldoni’s drama made an additional £2.8 million across its second weekend at the UK box office.
Deadpool & Wolverine remains in third with £2.4 million. Screen Daily reports that the film’s current total of £48.4 million makes it the sixth highest-grossing Marvel title to date. The film has now surpassed Joker (2019) to become the highest-grossing R-rated film globally with over $1.14 billion.
Despicable Me 4 is in fourth place with £1.2 million. This takes its cumulative UK box office total to £38.4 million.
Trafalgar Releasing’s rerelease of Henry Selick and LAIKA Studios’ Coraline (2009) is fifth, with £558,581. Its £2.5 million running total is in addition to the £8.7 million the film grossed during its original theatrical run.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap fell out of the top five with £558,581. The thriller, starring Josh Hartnett, has now made £2.5 million. It is ahead of Disney’s Inside Out 2, which posted an additional £506,583 to take its UK box office total to £55.5 million.
The disaster thriller Twisters added £319,940 in its fifth weekend in cinemas. Behind it comes the Bollywood horror-comedy Stree 2 with £240,147.
Lionsgate’s Borderlands, directed by Eli Roth, took an additional £181,104 in its second weekend. The video game adaptation is followed by Sony Pictures’ rerelease of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 (2007), which took £156,677.
Watch the trailer for Alien: Romulus below.