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How to Be Single

How to Be Single
2016

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Christian Ditter

Starring

Dakota Johnson · Rebel Wilson · Leslie Mann · Damon Wayans Jr. · Anders Holm · Nicholas Braun

Full cast & crew

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 19th Feb '16
  • Debut position: 3
  • Highest position: 3
  • Debut gross: £1.9 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 5

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 12th Feb '16
  • Debut position: 3
  • Highest position: 3
  • Debut gross: $17.9 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 9

Chart position history

UK box office

19 Feb, 2016
3
26 Feb, 2016
4
4 Mar, 2016
6
11 Mar, 2016
8
18 Mar, 2016
13

US box office

12 Feb, 2016
3
19 Feb, 2016
5
26 Feb, 2016
8
4 Mar, 2016
12

Global box office

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £5.8 Million
US total gross
United States Flag  $46.8 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $112.3 Million

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10 Movies That’ll Help You Embrace Being Single During Cuffing Season  SELF Magazine Thu, 23rd October 2025

41 Thoughts I Had While Rewatching ‘How to Be Single’  Vogue Fri, 14th January 2022

How To Be Single: Movie Review + Retrospection  HuffPost Thu, 3rd March 2016

How to Be Single : Almost As Good As a Sitcom  BKMAG Fri, 12th February 2016

Released globaly this week there are 13 new releases looking to take your attention and where available could hit your local cinema and try and replace How to Train Your Dragon from the top of the global box office.

As well as many movies released in cinemas around the globe this list also includes a number of the top movies released on streaming platforms.

Check out other new releases from around the world.

Here are the top new release this week in countries across the world!
  • F1
  • M3GAN 2.0
  • Elio
  • One to One: John & Yoko
  • The Ritual
  • Sorry, Baby
  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
  • 28 Years Later
  • Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback
  • Bride Hard

F1

  • The movie is directed by Joseph Kosinski, it is the directors 6th movie.
  • Joseph Kosinski also directed Only the Brave in 2017 which grossed $26.4 Mil. globally.
  • It stars Brad Pitt who also starred in Fight Club (1999).
  • The film also stars Javier Bardem who's last movie was Spellbound (2024).
  • They also appeared together in The Counsellor in 2013.
  • This movie is released in movie theatres.
  • Released this week in:
      Argentina / Australia / Brazil / Cambodia / Canada / Chile / China / Colombia / Denmark / Estonia / Finland / France / Georgia / Germany / Greece / Hong Kong / Hungary / Iceland / India / Indonesia / Ireland / Israel / Italy / Japan / Kazakhstan / Latvia / Malaysia / Mexico / Mexico / Montenegro / Netherlands / Norway / Philippines / Poland / Romania / Singapore / South Korea / Spain / Sweden / Taiwan / Thailand / Turkey / Ukraine / United Kingdom / United States

M3GAN 2.0

  • The movie is directed by Gerard Johnstone, it is the directors 3rd movie.
  • Gerard Johnstone also directed Housebound in 2014.
  • It stars Violet McGraw who also starred in A Christmas Mystery (2022).
  • The film also stars Jemaine Clement who's last movie was A Minecraft Movie (2025).
  • Gerard Johnstone directed Violet McGraw in and M3GAN
  • This movie is released in movie theatres.
  • Released this week in:
      Argentina / Australia / Cambodia / Canada / Denmark / Finland / France / Germany / Greece / Hungary / India / Ireland / Israel / Italy / Kazakhstan / Mexico / Mexico / Norway / Philippines / Poland / Singapore / Spain / Sweden / Taiwan / Turkey / United Kingdom / United States

Elio

  • The movie is directed by Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi, it is the directors 2nd movie.
  • Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi also directed 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation in 2021.
  • It stars Yonas Kibreab who also starred in Merry Little Batman (2023).
  • The film also stars Zoe Saldaña who's last movie was Emilia Pérez (2024).
  • This movie is released in movie theatres.
  • Released this week in:
      China / Finland / Sweden

One to One: John & Yoko

The Ritual

  • The movie is from director David Midell.
  • This movie is a directorial debut.
  • It stars Al Pacino who also starred in ...And Justice For All. (1979).
  • The film also stars Dan Stevens who's last movie was Cuckoo (2024).
  • This movie is released in movie theatres.
  • Released this week in:
      Kazakhstan / Russia

Sorry, Baby

  • The movie is from director Eva Victor.
  • This movie is a directorial debut.
  • It stars Eva Victor who also starred in Shithouse (2020).
  • The film also stars Naomi Ackie who's last movie was Mickey 17 (2025).
  • This movie is released in movie theatres on limited release.
  • Released this week in:
      Brazil / United States

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

  • The movie is from director Peter Browngardt.
  • This movie is a directorial debut.
  • It stars Eric Bauza who also starred in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023).
  • The film also stars Candi Milo who's last movie was Trick Or Treat Scooby-Doo! (2022).
  • Eric Bauza and Candi Milo have starred in 3 other movies together.
  • They also appeared together in Space Jam: A New Legacy in 2021, Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy in 2014 and Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright in 2013.
  • This movie is released in movie theatres.
  • Released this week in:
      Bosnia and Herzegovina / Croatia

28 Years Later

  • The movie is directed by Danny Boyle, it is the directors 15th movie.
  • Danny Boyle also directed A Life Less Ordinary in 1997 which grossed $6.9 Mil. globally.
  • It stars Jodie Comer who also starred in The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde ().
  • The film also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson who's last movie was Nosferatu (2024).
  • This movie is released in movie theatres.
  • Released this week in:
      Estonia / Finland

Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback

Bride Hard

  • The movie is directed by Simon West, it is the directors 13th movie.
  • Simon West also directed Purple Mountain in 2008.
  • It stars Rebel Wilson who also starred in How to Be Single (2016).
  • The film also stars Anna Camp who's last movie was Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022).
  • Rebel Wilson and Anna Camp have starred in 3 other movies together.
  • They also appeared together in Pitch Perfect in 2012, Pitch Perfect 3 in 2017 and Pitch Perfect 2 in 2015.
  • This movie is released in movie theatres.
  • Released this week in:
      Russia

Check back on Monday to see what new movies made it onto the Weekend Box Office Chart.

