UK Box Office Thread

[SchumacherFTW]

6 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Anywhere, where Barbie is over Endgame is lame.

 

Also DP3 be like biggest non Avengers and NWH MCU.

And behind Black Panther 

[charlie Jatinder]

25 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

And behind Black Panther 

On high end of my range will be over BP.

[SchumacherFTW]

5 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

On high end of my range will be over BP.

Let's hope for the low end then 👀

[todos]

It will be even more delicious when Mamma Mia 5 destroys everything for the biggest movie ever. 

[UKBoxOffice]

Friday

 

1. D&W £2.39m (-43%)

2. DM4 £781k (-27%)

3. Twisters £335k (-29%)

4. IO2 £283k (-27%)

5. Longlegs £179k (-30%)

6. Harold £135k

7. Spider-Man £99k

8. AQP £31k

9. My Neighbor Totoro £19k

10. Raayan £14k

[charlie Jatinder]

Hmm nice.

 

Meanwhile @SchumacherFTW:

[SchumacherFTW]

2 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Hmm nice.

 

Meanwhile @SchumacherFTW:

I weep for this nation

[Jonwo]

Twisters getting 4DX back is paying off as the limited showings are doing strong business. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets more times from next week before Alien: Romulus. 

[UKBoxOffice]

Saturday

 

1. D&W £3.02m (-35%) (£30.79m)

2. DM4 £861k (-29%) (£29.92m)

3. Twisters £441k (-30%) (£9.78m)

4. IO2 £322k (-26%) (£51.88m)

5. Longlegs £211k (-25%) (£6.64m)

6. Harold £148k (£487k)

[charlie Jatinder]

8M weekend I guess, 33.5M total. Can target 55M+ final.

[UKBoxOffice]

Deadpool & Wolverine remains at No.1 with £8.0m, dropping a modest 37% from its opening weekend. Marvel Studios' latest release has already crossed the £30m mark, behind only Dune: Part II (£39.6m) and Inside Out 2 (£52.2m) in the 2024 chart. Shawn Levy’s sequel has also overtaken the lifetime total of Deadpool 2 (£32.8m) and is only 12% behind Deadpool (£38.1m).

Another non-mover is Despicable Me 4 at No.2 with £2.5m, only dropping 18%. Illumination's sixth entry in the franchise is the fourth title of 2024 to cross the £30m milestone. The next release in the animation genre from Universal is Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot in October.

Twisters follows the trend and holds its No.3 spot from last weekend, dropping a slight 21% to gross £1.1m. As the only 12A release in the Top 5, it will be attracting families whose children have outgrown animated films but are too young for Deadpool & Wolverine. Lee Isaac Chung’s action-adventure has also crossed a milestone this weekend, passing £10m and overtaking One Life (£10.0m), A Quiet Place: Day One (£9.7m), Wicked Little Letters (£9.6m), Mean Girls (£9.2m) and The Garfield Movie (£8.8m) among 2024 releases.

Inside Out 2 keeps its place at No.4 in week eight of release, grossing £938k and has the lowest drop of the Top 10 at -17%. Pixar’s sequel has a running total of £52.2m, getting ever closer to Frozen 2 (£53.7m) to become the fifth-highest animated release of all time.

Mirroring the Top 5 of last weekend, Longlegs is at No.5 with £570k, dropping only 21%. Oz Perkins’ horror picture has a total gross of £6.8m, with his next release The Monkey dated for February 2025.

Harold And The Purple Crayon is the highest new opener at No.6 with £438k, and will chart at No.5 in the official chart with £641k including previews. In our PostTrak exit poll, Carlos Saldanha’s family release achieved 4.5 stars among Kids and Parents, and 3 stars from the General audience. Girls were more positive than Boys, with 63% of Girls giving the top rating of Great and 73% telling friends they must see it right away. The trailer/adverts was the main reason for choosing the film.

