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Box Office Round-up
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has been in cinemas for 24 days and is now the 11th biggest film of all time. It added £4.3m this weekend, a drop of 44% from last weekend which takes its total to £78.9m. It has just surpassed Avatar: The Way Of Water (£77.2m) and sits behind Titanic (£80.3m) just outside the top 10. The biggest film of 2022 was Top Gun: Maverick, which finished on £83.7m and Barbie may well have surpassed that by this time next week.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer stayed in second, adding £3.2m, a drop of 43% from last weekend. That takes its total after 24 days in cinemas to £45.8m. 19.9% of that total is from IMAX screenings (£9.1m). Over the next week it will overtake The Dark Knight (£49.4m) to become Christopher Nolan’s third biggest film in the UK & Ireland behind only The Dark Knight Rises (£56.4m) and Dunkirk (£56.7m).
The Meg 2: The Trench took something of a dive this weekend, falling 59% to £1.6m. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £7.6m and at the same point in its run the first film was on £8.6m, so despite opening ahead of the first film last weekend, it has fallen behind on its second weekend. The final total of The Meg was £15.9m, which now feels out of reach for this sequel.
Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story opened in fourth with £1m, which includes £332k from previews after setting off on Wednesday. The film received strong scores in Comscore’s PostTrak exit poll, with 4.5 stars and a 94% total positive reaction from the general and parents audience.
Rounding out the top five is Disney’s Haunted Mansion which opened with £990k. This is the second time Disney have attempted to bring this theme park inspired film to the big screen and the first one opened with £1.6m in 2004 on its way to a total of £8.2m. With a reported $150m production budget, this is another Disney film that is under-performing.
Outside of the top five, South Asian cinema is making waves again as Jailer opened in seventh with £727k, which includes 223k from previews, and Gadar 2 – The Katha Continues opened in 10th with £212k.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One crossed the £24m mark and is now the second highest grossing Mission: Impossible film in the UK & Ireland. Over the next week it should take the number one spot from Mission: Impossible – Fallout (£24.4m).
Elemental has crossed the £15m mark in ninth and is now up to £15.2m.
Next Weekend
Strays is the next big film in cinemas. It’s about talking dogs and is thus probably awesome. It’s in cinemas from Thursday. The voice cast includes Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx and Isla Fisher.
Blue Beetle is the latest DC Comics film to hit the big screen. An alien relic chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the teenager with a suit of armour that's capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero, Blue Beetle. Xolo Maridueña, Bruna Marquezine and Susan Sarandon star.
The Buzz
The Bikeriders is a new drama from Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter, Midnight Special). Set in the 1960s, it follows the rise of a fictional Midwestern motorcycle club. Seen through the lives of its members, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang, threatening the original group's unique way of life. Nichols was one of the leading lights of American independent filmmaking a decade ago but this is his first film since 2017 (the Oscar-nominated Loving). He’s put together a pretty stellar cast too, including Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Michael Shannon and Mike Faist. This could be one of the best films of H2 and looks ideal for an ABC1 male audience when it hits cinemas on 1 December.
Across The Pond
Barbie stayed in the top spot in North America too, adding an impressive $33.7m and after 24 days in cinemas it’s up to $526.3m. Oppenheimer is back in second after coming in third last weekend. Christopher Nolan’s drama added $18.8m for a new total of $264.3m. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem added $15.8m in fourth for a new total of $72.8m, while Meg 2: The Trench rounded out the top five, adding $12.7m for a new total of $54.1m.