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Box Office Round-up
Barbenheimer continues its box office reign, with both films now the two biggest live-action films of 2023. Barbie is now the 18th biggest film of all-time and it’s nailed on for a spot in the top 10 by the end of its run. This weekend saw the third highest box office total for all films in the past 12 months, only behind the previous two weekends.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has been in cinemas for 17 days and is already the biggest film of 2023. It added £7.9m this weekend, a drop of 40% from last weekend which takes its total to £67.5m. Last week it overtook The Super Mario Bros. Movie (£54.3m) to become the biggest film of 2023. The biggest film of 2022 was Top Gun: Maverick, which finished on £83.7m and Barbie looks to have the momentum to get past that.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer stayed in second, adding £5.5m. That’s an even better hold than Barbie, dropping just 33% from last weekend and takes its total after 17 days in cinemas to £39.2m. 19.5% of that total is from IMAX screenings. In terms of Christopher Nolan’s filmography, it’s now his fourth biggest film of all-time, behind only The Dark Knight (£49.4m), The Dark Knight Rises (£56.4m) and Dunkirk (£56.7m). It’s definitely going to surpass The Dark Knight and may have the legs to reel in the top two too.
The Meg 2: The Trench opened its run with a healthy £3.8m, which is an increase on the £3.6m the first film opened with in 2018. That film finished its run with £15.9m, so that’s the target for this sequel.
Teenage Mutant: Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem opened on Monday and in seven days has banked a solid £3.7m, £1.7m of which comes from the weekend. The previous two Turtles films, 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 2016’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows grossed £13.9m and £6m respectively so at present Mutant Mayhem looks like finishing closer to the first title.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One completed the top five, adding £1m, taking its total to £22.8m and it’s now the second highest grossing film in the series, only behind Mission: Impossible Fallout (£24.4m). It looks like it should have the legs to overtake that title too by the end of its run.
Outside of the top five, Joy Ride opened in seventh with £390k, which includes £132k from previews. South Asian cinema is again in the top 10, as Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani had a great second weekend, adding £270k for a new total of £967k. It’s set to become the second South Asian film this year to cross £1m, after Pathaan.
Next Weekend
Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story is a new film centred around the hugely popular video game series. Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs - a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car driver, and an idealistic motorsport exec - who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It stars Archie Madekwe, David Harbour and Orlando Bloom. It’s in cinemas on Wednesday.
Haunted Mansion is a new film based on the popular Disneyland ride. A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts. LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson and Danny DeVito feature in the excellent cast.
The Buzz
Saltburn is a new British drama from Emerald Fennell, whose previous film was the Oscar-winning Promising Young Woman. She can also be seen starring as Midge in Barbie. Set in the mid-2000s and shot across the U.K., the film, written by Fennell, follows student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) who is struggling to find his place at Oxford University and finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate for an unforgettable summer. The excellent cast includes Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike and Gran Turismo’s Archie Madekwe. It’s opening the BFI London Film Festival on 4 October and is in cinemas across the country from 21 November.
Across The Pond
Barbie stayed in the top spot in North America too, adding an impressive $53m and after 17 days in cinemas it’s up to $459.4m. Meg 2: The Trench split up Barbenheimer, opening in second with $30m. Oppenheimer fell to third, adding $28.7m, and it’s now up to $228.6m. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem opened in fourth with $28m and after opening on Wednesday is up to $43.1m. Haunted Mansion added $9m in fifth and after two weekends us up to $42m.