UK Box Office Thread

[SchumacherFTW]

That's not amazing for Rio tbh

[Films]

Nothing on any of the 6 new entriesI think the raid 2 has done badly, quiet ones will underwhelm, khumba will do EFPE numbers, Calvary will do solid for a small release, pioneer will do badly and last days on mars will bomb like shitI'll post my may preview and predictions in the next week

[Films]

 

Disney’s latest Marvel outing leapfrogs Rio 2 with $3m (£1.78m); Lionsgate’s The Quiet Ones posts non-final $1.1m (£681,305) debut for week’s highest new entry; eOne’s Calvary records third best opening of year in Ireland.

 

Marvel is once again in charge of the UK box office as Captain America: The Winter Soldier regained top spot in its third week.

Disney’s latest Marvel Studios outing grossed $3m (£1.78m), a drop of just 36%, and has so far taken $24.4m (£14.62m) in the UK. It has now overtaken Thor’s $23.5m (£14m) UK result, with Iron Man’s $29.1m (£17.4m) next in its sights.

The arrival of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 from Wednesday [April 16] may slow down The Winter Soldier’s performance, but it should still hit £20m.

Also for Disney, Muppets Most Wanted fell 33% in its third weekend to take $1m (£601,000) for $8.5m (£5.09m) to date, while Frozen boosted 7% for $127,000 (£76,000) and a running total of $66.3m (£39.66m).

PARAMOUNT

Dropping a respectable 37% in its second weekend, Noah sailed to a further $2.64m (£1.58m) from its 479 sites through Paramount.

Darren Aronofsky’s latest is now up to $9.8m (£5.8m) and while it won’t catch Black Swan ($27.1m/£16.19m), its holdover has given it a great chance of hitting £10m.

FOX

Last week’s champion Rio 2 fell to third, narrowly behind Noah with a non-final $2.6m (£1.56m).

The animated sequel has now flown to $11.3m (£6.8m) in the UK and will need to prosper over the remaining Easter school holidays to catch Rio’s $22.7m (£13.56m).

Also for Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel is on the cusp of £10m after a $555,000 (£331,848) seventh weekend saw it climb to $16.5m (£9.87m).

Mr. Peabody & Sherman dropped just 15% in its tenth weekend, travelling to $214,000 (£127,932) for $21.7m (£13m) to date.

EONE

Holding firm in fourth was eOne’s Divergent with $1.7m (£1m) for $6.7m (£4m) to date. If it holds well over the remaining Easter school holidays, it has a chance of catching Limitless’ $13.9m (£8.3m) result to become director Neil Burger’s strongest UK performer.

Recording the third biggest opening of the year in Ireland with $494,000 (€357,000), Calvary enjoyed a strong $952,000 (£569,000) overall debut from its 145 sites through eOne for the week’s highest average at $6,562 (£3,924).

That’s ahead of director John Michael McDonagh’s feature debut The Guard which took $793,000 (£473,878), but it’s worth noting that opening came purely from 71 Irish sites ahead of a UK-wide expansion later on in its run.

Opening one place behind Calvary in eighth was stablemate The Raid 2 with a $759,000 (£454,000) bow from its 230 sites, including $79,000 (£47,000) in previews. That’s slightly ahead of The Raid’s $698,000 (£417,596) UK debut, including $46,000 (£27,219) in previews, from 297 sites.

The critically acclaimed action sequel was undoubtedly affected by both the good weather and sporting events over the weekend.

LIONSGATE

This week’s highest new entry came in the form of Lionsgate’s The Quiet Ones which scared up a non-final $1.1m (£681,305) from its 397 sites, including $189,000 (£112,741) in previews.

That marks the second-best UK opening for Hammer Studios, behind The Woman in Black’s $5.3m (£3.2m) from 412 sites but ahead of Let Me In’s $817,000 (£488,402) from 363 sites, including $102,000 (£61,243) in previews.

WARNER BROS

Now in its ninth week of release, The Lego Movie took $323,000 (£193,000) through Warner Bros and has now built up $54.4m (£32.5m).

300: Rise of an Empire has amassed $13m (£7.77m).

STUDIOCANAL

In its second weekend of release, The Double added $202,000 (£120,645) from a slightly expanded 77 sites through StudioCanal. Richard Ayoade’s second directorial outing is now up to $950,000 (£568,249) in the UK, but faces a challenge to top Submarine’s $2.4m (£1.46m) result.

