UK Box Office Thread

[Krissykins]

That’s a nice drop for Halloween.

 

Great for Bohemian and Star Is Born. 

[terrestrial]

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Rank	Film / Distributor	Three-day gross (Nov 2-4)	Gross	Week
1	Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)	£5.7m	£20.4m	2
2	A Star Is Born (Warner Bros)	£1.8m	£22.9m	5
3	The Nutcracker And The Four Realms (Disney)	£1.8m	£1.8m	1
4	Smallfoot (Warner Bros)	£1.1m	£10.2m	4
5.	Johnny English Strikes Again (Universal)	£1m	£16.4m	5

 

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The Hate U Give fell 56% on its second weekend with £199,141 and is now up to £1.5m.

Incredibles 2 added £9,000= £56.1m

Christopher Robin  £5,000 = £14.8m

Slaughterhouse Rulez £252,000 from 380 sites on its opening weekend, for a low £663 average. It opened on Halloween (Wednesday), and has a total of £395,000 since that day.

 

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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween  £860,000 = £7.1m

Venom  £506,000 = £19.6m 

Juliet, Naked starring Chris O’Dowd, Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke took £51,813 from 125 locations on opening.

Halloween  £788,634 = £8.2m

First Man  £347,404 = £7.3m

Night School £75,717 = £4.6m

Crazy Rich Asians  £18,000 = £5.9m

The Nun a £5,000 = £11.4m

Peterloo, opened to £290,463 from 138 sites, a £2,105 site average. Including previews, the film is now up to £348,696

The House With A Clock In Its Walls  £78,130 = £8.3m

Cold War  £8,778 = £1.1m 

Dogman  £14,266 = £146,238

The Wife  £28,214 at 59 locations = £1.6m

Hunter Killer  £22,898 = £789,654

Black 47   £4,971 from 15 sites = £1.7m

 

Japanese animation Mirai, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes this year, took £68,462 including £2,236 from previews. The total came from 109 locations, largely through a subtitled screening on Friday evening. An English dubbed screening followed on Sunday afternoon

 

A re-release of Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy classic Some Like It Hot took £11,840 from 17 sites, while the action horror film Mandy, starring Nicholas Cage, brought in £9,698 from 15 sites.

https://www.screendaily.com/news/bohemian-rhapsody-holds-uk-top-spot-as-challengers-bite-the-dust/5134296.article

Edited November 5, 2018 by terrestrial
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[fabiopazzo2]

Any prediction for FB 2? 

[Olive]

1	Bohemian Rhapsody	2018/10/26	£ 5,750,267	£ 20,427,866	Fox Int'l
2	Star Is Born, A	2018/10/5	£ 1,821,004	£ 22,929,874	Warner Bros Int'l
3	Nutcracker And The Four Realms, The	2018/11/2	£ 1,733,235	£ 1,733,235	Walt Disney Int'l
4	Smallfoot	2018/10/12	£ 1,145,377	£ 10,174,311	Warner Bros Int'l
5	Johnny English Strikes Again	2018/10/5	£ 1,041,621	£ 16,379,395	Universal Int'l
6	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween	2018/10/19	£ 867,848	£ 7,109,456	Sony Int'l
7	Halloween	2018/10/19	£ 790,143	£ 8,171,544	Universal Int'l
8	Venom	2018/10/5	£ 509,204	£ 19,532,938	Sony Int'l
9	Slaughterhouse Rulez	2018/11/2	£ 397,792	£ 397,792	Sony Int'l
10	Peterloo	2018/11/2	£ 348,697	£ 348,697	eOne Films

[Heretic]

Very interesting to see what FB will do this weekeend. The first was huge here, and it was always going to be big, but I don’t think many expected it to make £55m which is only behind DH2 and PS, and on par with CoS. 

 

Pre-sales do look quite strong, but the first one had an absolutely massive OW with £15.3m. It seems all throughout Europe so far this is having decent increases but I think to increase from £15m would be very difficult for FB2. Even matching that figure I think is challenging, I’m expecting low to mid teens, or between £13-15m. 

[Jonwo]

I’m expecting it’ll be either flat or a small decrease OW wise

[PhilipJ2001]

Should open big but won't have the legs of the first. I was really disappointed by it.. it's almost like half a film, basically nothing of note happens that you couldn't explain in one sentence.

[SchumacherFTW]

I really hope this craters, Rowling pissed all over her creation. 

[Stewart]

13 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

I really hope this craters, Rowling pissed all over her creation. 

My theatre was busy, but yeah don't think this will have great WOM.

 

My non-spoiler thoughts below, in a spoiler tag just in case!