Next week there are 14 new movies released gloabally

Check here for more details
  • Jurassic World: Rebirth - From Wednesday, 2nd July
  • Hot Milk - From Thursday, 3rd July
  • Heads of State - From Wednesday, 2nd July
  • Materialists - From Wednesday, 2nd July
  • The Ugly Stepsister - From Wednesday, 2nd July
  • The Ritual - From Monday, 30th June
  • United Kingdom of Kerala - From Friday, 4th July
  • Detective Conan: One Eyed Flashback - From Friday, 4th July
  • Bring Her Back - From Friday, 4th July
  • M3GAN 2.0 - From Tuesday, 1st July
  • The Shrouds - From Friday, 4th July
  • Fight Or Flight - From Friday, 4th July
  • Boomerang Bro Gets Grounded: The First Movie - Kalahari Waterpark Disaster - From Monday, 30th June
  • The Salt Path - From Thursday, 3rd July

The Lego Batman Movie this week manages to hold on to the top spot at the UK box office, holding off Fifty Shades Darker, while John Wick Chapter 2 makes its debut at number 3.

With a £4.4 million weekend gross Lego Batman retains the number position in the UK for a second weekend.

The animated feature has now taken £17 million in the UK and is running just slightly behind the total gross of The Lego Movie.

Highest new film of the week is Keanu Reeves in John Wick Chapter 2 which makes its debut at 3 with £2.2 million.

Also a sequel but this time it is doing far better the its predecessor, John Wick made its debut in 2015 with just over half a million pound, so the sequel has done more than 4 times better.

Longest running film with 6 weeks and highest grossing film with £28 million is the Oscar laden film La La Land.

Historical charts

A year ago - Deadpool remained at the top for a second weekend while the top new film was How To Be Single at number 3.

Five years ago - The Woman In Black stayed at the top for a second weekend while the top new film was the sequel movie Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance at number 3.

Ten years ago - Highly anticipated film Hot Fuzz made its debut at the top of the UK box office while Music and Lyrics fell to number 3.

Fifteen years ago - Making it two weeks at the top was Monsters, Inc. while top new film was Oceans Eleven at number 2.

Twenty years ago - Ransom stayed a the top of the UK box office while Fierce Creatures was the top new film at number 2.

Twenty five years ago - Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country made its debut at the top of the box office while Father of The Bride fell to number 3.

Three weeks in a row at the top now for Marvels Deadpool, the most since Star Wars: The Force Awakens earlier in the year.

Highest new film of the week is the romantic comedy How to Be Single starting Dakota Johnson and Rebel Wilson.

How to Be Single was released at the box office on 19th February 2016 where is entered the box office at number 3.

On its debut the film took a fairly respectable £1.8 million, for Johnson this is a bit below average for her film, but for Wilson its about bang on the money.

The film hung around the box office for 5 week and during that time it took £5.7 million is grosses, fairly average for a film of this type.

Also making their video debut this week are: Triple 9 at 4 and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies at number 6.

Disney this week unleash its latest film on the world box office on wide release and take over at the top.

The film was at number 3 last week with $30 million but goes into more countries this week including North America and takes $137.1 million from 46 countries.

This brings its total world box office gross to $232.5 million after a couple of weeks on release, and is on track to be another massive hit for Disney, positive reviews will have helped.

Deadpool this week falls from the top where it has been since release down to number 3 with $37.6 million this week from 74 countries, its total is now $673.1 million.

Deadpool is also the highest total grossing grossing film on the world box office.

Also new this week is: London Has Fallen at number 4 and Whisky Tango Foxtrot at number 7 after a quiet American release.

  1. Zootopia - $137,100,000
  2. Ip Man 3 - $75,000,000
  3. Deadpool - $37,600,000
  4. London Has Fallen - $33,714,000
  5. Gods Of Egypt - $20,700,000
  6. The Revenant - $15,825,000
  7. Mei Ren Yu - $10,865,000
  8. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - $7,600,000
  9. Kung Fu Panda 3 - $6,625,000
  10. How To Be Single - $6,615,000

Yet again the Marvel superhero Deadpool is the top film across the world, this week with a weekly gross of $71.1 million dollars from 75 countries.

Now in its third week of release this film has taken a very impressive $609.7 million, Deadpool is also the highest total grossing film on the top 10.

Highest new film of the week is Gods of Egypt which on its debut weekend of release grosses $38.2 million from 69 countries.

Here is the full world grossing top 10 for weekending 28th February:

  1. Deadpool - $71,700,000
  2. Gods Of Egypt - $38,200,000
  3. Zootopia - $30,000,000
  4. Mei Ren Yu (The Mermaid) - $28,675,000
  5. The Revenant - $17,900,000
  6. Kung Fu Panda 3 - $13,500,000
  7. How To Be Single - $11,255,000
  8. The Monkey King 2 - $8,500,000
  9. Risen - $7,000,000
  10. Triple 9 - $6,553,096