Wealthy Peppiatt’s Kneecap has crossed £2m on the UK-Eire field workplace, as of Thursday, September 26, in a powerful end result for distributors Wildcard and Curzon.
The movie has made virtually £1.2m throughout seven weeks of launch in Eire and Northern Eire, by Wildcard Distribution.
Curzon Movie is distributing the title in England, Scotland and Wales, the place it has been on launch for 5 weeks and made £806,851.
The movie has significantly flourished at main UK-Eire unbiased venues, with Glasgow Movie Theatre, Dublin’s Gentle Home, Watershed Bristol and London’s Curzon Soho making up the highest 4 so as.
A Sundance 2024 premiere, Kneecap is a comedy-drama depicting the rise of the eponymous real-life Belfast hip-hop trio. In August the Irish- and English-language title was chosen because the Irish entry for one of the best worldwide function on the 2025 Oscars; whereas its in depth competition run has taken in SXSW, Sydney, Karlovy Differ and Sundance Movie Pageant: London.
“The movie has struck a chord with audiences throughout the UK and Eire, who’ve embraced its riotous enjoyable and clever social commentary,” stated Curzon Movie managing director Louisa Dent.
“It has performed so properly throughout Eire, with Irish audiences warmly embracing the movie, making it one of many largest Irish movies in recent times,” stated Wildcard Distribution managing director Patrick O’Neill.
It has outstripped Colm Bairead’s Oscar-nominated drama The Quiet Lady, which grew to become the primary Irish-language movie to gross €1m on the UK-Eire field workplace in 2022.
