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On another good weekend, the total box office reached a new high of £1.4m. With Tenet finally released on Wednesday, a number of new cinemas re-opened for the first time since lockdown in preparation for the Christopher Nolan blockbuster, with Comscore reporting that the number of sites open in the UK & Ireland is up to 503.
For the fourth weekend in succession, Russell Crowe’s Unhinged was the highest grossing film over the weekend and while it’s unlikely to make it five, the road-rage thriller added £179k, an increase of 31% from last weekend, taking its total to £962k. It’s certain to cross the £1m mark and is now the seventh highest grossing release ever for the distributor, Altitude, and looks like it will become their fourth highest by the end of its run. Oscar Best Picture winner, Moonlight, is their biggest film to date with £4.3m.
Onward is back in the top two films at the box office, increasing on last weekend’s total by 54% to £142k. It has now crossed the £6m mark and is on £6.2m. Inception: 10th Anniversary is still getting people primed for Tenet and grossed £117k this weekend, which takes its total to £432k. In its original run in cinemas in 2010 it grossed £35.8m.
100% Wolf continued to prove appealing to the family audience, adding another £106k, an increase of 25% from last weekend and it is now just shy of £500k. Family films make up half of the top 10, with Pinocchio completing the top five, adding £99k for a new total of £324k. There were no new films released this weekend, the only new entry into the top 10 is the re-release of the 1984 hit The Karate Kid, which landed in ninth.
Comscore is reporting that there were 503 cinemas open in the UK and Ireland this past weekend (up from 377 last weekend), with 443 of them in the UK (up from 326). Overall the top 15 grossed £992k, which is up 10% from last weekend.
Next Weekend
Tenet is nearly here! Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster spectacular opens everywhere on Wednesday and if you’re still not sure what it’s about, John David Washington plays The Protagonist who, armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
The New Mutants is set to preview across the bank holiday weekend (29, 30, 31 August). It’s the latest film in the X-Men series and is about five young mutants who are discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, and fight to escape their past sins and save themselves. It’s in cinemas everywhere from 4 September.