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The UK-Ireland box office suffered a slow month in March, with takings dropping 35% compared to March 2024.
The £50.7m total in March brought year-to-date takings to £245.5m - on a par with 2024, having been 15% up at the end of Fabruary.
The drop is partly explained by the school Easter holidays, which are yet to occur in 2025 and fell during March 2024; but also by a weaker release slate, with Dune: Part Two contributing £22.2m in March 2024.
| Rank | Title (origin) | Distributor | Release date | March total | 2025 total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (Fr-UK-US) | Universal | 14/2/25 | £7.5m | £45.8m |
| 2 | Disney’s Snow White (US) | Disney | 21/3/25 | £7.3m | £7.3m |
| 3 | Mickey 17 (S Kor-US) |
Warner Bros | 7/3/25 | £6.8m | £6.8m |
| 4 | Black Bag (US) | Universal | 14/3/25 | £3.3m | £3.3m |
| 5 | Marching Powder (UK) |
True Brit | 7/3/25 | £3m | £3m |
| 6 | Captain America: Brave New World (US) |
Disney | 14/2/25 | £1.8m | £18m |
| 7 | Ne Zha 2 (China) | Trinity/CineAsia | 21/3/25 | £1.4m | £1.4m |
| 8 | L2: Empuraan (India) | RFT Film | 28/3/25 | £1.3m | £1.3m |
| 9 | Dog Man (US) | Universal | 7/2/25 | £1.2m | £13.4m |
| 10 | A Working Man (UK-US) | Warner Bros | 28/3/25 | £1m | £1m |
Monthly figures from Mar 7-April 4, 2025, courtesy of ComScore
Nothing has come close to that amount in 2025, with February release Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy as the highest-grossing release with £7.4m - the second month it has topped the monthly chart. The Universal title is the highest-grossing film of 2025 with £45.8m – more than two-and-a-half times the total of the second-highest-grossing title, Disney’s Captain America: Brave New World with £18m.
This year’s Easter Holidays run from April 5-22 for most schools. Cinemas will look to regain the ground lost in March with titles including Warner Bros’ A Minecraft Movie (opening today), Universal event title Six The Musical (Sunday 6) and Park Circus re-releases including Babe (April 11) and Wallace And Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (April 18).
Takings are still up 9% compared to the same period from 2023.
March titles
Disney took second spot for March 2025, with musical adaptation Snow White taking £7.3m after two weeks. It will soon overtake West Side Story (£7.8m) to become the second-highest-grossing title starring Rachel Zegler, behind The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes (£18.2m).
March releases also took places three-to-five in the chart: Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi thriller Mickey 17 in third for Warner Bros, Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag in fourth for Universal; and the highest-grossing independent title of the month, Nick Love’s UK drug comedy Marching Powder for True Brit Entertainment. With £3m, that film is now Danny Dyer’s second-highest-grossing of all time, behind only Mean Machine (£4.4m).
Major titles from international territories took two spots on the UK-Ireland list: Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2, released by Trinity Film/CineAsia to £1.4m in March; and Bollywood action film L2: Empuraan, which opened on March 28 and has £1.3m already.
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