May 22, 2025

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A Complete Unknown Spends Second Week At The Top, The Brutalist Opens In Fifth (UK Box Office)

A scene from The Brutalist, which has opened in fifth place at the UK box office.

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A Complete Unknown has remained at the top of the UK , seeing off challenges from new entrants Flight Risk and The Brutalist.

The Bob Dylan biopic, starring Timothée Chalamet, made an additional £1.7 million in its second week in cinemas. This takes the Academy Award-nominated film to £5.9 million at the .

Mufasa: The Lion King remains second for Disney. The CGI prequel made £1.4 million for a £27.9 million running total. It is ahead of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which brought in £872,000 to bring its UK box office gross to £23.5 million.

Flight Risk, starring Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Dockery, has opened in fourth for Lionsgate with £810,244. The thriller follows a pilot transporting a fugitive and an air marshall over Alaskan airspace while the motivations and identities of those aboard come into question. Flight Risk marks Mel Gibson's return to directing after nearly a decade.

Brady Corbet's The Brutalist has opened in fifth with £703,617, which Screen Daily reports has come from just 170 cinemas nationwide. The Oscars frontrunner stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor who struggles to achieve the American Dream until his talent for architecture is discovered. The Brutalist won five awards at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, including the Silver Lion. However, its use of generative AI in some scenes has also proved controversial.

Behind the top five, Robert Eggers' Nosferatu took in an additional £534,940, taking its total to £11.9 million. This means it has replaced Five Nights At Freddy's (2023) as Universal's highest-grossing horror title in the UK.

Moana 2 brought in £524,450 to take its UK box office total up to £40.7 million. It is ahead of the romantic comedy-drama We Live In Time, with £475,876.

Watch the trailer for The Brutalist below.

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