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Box Office Round-up
The weekend box office figures will be looking at figures from Friday to Sunday due to the Bank Holiday.
Interestingly, the top spot goes to Andre Rieu’s 2022 Maastricht Summer Concert, which grossed at £798k showing in 607 locations. This Dutch conductor & violinist is talented at pulling the heart strings of his audience, bringing in a large audience who came together to watch the orchestral performance in his hometown of Maastricht. It is not often we see a concert shown in cinema perform such strong figures for its opening weekend so it’s a shame advertisers weren’t able to access this!
On its opening weekend, Beast has come in second place with £600k across the weekend. Seeing a 45% uplift in forecasts, this thrillers comparative Adrift in 2018 grossed at £415k on its opening weekend, so it’s great to see we are already exceeding expectations.
DC League of Super-Pets has grossed £598k this weekend, which has taken a 26% drop from last weekend. This isn’t overly surprising considering last weekend only dropped by 3% but figures are still remaining strong despite its 5th weekend. Although, this may be the last week we see strong numbers considering schools will go back on 1 September. It’s comparative, The Secret Life of Pets 2 kept delivering admissions for at least 18 weeks after opening weekend so hopefully we can similarly expect a slow burn-rate on this one.
Bullet Train grossed at £593k this weekend following the trend of decline this weekend at 29%. This weekend takes it total to £8.1m after just 4 weeks so if it holds up over the next few, we can hopefully see it reach £10m.
Nope has seen a 50% fall compared to last weekend grossing at £576k contributing to its cume of £5.9m. Jordan Peele’s last film Us (2019) ran for at least 15 weeks, so we have confidence that Nope will run for a similar time period. Its predecessor grossed a total of £10m, and with Nope grossing more than half of that already, we can expect higher figures in the final report.
Continuing its reign into its 9th weekend, Minions: The Rise of Gru has grossed £573k this weekend adding to its total of £42.3m. It has overtaken both The Batman (£40.8m) and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness (£42.1m), now becoming the 2nd biggest film of 2022 to date behind Top Gun: Maverick. Similarly to other family films, we may see a drop in admissions from 1 September considering schools will be returning after the summer holidays.
Despite being available to watch at home, Top Gun: Maverick has managed to still see a 5% uplift grossing at £549k this weekend contributing to its total of £80.5m. Seeing such robust figures at its 14th week is really promising and we can see it has already surpassed 2 of the top 10 films of all time, including Toy Story 3 (£74m) & Titanic (£80.2m). With hope, we can also forecast Top Gun: Maverick to outperform Star Wars: The Last Jedi (£82.7m) and Avengers Endgame (£83.1m).
Overall, the box office was down by 17% from last weekend and up 3% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
The Forgiven - Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend's lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy.
Three Thousand Years of Longing - A lonely scholar on a trip to Istanbul discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. What she wants is love, but can and should he grant it to her?
Fall - A fast drop and a sudden stop awaits Becky (Grace Fulton, Shazam!) and Hunter (Virginia Gardner, Halloween) as they find themselves trapped 2,000 feet up an abandoned radio tower in the desert.
The Buzz
Moonage Daydream is described as a genre-defying cinematic experience based on one of the most iconic and global rock stars of all time, destined to be one of the defining cultural moments of the year. From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, director of Cobain: Montage of Heck, and featuring never-before-seen concert footage, Moonage Daydream is an immersive cinematic experience; an audio-visual space odyssey that not only illuminates the enigmatic legacy of David Bowie but also serves as a guide to living a fulfilling and meaningful life in the 21st Century. It has been revealed that a 43-track digital version of the album will be released first to coincide with the September 16 release of the Moonage Daydream film, which has the approval of Bowie's estate and includes unseen footage from his personal archives. This cross-platform release is sure to bring in a holistic audience of pre-existing Bowie lovers alongside a novel fanbase. Moonage Daydream is forecasted to deliver predominantly against ABC1s and currently, no brands have bought into any prem spots.
Across The Pond
Expectations for this weekend were low, but it still feels like a disappointment as it dropped 34% from last weekend and became the year’s third lowest grossing at the box office. Despite three wide releases, the overall box office dropped to $52.1 million, making this the worst weekend since January, and the first weekend since May 2021 where no film grossed over $10 million.
The Invitation opened in the top spot in the US with $7m, the lowest first place debut since Nobody in March 2021 ($6.8m). This film has also been getting poor reception from critics (26% on Rotten Tomatoes & C CinemaScore). Bullet Train came in second, despite being down by 30%, grossing at $5.6m contributing to the cume of $78.2m. The numbers align with The Lost City which had a $78.3m cume after weekend four, going on to gross $105m in the US, so we can expect strong figures once finished. Third place goes to the new release Beast which delivered ahead of last week’s first place Dragon Ball Super: Superhero, but behind last weekend’s third place which was Bullet Train. In the US, Beast dropped 58% with $4.9m in its second weekend, coming in at a cume of $20.1m. Top Gun: Maverick is still flying high in fourth place dropping just 20% to gross $4.75m contributing to it’s cume of $691.2m, which puts it only $9.2 million away from becoming the fifth highest-grossing domestic film of all time, currently held by Black Panther with $700.4 million. Fifth place is held by Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero as it plummeted by 78% with $4.54m, although despite the shortfall, this is still great considering it is slightly ahead of its predecessor’s cume gross Dragon Ball Super: Broly ($30.71m vs $30.76m).