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Personally thought it wasn't much fun (except when Newt is on screen) and not much plot. First hour was a bore for me, bar the Newt bits.

 

[fabiopazzo2]

4,5M fir FB 2

[Heretic]

Not surprised to see a drop. £3.5m OD compared to £4.3m for FB.

 

FB had a huge £5.9m Saturday (37% increase from OD). Same increase would give FB2 a £4.8m Saturday, and an OW around £12-12.5m. Still good but it’s not going to get anywhere near the heights of £55m like FB. £40m would probably be the limit. ER is also very shitty right now due to the Brexit chaos, but it was terrible for FB too.

 

 

[Jonwo]

1 hour ago, Heretic said:

Not surprised to see a drop. £3.5m OD compared to £4.3m for FB.

 

FB had a huge £5.9m Saturday (37% increase from OD). Same increase would give FB2 a £4.8m Saturday, and an OW around £12-12.5m. Still good but it’s not going to get anywhere near the heights of £55m like FB. £40m would probably be the limit. ER is also very shitty right now due to the Brexit chaos, but it was terrible for FB too.

 

 

FB has a lot more competition in the coming weeks, it should be number 1 next week but the week after is the release of Ralph Breaks the Internet and Creed 2 and December releases will all but decimate its screen count.

[Stewart]

Noticing lots of sellouts already for CoG at CW Crawley, in particular the 2D shows are sold out until 5:30pm!

 

When I checked Saturday's shows yesterday at similar time, a few were sold out but not many. Thinking there's a chance this has a small drop on Sunday.

[Heretic]

FB2 must have had quite a strong Saturday and Sunday as it ended up with a $16.3m opening, which is around £12.7m. 3.6x OD which is more than the first film.

 

The 2nd weekend will likely be where it falls significantly behind as the first film had a very soft drop (41%) for a film that opened so high. 

Edited November 18, 2018 by Heretic

[Jonwo]

Where it does land in terms of 2018 openings? I'm guessing it's fifth behind Avengers, Black Panther, Jurassic World and Deadpool 2 which had 4-6 day opening but second in terms of three day openings for 2018 although it did have previews on Wednesdays as part of the double bill but I'm not sure if that's included in the £12.7m OW  

[efialtes76]

Today’s GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.29.

Rank	Film / Distributor	Three-day gross (Nov 16-18)	Gross	Week
1	Fantastic Beasts 2 (Warner Bros)	£12.3m	£12.3m	1
2	The Grinch (Universal)	£3.9m	£10m	2
3	Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)	£3m	£34.9m	4
4	Widows (20th Century Fox)	£880,000	£4.3m	2
5.	A Star Is Born (Warner Bros)	£741,000	£27.1m	7

[Olive]

1	Fantastic Beasts: Crimes Of Grindelwald	2018/11/16	£ 12,348,123	£ 12,348,123	Warner Bros Int'l
2	Dr. Seuss' The Grinch	2018/11/9	£ 3,906,597	£ 10,044,223	Universal Int'l
3	Bohemian Rhapsody	2018/10/26	£ 3,021,648	£ 34,854,038	Fox Int'l
4	Widows	2018/11/9	£ 882,243	£ 4,317,425	Fox Int'l
5	Star Is Born, A	2018/10/5	£ 746,986	£ 27,107,688	Warner Bros Int'l
6	Burn The Stage: The Movie	2018/11/16	£ 644,524	£ 644,524	Trafalgar Releasing
7	Nutcracker And The Four Realms, The	2018/11/2	£ 610,974	£ 4,326,066	Walt Disney Int'l
8	Johnny English Strikes Again	2018/10/5	£ 215,252	£ 17,411,220	Universal Int'l
9	Suspiria	2018/11/16	£ 166,257	£ 166,257	MUBI
10	Smallfoot	2018/10/12	£ 161,068	£ 10,840,021	Warner Bros Int'l

[a2k]

I am not well versed with UK boxoffice. Are 4x legs for FB2 a possibility?

[ZeeSoh]

1 hour ago, a2k said:

I am not well versed with UK boxoffice. Are 4x legs for FB2 a possibility?

If I am not wrong then the first one had 3.6x legs. 

 

I would be very surprised if this one managed to have better legs than the first one considering its ratings and reception

Edited November 22, 2018 by ZeeSoh

[a2k]

1 minute ago, ZeeSoh said:

If I am not wrong then the first one had 3.6x legs. 

 

I would be very surprised if this one managed to have better legs than the first one considering its ratings and reception

I got confused between pound and usd and miscalculated legs of the first one. Yeah I guess 3.1x at most for 39m pounds total or 50m usd. Drop of 18m usd from 1st one.