UK Box Office Thread

[tarabeesley]

What was the top 10?

[UKBoxOffice]

Monday 1st

 

1. Wonka £1.21m

2. One Life £454k

3. Aquaman £333k

4. Wish £185k

5. Ferrari £181k

[tarabeesley]

1 hour ago, UKBoxOffice said:

Monday 1st

 

1. Wonka £1.21m

2. One Life £454k

3. Aquaman £333k

4. Wish £185k

5. Ferrari £181k

Any way of finding out how much Boy Heron grossed so far? 

[Krissykins]

3 hours ago, UKBoxOffice said:

Monday 1st

 

1. Wonka £1.21m

2. One Life £454k

3. Aquaman £333k

4. Wish £185k

5. Ferrari £181k

That’s certainly a decent start for One Life. 

[Issac Newton]

£154K Monday for Heron (£1.79M Total) ~ 159 sites

 

Weekend Numbers 

	Film	Distributor	Weeks on release	Weekend Total	Total Box Office
1	Wonka	Warner Bros.	4	£6,672,464	£43,822,435
2	Ferrari	Black Bear	2	£1,981,677	£1,981,677
3	Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom	Warner Bros.	2	£1,732,614	£5,983,518
4	The Boy And The Heron	Elysian Film Group Distribution	2	£1,640,667	£1,640,667
5	Anyone But You	Sony Pictures	2	£1,253,694	£1,253,694
6	Wish	Walt Disney	6	£1,019,728	£9,687,257
7	Next Goal Wins	Walt Disney	2	£844,604	£844,604
8	The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes	Lionsgate UK	7	£844,604	£17,478,150
9	Napoleon	Sony Pictures	6	£267,244	£13,674,090
10	Godzilla Minus One	Anime Ltd	3	£258,095	£1,942,860
11	Dunki	Yash Raj Films	2	£217,139	£1,307,955
12	Cats In The Museum	Miracle/Dazzler	2	£99,104	£99,104
13	Saltburn	Warner Bros.	7	£91,515	£5,311,582
14	Neru	RFT Films Ltd	2	£64,189	£163,003
15	Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie	Paramount	12	£49,962	£8,020,233

Edited January 2 by Issac Newton

[Krissykins]

Totals including New Years Day from Screen Daily

 

Wonka £45m

Wish £10m

Aquaman £6.3m

Anyone But You £1.4m

Ferrari £2.2m

Next Goal Wins £935k

Boy and the Heron £1.8m

Dunki £1.4m

[tarabeesley]

So, The Boy and the Heron made almost as much money on Monday as Aquaman? Astonishing given the screen difference (159 screens) and the fact more people would've heard of Aquaman. 

How many screens is Aquaman showing on?

Is it a typo that Next Goal Wins made as much as The Hunger Games?

Edited January 2 by tarabeesley

[SchumacherFTW]

1 hour ago, tarabeesley said:

So, The Boy and the Heron made almost as much money on Monday as Aquaman? Astonishing given the screen difference (159 screens) and the fact more people would've heard of Aquaman. 

How many screens is Aquaman showing on?

Is it a typo that Next Goal Wins made as much as The Hunger Games?

That number for boy and the Heron is since the 26th, Aquaman's is just FSS. It's an annoying quirk of British box office for anything that doesn't release on a Friday

[Krissykins]

1 hour ago, tarabeesley said:

So, The Boy and the Heron made almost as much money on Monday as Aquaman? Astonishing given the screen difference (159 screens) and the fact more people would've heard of Aquaman. 

How many screens is Aquaman showing on?

Is it a typo that Next Goal Wins made as much as The Hunger Games?

Aquaman Monday was £333k, Boy and Heron was £154k so just under half of what Aquaman did. 

[UKBoxOffice]

Tuesday 2nd

 

1. Wonka £1.69m

2. Aquaman £393k

3. One Life £366k

4. Wish 347k

5. Anyone But You £280k

6. Ferrari £180k

7. Boy & Heron £152k

8. Priscilla £126k

9. Next Goal Wins £112k

10. Hunger Games £73k

 

A lot of schools went back today (although some not until Monday)

[Simplyobsessed]

After all of the kids have gone back to school I think the box office might struggle until Dune.

[Krissykins]

48 minutes ago, Simplyobsessed said:

After all of the kids have gone back to school I think the box office might struggle until Dune.

We do have all of the Oscar films coming in January and February. Migration is the next family film though. 

[UKBoxOffice]

Wednesday 3rd

 

1. Wonka £1.41m (£48.17m)

2. One Life £371k (£1.22m)

3. Aquaman £328k (£7.04m)

4. Wish £298k (£10.5m)

5. Anyone But You £286k (£2m)

[Issac Newton]

 

[Krissykins]

On 1/2/2024 at 11:31 AM, tarabeesley said:

Any way of finding out how much Boy Heron grossed so far? 

The Boy and the Heron has taken IMAX at my local this weekend. 

