PH Box Office Update: 24 to 30 August 2026

Six titles opened on Wednesday 26 August into a market that had just absorbed a major release, alongside an eight-title Harry Potter re-release block. Hope and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie were the wide ones, 30,145 seats at 9.2 percent occupancy and 23,884 at 8.9 percent, together a little over 12 percent of the week.

Against the exceptional seven days before it the market settled back by 532,720 seats and 11.8 points of occupancy, finishing at 12.6 percent full. The shape of the week was normal for a post-opening stretch: quiet midweek houses, then a weekend that recovered more than four seats in ten.

Insidious: Out of the Further stayed first in its second week on 249,983 filled seats, settling to 18.0 percent occupancy from the 39.4 percent of its opening week. Spider-Man: Brand New Day held second on 83,431 seats at 12.8 percent in its fifth week, and The Odyssey kept the steadiest houses among the long runs at 13.4 percent.

One title reached a fourth week inside the Takilya record this week. Its run total through 30 August:

• Dear You, 15,974 seats filled of 275,053 offered, 5.8 percent occupancy, an estimated ₱6.09 million.

Spider-Man's own run since 29 July now stands at 3,213,683 seats filled and an estimated ₱1.24 billion.

These figures are estimates from what Takilya observed. They are not audited distributor returns.

Seats filled and seats offered are read off each cinema's own seat map for a screening. A reading taken more than six hours ahead of the show is set aside, so advance sales are never reported as a full house. A screening counts only where the reading gives a whole seat count against a known room capacity, and each showing is counted once however many times it was read.

Estimated gross is a floor. It multiplies the seats a screening filled by the ticket price observed for that screening, and falls back to the lowest applicable published price where none was seen. For this week 99.98 percent of filled seats carried a directly observed price.

Dollar figures use the 28 August 2026 reference rate of ₱62.254 to the dollar.

Coverage is the 10 chains, 162 branches and 678 auditoriums counted here. Fullest-room claims compare only the rooms that offered at least 2,000 seats across the week and carried at least 20 measured screenings spread over six of the seven days. A room is set aside when more than a quarter of its readings sat at full capacity, because a reading pinned at capacity cannot tell a sold-out house from a seat allocation the cinema had closed. Friday 28 August rests on fewer distinct auditoriums than the other six days, 605 against 618 on the next thinnest, so read that single day as indicative. Every total here is a floor built only from the chains Takilya observes.