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Box Office Round-up
The Little Mermaid made a splash this weekend rising to the top of the box office with a £5m opening weekend. It then added a further £1.9m on Monday (its biggest day yet) for a four-day total of £6.9m. Aladdin opened on exactly the same weekend in May 2019 and over the four-day weekend grossed £8.3m, so The Little Mermaid isn’t too far behind. In 2019 Aladdin finished on £37.3m and Dumbo finished on £25.1m. It looks like The Little Mermaid may finish between the two. Fin.
Fast X fell to second, adding £2.3m from Friday to Sunday, a drop of 62% from last weekend. The noisy blockbuster then added £681k on Monday for an 11-day total of £10.9m. Fast 9 finished its run with £16.5m, so Fast X currently looks like it’s going to finish with a very similar total. It should have a good midweek with the schools off this week.
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 fell to third but still held up well. The MCU blockbuster added £1.6m from Friday to Sunday, a drop of 43% from last weekend. It then added £631k on Monday for a new total of £32.3m. In terms of recent Marvel films it’s now just over £2m behind the final total of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which finished its run with £34.4m. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 looks like it will have the legs to get past that figure.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie fell to fourth on its seventh weekend adding £291k from Friday to Sunday, a drop of 46% from last weekend. It then added another £154k on Monday which takes its total to a huge £52.4m and in terms of the biggest animated films, it’s now £1.4m behind Frozen II, the fourth biggest animated film of all-time, with a final total of £53.8m.
Rounding out the top five is Ben Affleck thriller Hypnotic, which opening with £217k for the weekend (which includes £29k from previews). It then added £51k on Monday for a four-day total of £268k. Affleck’s last film in cinemas was Air, which opened in April. Air to date has grossed £4.8m, and Hypnotic looks like it will finish around £0.8m.
Outside the top five, Finnish action-thriller Sisu opened with £164k across the four days and including previews is up to £181k. Two event cinema titles opened eighth and ninth this week as South Korean band TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT) live concert grossed £67k, while the Royal Opera House’s performance of Sleeping Beauty grossed £64k.
Next Weekend
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse is a sequel to one of the most beloved animated films of the 21st century. Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero. Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld and Oscar Isaac are in the voice cast and it’s in cinemas from Thursday.
The Boogeyman is an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story. High school student Sadie Harper and her little sister Sawyer are still reeling from the recent death of their mother. Devastated by his own pain, their father Will, a therapist by profession, gives them neither the support nor the affection that they try to claim from him. When a desperate patient shows up unexpectedly at their house asking for help, they bring in a terrifying entity that preys on the family and feeds on their greatest suffering.
Reality stars Sydney Sweeney as a former American intelligence specialist who was given the longest sentence for the unauthorised release of government information to the media about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections via an email operation.
The Buzz
Killers Of The Flower Moon is the latest film from living legend Martin Scorsese. Working once again with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, the film is an adaptation of David Grann’s novel about the murder of members of the Osage tribe in the United States under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. It had its world premiere last week at the Cannes Film Festival and is being talked about as one of the best films of Scorsese’s long career, receiving five stars from Time Out, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, and Total Film. It’s in cinemas on 20 October and is one of the best ways to reach an premium, upmarket audience in the run-up to Christmas.
Across The Pond
On the Memorial Day holiday weekend, The Little Mermaid opened in the top spot with an impressive $95.5m from Friday to Sunday and $117.5m including Monday. That’s just above where Aladdin opened with in 2019. Fast X fell to second, adding $23m from Friday to Sunday and a further $5.7m on Monday. To date it has banked $113.6m. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 posted another good hold, falling 38% to $20m from Friday to Sunday and including Monday has now grossed $305.6m. The Super Mario Bros. Movie added $6.3m for the three days and including Monday is now up to $560.9m. New entry The Machine completed the top five, opening with $4.9m from Friday to Sunday and is up to $6m including Monday.