UK Box Office Thread

[Heretic]

Interstellar £5.2m ($8.4m). Seems a little low for Sunday. Nonetheless, good opening. Should hold up quite well as IMAX is fully saturated, hopefully it can get over £20m ($32m).

[Fullbuster]

Interstellar £5.2m ($8.4m). Seems a little low for Sunday. Nonetheless, good opening. Should hold up quite well as IMAX is fully saturated, hopefully it can get over £20m ($32m).

 

It's a pretty good number.

I really thought it would be its first OS market though, but South Korea is clearly ahead.

[PhilipJ2001]

Interstellar had 60% of the market or something.

 

Mr Turner number 2 so I'm guessing around £1m

[Rthmessiah]

Interstellar had 60% of the market or something.

 

Mr Turner number 2 so I'm guessing around £1m

60%    where did you hear that

[Rthmessiah]

Interstellar £5.2m ($8.4m). Seems a little low for Sunday. Nonetheless, good opening. Should hold up quite well as IMAX is fully saturated, hopefully it can get over £20m ($32m).

It'll end up 5.3-4 at least

[Kalel009Shel]

Hmm small run in UK.. Only 30+M? What is the max our UK Family expects for Interstellar?

[PhilipJ2001]

60%    where did you hear that

 

 

https://twitter.com/ian_sandwell/status/531498109374058497

[Rthmessiah]

https://twitter.com/ian_sandwell/status/531498109374058497

For some reason I originally read you post as Imax was 60% don't ask me why I thought that cause its not what you wrote lol

[Heretic]

 

Warner Bros’ sci-fi takes $8.6m (£5.4m) from its 578 sites to dethrone Turtles; eOne’s Mr. Turner climbs up to second with $1.6m (£1.01m).

 

Further distributor results to come…

Without a major competitor opening against it, it was never a case of if Interstellar would top the UK box office on debut, but with how much.

The result? Warner Bros’ sci-fi posted a $8.6m (£5.4m) launch from its 578 sites. $1.3m (£847,102) of its opening gross came from IMAX screens.

That marks director Christopher Nolan’s fourth-best UK opening overall, and second best for an original property behind Inception’s $9.4m (£5.9m) from 452 sites.

In the same release window last year, stablemateGravity took $9.9m (£6.2m) from 539 sites, including $985,000 (£619,086) in previews. Arguably, Interstellarrecorded a better performance given Gravity benefitted from both IMAX and 3D surcharges and, at over an hour shorter, enjoyed more showtimes.

Whether Interstellar can match Gravity’s terrific run, which ended at $52m (£32.7m) earlier this year, remains to be seen. Like Gravity, Interstellar’s first heavyweight competitor arrives in just ten days in the form of the latest Hunger Games.

Also for Warner Bros, Annabelle has now scared up $11.8m (£7.4m) after a $193,000 (£121,100) fifth weekend.

EONE

Expanding to 253 sites nationwide, Mr. Turner followed up its excellent UK debut with a strong $1.6m (£1.01m) second weekend, at a site average of just over $6,400 (£4,000), to move up to second.

eOne’s biopic is now up to $4.2m (£2.67m) after just ten days in play and is now director Mike Leigh’s best-ever UK performer, outgrossing the $3.8m (£2.38m) result ofVera Drake.

Also for eOne, Nightcrawler posted a second weekend of $867,000 (£545,221) for $3.5m (£2.2m) to date.

PARAMOUNT

Last week’s resurgent champion Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fell to third with a $1.2m (£739,000) fourth weekend. Paramount’s reboot is now up to a decent $20.5m (£12.9m) in the UK.

FOX

Falling just 33% in its sixth weekend, Gone Girlremained in fourth with $1.1m (£694,920). Fox’s adaptation is now up to $32.8m (£20.6m) and, as expected, is now director David Fincher’s best-ever UK performer.

Its quest is now to attempt to become the UK’s highest grossing 18 rated film of all time, currently The Wolf of Wall Street’s $36.1m (£22.7m). At the same stage in its run, Wolf stood at $33.1m (£20.8m).

Also for Fox, The Book of Life enjoyed a $1m (£604,808) third weekend after a 29% drop for $7.7m (£4.9m) to date, while The Maze Runner is up to $13.3m (£8.3m) after five weeks in play.

SONY

Now in its third weekend, Sony’s Fury rolled to an additional $1.07m (£674,430) for $11.2m (£7.1m) to date.

Also for Sony, The Skeleton Twins opened with $31,000 (£19,204) from its 85 sites, most of which would have been on split screens.

DISNEY

With a drop of almost 40% in its third weekend of nationwide release, Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day added a further $509,000 (£320,000) for $4.6m (£2.9m) to date.

Also for Disney, November Man was released in 12 sites for an $8,000 (£5,000) UK debut.

ICON FILM DISTRIBUTION

Say When opened with a somewhat soft $148,000 (£93,152) from its 122 sites through Icon Film Distribution. However, that does mark director Lynn Shelton’s best-ever UK bow, topping the $129,000 (£81,098) opening of My Sister’s Sister albeit taken from just 40 sites.

