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Box Office Round-up
Jordan Peele’s sci-fi thriller Nope opened in the top spot with £1.9m. While this is a solid start, particularly on a sunny weekend, it’s the lowest opening for a Jordan Peele film in the UK & Ireland, behind Get Out in 2017 (£2.2m) and Us in 2019 (£2.8m). Both those films finished with over £10m, which would have originally been the target for Nope but after this weekend it will probably be downgrading expectations slightly.
Last weekend Bullet Train opened with a Friday to Sunday total of £1.9m, like Nope, and this weekend it fell to second, adding £909k, which is a drop of 51% from last weekend. That takes its total to £5.1m.
DC League Of Super-Pets, fell to third, adding £832k, a drop of 32% from last weekend, which was the best hold for a non-event cinema title in the top 10. That takes its total after 17 days in cinemas to £8.2m. On its seventh weekend, Minions: The Rise Of Gru fell to fourth, adding £755k which is a drop of 32% from last weekend. That takes its total to £38.6m and while the total of the first Minions film (£47.8m) looks out of reach, it’s still going to be one of the biggest animated films of all time.
Thor: Love And Thunder completed the top five, falling 43% to £536k. That takes its total to £34.6m and it’s now the fifth biggest film of 2022 to having just overtaken Jurassic World: Dominion.
Outside the top five, Elvis added £421k, which takes its total to £23.7m and it has now overtaken Rocketman’s final total of £23.5m. On its 12th weekend in cinemas, Top Gun: Maverick is now up to £78.5m in seventh and is edging closer towards Titanic’s total of £80.3m, which would make it the ninth highest grossing film of all time.
Where The Crawdads Sing added £256k in ninth, which takes it over the £6m mark and it’s now on £6.1m. In event cinema news, Prima Facie – NT Live 2022 is still going and is now up to £3.6m. Just a reminder that the biggest event cinema release of all time is Fleabag – NT Live 2019 with £4.4m.
The box office was down 26% from last weekend and down 29% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
Fisherman’s Friends: One And All is a sequel to the hit 2019 comedy. After the highs of performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury, the group struggle with their second album. During a divisive tour of South Australia, they will trace their ancestors and embrace a new community, and discover their musical DNA.
The Feast is a Welsh horror film and follows a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is the latest anime title set to make a dent in the top 10 of the box office. The Red Ribbon Army from Goku's past has returned with two new androids to challenge him and his friends. It’s in cinemas on Wednesday.
The Buzz
Ahead of the release of Avatar: The Way Of Water in December, the original Avatar is getting a spectacular re-release in September. Remarkably still the biggest film of all-time worldwide grossing over $2.8bn, Avatar has been remastered so will look pristine on the biggest screens you can find and is set to wow audiences all over again with arguably the best 3D ever seen. Directed by James Cameron, Sam Worthington plays a paraplegic marine who is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission and becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. It was a genuine cinematic phenomenon and you can remind yourself why from the 23 September.
Across The Pond
Bullet Train stayed in the top spot, adding $13.4m on its second weekend, a drop of 55%, and takes its total to $54.5m. DC League of Super-Pets came in second, falling 35% in its third weekend to $7.2m, and taking its total to $58.3m. Top Gun: Maverick flew back into the top three, adding $7.2m, up 1.6% from last weekend. That takes its total to $673.8m, and over the next week it will overtake Avengers: Infinity War ($678.8m) to become the sixth biggest film of all time in North America. Thor: Love and Thunder came in fourth with $5.3m, which takes its total to $325.4m. Nope completes the top five with $5.3m, down 37.6%, and a new total of $107.5m.