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Box Office Round-up
On another strong weekend for the box office, Despicable Me 4 stayed in the top spot adding £4.9m, down 45% from last weekend, which is a pretty good hold considering the sunny weather. After 10 days in cinemas, the Illumination blockbuster is up to £17.4m and with the school holidays starting this week, there’s so much more to come. Every single Despicable Me sequel and Minions spin-off to date has grossed between £47m and £48m at the UK & Ireland box office, so that has to be the target for Despicable Me 4.
Twisters was this weekend’s biggest new film, opening with £4.1m, which includes £1m from previews after opening on Wednesday. This is a similar start to Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes from early-May, which delivered a Friday to Sunday total of £3.2m and is very close to finishing its run, currently on £15.7m. We haven’t had many disaster movies in cinemas in recent years, they had fallen out of favour. The last one from recent memory is Moonfall, which was in cinemas in early 2022 and finished its run with £2.1m.
Inside Out 2 came in third, adding £1.5m on its sixth weekend. The Pixar blockbuster took a bit of a tumble last weekend with the arrival of Despicable Me 4, but is back to strong holds, falling just 31% from last weekend. That takes its total to £47.2m and only Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4, and Incredibles 2 have been bigger from Pixar. Incredibles 2 at £56.2m might be assailable too.
The year’s big horror breakout continues to surprise. Longlegs added £1.3m, a drop of just 5% from last weekend. After two weekends in cinemas its up to £4m, and in the next day or so will become distributor Black Bear’s biggest film ever, overtaking Ferrari, which finished with £4.2m. With legs like those displayed this weekend it looks likely to finish well in front of Ferrari too.
A Quiet Place: Day One rounded out the top five, adding £448k, a drop of 48% from last weekend. After four weekends in cinemas the sci-fi prequel is up to £9m, and it still has a shot of joining the previous two A Quiet Place films at over £10m.
Outside of the top five, Bad Newz is the latest South Asian release to crack the top 10, landing in seventh with £165k. blur: To The End is a documentary about the popular British band and their triumphant return last year. It opened in eighth with £148k, which includes £7k from previews.
Next Weekend
Deadpool & Wolverine is the third film in the hugely popular comic book series. Set six years after the events of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson lives a quiet life, having left his time as the mercenary Deadpool behind him, until the Time Variance Authority (TVA) - a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline - pulls him into a new mission. With his home universe facing an existential threat, Wilson reluctantly joins an even more reluctant Wolverine on a mission that will change the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s in cinemas from Thursday and should be one of the biggest films of the year.
The Buzz
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the feverishly anticipated sequel to the 1988 Tim Burton classic. Michael Keaton returns as the iconic title character, along with Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, while Tim Burton returns in the director’s chair. After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife. Jenna Ortega, who plays Wednesday in Netflix’s hugely popular series of the same name, plays Astrid. The original is one of Burton’s most beloved films and this sequel should continue the strong performance of cinema into September and beyond. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is forecast to deliver 7 16-34 men TVRs.
Across The Pond
Twisters is so far a much bigger draw in North America, opening in the top spot with a terrific $82m, which is more than Oppenheimer opened with on the same weekend last year, and continues a great run for the US box office. Despicable Me 4 fell to second, adding $23.8m, which is down a healthy 45% from last weekend. That takes its total to $259.5m. Inside Out 2 fell to third, adding $12.8m for a huge new total of $596.4m. Longlegs continued its great run, adding $11.7m, which takes its total to $44.7m. A Quiet Place: Day One rounded out the top five, adding $6.1m for a new total of $127.6m.