Also for Icon, The Babadook unsurprisingly fell over 50% following Halloween with a $136,000 (£85,581) third weekend for  $1.9m (£1.2m) to date.

LIONSGATE

With a hefty drop in its second weekend, Lionsgate’sHorns took $73,000 (£46,138) for $949,000 (£596,874) so far. It will end its run as director Alexandre Aja’s lowest English language outing in the UK.

Also for Lionsgate, Love, Rosie and What We Did on Our Holiday have grossed $1.8m (£1.2m) and $6.2m (£3.9m), respectively.

ARTIFICIAL EYE

Released in 15 sites through Artificial Eye, Russia’s Foreign Language submission Leviathan recorded a $48,000 (£29,985) debut. That marks director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s second-best opening in the UK, behind The Return’s $69,000 (£43,388) from 17 sites.

Also for Artificial Eye, CITIZENFOUR added $11,000 (£6,671) for $126,000 (£79,065) after two weeks in play.

DOGWOOF

Ryan White & Ben Cotner’s The Case Against 8, about the overturning of California’s Proposition 8, posted a $3,400 (£2,161) UK bow from its one site through Dogwoof.

SODA PICTURES

Playing on select shows throughout the weekend, Soda Pictures’ Venice 2013 winner Sacro Gra grossed $3,200 (£2,037) from its four sites.

UPCOMING RELEASES

This week sees saturation releases for eOne’s Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey?! and StudioCanal’s LFF opener The Imitation Game.

Fox’s The Drop receives a wide release, while Sony’sThird Person and Dogwoof’s Life Itself are among the films receiving a limited release.

 

Nice to see Interstellar get nudged up a little. Very impressive IMAX gross. Should soften its drops. 

 

Great for Mr.Turner. Wonder if it can leg its way to £10m, wouldn't surprise me.

 

Gone Girl still going, looks like it has a chance at beating Wolf of Wolf Street now.

[SchumacherFTW]

Does anyone know whether or not the £1m barrier has been broken in a 3 day weekend from imax screenings yet?

[JCS]

Does anyone know whether or not the £1m barrier has been broken in a 3 day weekend from imax screenings yet?

 

Doubt it.

[Rthmessiah]

Does anyone know whether or not the £1m barrier has been broken in a 3 day weekend from imax screenings yet?

 

 

Doubt it.

TDKR went close lc967k 18 thrs, then its IS 876k 32thrs, Skyf 846k 18thrs, STID 706k from 22, Gravity 600k from 22

Edited November 10, 2014 by Rth-TIFF

[Jonwo]

I imagine it'll happen eventually, there are new IMAX screens opening every year. I imagine either Bond, Avengers AOU or Star Wars will break £1m in IMAX.

Out of interest Rth, what's the top cinemas for Interstellar, I imagine BFI IMAX and OLS are near the top and also the top cinemas for Mr Turner, it must be a huge seller for the arthouses

Edited November 11, 2014 by Jonwo

[Heretic]

Avengers should do it I guess. First film to top $30m opening since Bond, I think.

[The Dark Alfred]

Our Tuesday was solid. IMAX sold out pretty early on. We're running it on 6 screens out 14 and all the evening shows were roughly 40% full. The fact that HG isn't on IMAX will help to avoid big drops. Wednesday evening showing for IMAX is half full already, which is pretty impressive considering that people normally wait for their EE/Orange code to come through. No doubt that it will be sold out before noon, we added an IMAX midnight showing for that reason.

[Heretic]

Hoping for a sub-40% drop. IMAX should definitely soften it, should be over $17m come Sunday.

[Rthmessiah]

I imagine it'll happen eventually, there are new IMAX screens opening every year. I imagine either Bond, Avengers AOU or Star Wars will break £1m in IMAX.

Out of interest Rth, what's the top cinemas for Interstellar, I imagine BFI IMAX and OLS are near the top and also the top cinemas for Mr Turner, it must be a huge seller for the arthouses

well considering thea TDKR almost did it with only 18 screens bound to happen soon

 

Yes #1 BFI & 2/3 OLS& Vue Westfield 17 London they are neck and neck atm then Odeon Manchester 20

[The Dark Alfred]

How's Liverpool One doing Rth? Shouldn't be far off Manchester even with digital IMAX? 

[Rsyu]

Hoping for a sub-40% drop. IMAX should definitely soften it, should be over $17m come Sunday.

 

So gross from week 2 will be over OW? That would be quite good for interstellar. If it ends up at $17 million though it would be lagging even further behind Gravity at the same period of time. 

[Heretic]

So gross from week 2 will be over OW? That would be quite good for interstellar. If it ends up at $17 million though it would be lagging even further behind Gravity at the same period of time. 

It's possible. At least it should do $8m for the week. 

 

But yeah, Gravity had a tiny drop in its second week, something I just can't see happening for Interstellar. The WOM isn't carrying like it was for that.