Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ opens top at UK-Ireland box office

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Disney’s Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown opened to £2.6m this weekend throughout the UK-Eire, touchdown within the high spot.

With simply shy of 700 websites reporting, and some nonetheless to report, the movie has a location common of £3,714.

Timothee Chalamet performs the American Blowin’ In The Wind singer from his early days as an unknown musician in 1961 New York. James Mangold directs the Searchlight title, with Elle Fanning and Edward Norton additionally within the solid.

Music biopics proved a success on the field workplace final yr. A Full Unknown has opened very barely behind Studiocanal’s Amy Winehouse movie Again To Black, which launched to £2.7m in April of 2024, and hasn’t fairly matched Paramount’s Bob Marley: One Love, which opened to £4.2m final February. A Full Unknown opened forward of Leisure Movie Distributors Robbie Williams movie Higher Man, which kickstarted with £1.3m on the very finish of 2024.

Now on its fifth weekend, Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King dropped 26% on its earlier weekend’s takings, however nonetheless roared up £1.6m, for a complete of £26.1m.

Paramount’s dwell action-animation household journey Sonic The Hedgehog 3’s reputation rumbles on with £1.1m (full determine: £1,080,662) in its fourth weekend, now totalling £22.3m. This places it simply forward of Common gothic horror Nosferatu which added £1.1m (full determine: £1,075,780) on weekend three, boosting its whole to £10.9m.

Studiocanal’s romance starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, We Dwell In Time, grossed £860,881 in its third session, for a robust £6.8m whole so-far.

Leisure Movie Distributors’ erotic thriller Babygirl, starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, took in £742,030 in its second weekend on launch, for a working whole of £2.6m. 

In the meantime, fellow Common horror Wolf Man’s first weekend unleashed in cinemas introduced in £654,276 from 518 spots, for a location common of £1,263. Christopher Abbot and Julia Garner star within the horror revamp, directed by Leigh Whannell and produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse. It hasn’t matched the opening weekend of Whannell and Blum’s earlier artistic partnership, The Invisible Man, which debuted to £2.2m from 582 areas in 2020.

Disney’s Moana 2 swept up £589,364 in its eighth weekend, down 31% on its seventh, for a cumulative determine of £40.1m.

Depraved’s ninth weekend conjured up £542,407 for Common, a drop of 39% on the earlier session. The musical now boasts a UK-Eire whole of £59.6m. It has overtaken Inside Out 2, the highest-grossing 2024 launch, which took £59.2m.

Disney’s A Actual Ache, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, added £435,919 on weekend two, a drop of 38% on its debut. The comedy’s whole is £1.8m. 

Leisure Movie Distributors’ Robbie Williams biopic Higher Man topped up its field workplace takings by £406,673 in its fourth weekend, for a cumulative determine of £5.8m. 

Pablo Larrain’s Maria, headlined by Angelina Jolie, drummed up £215,879 within the biographical drama’s second weekend for Studiocanal, now totalling £1.1m.

Paddington In Peru’s eleventh weekend on launch for Studiocanal guzzled up £206,402, for a complete to-date of £35.6m.

Conclave’s eighth weekend noticed a 22% drop for Black Bear, bringing in £173,000, boosting the papal thriller’s cumulative determine over the £7m mark.

Trafalgar Releasing’s occasion title, opera Offenbach’s The Tales Of Hoffmann, introduced in £35,298 from re-plays at 103 venues within the UK solely throughout the weekend, for a website common of £343, after displaying as-live on Wednesday (January 15). Together with pre-weekend showings, the title has grossed £160,912. 

Paramount’s Gladiator II added £61,000 in its tenth weekend, now on £31.8m. 



Dreamz Leisure’s Telugu-language Sankranthiki Vasthunam, from Indian filmmaker Anil Ravipudi, introduced int £58,057 from 20 areas in its debut weekend, for a powerful location common of £2,903. The motion comedy opened in cinemas on Tuesday (January 14), with an general determine of £195,057. 

Robert Zemeckis’s 100-year research of lives in a single place in Pennsylvania, Right here, opened to £44,324 for Curzon from 130 cinemas, for a £341 website common. Together with previews, the overall is £52,737. Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star.


Curzon’s drama Nickel Boys added £23,593 in its third weekend, for a complete of £291,942.

Household animation Panda Bear In Africa opened to £23,039 from 292 websites for Miracle/Dazzler, for a location common of £79. A panda travels from China to Africa to avoid wasting his kidnapped finest buddy, a dragon, with Richard Claus and Karsten Kiilerich directing.

AA Movies UK grossed £20,856 from 57 areas for Abhishek Kapoor’s Azaad. The Hindi-language movie is about in Twenties India, the place a younger steady boy bonds with a horse.

Fashionable Movies introduced in £19,079 for Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio from 30 websites. The movie is Italy’s entry to the worldwide Oscar class and debuted on the Venice Movie Competition final September. The Second World Conflict title’s location common is £636. With previews, its whole to-date is £32,854.

Cinema Dwell had 4 replays of occasion cinema title Tomorrow X Collectively: Hyperfocus In Cinemas  on Saturday, grossing £1,065, to a website common of £266. The Ok-Pop live performance confirmed as-live on Thursday (January 16), and together with the pre-weekend screenings, it’s whole is £7,052. 

Trinity Movie/Cine Asia’s Chinese language motion comedy Panda Plan, wherein Jackie Chan performs himself in a rescue operation of a beloved zoo panda, with Luan Zhang directing, grossed £1,737 from 25 websites, for a location common of £69.49, with just a few websites nonetheless to report. 

Additionally new in UK-Eire cinemas this weekend: William Inform and Emmanuelle for Altitude; and Emergency for Zee Studios.