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Box Office Round-up
Alien: Romulus burst onto the top spot with £3.7m, the 10th highest opening weekend of 2024. The previous Alien film, Alien: Covenant opened with £4.8m in May 2017 but fell away very quickly, finishing on £12.9m. While Romulus has opened below that total, audience scores are good (4 stars and an 83% Total Positive rating in Comscore’s PostTrak survey) so it has a good chance of getting to a similar total.
Colleen Hoover’s novel adaptation It Ends With Us fell to second but posted a strong hold, falling just 37% to £2.8m, proving this wasn’t just for people rushing out in the opening weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £11.4m and it has sailed past Where The Crawdads Sing, which was a big literary adaptation that launched in summer 2022 and finished its run with £8.4m. It Ends With Us looks like doubling that before the end of its run.
Deadpool & Wolverine continued its sensational run, falling 41% to £2.4m. That takes its total after four weekends in cinemas to a huge £48.4m and it’s now the fourth highest grossing 15-cert film of all time, behind only The Full Monty (£52.1m), Joker (£58.2m) and Oppenheimer (£59.7m). It looks like it’s going to have the legs to overtake The Full Monty but Joker might be just out of reach, although Disney will likely be very keen to get past it.
This weekend’s big surprise is the success of the 15th anniversary re-release of Henry Selick’s stop-motion marvel Coraline. It came in fourth with a terrific £1.3m, which includes £514k from Thursday previews. This makes it one of the most successful re-releases in years, with recent successes such as Spider-Man, only grossing £356k.
Despicable Me 4 was bumped to fifth thanks to Coraline’s Thursday previews but still added £1.2m, dropping 22% in its sixth weekend. With £38.8m to date, it still has a great chance of getting to £47m, which is where every single Despicable Me sequel or Minions spin-off has finished.
Outside of the top five, Inside Out 2 has crossed the £55m mark and is now on £55.5m. That means it has now surpassed the biggest animated film of last year, The Super Mario Bros. Movie which finished on £54.9m. This week Inside Out 2 should surpass Pixar’s Incredibles 2 which finished on £56.2m.
South Asian release Stree 2 opened in ninth with £292k, which includes £52k from previews.
Next Weekend
Blink Twice is the directorial debut of Zoë Kravitz and stars Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum. When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.
The Crow is a modern re-imagining of the 1994 cult classic. Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save her, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge. Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs star.
Cuckoo is a horror starring Hunter Schafer as a 17-year-old girl who is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem. Dan Stevens and Jessica Henwick co-star.
Pulp Fiction (30th Anniversary) is an anniversary re-release of Quentin Tarantino’s Palme d’Or winning second film.
Kneecap is a music biopic about the Irish hip hop act. When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
The Buzz
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is set to be the biggest film of September and sees Tim Burton return to one of his most popular and most beloved films. Michael Keaton returns as the title character, along with Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara. Jenna Ortega, from Wednesday, Netflix’s most popular show ever with over 1.7bn hours viewed, has joined the already impressive cast. After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is in cinemas from 6 September.
Across The Pond
Alien: Romulus opened in the top spot in North America too, launching with $41.5m. On its fourth weekend Deadpool & Wolverine came in second, adding $29m, a drop of 46% from last weekend, which takes its total to a huge $545.8m. It Ends With Us continued its terrific run, adding $24m for a new total of $97.8m. Twisters added $9.8m in fourth for a new total of $238.4m, while Coraline’s 15th anniversary re-release rounded out the top five with $8.4m and a total of $11.3m.