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    UK Box Office Thread

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    Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Jan 6-8) Total gross to date      Week
     1. Avatar: The Way Of Water (Disney) £5.9m £57.3m 4
     2. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Sony) £1.4m £6.3m 2
     3. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Sony) £1.2m £23.9m 7
     4. A Man Called Otto (Sony) £1.1m £1.1m 1
     5. Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023 (Piece Of Magic) £775,000 £775,000 1

    The Way Of Water dropped 23% on its previous weekend, with £5.9m taking it to a £57.3m cume from 24 days in cinemas.

    That is well ahead of the first Avatar film at the same point, which took close to £4.8m on its fourth weekend for a total near £41m from 25 days in early 2010.

    The Way Of Water has now entered the top 30 highest-grossing films of all time in the UK and Ireland at number 30; it will look to push on towards the first film’s strong £94m total – currently sixth on the all-time list.

     

    Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody posted a fine hold for Sony, dropping less than 1% on its second weekend with £1.4m bringing it to £6.3m from 15 days in cinemas – enough to push it up to second place.

     

    It overtook another Sony title, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, which dropped 40.9% on its seventh weekend in cinemas with £1.2m taking it to £23.9m total. 

     

    Sony had three titles over the £1m mark in the top five, having opened Marc Forster’s A Man Called Otto to £1.1m from 641 sites at a £1,699 average.

     

    Dutch violinist and event cinema favourite Andre Rieu proved a reliable draw again at the box office with Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023. Piece Of Magic Entertainment took approximately £775,000 from 640 sites from a Saturday release followed by Sunday encores.

     

    Final figures for the weekend are still to come; over 500 encores are still to play, with the release pitching towards a final total over £900,000. Rieu’s highest-grossing concert release remains 2020’s Andre Rieu: 70 Years Young, which took over £2m, also for Piece of Magic.

     

    Takings for the top five were £10.3m – down just 11.5% on last weekend’s total. With strong showings from both blockbuster and independent titles, it represents a positive start to the year for the theatrical exhibition sector.

     

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    UK Box Office Thread

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    2nd biggest 4th weekend ever makes this run very impressive given the comparatively weaker opening. 
     

    Also, Saturday jump must have been huge (like 100%) if it made £5.8m weekend from a £1.3m Friday. Would be interested to see the breakdown

    UK Box Office Thread

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    12 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

    £5.81M 4th Weekend 

    Fantastic 4th weekend, around 25% drop.

     

    Wonder where this ranks for all time 4th weekends. Only higher I can see is £6m for TFA.

     

    For comparison, TGM had a £4.2m 4th weekend (-24%), £57.4m total, so almost identical gross at same point. 

    UK Box Office Thread

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    13 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

    I feel like we shouldn't sleep on Wonka, if that's good I think it's making an all time top 10 run

    Given the popularity of the Paddington films here, I guess there is scope for a £50m grosser but top 10 of all time (ie £80m+)? I HIGHLY doubt it.

    UK Box Office Thread

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    Strong recovery for the UK box office. 9 films above £30m is a fantastic result. This also matches the 9 films that hit the mark in 2019.

     

    Wouldn’t be surprised if 2023 overall BO is down though due to a weaker slate of films, but can still see at least 6 or 7 topping £30m. Don’t see any mega hits though (£50m+).

     

    Films with £30m potential:


    Ant Man

    Guardians of the Galaxy 

    Little Mermaid 

    Indiana Jones 

    Mission impossible 

    Elemental

    Oppenheimer 

    Barbie (really not sure about this)

    The Marvels

    Dune Part Two

    Hunger Games 

    Wish

    Wonka

    Aquaman 

     

    Not all these films will reach £30m ofcourse, in-fact I’d say some like the Pixar films are unlikely to, and there are some big wild cards like Oppenheimer and Barbie.

     

     

     

     

     

    UK Box Office Thread

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    £70m looks almost certain, £75m looks possible, £80m remains to be seen depending on later legs. Top Gun Maverick’s £83.3m looks a bit too difficult to match right now for no.1 crown of the year. 
     

    In terms of all time rankings, topping Lion King’s £76m would place A2 11th of all time. Titanic’s £80.3m required for 10th of all time. 
     

    For $100m with current ER’s, £82.7m is required. So currently a total around $90m looking more likely.

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    UK Box Office Thread

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    6 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

     

    Yes Monday. Going back in thread, tracing RO dailies were as follow. 

    Rogue One

    first wknd - 17.3
    mon - 2.5
    tue - 2.6
    wed - 3
    thu - 2.9 // 28.3
    2nd wknd - 5.65  // 33.95
    2nd mon-tue - 6
    2nd wed - 3.4
    2nd thu - 2.7 // 46.1
    3rd wknd - 5.95 // 52.07

    A2 is still behind RO, it gotta catch up with it before year end. 

    Looks like A2 will be around £10m behind RO after 2nd weekend.

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