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Box Office Round Up
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse had a terrific opening weekend at the UK box office with £9.2m. This is the third biggest opening weekend of 2023 so far, behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie (£15.7m) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (£12.1m). Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, the first film of the Spider-Verse trilogy, opened with £2.3m, so Across the Spider-Verse has already seen a hugely significant uplift on this.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid fell to second place, adding another £4.2m to take its total to 16.2m. The film held up incredibly well with a drop of just 15%, so here’s hoping for a steady run (or swim) for Halle Bailey’s Ariel.
Fast X took the number three spot, with a larger week in week drop of 53%. The tenth instalment of the Fast and Furious franchise still took in a good £1.1m, now at a total of £13.3m after three weeks in theatres.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 took fourth place at the UK box office. Friday to Sunday saw a drop of 38% and another £1m added to it’s £34.6m total. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has now just passed the final total of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which finished its run with £34.4m last year, another win for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Rounding up the top five was new supernatural horror film The Boogeyman which opened with £500k. Adapted from the Stephen King short story and directed by Rob Savage (Dashcam, Host), the film was originally planned to be straight-to-streaming, but following positive test-screenings, plans changed for a deserved theatrical release.
Outside the top five, The Super Mario Bros. Movie took another £217k in fifth place, it’s now £53.2m total steadily closing in on Frozen II’s final total of £53.8m. Two event cinema titles took seventh and eighth place: BTS member Suga’s concert SUGA - Agust D TOUR 'D-DAY' In JAPAN with £120k and the Met Opera’s Die Zauberflote with £105k. Tina Satter’s Reality, a film about the FBI's interrogation of US intelligence leaker opened with £62k in ninth, and at ten was Indian Hindi-language film Zara Hatke Zara Bachke, which opened with £57k.
Next Weekend
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts introduces a whole new breed of Transformer - the Maximals - to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons. The film also features a star-studded voice cast, including Michelle Yeoh and Peter Dinklage.
Chevalier tells the story of the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer.
Across The Pond
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse achieved Sony’s biggest animated opening of all time, with $120.5m in North America. It was also the second-biggest opening weekend of the year, behind only The Super Mario Bros. Movie which opened with $146m. Disney’s The Little Mermaid fell to second place, adding $40.6m from Friday to Sunday, a 57% decline from it’s opening weekend. The Boogeyman opened in third place with $12.3, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 took fourth place with $10.2m, and Fast X rounded off the top five, adding another $9.2m.