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Box Office Round-up
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opened in the top spot at the UK box office with £10.4m, which includes £4m from previews after opening on Monday. The previous film in the series, 2018’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout, opened with £7.2m, which included £1.8m from two days of previews, so Dead Reckoning Part One’s Friday to Sunday total of £6.4m has set a new series best. Fallout finished its run with £24.4m, the highest total in the series, so Dead Reckoning Part One has a good chance of topping that. 12% of the film’s gross to date is from IMAX screenings and in PostTrak’s exit poll it scored 4.5 stars and a 90% total positive rating, with 71% of the audience saying they would definitely recommend the film to friends.
Elemental posted a terrific hold in second, falling just 16% (once previews are removed) to £2.5m. That takes its total after two weekends in cinemas to £6.6m. Last year’s big Pixar film, Lightyear, finished its run with £10.5m and took a massive hit once Minions: The Rise Of Gru was released on its third weekend. With no Minions-sized family animation on the horizon this year, hopefully Elemental can continue to hold up well into the school holidays.
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny fell to third adding £1.8m, a drop of 42% from last weekend. That takes its total after three weekends in cinemas to £16.3m and it’s now the eighth biggest film released in 2023. Despite that, with Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull finishing its run with over £40m in 2008, it’s still a disappointment.
Insidious: The Red Door posted a great hold in fourth, falling 34% to £1.5m. That takes its total after two weekends in cinemas to £5.1m and it has already overtaken the final total of Insidious Chapter 3, which finished with £4.1m in 2015. Over the next few days it will overtake 2018’s Insidious: The Last Key’s final total of £5.3m, and then the next targets are Insidious (2011) and Insidious 2 (2013) which finished on £7.1m and £7.2m respectively. At the moment, Insidious: The Red Door looks like it will get there.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse rounded out the top five, falling just 29% to £687k which takes its total after seven weekends in cinemas to £28.9m. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse finished its run with £10.9m so there’s still an outside chance that Across The Spider-Verse could treble that total. It’s now the third highest grossing film released on 2023.
Outside of the top five, Oklahoma! Starring Hugh Jackman opened in 11th with £124k. This is the first event cinema release to feature in our new event cinema package. A momentous occasion.
Next Weekend
It’s almost BARBENHEIMER time!
Barbie is out on Friday! Greta Gerwig’s feverishly anticipated comedy sees Barbie suffer a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence. It’s set to be the biggest film of the summer.
Oppenheimer is out on Friday! It’s the latest film from Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Interstellar) and has the biggest cast of 2023. It’s the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
The Buzz
The Creator is the latest film from Gareth Edwards. It’s an ambitious, big budget sci-fi it is set amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence where Joshua (John David Washington), a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself. Edwards has created two of the most striking blockbusters of the last decade in Godzilla and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and he’s now using his prodigious talent and vision to craft an original story. It’s one of the most exciting films of the rest of 2023 and is in cinemas from 29 September.
Across The Pond
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One topped the box office in North America too, opening with a five-day total of $80m, after its Wednesday release. Sound Of Freedom is one of the box office stories of 2023. The faith-based thriller increased on last weekend’s total by 37% to $27m and is now up to $85.5m. Insidious: The Red Door added $13m for a new total of $58.1m. Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny added $12m, a drop of 56% from last weekend, which takes its total to $145.4m. Elemental completed the top five, adding $8.7m for a new total of $125.3m.