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Box Office Round-up
Mufasa: The Lion King holds at the top spot with £4.2m, dropping just 4% from its opening weekend. To date it has £12.6m, overtaking IF (£12.4m) and will shortly pass Alien: Romulus (£13.3m) to enter the 2024 Top 20 in its second week.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 remains at second place, adding £4m this weekend. Previous instalments in the franchise achieved 3-day openings of £4.7m (2020's Sonic The Hedgehog) and £4.9m (2022's Sonic The Hedgehog 2).
Wicked also holds at the third spot, up 7% in its sixth week with £2.6m. Jon M. Chu’s musical has a current total of £53m to become the third-biggest release of the year, behind only Inside Out 2 (£59.2m) and Deadpool & Wolverine (£57.5m).
Moana 2 remains at no. 4, also up 7% to add a further £2.2m. The animated sequel from Disney is now the sixth-highest grossing film of 2024 with a total of £33.7m, overtaking Paddington In Peru (£33.0m).
Taking the 5th spot, the second-highest new opener this week is Robbie Williams' biopic Better Man, with £1.2m over 3 days and £1.5m since Boxing Day. It also scored 4.5 stars in our PostTrak poll, with an overall 93% total ‘Positive’ score rising to 99% among women aged 25+. 30% would watch it again at the cinema, including 41% of women 25+. Overall, 57% would ‘Definitely Recommend’ it to friends.
Paddington In Peru drops one place to no.6, with its weekend gross rising 23% as holidays continue, adding £816k in its eighth weekend for a total of £33.0m. Its predecessors Paddington and Paddington 2 achieved lifetime totals of £38m and £42.7m respectively; Paddington In Peru looks likely to land somewhere between the two.
Gladiator II is also up from last weekend, +13% with £559k at no.7. Ridley Scott’s action sequel has passed the £30m milestone with £30.3m and will overtake Gladiator’s £31.3m in the coming weeks. Conclave is up 9% at no.8 with £362k in its fifth week. It now has £5.5m to date.
The overall box office is up 2% from last weekend, and up 19% versus the equivalent weekend in 2023 when Wonka remained at no.1 in its fourth weekend with £6.6m. Year-to-date, 2024 has further improved to only 1% behind the same period in 2023.