Sony’s re-release of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man is at No.7 with £253k. Raimi’s original release opened with £9.4m back in 2002, and went on to gross £29.0m. Subsequent films will follow every weekend through August and September.

At No.8 is A Quiet Place: Day One with £101k, dropping 42% in week six of release. Michael Sarnoski’s prequel has made £9.7m to date. The next horror release for Paramount is Parker Finn’s Smile 2 in October.

BLACKPINK WORLD TOUR [BORN PINK] IN CINEMAS is at No.9 with £92k. The South Korean concert film has made £180k to date.

Closing the chart is Elysian’s re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro, at No.10 with £70k. Elysian previously released Miyazaki’s last film, The Boy And The Heron, his best-performing title to date with £5.1m.

The overall box office is down 26% from last weekend, and down 34% on the equivalent weekend in 2023 when Barbie remained at No.1 in its third weekend with £7.9m, followed by Oppenheimer at No.2 with £5.5m. New openers included The Meg 2 at No.3 with £3.7m and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem at No.4 with £1.6m.

Year-to-date, 2024 is now running 16% behind the same period in 2023.

This week we have Eli Roth’s video-game adaptation Borderlands (Lionsgate) playing from Thursday, whilst the Blake Lively-starring drama It Ends With Us (Sony) and M. Night Shyamalan’s latest Trap (Warner) open on Friday. Animation Ozi: Voice Of The Forest (Signature) previews on Saturday & Sunday. Rich Peppiatt’s Irish comedy-drama Kneecap (Curzon/Wildcard) will play in Ireland from Thursday, before expanding across the rest of the UK on 23rd August.

[GreenbackBoogie]

9 minutes ago, UKBoxOffice said:

Deadpool & Wolverine remains at No.1 with £8.0m, dropping a modest 37% from its opening weekend. Marvel Studios' latest release has already crossed the £30m mark, behind only Dune: Part II (£39.6m) and Inside Out 2 (£52.2m) in the 2024 chart. Shawn Levy’s sequel has also overtaken the lifetime total of Deadpool 2 (£32.8m) and is only 12% behind Deadpool (£38.1m).

Another non-mover is Despicable Me 4 at No.2 with £2.5m, only dropping 18%. Illumination's sixth entry in the franchise is the fourth title of 2024 to cross the £30m milestone. The next release in the animation genre from Universal is Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot in October.

Twisters follows the trend and holds its No.3 spot from last weekend, dropping a slight 21% to gross £1.1m. As the only 12A release in the Top 5, it will be attracting families whose children have outgrown animated films but are too young for Deadpool & Wolverine. Lee Isaac Chung’s action-adventure has also crossed a milestone this weekend, passing £10m and overtaking One Life (£10.0m), A Quiet Place: Day One (£9.7m), Wicked Little Letters (£9.6m), Mean Girls (£9.2m) and The Garfield Movie (£8.8m) among 2024 releases.

Inside Out 2 keeps its place at No.4 in week eight of release, grossing £938k and has the lowest drop of the Top 10 at -17%. Pixar’s sequel has a running total of £52.2m, getting ever closer to Frozen 2 (£53.7m) to become the fifth-highest animated release of all time.

Mirroring the Top 5 of last weekend, Longlegs is at No.5 with £570k, dropping only 21%. Oz Perkins’ horror picture has a total gross of £6.8m, with his next release The Monkey dated for February 2025.

Harold And The Purple Crayon is the highest new opener at No.6 with £438k, and will chart at No.5 in the official chart with £641k including previews. In our PostTrak exit poll, Carlos Saldanha’s family release achieved 4.5 stars among Kids and Parents, and 3 stars from the General audience. Girls were more positive than Boys, with 63% of Girls giving the top rating of Great and 73% telling friends they must see it right away. The trailer/adverts was the main reason for choosing the film.