Also for StudioCanal, Non-Stop took $149,000 (£89,078) for a healthy $15.7m (£9.4m), while Under the Skin has crossed the £1m mark and stands at $1.8m (£1.05m).

ARTIFICIAL EYE

Released in 28 sites through Artificial Eye, The Lunchbox tucked into $142,000 (£85,139) on its UK debut, including $37,000 (£22,019) in previews, with one site still to report.

UNIVERSAL

Ruairí Robinson’s feature debut The Last Days on Mars arrived in the UK with a debut of $78,000 (£46,800) through Universal.

ARROW FILMS

Pioneer could only manage a UK debut of $3,800 (£2,270) from its 20 sites (seven in the Republic of Ireland) through Arrow Films.

METRODOME

Released in five sites through Metrodome, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears posted a UK bow of $3,700 (£2,205). That’s up on directors Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet’s feature debut Amer, which grossed $2,100 (£1,249) albeit from just one site.

UPCOMING RELEASES

This week sees saturation releases for Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (opens April 16) and eOne’s The Love Punch.

Lionsgate’s Locke receives a wide release, while Koch Media’s Magic Magic, Metrodome’s We Are the Best! and Anchor Bay’s Wrinkles are among the films receiving a limited release.

Absolutely fantastic for Calvary, Raid 2 was solid, told you The Last Days On Mars would bomb but that is horrendous

Not great for the quiet ones considering how much marketing I saw. Under £600k for the 3 day weekend

Fantastic holds for Captain America 2 and The Muppets 2

Pioneer's number is laughable but then launching films should have probably change it's release to key cities and not wide [the lunchbox opened in more places and was counted as key cities]

FROZEN IS NEARLY AT £40M

 

Anyway for next week

Spidey 2 will be massive

The Love Punch will do solid- £750k

Locke will struggle I believe- £325k

 

And no numbers for Khumba this week so far

Edited April 14, 2014 by FrozenFilms

[PhilipJ2001]

Rio and Muppets are both suffering from being sequels no one asked for

[Films]

Rio and Muppets are both suffering from being sequels no one asked for

 

I asked for them [i quite liked Rio and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE MUPPETS]

But it is a shame the muppets is suffering but IMO, Rio 2 isn't doing too badly, it has a chance to reach the first one with this week's boosts from half term and Easter

[Heretic]

Frozen! Just won't stop.

[Heretic]

Not sure at all how TASM2's gonna do. Opens on Wednesday, but I sense little buzz. First opened to £11.1m over 6 days.

 

TASM2 basically has the same, as next Monday is a bank holiday. Being Easter weekend, it should theoretically be able to hit £10m, but we'll see. Wouldn't surprise me if it fell short.

[John Marston]

Since TASM2 was moved up in the last minute it should start doing its main business on Friday

[Heretic]

Probably. All the buses in London still have April 18th from what I've seen.

[JCS]

Rio 2 is doing so 'meh' despite Easter.

[CJohn]

TASM2 is gonna bomb on Wed and Thurs.

[Films]

Khumba has bombed badly, it is not in the top 10 and the Lego movie is number 10 with £196K

[fmpro]

TASM2 is gonna bomb on Wed and Thurs.

How do you know?

[Films]

I think TASM2 will do well on wed/thurs but not as well as if they had made the date change before all the advertisements. A lot of people on like the odeon and vue Facebook pages who reported the story commented saying there now going on Wednesday

[CJohn]

How do you know?

It changed his release date last week. That never works.

[SchumacherFTW]

It changed his release date last week. That never works.

I think it's one of the closest to the wire changes I've seen. Seeing as it's just the UK it won't have the impact that STID and TF3 had in the US.

[Films]

Is there something going on with vue cinemas today, no cinemas have a schedule up for next week (which is really not helpful as I'm seeing TASM2, TOW and Noah next week)Going back to empire leicester square tomorrow for the first time in 2 years (the muppets was last time) to see rio 2

[Heretic]

Pre-sales are actually looking pretty decent for Spiderman tomorrow. It's also getting a HELL of a lot of showtimes, especially over the easter weekend.

Edited April 15, 2014 by Heretic

[Heretic]

Doesn't seem like the late release change has had much of an effect. Doing well this afternoon, should be packed tonight. Friday should be even better.

[Fullbuster]

Can TASM2 beat TASM in the UK?