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Box Office Round-up
On its eighth weekend, Despicable Me 4 went back up to the top spot at the UK box office, falling just 12% from last weekend to £1.2m. That takes its total to a huge £44.6m, and it excitingly looks on track for a final total between £47m and £48m, which is where every single Despicable Me sequel or Minions spin-off has finished.
On its sixth weekend, Deadpool & Wolverine continued its sensational run, falling just 31% to £1.2m, which takes its total to £54.7m. This makes it the fourth highest grossing film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, behind only Avengers: Infinity War (£70.8m), Avengers: Endgame (£88.7m) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (£97.1m).
Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us fell to third but still performed strongly, adding £1.1m, a drop of just 38% from last weekend. That takes its total after four weekends in cinemas to £18.6m and it’s now the seventh highest grossing film released on 2024, and has more than doubled the final total of Where The Crawdads Sing (£8.4m).
Top for the last two weekends, Alien: Romulus fell to fourth adding £1.1m, a drop of 47% from last weekend. That takes its total to £10.8m, and it still looks like it will at least match the total of the previous Alien film, Alien: Covenant, which finished on £12.9m.
Rounding out the top five was the king of event cinema, Andre Rieu, whose 2024 Maastrich Concert: Power Of Love opened with £630k over the weekend. This title was not part of National Cinema Day.
Outside of the top five, the other major new entry in the top 10 was creepy AI thriller Afraid, which opened with 217k.
Inside Out 2 is now up to £58.2m and is the third highest grossing animated film of all time.
Next Weekend
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a sequel to Tim Burton’s hit 1988 comedy. After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife. Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara return and are joined by Wednesday's Jenna Ortega.
The Buzz
Better Man is a biopic of hugely popular musician Robbie Williams and is director, Michael Gracey’s first film since the phenomenon that was The Greatest Showman. Music biopics have been very successful this year, with Bob Marley: One Love grossing £17.2m, while Back to Black grossed £12.3m. With Robbie Williams’ popularity (he headlined Hyde Park in July), and Michael Gracey’s pedigree (The Greatest Showman grossed over £50m), Better Man has a chance of being the biggest music biopic released this year.
It had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival at the weekend and Gregory Ellwood writing in The Playlist said "Better Man is essentially a jukebox musical, mostly featuring songs from Williams’ catalog even for the Take That sequences. One lengthy number finds the band dancing through the streets of London’s Soho neighborhood to his 2000 hit Rock DJ. Sure, a plethora of visual effects are used to pull it off, but from the choreography to the cinematography to the production design to the visual framing, the number is an absolute knockout. It’s almost euphoric. And it’s not the only one." Better Man opens in the UK & Ireland on 26 December.
Across The Pond
Deadpool & Wolverine held on to the top spot in the US, adding $15.2m for a new total of $599.5m. Alien: Romulus stayed in second adding $9.3m which takes its total to $88.8m. It Ends With Us continued its terrific run, adding $7.4m for a new total of $133.7m. Reagan opened in fourth with $7.3m, while Twisters added $7.2m in fifth which takes its total to a huge $258m.