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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice continued its terrific run, holding on to the top spot with £4.3m, down just 42% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £14.4m and it’s now the 13th biggest film released so far in 2024 and it looks like it will be firmly established in the top 10 by the end of its run. It’s currently less than £1k behind another nostalgic blockbuster, Twisters, so it will overtake that today.
This week’s highest new entry is Blumhouse’s thriller-remake Speak No Evil, which opened on Thursday and to date has grossed £1.4m, with £216k of that coming from Thursday. Blumhouse are one of the biggest and most prolific voices in horror filmmaking and this is their fourth release so far this year, after January’s Night Swim, March’s Imaginary and last month’s Afraid. Speak No Evil has delivered by far the best opening of the year for them, with Imaginary the previous best with £653k on its way to £2m. Speak No Evil is looking at a total comfortably more than that.
Kate Winslet is back near the top end of the chart this weekend as her biopic, Lee, opened in third with £706k, which includes £31k from previews. Winslet hasn’t been the lead in many cinema releases recently, although she did have a role in Avatar: The Way Of Water, but going back to 2017 she was the lead in The Mountain Between Us, alongside Idris Elba, and that film opened with £779k and finished on £2.6m, a good target for Lee.
The biggest event cinema title of all-time, Prima Facie – NT Live 2022, Jodie Comer’s electric one-woman show is back in cinemas and banked £556k over the weekend and after opening on Thursday it’s up to a terrific £1.5m. Across its original run in 2022 it grossed £5.5m, cementing its place as the number one event cinema release.
Despicable Me 4 rounded out the top five, adding £390k, a drop of 29% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 weekends in cinemas to £46.3m and it’s creeping up towards the magic £47 – 48m total that every Minions spin-off and Despicable Me sequel finishes on.
Outside of the top five British thriller The Critic opened in seventh with £353k, which includes £26k from previews.
Next Weekend
- The Substance is a dark thriller starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley. Moore stars as a fading celebrity who decides to use a black-market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. It won a major prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
- Interstellar (10th Anniversary) is a re-release of one of Christopher Nolan’s very best films. When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
- 200% Wolf is a an animated film about a mischievous poodle that accidentally gets turned into a werewolf. Jennifer Saunders and Samara Weaving lead the voice cast.
The Buzz
Anora is the new drama from Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Red Rocket). Mikey Madison (Scream, TV’s Better Things) plays Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, who meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. This film was already highly anticipated after it won the most prestigious prize on the festival circuit, Cannes’ Palme d’Or, but after it played at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews last week it’s now one of the front-runners for the Best Picture Oscar. It currently has a score of 90 on metacritic, which means the average score from critics is four and a half stars (out of five) and The Telegraph, Time Out, The Times all went the full five stars. It’s in cinemas from 1 November.
Across The Pond
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stayed in the top spot with a terrific $51.6m, down 54% from last weekend. That takes its total to a huge $188m. Speak No Evil opened in second with $11.5m, while Deadpool & Wolverine fell to third adding $5.2m for a new total of $621.5m. Am I Racist opened in fourth with $4.8m, while Reagan rounded out the top five, adding $3m for a new total of $23.3m.