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Box Office Round-up
Unsurprisingly, the top spot at the UK box office this week goes to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which has matched our expectations for its initial success with £12.3m at 699 locations. The film’s £12.3m is the biggest ever for the month of November, beating the £12.1m of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second biggest of the year. It is expected to perform well throughout the holiday season, likely repeating the number-one streak over the course of 5 weeks like the first film had. The audience response is strong, with an A CinemaScore, and positive reviews from critics and wider audiences.
Looking at the past 4 years, Marvel films have delivered such robust figures at the UK box office which is pure testament of how big of a franchise it has been, totalling at a cume of £850m overall since the start back in 2008 with Iron Man. Our forecasted total for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at the box office is just behind the original film, but it still estimated to be within the top 4 films of the past few years, so hopefully we can see this forecast become reality over the next few weeks.
Black Adam takes the second spot in its fourth weekend, adding a further £785k. This film is now grossing a total of £18.5m to date, overtaking Justice League at £17.4m in the DC extended universe. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile moves down one place to the third spot, dropping 34% to add £648k. The musical comedy is now Sony’s second-highest grossing release of the year with a total to date of £11.5m, overtaking Bullet Train which grossed at £10.9m. The Banshees Of Inisherin takes the fourth spot with £560k this week, grossing at a total of £7.4m.
With the smallest drop of the Top 10 at only a -13% decline, Living takes the 5th spot in its second weekend, grossing £493k for a total of £1.7m. This drama starring Bill Nighy ranks at 10th place among British/Irish drama releases this year, closing in on The Phantom Of The Open which grossed at £2.0m. Following the top 5, we have Prey For The Devil totalling at £2m, Smile with a total of £11.4m, Triangle of Sadness with £981k, One Piece Film: Red at £750k, and Ticket to Paradise, grossing at a cume of £9.6m.
Thanks to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the box office saw a 120% uplift from last weekend and is up by 71% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
The Menu - A couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Confess, Fletch - In this delightful comedy romp, Jon Hamm stars as the roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch, who becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection.
Armageddon Time - From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray, Armageddon Time is a deeply personal story on the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
Aftersun - At a fading vacation resort in the late 1990s, 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (BAFTA winner Paul Mescal, Normal People).
Across The Pond
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has finally ended the box office blues. The film’s $180 million opening is a huge one, being the biggest ever for the month of November. As for the rest of the box office, Black Adam, which is the biggest grosser of the rough post-summer, pre-Wakanda Forever season, came in second with $8.6 million. Ticket to Paradise came in third place in its fourth weekend, with $6.1 million, emerging as one of the season’s most durable grossers when it comes to films for adults. Fourth place went to Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, which had a negligible drop of 5% for a $3.2 million sixth weekend and $40.8 million cume. Finishing up the top five is Smile, with a $2.3 million seventh weekend. The viral horror has now reached a domestic cume of $103 million and global cume of $210 million from a budget of just $20 million.