Lionsgate’s The Housemaid has moved to the top of the UK box office in its third week in cinemas, while the Golden Globe-winning drama Hamnet has opened in second place.
Starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, The Housemaid added an additional £3.5 million to its UK box office total. It is now up to £17.9 million. Screen Daily reports that the psychological thriller is now the highest-grossing Lionsgate title in over two years and could become director Paul Feig’s most successful film in the UK.
Hamnet, meanwhile, has opened with £3 million. Chloé Zhao’s latest feature is a dramatisation of the lives of William and Agnes Shakespeare. Hamnet has already surpassed the £2.2 million grossed by Nomadland (2020), for which Zhao won Best Picture and Best Director at the 93rd Academy Awards. Hamnet has also won Best Drama at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, with star Jessie Buckley also recognised for her performance as Agnes. Zac Wishart, James Lintern, and Joe Alwyn also star.
Avatar: Fire and Ash is third with £2.6 million, which brings its UK box office total up to £35.7 million. It is projected to finish behind the totals of Avatar (2009) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022).
Fire and Ash is ahead of Marty Supreme, which made an additional £2 million. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, who also triumphed at the latest Golden Globes. Marty Supreme is now the highest-grossing film ever made by either of the Safdie Brothers, together or individually, and has reached $79.4 million worldwide.
Zootropolis 2 rounds out the top five with £1.2 million for a £29.3 million all-time gross, taking it over £5 million beyond the total recorded by Zootropolis (2016). It is ahead of The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie: Search For Squarepants with £618,000.
Watch the trailer for Hamnet below.
