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‘Bridget Jones 4’ scores huge £10.2m opening weekend at UK-Ireland box office

Rank  Movie (origin)  Distributor Feb 14-16 gross  Whole  Week
1 Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (US-Fr-UK) Common  £10.2m £12.3m 1
Captain America: Courageous New World (US) Disney  £6.4m £6.4m 1
Canine Man (US) Common  £1.9m £5.6m 2
4 Coronary heart Eyes (US) Paramount £613,000 £710,000 1
Mufasa: The Lion King  (US)                                       Disney £453,824 £30.9m 9

GBP to USD conversion charge: 1.26

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy scored an enormous £10.2m opening weekend – the most important ever for a romantic comedy on the UK-Eire field workplace.

Mad About The Boy was forward of the £7.1m begin of Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Cause, the second movie within the collection from 2004; and of the £8.1m of third title Bridget Jones’s Child from 2016.

Mad About The Boy took 45% of all field workplace on Saturday, February 15, making £3.7m on that day alone; and delivered the largest-ever three-day opening at Everyman Cinemas, surpassing No Time To Die.

Mad About The Boy took £14,018-per-cinema from 731 venues; and has £12.3m together with previews. It’s the largest begin ever for a Working Title Movies movie within the territory.

The movie will turn out to be the highest-grossing 2025 launch inside the subsequent week, and can have the £48.3m of Child in its sights to turn out to be the highest-grossing movie within the Common franchise.

It noticed off the problem of Disney’s Captain America: Courageous New World – though with that title opening to £6.4m, the UK-Eire field workplace was capable of bear two hefty begins on the identical weekend for the primary time since Barbenheimer in July 2023.

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Courageous New World started in 616 websites at a £10,397 cinema common – forward of the openings of 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier (£6m) and 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger (£3.3m), however behind the £14.4m of 2016’s Captain America: Civil Battle

Common animation Canine Man, primary from the weekend earlier than, moved to 3rd with a 43% drop. The movie added £1.9m on its second session for a £5.6m cume

Paramount opened Josh Ruben’s horror comedy Coronary heart Eyes to £613,000 on the weekend. Taking part in in 401 websites, it took a £1,529 common – a good efficiency given the dominance of Bridget Jones. The movie has £710,000 together with previews.

Mufasa: The Lion King dropped 35% on its ninth weekend in cinemas for Disney, with £453,824 taking it to a £30.9m whole, forward of 2012 creature characteristic Ice Age: Continental Drift (£30.4m).

Takings for the highest 5 soared 226.6% to £19.5m – the very best stage for the reason that Barbenheimer phenomenon of summer time 2023. Cinemas will search for Mad About The Boy to carry nicely, and maintain filling screens till Disney’s Snow White on March 21.

Brutalist builds excessive

Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown added £353,580 on its fifth session, and has £10.9m in whole for Disney.

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 added £237,000 on its eighth weekend for Paramount, racing to virtually £25m – not far behind the £27m of 2022’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2, the excessive watermark for the collection.

The Brutalist added £161,825 – a 65% drop – on its fourth weekend and has constructed up a near-£3m whole for Common. 4 Bafta wins together with Brady Corbet in finest director and Adrien Brody in finest actor might increase it to larger heights within the subsequent few weeks.

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Information thriller September 5 added £155,000 on its second weekend for Paramount – a hefty 70% drop – and has £1.1m in whole.

A 12th weekend for Moana 2 placed on £128,576, with the movie as much as a wholesome £41.7m for Disney.

Sci-fi thriller Companion leads Warner Bros’ slate, and added £125,979 on its third weekend for a £1.8m whole.

Paddington In Peru continues to steer Studiocanal’s slate after 15 weekends in cinemas, including £79,504 to hit a powerful £36.3m whole.

Aviation thriller Flight Threat leads Lionsgate’s slate, including £60,639 on its fourth weekend for a £2.3m whole.

Rockumentary Turning into Led Zeppelin added £56,420 on its second weekend for Sony, and is as much as £741,122 whole.

On the weekend that he hosted the Baftas, David Tennant additionally appeared in cinemas with Trafalgar Releasing’s Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo. The Shakespeare screening placed on £44,927 and has £1.9m in whole.

Adam Elliot’s stop-motion animation Memoir Of A Snail opened to £41,341 from 66 websites at a £626 common. The Australian movie has £65,454 together with previews.

Bafta finest movie winner Conclave added £40,000 on its 12th weekend in cinemas. It’s as much as £8.2m, overtaking the £8.1m of final 12 months’s Longlegs to turn out to be Black Bear’s highest-grossing UK-Eire launch – with extra to return after its Bafta success.

Household animation The Sloth Lane began with £38,167 for Vertigo Releasing, from 314 websites at a £122 web site common.

Studiocanal romance We Dwell In Time placed on £36,962 on its seventh weekend, and has a good £8.7m in whole.

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Nonetheless in cinemas after over three months, Depraved added £33,660 on its 13th weekend to hit a £60.8m whole for Common, because the highest-grossing 2024 launch.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig topped up £33,566 on its second weekend, and has £166,526 in whole for Lionsgate.

Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Laborious Truths added £27,471 on its third session, and has £760,327 in whole for Studiocanal.

Nosferatu placed on £24,449 on its seventh session for Common, and has scared up £12.9m in whole.

Chris Andrews’ Convey Them Down starring Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan added £19,070 on its second weekend for Mubi – a 76.4% drop, for a £152,057 whole.

An 80th anniversary re-release of romantic basic Temporary Encounter introduced in £17,331 for Park Circus.

The second weekend of Common motion comedy Love Hurts starring Ke Huy Quan dropped 89.3% on its second weekend, with £14,963 taking it to a flat £246,528 whole.

Musical launch Les Miserables – The Staged Live performance placed on an extra £16,821 on its third weekend, and has £1.1m in whole for CinemaLive.

Mahdi Fleifel’s crime thriller To A Land Unknown opened to £12,069 from 34 websites for Conic, at a £355 common. The Cannes Administrators Fortnight title has £28,462 together with previews.

An £8,263 sixth weekend for Maria introduced Pablo Larrain’s drama to £1.7m for Studiocanal.

Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Presence added £4,686 on its fourth weekend for Warner Bros, and has £825,587 whole.

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