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Box Office Round-up
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny opened in the top spot with £7.1m, which includes £1.8m from previews after opening on Wednesday. The Friday to Sunday total of £5.4m is the sixth biggest opening weekend of 2023 to date but compared to the £10.2m Friday to Sunday opening of the previous instalment, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull in 2008, it’s something of a disappointment. Crystal Skull finished its run with over £40m and was the fourth highest grossing film of 2008. According to Comscore’s PostTrak exit poll, the film received 4 stars from the general audience, increasing to 4.5 stars among kids and 5 stars among parents.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse is in second, falling just 23% to £1.5m which takes its total after five weekends in cinemas to £25.9m. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse finished its run with £10.9m, and if this sequel continues to hold up as well as it has over the last two weekends, it could get close to trebling the total of the first film. It’s currently the third biggest film to be released in 2023.
Family animation Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken opened in third with £885k. Universal’s animation team have been bossing it over the last few years and now the undisputed leaders in animation at the box office, having released The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, Minions: The Rise Of Gru, The Bad Guys, and Sing 2 in the last 18 months alone but it looks like Ruby Gillman is a rare misfire for them. With the school holidays starting in a couple of weeks the only major animated competition in the next month coming from Pixar’s Elemental, there’s the change for Ruby Gillman to hold up well across the summer.
The Little Mermaid also posted another great hold, falling just 24% to £838k. That takes its total after six weekends in cinemas to just over £25m and in the next few days will surpass Dumbo’s final total of £25.1m. If it can hold on to some screens across the summer holidays it can creep up towards £30m.
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City completed the top five with £799k, which takes its total after two weekends in cinemas to £2.7m. At the same stage of its run, Anderson’s last film in cinemas, 2021’s The French Dispatch was on just under £2m, so Asteroid City is tracking well ahead of that.
Outside of the top five, two South Asian films cracked the top 10, Carry On Jatta 3 opening in ninth with £232k and Satyaprem Ki Katha opening in tenth with £114k.
Next Weekend
Elemental is the latest original animation from Pixar. It follows Ember and Wade in a city where fire, water, land and air-residents all live together.
Insidious: The Red Door is the fifth film in the Insidious series. This time around, the Lamberts must go deeper into The Further than ever before to put their demons to rest once and for all.
The Buzz
Dune Part Two is one of the must-see big screen experiences of 2023. The first film was filled with jaw-dropping spectacle but ended on something of a cliffhanger and this second part sees Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) unite with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. The incredible supporting cast includes Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson and Christopher Walken and we’re forecasting it to deliver 10 16-34 men TVRs. It’s in cinemas on 3 November.
Across The Pond
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny topped the box office in North America too, opening with $60m, which is some way down on the $100m Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull opened with in 2009. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse fell to second, which takes its total to an impressive $339.9m. Elemental added $11.3m in third, which takes its total to $88.8m. No Hard Feelings added $7.5m for a new total of $29.3m, while Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts completed the top five, adding $7m for a new total of $136.1m.