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Box Office Round-up
The top spot this week once again goes to See How They Run, which saw a 15% decline week on week with £984k, contributing to a cume of £2.8m. It’s great to see this is still at the top considering a decline over the week in box office figures.
Bullet Train came in second with £325k, which saw a 6% decline compared to last week. This film is now coming in at a total of £10.3m.
Minions: The Rise of Gru is only down by 16% on its twelfth weekend, adding £321k, which takes its total to £45.1m. After succeeding Toy Story 2, we can see that Minions: The Rise of Gru is just behind both Despicable Me 1 & 2, which totalled at £47m at the box office, so hopefully we can see these Minions succeed their origin story.
Top Gun: Maverick is still performing well even after its 17th week, with a 3% uplift week on week contributing to its cume of £82.8m. This film is currently 9th top grossing film of all time, coming in £6m under Avengers: Endgame which is a really strong place to sit at. Hopefully we can see Top Gun: Maverick run for over 20 weeks and match the burn rate of Avengers: Endgame which ran for 26 weeks.
Moonage Daydream opened last weekend and grossed at £181k, garnering some really strong critic reviews. We can hopefully see it deliver strong numbers across the next few weeks:
‘Moonage Daydream is a cosmic Bowie doc and a mind-blowing labour of love’ - Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
‘This is an experience: an immersive, kaleidoscopic fantasia’ - Christy Lemire, FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
‘If nothing else, Moonage Daydream captures him as we’d like to remember him: dazzling, sensitive, full of questions—and in the end, as happy, probably, as a truly brilliant person can ever be’ Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
The box office was down 31% from last weekend and down 23% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
Don't Worry Darling - A 1950s housewife (Pugh) living with her husband (Styles) in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.
Avatar (re-release) - A theatrical rerelease of James Cameron's Academy Award-winning 2009 epic adventure, the most successful film of all time, with 4K remastered picture and HDR sound. Moviegoers will once again have the opportunity to travel in 3D across the universe to the distant planet of Pandora in the year 2154.
Smile - After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris - Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.
The Buzz
The Woman King premiered at TIFF on 9th September, leading the North American box office at $19m and gaining a brilliant 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Featuring a thrilling performance from Oscar winner Viola Davis, this epic tale brings to life the true story of the Agojie, the all-female military regiment charged with protecting the embattled African Kingdom of Dahomey. Dylan Roth from the Observer wrote ‘It’s a well-crafted big screen event movie that stands out from this year’s pack of blockbusters for its context, if not for its content. And, frankly, that’s more than enough’. The buzz around this film is so positive, it’s definitely something to look out for on 4th October.
Across The Pond
As mentioned above, The Woman King takes first place at $19m but more importantly, it received an A+ CinemaScore, making The Woman King just the second film of the year to receive the top grade from audiences other than Top Gun: Maverick. Barbarian had a strong hold in its second weekend, declining just 40% to come in second place with $6.3 million and a cume of $20.9 million. In third place, Ti West’s X spinoff/prequel Pearl, debut with $3.12 million from 2,935 screens. Right behind it coming in fourth is another newcomer, See How They Run, which is the first theatrical release from Searchlight in 2022. The comic Agatha Christie homage opened with $3.1 million with a global cume of $7.6 million. Fifth place went to Bullet Train in its seventh weekend, dropping 24% for a gross of $2.5 million. The domestic cume is $96.4 million, with $100 million just around the corner, and the global cume is now $222 million.