Sony’s re-release of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man is at No.7 with £253k. Raimi’s original release opened with £9.4m back in 2002, and went on to gross £29.0m. Subsequent films will follow every weekend through August and September.

At No.8 is A Quiet Place: Day One with £101k, dropping 42% in week six of release. Michael Sarnoski’s prequel has made £9.7m to date. The next horror release for Paramount is Parker Finn’s Smile 2 in October.

BLACKPINK WORLD TOUR [BORN PINK] IN CINEMAS is at No.9 with £92k. The South Korean concert film has made £180k to date.

Closing the chart is Elysian’s re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro, at No.10 with £70k. Elysian previously released Miyazaki’s last film, The Boy And The Heron, his best-performing title to date with £5.1m.

The overall box office is down 26% from last weekend, and down 34% on the equivalent weekend in 2023 when Barbie remained at No.1 in its third weekend with £7.9m, followed by Oppenheimer at No.2 with £5.5m. New openers included The Meg 2 at No.3 with £3.7m and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem at No.4 with £1.6m.

Year-to-date, 2024 is now running 16% behind the same period in 2023.

This week we have Eli Roth’s video-game adaptation Borderlands (Lionsgate) playing from Thursday, whilst the Blake Lively-starring drama It Ends With Us (Sony) and M. Night Shyamalan’s latest Trap (Warner) open on Friday. Animation Ozi: Voice Of The Forest (Signature) previews on Saturday & Sunday. Rich Peppiatt’s Irish comedy-drama Kneecap (Curzon/Wildcard) will play in Ireland from Thursday, before expanding across the rest of the UK on 23rd August.

If Disney included Thursday previews to report biggest opening since Barbie then also need to include preview BO into second weekend drop 53% not 37%? Or just report weekend BO as Fri-Sun only and all BO taken in previews is previous week as is done with Event Cinema BO? 

 

[Krissykins]

4 hours ago, GreenbackBoogie said:

If Disney included Thursday previews to report biggest opening since Barbie then also need to include preview BO into second weekend drop 53% not 37%? Or just report weekend BO as Fri-Sun only and all BO taken in previews is previous week as is done with Event Cinema BO? 

 

Yeh it’s the UK box office, it’s pretty shady. The real opening weekend was £12.6m though, nowhere near Barbie. But the trades need to make up their mind which rules they’re going to use. 

Edited August 5 by Krissykins

[Jonwo]

Twisters is doing solid business, it's nowhere near as successful as compared to the US but the drops have been very healthy. I think it'll be close to £15m by the end of August.

[SnokesLegs]

8 hours ago, Jonwo said:

Twisters is doing solid business, it's nowhere near as successful as compared to the US but the drops have been very healthy. I think it'll be close to £15m by the end of August.

I watched it again at the weekend and it was surprisingly sold out. Definitely seems to be the “go to” film for families with kids too young for Deadpool.

[GreenbackBoogie]

Some are predicting It Ends With Us could open similar to The Fault In Our Stars in the the US $40m+ but the 15 certificate will hurt it in the UK. 

[Jonwo]

2 hours ago, GreenbackBoogie said:

Some are predicting It Ends With Us could open similar to The Fault In Our Stars in the the US $40m+ but the 15 certificate will hurt it in the UK. 

I think it won't hurt it too much, no sane person would bring a kid to It Ends With Us.

[Krissykins]

Wonder if A Quiet Place Day One has enough left to pass £10m. It’s at £9.7m after a £100k weekend. Fingers crossed. 
 

 

[UKBoxOffice]

Monday

1. D&W £1.41m

2. DM4 £814k

3. IO2 £314k

4. Twisters £308k

5. Harold £156k

[UKBoxOffice]

Tuesday

1. D&W £1.34m (£36.38m)

2. DM4 £764k (£32.43m)

3. IO2 £312k (£52.84m)

4. Twisters £308k (£10.80m)

5. Harold £148k (£946k)

6. Longlegs £127k (£7.08m)