Jonwo Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 WB dominating the top five with Mummies, Creed III and Shazam, they technically have four releases in the top ten overall as Allelujah is a WB release on behalf on Pathe. Air is out tomorrow, should be a solid alternative to the family films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krissykins Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 Interesting article on 2022 at the UK box office. Admissions up 60% to 128,000,000 911 films released. 26 made over £10m. 59 didn’t make even £1k. 254 didn’t pass £10k. Matilda was the biggest UK film: £27.8m, Belfast in second with £15.6m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted April 4, 2023 Author Share Posted April 4, 2023 (edited) Mario should have a big opening. Pre sales look strong, plus it’s got school holidays as well as the long 4 day Easter weekend. Wouldn’t surprise me to see £10m+ 5 day Edited April 4, 2023 by Heretic 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 (edited) Morning and afternoon shows looking crazy busy today, only weak link seems to be IMAX. Edited April 5, 2023 by SchumacherFTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnokesLegs Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 2 hours ago, SchumacherFTW said: Morning and afternoon shows looking crazy busy today, only weak link seems to be IMAX. Kids films never do well in IMAX over here, guessing it’s quite cost prohibitive for families to shell out for it. They’d probably have been better off keeping D&D or John Wick on the IMAX screens rather than giving them all to Mario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krissykins Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 (edited) Yeh the 12.50 IMAX went ahead with 51/444 seats sold. The 18.10 has 31/444 sold. The 12.20 standard 2D showing was a sell out with 200 seats. So was the 13.00. Edited April 5, 2023 by Krissykins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 1 hour ago, SnokesLegs said: Kids films never do well in IMAX over here, guessing it’s quite cost prohibitive for families to shell out for it. They’d probably have been better off keeping D&D or John Wick on the IMAX screens rather than giving them all to Mario. I would agree with you, but for some reason this stuff does really well in 4DX which is more expensive. Smaller auditoriums sure but still pretty dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 I don't really see the point of having late shows for Mario, who's going watch an animated movie at 10pm or 11pm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 6 minutes ago, Jonwo said: I don't really see the point of having late shows for Mario, who's going watch an animated movie at 10pm or 11pm. I did an 11:30pm for The BFG back in the day that had a randomly decent crowd. They must be expecting enough people to turn up to cover the costs at least Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 1 hour ago, SchumacherFTW said: I did an 11:30pm for The BFG back in the day that had a randomly decent crowd. They must be expecting enough people to turn up to cover the costs at least The BFG did skew slightly older compared to Mario though, it seems random to have an animated movie running that late at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froztking Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Jonwo said: I don't really see the point of having late shows for Mario, who's going watch an animated movie at 10pm or 11pm. mario fans ! most of them r 18+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnokesLegs Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 4 hours ago, SchumacherFTW said: I would agree with you, but for some reason this stuff does really well in 4DX which is more expensive. Smaller auditoriums sure but still pretty dumb. I think for 4DX the parents treat it more like a ride to keep their ADHD kids engaged. I’m not complaining though, it means less disruptive kids/bored parents playing with their phones in IMAX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krissykins Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, Jonwo said: I don't really see the point of having late shows for Mario, who's going watch an animated movie at 10pm or 11pm. Maybe that’s for the older fans who don’t want to sit in a cinema full of annoying children and families lol. Unfortunately I have to brave the families as we’re taking a nephew in the afternoon on Easter Monday, yikes. It’s IMAX though so it’ll probably be dead. Edited April 5, 2023 by Krissykins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonwo Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 4 hours ago, SnokesLegs said: I think for 4DX the parents treat it more like a ride to keep their ADHD kids engaged. I’m not complaining though, it means less disruptive kids/bored parents playing with their phones in IMAX. You do wonder why parents bother taking kids to the cinema if all they are going to do is look at their phone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKBoxOffice Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 On 4/4/2023 at 2:38 PM, Heretic said: Mario should have a big opening. Pre sales look strong, plus it’s got school holidays as well as the long 4 day Easter weekend. Wouldn’t surprise me to see £10m+ 5 day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Jatinder Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 The UK has been an outlier for a lot of stuff. Performance elsewhere in the West would suggest 15M+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKBoxOffice Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Wednesday £3.9m 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, UKBoxOffice said: Wednesday £3.9m Damn that is huge!! Maybe near £15m 5 day? With the bank holiday Monday included this is looking at an absolutely enormous opening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie Jatinder Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 15? This must do 18-20. @UKBoxOffice can you post Fantastic Beasts 3 first weekend dailies so we can know what to expect trend wise from Easter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 Just now, charlie Jatinder said: 15? This must do 18-20. @UKBoxOffice can you post Fantastic Beasts 3 first weekend dailies so we can know what to expect trend wise from Easter. This will be less frontloaded than FB3 though, so probably not the best indicator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
