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Box Office Round-up
Barbenheimer is still capturing the public’s imagination, with both films on track to be the two biggest live-action films of 2023 and Barbie on its way to being one of the biggest films of all-time. This weekend saw the second highest box office total for all films in the past 12 months, second only to last weekend.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has been in cinemas for 10 days and is already the second biggest film of 2023. By the end of this week it will overtake The Super Mario Bros. Movie (currently on £54.5m) to become the biggest film of 2023. On its second weekend it added £13.2m, a drop of just 29% from last weekend. That would comfortably be the biggest opening weekend of the year to date and takes its total to a huge £48m. It looks headed for a spot in the top 10 films of all-time in the UK & Ireland.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer stayed in second, adding £8.2m. That’s an even better hold than Barbie, dropping just 24% from last weekend and takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £27.7m. Nolan’s last film, Tenet, obviously came out in different, more challenging circumstances, and finished its run with £17.5m, while 2014’s Interstellar finished its run with £21m. Next up is Inception on £35.8m, which Oppenheimer should have surpassed by this time next week.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is putting up a decent fight in third, adding £1.8m, a drop of 37% from last weekend. That takes its total after 21 days in cinemas to £20.3m. It is now the third highest grossing Mission: Impossible film having just overtaken the final total of the first film (£18.7m). Over the next week it will overtake Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (£21.2m) to become the second highest grossing film in the series. There’s still a chance it will overtake Fallout (£24.4m) to become the biggest Mission: Impossible film.
Elemental is still performing well, adding £1.2m on its fourth weekend, a drop of just 18%. That takes its total to £11.8m. Last year’s big Pixar film, Lightyear, finished its run with £10.5m so Elemental has now surpassed that and is setting a new benchmark for Pixar films post-Covid.
Indie-horror Talk To Me was this weekend’s highest new entry, opening in fifth with £644k, which includes £81k from previews. That’s the biggest opening to date for distributor Altitude.
Outside of the top five, another South Asian title cracked the top 10 as Rocky Aur Rani Kil Prem Kahaani opened in seventh with £371k. Insidious: The Red Door is now up to £7.3m in eighth, which makes it the biggest film in the series. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse is in ninth and has now crossed £30m, which is an incredible result, especially when you consider the first film finished its run with £10.9m. There were two South Asian films in the top 10, as Bro opened in 10th with £107k, which includes £54k from previews.
Next Weekend
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is a new animation for the heroes in a half shell. The film follows the Turtle brothers as they work to earn the love of New York City while facing down an army of mutants. It’s in cinemas from Monday 31 July.
Meg 2: The Trench is a sequel to the 2018 hit film where Jason Statham punched a giant shark. This time around he’s taking on three giant sharks, so he better get practicing his right hook.
The Buzz
The Great Escaper is a new British drama starring Michael Caine, and in her final big screen performance, two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson. Caine plays Bernard Jordan who escapes from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France. This hits cinemas on 6 October and is one of the best films for an older audience in Q4. If you liked The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, you’ll probably like this too.
Across The Pond
Barbie stayed in the top spot in North America too, adding an impressive $93m, the seventh highest second weekend of all time. After 10 days in cinemas it’s up to $351.4m. Oppenheimer added $46.2m in second, a figure many analysts were predicting for its opening weekend. It’s now up to $174.1m. Disney’s Haunted Mansion opened in third with $24.2m. Sound Of Freedom continued its remarkable run, adding $12.4m for a new total of $149m. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One fell to fifth adding $10.7m for a new total of $139.2m.