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Box Office Round-up
Venom: The Last Dance opened in the top spot with £4.3m, the eighth biggest opening of 2024. The first Venom finished its run with just over £20m in 2018, while Venom: Let There Be Carnage finished its run with £18.1m in 2021, so that’s the target for Venom: The Last Dance. But with the huge blockbusters on the horizon (Paddington In Peru, Gladiator II, Wicked), it may fall short.
The Wild Robot is set to be the biggest animation across half-term and added £1.9m over the weekend, which is down 37% from last weekend. It has now achieved a total of £6.4m. Migration opened similarly ahead of February half-term this year with £3.6m, and finished its run with over £21m, but with Paddington In Peru just under two weeks away, The Wild Robot will probably have to settle for a total closer to £15m.
Horror sequel Smile 2 posted a decent hold for a horror title, falling 40% to £1m. That takes its total after 11 days in cinemas to just over £4m. While it’s going to fall short of the first film’s final total (£11.7m), it should have a strong week with Halloween falling on Thursday.
Transformers One stayed in fourth adding £378k, which takes its total to £3.4m. Whilst it should have a solid half-term period this week, it looks like it won’t be able to reach the final total of the previous Transformers film, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, which finished on £8.2m.
The US election takes place next week and Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice has been timed to take advantage of the talk around the election. After a strong opening last week, it added £373k, a drop of 42% from last weekend, which takes its total to £1.6m.
Outside of the top five, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is now up to £25.3m, which makes it Tim Burton’s third biggest film of all-time, having overtaken Dumbo (£25.1m).
Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language film The Room Next Door opened in eighth with £239k. Almodovar’s last film in cinemas, Parallel Mothers, opened with £247k in January 2022 and finished its run with £1.3m, so that’s a good target for The Room Next Door.
The Substance keeps going and is now distributor MUBI’s biggest film of all-time having reached £3.5m, overtaking Priscilla (£3.3m).
Next Weekend
Anora is the Palme d’Or winning film from Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Red Rocket, Tangerine). Anora (Mikey Madison), a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Blitz is the latest film from Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Widows). It follows the stories of a group of Londoners during the events of the British capital bombing in World War II. Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson and Paul Weller star.
Small Things Like This is based on Claire Keegan’s novel. In 1985 devoted father Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his own.
Juror #2 is the latest film from 94-year-old Clint Eastwood. Family man Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), while serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma... one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the wrong killer.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is a documentary about the Superman star. Reeve's rise to becoming a film star follows with a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After the accident, he became an activist for spinal cord injury treatments and disability rights.
The Buzz
Conclave is a thriller set in the Vatican, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and Isabella Rossellini. When Cardinal Lawrence (Fiennes) is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church. It’s in cinemas on 29 November and everything is pointing to it being a big hit with audiences. It played at the London Film Festival a couple of weeks ago and was rapturously received by many members of the DCM team, and it’s been similarly received by critics too, with The AV Club calling it a ‘deeply intellectual, and unexpectedly fun political thriller’. It has opened strongly in the US, grossing $6.5m on limited release this past weekend. With Fiennes, Tucci and the film being major Oscar contenders, it bodes very well for its release here in late-November.
Across The Pond
Venom: The Last Dance topped the box office in North America too, opening with $51m. Smile 2 fell to second, adding $9.4m, a drop of 59% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to $40.7m. The Wild Robot added $6.5m in third, which takes its total to $111.4m. Conclave opened in fourth with $6.5m from half the number of screens The Wild Robot was on. This bodes well for the rest of its run. We Live In Time rounded out the top five, adding $4.8m for a new total of $11.8m.