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Box Office Round-up
In April, The Lost City suggested that the big screen romantic comedy is back and this weekend Ticket To Paradise confirmed it, opening in the top spot with £2.8m, shading out Don’t Worry Darling by less than £34k. Ticket To Paradise’s opening was boosted by £1.1m of previews though after opening on Tuesday. The Lost City opened with £2.7m, including £1m from previews, so a remarkably similar total. That film finished on £10.7m after a series of strong holds, so fingers crossed Ticket To Paradise does the same.
Don’t Worry Darling delivered the best Friday to Sunday total of the weekend but was relegated to second spot by Ticket To Paradise’s previews. The glossy mystery opened with an impressive £2.8m, and a good recent comparative would be July’s glossy mystery Where The Crawdads Sing, which opened with £1.3m. Don’t Worry Darling has more than doubled that but Where The Crawdads Sing held up well week-to-week and is currently on £8.1m. With competition from The Woman King amongst others over the next few weeks, we’re not expecting Don’t Worry Darling to hold up as well as that but £10m looks eminently achievable.
Ahead of the release of the highly anticipated Avatar: The Way Of Water in December, the original Avatar is back in cinemas for just two weeks and banked £1.2m across the weekend. 84% of the box office was from 3D presentations. This total is the best for a re-release this year, easily topping Spider-Man: No Way Home’s recent re-release, and the recent re-releases of E.T. and Jaws. Comscore are treating this release as separate from the original Avatar release, so it has grossed £1.2m to date. The original Avatar release grossed £94m which at the time set a new record.
After topping the box office for the last two weekends, See How They Run fell to fourth, adding £473k for a new total of £3.7m. David Bowie documentary, Moonage Daydream expanded to more screens this weekend and saw its weekend total increase from last week by 107% to £376k. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £676k.
Outside of the top five, DC League Of Super-Pets crossed the £15m mark over the weekend and is now up to £15.2m, while Top Gun: Maverick crossed the £83m mark in 10th and is now the eighth biggest film in UK & Ireland history. Remarkable!
The box office was up 124% from last weekend and up 72% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
Smile is a creepy new horror that’s in cinemas on Wednesday. After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris is an adaptation of Paul Gallico’s novel. A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. Leslie Manville and Isabelle Huppert lead the classy cast.
Flux Gourmet is the latest film from British auteur Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke Of Burgundy). Set at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders. The cast includes Gwendoline Christie and Asa Butterfield.
The Buzz
Barbarian is the latest breakout horror in the US. Georgina Campbell stars as a woman staying at an Airbnb who discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems. Although when the host is Bill Skarsgård (Pennywise in IT Chapter One & Two) you have to be the tiniest bit suspicious. To date it has banked $28.4m and is one of the best reviewed horror films in ages, with a score of 79 on Metacritic. It’s in cinemas on 28 October and is set to be the horror film for 16-34s to see over Halloween.
Across The Pond
Don’t Worry Darling opened top in North America with $19.2m, which is just above the $19m The Woman King opened with last weekend. That film fell to second, but posted a great hold, dropping 42% to $11.1m, which takes its total to $36.3m. Third place was taken by the re-release of Avatar. It added $10m, the highest grossing of this year’s re-releases. 93% of the audience saw it in 3D. Barbarian posted another great hold, falling just 26% to $4.8m, which takes its total to $28.4m. Pearl rounded out the top five, falling 39% to $1.9m for a new total of $6.7m.