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Box Office Round-up
Moana 2 made it three weekends in the top spot as it added £3.6m, down 48% from last weekend. That takes its total to £26.5m and in less than three weeks in cinemas it is already the eighth highest grossing film of the year, and it’s likely to climb a few more places before the year is done. The initial Film Monitor data suggests that Moana 2 has already delivered 10 16-34 adult TVRs to date.
Wicked continued its terrific run, falling 35% to £3.5m. That takes its total after four weekends in cinemas to a huge £43.6m, making it the fourth biggest film of the year-to-date, and with the Christmas holidays on the horizon, there’s much more to come. In terms of stage-to-screen musicals, the pinnacle is Mamma Mia, which finished its run with £69m, and the sequel Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again finished with £65.6m. Wicked will probably fall short of those totals but not by too much. The initial Film Monitor data suggests that Wicked has already delivered 11 16-34 adult TVRs to date.
Gladiator II added £918k in third, a drop of 44% from last weekend. After five weekends in cinemas, Gladiator II is up to £28.3m, making it the seventh biggest film of 2024 to date. The target is still the £31.3m the first Gladiator finished its run with in 2000 and with the Christmas holidays ahead, it’s going to get there. The initial Film Monitor data suggests that Gladiator II has delivered 7 16-34 adult TVRs.
On its fifth weekend Paddington In Peru posted a solid hold, falling 33% to £822k. That takes its total to £30.2m, which makes it’s the sixth biggest film of 2024 to date. It’s now less than £8m behind the final total of the first Paddington (£38.1m). The initial Film Monitor data suggests that Gladiator II has delivered 7 16-34 adult TVRs.
Rounding out the top five is Kraven The Hunter, the highest new entry this weekend, opening in fourth with £689k. It’s been a disappointing year for Sony’s Marvel films, after February’s Madame Web could only gross £4.3m across its entire run, and Kraven’s opening is even lower than the £1.3m Friday to Sunday total that film opened with. While films can really make hay during the Christmas holiday season, it doesn’t look like Kraven The Hunter is going to get enough screens to do so.
Outside of the top five, Conclave is now over £4m in sixth after adding £555k across the weekend.
There were two more new entries in the top 10, as Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim opened in seventh with a disappointing £484k. Obviously, comparing it to the Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit films is not fair, as the lowest performing of the six films grossed £41.3m at the UK & Ireland box office, but the most notable anime film of the last year, The Boy And The Heron grossed £5.2m, which looks to be a total out of The War Of The Rohirrim’s grasp.
Luca Guadagnino’s second film of 2024 Queer opened with £293k, which includes £100k from previews. Guadagnino’s first film of 2024 was Challengers, which opened with £1.5m in April, but Queer is a much more art-house proposition and continues MUBI’s strong year.
Next Weekend
Mufasa: The Lion King is a follow-up to one of the biggest films of all-time. Mufasa, a cub lost and alone, meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of a group of misfits searching for their destiny. Oscar-winning filmmaker, Barry Jenkins, directs.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is the third film featuring the hugely popular video game character. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance. It’s in cinemas from Saturday.
Better Man is a biopic of pop-star Robbie Williams from The Greatest Showman director, Michael Gracey, and Robbie Williams is portrayed as a chimpanzee throughout the film. Yes, it’s bonkers, but it’s also brilliant. It’s in cinemas on Boxing Day.
The Buzz
28 Years Later is the third film in the British post-apocalyptic series and the first since 28 Days Later to be directed by Danny Boyle. It's been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped from a biological weapons laboratory. Still living in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amid the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway. When one of them decides to venture into the dark heart of the mainland, he soon discovers a mutation that has spread to not only the infected, but other survivors as well. Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson head up the powerful cast. It’s one of the best films for ABC1 men, and 16-34s in summer 2024.
Across The Pond
Moana 2 held on to the top spot adding $26.6m, down 48% from last weekend, for a huge new total of $337.5m. Wicked stayed in second adding $22.5m, down 38% from last weekend, for a new total of $359m. Kraven The Hunter opened in third with $11m, while Gladiator II added $7.8m in fourth, which takes its total to $145.9m. The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim rounded out the top five, opening with $4.6m.