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This year, however, sees a break from the franchise and an opportunity for other releases to make the most of the early festive market.

Disney’s Mary Poppins sequel is expected to be the title to make the biggest splash in the absence of Star Wars, but that film is taking up a slot one week later when it comes out on December 21. Early positive reviews this week have only added to industry feeling that the film could end up as one of the biggest of all time in the UK.

 

In the meantime, Warner Bros’ superhero feature Aquaman will be looking to capitalise on the void created by the lack of a Star Wars. The film forms part of the DC universe of comic book releases, which have tended to see mixed returns in the UK, and stars Jason Momoa as the titular aquatic hero.

Aquaman (which opened Wednesday, Dec 12) will face challenges from two films that have had significantly longer openings, with both Sony Pictures release Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and Universal Pictures’ Mortal Engines previewing heavily prior to their official releases.

Sony’s Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, the animated spin-off of the superhero franchise, first entered cinemas last Saturday (Dec 8), placing an impressive sixth in that weekend’s chart just from its grosses on Dec 8 and 9 with £750,000. The film has its full opening from Dec 12 and this weekend’s official figure will be boosted by those extensive previews.

In a similar strategy, Universal’s Mortal Engines, the big-budget tale based on Philip Reeve’s dystopian novel of the same name, from director Christian Rivers and producer Peter Jackson, took £578,861 from previews on Saturday and Sunday last weekend and continued to play this week. That film has its official opening today (Dec 14).

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10 minutes ago, Litio said:

Doesn't it release today?

long preview, something hey seem to do in UK a lot this month

see earlier:

4 hours ago, terrestrial said:

Aquaman (which opened Wednesday, Dec 12) will face challenges from two films that have had significantly longer openings, with both Sony Pictures release Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and Universal Pictures’ Mortal Engines previewing heavily prior to their official releases.

 

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19 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

Can we take a minute to highlight the strength of Bohemian Rhapsody? This basically confirms it'll keep playing in to the new year

It’s certainly strong on weekdays but Ralph and Grinch will jump ahead of it on the weekends and when holidays starts

 

The surprise hit of 2018 was Peter Rabbit, that took everyone by surprise. 

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1 minute ago, boxofficenerd said:

Will it reach 25 mill in the UK (Final) at least ? Would be a very solid number as iirc thats what JL did.

No, its definitely going over JL. 30 mil is probably happening. Christmas legs are a thing in the UK too. I think even if Mary Poppins plays out like The Last Jedi, Aquaman could end up playing Jumanji here.

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