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Box Office Round-up
Jordan Peele’s sci-fi thriller Nope held on to the top spot, adding £1.1m, which takes is a drop of 38% from last weekend. On its second weekend, Jordan Peele’s last film, Us, fell 40%, so Nope is holding up slightly better. After 10 days in cinemas Nope is up to £4.5m. It’s currently the second biggest horror title of 2022, behind Scream, which finished on £7.5m.
Bullet Train posted a terrific hold, falling just 8% to £838k. Last weekend it fell 51%, so this weekend saw a big shift. It takes its total after three weekends in cinemas to £6.9m and if it posts a couple more holds like this, it could get to £10m.
DC League Of Super-Pets posted an even better hold, falling just 3% to £811k. That takes its total after four weekends in cinemas to £10.6m, and it should have a good couple of weeks ahead as the school holidays draw to a close and families run out of things to do.
On its eighth weekend, Minions: The Rise Of Gru went even better than Bullet Train and DC League Of Super-Pets, posting an almost identical total to last weekend. That takes it over the £40m mark and on to £40.7m, the first animated title to achieve that milestone since Frozen II in 2019. Over the next week it will overtake The Batman (£40.8m), and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness (£42.1m) to become the second biggest film of 2022 to date.
This weekend’s highest new entry was anime title Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO, which opened on Wednesday and has banked £663k to date, which includes £263k from Wednesday and Thursday. The previous Dragon Ball film, Dragon Ball Super: Broly, finished its run with £1m, so SUPER HERO looks on track to get close to that.
Outside the top five, Fisherman’s Friends: One And All opened in sixth with £656k, which is some way down on the £1.2m opening of the first film. That film held up well over subsequent weeks to finish on £7.4m, so hopefully One And All will have similar (sea) legs.
The two biggest success stories of the summer Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis are still going, despite Elvis now being available to watch at home. They increased on last weekend’s totals by 28% and 17% respectively and are now up to £79.6m and £24.96m.
The box office was up 10% from last weekend and up 10% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
Beast is Idris Elba vs a big angry lion. Elba plays a father who, along with his two teenage daughters, find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator.
The Invitation is a horror thriller starring Nathalie Emmanuel (Fast & Furious 9) as a young woman who is courted and swept off her feet, only to realise a gothic conspiracy is afoot.
Mr. Malcolm’s List is a period comedy-drama starring Freida Pinto and Sope Dirisu. Pinto plays a young woman who courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 19th century England.
The Buzz
Amsterdam is the film with the biggest, most star-laden cast of 2022. Set in the 1930s, it follows three friends who witness a murder, become suspects themselves, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history. The ridiculous cast includes *deep breath* Margot Robbie, Christian Bale, John David Washington, Robert De Niro, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldana, Rami Malek, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Chris Rock, Taylor Swift, and even more people. It’s directed by David O. Russell who has had critical and commercial success with Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and The Fighter and it’s one of the biggest films for ABC1 women this Q4. It hits cinemas on 7 October.
Across The Pond
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero opened in the top spot in the US with a terrific $20.1m, more than doubling the opening of its predecessor Dragon Ball Super: Broly ($9.8m) in 2018. Angry lion film, Beast opened in second with $11.6m, which is slightly below the angry alligator film, Crawl, which opened with $12m in 2019. Bullet Train came in third adding $8m for a new total of $69m. Top Gun: Maverick is in fourth adding $5.9m for a new total of $683m. It’s now the sixth biggest film in UK & Ireland history, having overtaken Avengers: Infinity War ($679m). DC League of Super-Pets completed the top five, adding $5.8m, which takes its total to $67.5m.