The total revenue for April is £102,513,849 representing a 2% increase over the £100,294,782 reported in April 2025, and a 68% increase from the £60,803,036 reported in April 2024. The box office for April 2025 was led by A Minecraft Movie and Sinners contributing £52.0m and £8.7m respectively. Year to date, we have passed £365 million, 7% ahead of 2025.

In at No.1 is the second instalment in the “Super Mario” franchise, “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” with a gross of £34.6m in April. Including previews, Universal’s animated title opened to £14.9m making it the highest opening of the year so far, ahead of the previous leader “Wuthering Heights” (£7.6m) and subsequent April opener “Michael” (£11.5m). This is also the second-highest debut for an animated title post pandemic, only behind the first film in the franchise, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (£15.6m) which went on to gross £54.9m. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic’s sequel is currently 27% behind the previous title at the same point of release.

Taking the No.2 spot is another new opener from Universal, “Michael,” which has grossed £16.0m in April. Anton Fuqua’s music biopic debuted to £11.5m including previews, making it his largest opening by far ahead of “The Equalizer 3” (£2.7m) and “Olympus Has Fallen” (£2.2m). “Michael’s” opening is also ahead of all other music biopics, bigger than “Rocketman” (£5.3m), “Bob Marley: One Love” (£6.9m) and “Bohemian Rhapsody” (£9.5m) which went on to gross £23.5m, £17.2m and £55.4m respectively. After just one week on release, “Michael” is already the sixth-highest grossing title of the year so far, above “Avatar: Fire And Ash” (£15.5m) and behind “Hamnet” (£19.0m).

March’s highest-grossing title “Project Hail Mary” is at No.3 in April, adding £13.9m to its total. With a current lifetime gross of £32.4m, “Project Hail Mary” is now the second-highest grossing title of the year so far, behind only “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” (£32.6m). In April, Christopher Miller and Phil Lord’s science fiction title overtook the lifetime gross of previous Andy Weir adaptation “The Martian” (£23.6m). The film has also climbed to No.2 in the filmography of its lead actor Ryan Gosling, behind “Barbie” (£95.7m).

“The Drama” places at No.4 with a total gross of £9.5m. Amongst recent titles with romantic comedy as the primary genre, “The Drama” ranks just behind “Ticket To Paradise” (£9.8m) and “Anyone But You” (£11.7m). Kristoffer Borgli’s latest title is by far his highest grossing, already ten times higher than his previous best “Dream Scenario” (£956k). The dark romantic comedy achieved a 4-star PostTrak rating and a 79% Total Positive score, with the genre/type of film (37%) and an actress in a lead role (37%) being the most popular reasons for watching.

“The Magic Faraway Tree” rounds out the Top 5 for April, adding £8.4m. “The Magic Faraway Tree” has now reached a cumulative gross of £14.0m making it one of the best-performing live-action British family titles post pandemic, only behind Roald Dahl’s “Matilda The Musical” (£28.6m), “Paddington In Peru” (£36.8m) and “Wonka” (£63.6m). The Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield-led family film is now the year’s highest grossing title with the UK as its primary territory of origin.

At No. 6 is Warner Bros horror Lee Cronin’s “The Mummy” with a gross of £2.0m. Its opening of £972k is the third-highest horror opening of 2026, behind sequels “Scream 7” (£3.8m) and “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” (£3.3m), and ahead of the likes of “Iron Lung” (£949k), “Primate” (£659k) and “Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come” (£622k).

Another holdover follows at No.7, with “Hoppers” grossing an additional £2.0m. This month “Hoppers” has become the most successful animated film of the year so far with an overall gross of £13.9m, moving above “Goat” (£13.3m). Disney and Pixar’s latest title has performed similarly to other recent animated releases such as “The Wild Robot” (£14.1m), “Dog Man” (£13.8m) and “The Bad Guys” (£13.8m).

Anime re-release, “Akira” (Re: 2026) ranks at No.8 in April having grossed £1.2m. The re-release of Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s classic anime debuted to £893k, the highest for re-releases so far in 2026 above the likes of “The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring” (£429k) and “The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers” (£175k).

Bryan Cranston-led play “All My Sons – NT Live 2026” (Theatre) is at No.9 with a gross of £784k. This is the highest-grossing theatre release of 2026, above “The Audience – NT Live 2026” (Theatre) (£757k) and “Othello” (Theatre) (£444k).

“You, Me & Tuscany” closes out the Top 10 for April with £754k. In our PostTrak exit poll, the title achieved 4.5 stars and an 89% Total Positive score. Halle Bailey in a lead role was mentioned by 28% as the main draw for attending, only secondary to the genre/type of film which was cited by 39% of the audience.

May Preview
May begins with Malayalam action “Patriot” (Empyral), Irish horror starring Adam Scott “Hokum” (Black Bear) and the long awaited sequel “The Devil Wears Prada 2” (Disney) all opening on 1st May, joined by a one-day re-release of the 1986 fantasy-action “Highlander” (40th Anniversary Reissue) (Studiocanal) on holiday Monday, 4th May. Also showing that week we have previews of both the new family mystery “The Sheep Detectives” (Sony) from 2nd – 4th, and new music documentary “Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition” (Universal) on 7th, before both officially open on 8th alongside videogame sequel “Mortal Kombat II” (Warner). On 13th is another re-release of a 1986 classic, “Top Gun” (40th Anniversary) (Paramount), which is then joined on 15th by its sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount), Universal horror “Obsession” (Universal), Bob Odenkirk action-thriller “Normal” (Vertigo), Steven Soderbegh’s follow up to “Black Bag,” “The Christophers” (Picturehouse) and a re-release of family animation “Shrek” (Re: 2026) (Universal). Previewing on 16th & 17th is another family animation “Charlie The Wonderdog” (Altitude), which opens on 22nd with British romcom “Finding Emily” (Universal), Paramount horror “Passenger” (Paramount), new Jon Favreau-directed “Star Wars” title “Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu” (Disney) and a new “Tom & Jerry” big screen adventure, “Tom & Jerry: Forbidden Compass” (Vertigo). Closing out the month is John Carney’s latest release “Power Ballad” (Lionsgate) and A24 horror “Backrooms” (A24) on 29th.