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Box Office Round-up
This weekend saw a massive uplift in box office figures, most likely due to the success of National Cinema Day which occurred on Saturday 3rd September.
The top spot goes to Minions: The Rise of Gru which saw a 84% increase compared to last weekend, adding another £1m onto its total of £44.1m. It’s consistency in delivery can give us hope it will stay at least in the top 5 for the year, but we do have Avatar & Black Panther to look forward to which will most likely take the reins.
Following a trend of uplift in family films, DC League of Super-Pets has seen a 68% increase with another £1m driving its cume of £14m. Last weekend saw a 26% drop so it’s great to see this weekend recovered. Again, it’s comparative (The Secret Life of Pets 2) had quite a slow burn-rate so hopefully we can see a similar trend for the super-pets!
Top Gun: Maverick is still flying high in 3rd place, seeing a 9% increase this weekend contributing to its total of £81.6m. These weekly figures are really positive considering its already week 15, so I suspect we can see it running for another few more. Previous top performing films across 2019 & 2022 have seen an average film run for around 13 weeks, so it’s really great to see figures like these exceed any previous data.
Bullet Train saw a 7% decline, grossing at £554k contributing to its total of £9.2m. Although this is a drop, we can hopefully see it reach £10m by a couple of weeks’ time, if not next week!
Spider-Man: No Way Home - The More Fun Stuff Version came out last week, with figures contributing to the existing 2021 film, giving it a cume of £96.9m.
Nope saw a 21% drop, grossing at £455k this weekend. Totalling at £6.9m, we can hopefully see Nope reach the same figures as Us (2019) before it drops off. Elvis surprisingly grossed at £387k contributing to its £26.6m total. Perhaps this was predominantly due to the help of National Cinema Day, since last weeks figures were not something to sing about. Unfortunately, Beast saw a 37% drop this weekend, totalling at £1.46m.
None of the new releases this week made it into the top 9 films, with Three Thousand Years of Longing coming in at 10th with £307k, followed by Fall in 13th place with £220k and The Forgiven at 15th with £182k. Perhaps this might just be an off week for these new releases, so hopefully we can see some better figures despite the mixed reviews:
Overall, the box office was 8% up from last weekend but 28% down from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
See How They Run - In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after the film's Hollywood director is murdered.
Bodies Bodies Bodies - When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game goes awry in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
Crimes of the Future - With his partner Caprice (Lea Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.
The Buzz
Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale premiered at Venice Film Festival, which follows the story of a reclusive English teacher (Brendan Fraser) living with severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter (Sadie Sink) for one last chance at redemption. Brendan Fraser received an emotional 6-minute standing ovation for his performance, and critics are all agreeing how much of an awards contender this film will be. There is currently no UK release date or trailer yet, but this is definitely something to look out for!
Across The Pond
Based on the estimates, Spider-Man: No Way Home has swung into first place for the seventh time as it gets a re-release with 11 new minutes of footage. It grossed at $6 million for the three-day and $7.6 million for the four-day from 3,935 theaters, a wider release than any other film this weekend.
The other post-pandemic box office phenomenon Top Gun: Maverick flew into second place, taking home $5.5 million for the three-day (up 16.5% from last weekend) and $7 million for the four-day in its 15th weekend. The estimates put the film’s cume at $700.34 million through Monday.
Being one of the only family films around is working in DC League of Super-Pets’ favour as it went from sixth place last weekend to third place over Labor Day weekend. This film is now totalling at $82.3 million after its sixth weekend.
Bullet Train fell from second to fourth place but held nicely with a drop of just 3.7%, bringing in $5.4 million in its fifth weekend and $6.8 million over the long weekend. The Brad Pitt-starrer now has a cume of $87.4 million domestic and $197 worldwide, more than double its $90 million budget.