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Box Office Round-up
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie remains at the top spot for its sixth consecutive weekend, matching the six-week run of Avatar: The Way Of Water in December/January. Dropping only 28% from last weekend, it has added £1.9m this weekend, a which takes its total to £89m. It has now overtaken Avengers: Endgame (£88.7m) to rank at No.7 in the all-time Top 10. Given its strong holds each week, it is on course to finish in the all-time Top 3 and could still maintain sufficient momentum to reach £100m.
Oppenheimer again follows suit, retaining its No.2 position with an even smaller drop of 21% and grossing a further £1.6m. With a cume to date of £53.1m, it is on track to pass The Dark Knight Rises (£56.4m) and Dunkirk (£56.7m) to become Nolan’s biggest film and could end over £60m; this would place it at No.26 in the all-time chart, from its current position at No.39.
The Meg 2 moves back up to third place after sitting at fourth last week, dropping just 20% to gross a further £774k in its fourth weekend. With £11.2m to date, it’s closing on its predecessor The Meg but likely to fall slightly short of that film’s lifetime £15.8m.
Blue Beetle opened in fourth place in its second weekend, with £767k, a 36% drop. This is the third DC Comics film to hit cinemas this year and it has delivered the lowest opening weekend of the three, behind The Flash (£3.2m) and Shazam! Fury Of The Gods (£2.4m). It would appear that the upcoming DC reboot is much needed. It currently sits at £2.8m to date.
Taking fifth place this week is Andre Rieu's 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around (Concert), playing Saturday/Sunday only and achieving a brilliant £681k. This is lower than last year’s Maastricht Summer Concert (£842k) which opened at No.1 in a much less competitive marketplace.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is down one place at sixth place, adding £476k and passing £8m in its fourth weekend. It will hold its position as the second-highest grossing title in the TMNT series, behind only 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (£13.9m).
The seventh spot goes to Haunted Mansion, which dropped just 27% to add £377k. Disney’s comedy fantasy now has a total to date of £3.1m.
With the strongest hold of the Top 10 (-7%), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One stays at No.8, adding £367k. After its seventh weekend, it has a total to date of £25.6m and cements its place as the highest-grossing instalment of the 27-year-old franchise – a positive position leading into next year’s sequel.
Dropping only 13% this week, Elemental holds at No.9 with £337k, bringing its total to date to £16.9m. At No.10, comedy Strays drops 36% from its opening with £326k this weekend and a total to date of £1.3m. Just outside the Top 10, new releases The Blackening and Theatre Camp are at No.11 and No.14 respectively. Including previews, The Blackening will move up to No.9 in the official chart. Theatre Camp is slightly ahead in our PostTrak exit poll, scoring 4.5 stars versus The Blackening’s 4 stars, suggesting good word of mouth for both titles.
Whilst the overall box office is down 13% from last weekend, it is up 36% versus the equivalent weekend in 2022 when Andre Rieu’s 2022 Maastricht Summer Concert opened at No.1 with £842k, followed by DC League Of Super-Pets at No.2 in its fifth weekend (£601k) and Beast opening at No.3 (£600k).
Next Weekend
The Equalizer 3 - Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall finds solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Now living in Southern Italy, he soon discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall becomes their protector by taking on the mafia.
Sound of Freedom - After rescuing a boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free her from a fate worse than death.
Cobweb - Young Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant noise from inside his bedroom wall - a tapping that his parents insist is in his imagination. As his fear intensifies, he starts to believe that his parents are hiding a terrible and dangerous secret.
Passages - A gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
The Buzz
The first Saltburn trailer is being released tomorrow. Written and directed by Academy Award Winner Emerald Fennell, the film stars acclaimed actors Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi and Rosamund Pike. Set in the mid-2000s, it follows a young college student who becomes infatuated with his aristocratic schoolmate and his wealthy but eccentric family. Arriving on the schedule only recently, Saltburn has potential to be a strong awards contender, as it plans to open the 67th BFI London Film Festival on October 4, 2023. Saltburn is the second film directed by Emerald Fennell after Promising Young Woman (2020) which holds a brilliant 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes, so this upcoming drama is definitely something to look forward to!