[UKBoxOffice]

Yeah Boy & The Heron has expanded quite a lot this week - definitely over 250 sites now

[Issac Newton]

Top Grossers ~ 2023
 

1. “Barbie” (Warner Bros): £95.5 million
2. “Oppenheimer” (Universal): £58.7 million
3. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (Universal): £54.8 million
4. “Wonka” (Warner Bros): £49.2 million – still on release
5. “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3” (Disney): £36.7 million
6. “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse” (Sony): £30.7 million
7. “The Little Mermaid” (Disney): £27.4 million
8. “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount): £26.6 million
9. “Puss In Boots: The Last Wish” (Universal): £26 million
10. “Avatar: The Way Of Water” (Disney): £25.5 million in 2023 (£77.3 million lifetime)

Top 10 British/Irish films ~ 2023
 

1. “Wonka” (Warner Bros): £49.2 million – still on release
2. “The Great Escaper” (Warner Bros): £5.3 million
3. “Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical” (Sony): £5.2 million in 2023 (£28 million lifetime)
4. “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” (Studiocanal): £4.8 million
5. “Empire Of Light” (Disney): £3.8 million
6. “Allelujah” (Warner Bros): £3.6 million
7. “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry” (eOne Films): £3.3 million
8. “Ferrari” (Black Bear/Sky): £2.6 million – still on release
9. “Talk To Me” (Altitude): £2.5 million
10. “Sumotherhood” (Paramount): £2.4 million

 

Data as of 01/04.

[Issac Newton]

Total box office revenue across UK & Ireland in 2023 was £1,062,047,498, an increase of 8% versus 2022’s total of £980,516,136.

 

2023 marks the first post-pandemic year to achieve over £1 billion, a significant milestone on the journey to full recovery. Prior to the pandemic, annual box office had exceeded £1.3 billion in each of the five years up to 2019.

 

Of the five nations making up the UK & Ireland territory, the Republic of Ireland again had the strongest year-on-year growth, with box office 13% higher than 2022. Box office in Wales rose by 10%, with Northern Ireland up 9% and England and Scotland both rising by 8%.

 

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The final 2023 admission figure is not yet available, but is likely to exceed 130 million, slightly up from 2022’s 127 million.

2023 saw a significant improvement in the number of blockbuster releases, as the hangover from COVID-driven production delays receded. While 2022 brought recovery in the overall volume of films, there had remained a shortfall in the number of ‘saturation’ releases (playing in 250+ cinemas), falling from 186 in 2019 to 135 in 2022. This improved in 2023 to 174 saturation releases, almost back to pre-COVID levels. The US writers’ and actors’ strikes during summer 2023 did though cause a small number of blockbuster titles to be pushed into 2024 to allow for shoots to finish and promotional activity to resume (including Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Kraven The Hunter and Dune: Part II), but this had a much smaller impact on the box office than did the earlier COVID-19 shutdowns.

 

2023 was the first full year since 2019 without any COVID-19 restrictions. For the first two months of 2022, cinemagoers had remained subject to a variety of measures including compulsory face coverings, proof of vaccination, the maintenance of social distancing/capacity restrictions, limits on group sizes and evening curfews. The UK Government confirmed the end of all COVID-19 restrictions in late February 2022.

 

As it stands, there is no strong sign of the cost-of-living crisis affecting cinemagoing. The price of a ticket remains seemingly affordable to the majority with exhibitors offering a range of special offers and discounts, and the long-running weekly Meerkat Movies promotion all helping to maintain the cinemagoing habit. In addition to the value perception being further supported by the second National Cinema Day in September, the FOMO appeal of participating in cultural moments at the cinema was emphasized by the huge volume of positive conversation. The impact of #Barbenheimer over the summer was phenomenal, with social media posts mentioning Barbie and/or Oppenheimer achieving over 40 million interactions globally on a single day in July.

 

Audiences rated both films as the best of the summer in our PostTrak UK exit poll, with Barbie scoring the highest ‘Excellent’ rating (71%) and Oppenheimer scoring the best ‘Total Positive’ rating (97% ‘Excellent’ or ‘Very Good’). Other top-rated summer releases with over 90% ‘Total Positive’ UK scores were Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, Gran Turismo, Are You There God? It's Me: Margaret, Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. This illustrates the diverse slate that was on offer. Barbie was particularly effective at pulling in infrequent cinemagoers, with one-fifth of viewers saying they attend only once or twice a year, an impact matched only by The Little Mermaid this summer.

 

Building on Christopher Nolan’s longstanding relationship with IMAX, Oppenheimer ranks as the all-time No.2 IMAX release in UK & Ireland behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with one-fifth of Oppenheimer’s total coming from IMAX screens. This completed a strong year for IMAX with Avatar: The Way Of Water becoming the third-biggest IMAX release of all time.

 

In UK & Ireland, it was a race to the finish between Universal and Warner Bros, with Warner Bros edging ahead late in the year. Across 23 new releases and 62 pre-2023 holdovers, Warner Bros achieved £239.2m (22.5% of the total market), just above Universal’s £225.4m (21.2%). This represents a 53% increase for Warner Bros from 2022 when they ranked third. As well as their two titles in the Top 10, Barbie and Wonka, Warner Bros had success with Creed III and The Meg 2. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom is on track to become the highest-grossing DC release of 2023, currently at £7.3m after two weeks.

 

In total, 164 different distributors released films this year, up from 136 in 2022. The Top 10 distributors’ films accounted for 91.5% of box office, a further sign of greater diversity returning to the market (from a higher concentration of 93.6% in 2022 and 95.7% in 2021).

[Albin06]

2023 -  Top Grossing Indian Films at UK Ireland Boxoffice. Superb year for Indian films.

 

Top 25 grossers below.Courtesy - comScore Movies UK

Edited January 8 by Albin06

[Krissykins]

Glad to see both box office and admissions increase in 2023. 
 

Such a crazy excellent result for Barbie. Well done to Warner Bros for winning the year. Wonka will pass both Mario and Oppenheimer before it finishes its run I’m sure so they’ll have the top 2 films. 
 

A weak year for UK produced films though. Hopefully that improves this year.