The Academy Award and BAFTA-tipped drama Hamnet has climbed to the top of the UK box office, ahead of The Housemaid and the Jason Statham-starring Shelter.
Starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, Hamnet made an additional £1.4 million and is now up to £14.8 million after four weeks in cinemas. Screen Daily reports that the film will soon surpass Eternals (2021) to become director Chloé Zhao’s highest-grossing film in the UK. Hamnet is now up to $58 million worldwide.
The Housemaid falls to second, also with £1.4 million. Paul Feig’s erotic thriller is now up to £28.4 million after six weeks in cinemas. It is up to $310 million worldwide from a $35 million budget.
Shelter, starring Jason Statham and Bodhi Rae Breathnach, is the highest new release in third. It centres on a former British assassin living a reclusive life on the West coast of Scotland who has to help a young woman escape from the same violent agency that is determined to hunt him down.
Having grossed £964,000, Shelter has opened with a higher total than other recent Statham titles such as The Beekeeper (2024) and A Working Man (2025). Bill Nighy, Naomi Ackie, and Daniel Mays also star.
Zootropolis 2 is fourth with £854,934 from its tenth week in cinemas. It is ahead of Iron Lung, which is written, directed, produced by and starring Mark Fischbach (better known on YouTube as Markiplier). Based on the 2022 indie horror game of the same name, the film sees a convict investigate an abandoned moon after he is locked inside of a rusting submarine. Iron Lung has opened with £834,446.
Avatar: Fire and Ash has dropped out of the top five with £743,241, ahead of Marty Supreme and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
Watch the trailer for Shelter below.
