| Rank | Movie (origin) | Distributor | Jan 31-Feb 2 gross | Complete | Week |
| 1 | A Full Unknown (US) | Disney | £1.2m | £8.3m | 3 |
| 2 | Mufasa: The Lion King (US) | Disney | £1.1m | £29.3m | 7 |
| 3 | Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (US) | Paramount | £708,000 | £24.1m | 6 |
| 4 | Companion (US) | Warner Bros | £670,512 | £737,840 | 1 |
| 5 | The Brutalist (US-UK) | Common | £607,434 | £1.8m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion charge: 1.23
Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown topped the UK-Eire field workplace for a formidable third weekend for Disney; as Warner Bros’ Companion led the brand new titles with a fourth-place opening.
James Mangold’s A Full Unknown fell 28% with £1.2m taking it to £8.3m whole, now prone to overtake the £10.4m of Mangold’s 2006 Johnny Money biopic Stroll The Line earlier than the top of its run.
It was a Disney one-two for a 3rd consecutive weekend, with Mufasa: The Lion King falling simply 20% on its seventh session with £1.1m. It’s now as much as £29.3m, overtaking 2001’s Shrek (£29m) and 2018’s The Grinch (£28.2m), with A Bug’s Life, Sing and Ice Age II all inside its grasp through the subsequent week.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 held on to 3rd spot on its sixth weekend in cinemas for Paramount. The pc recreation adaptation franchise title placed on £708,000 – a fall of simply 18.8% – and is as much as £24.1m, with the £27m of 2022’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2 nonetheless nearly in attain.
Warner Bros sci-fi thriller Companion was this weekend’s highest opening title, beginning with £670,512 from 561 cinemas at a £1,195 location common. The movie follows a sequence of occasions set off by the loss of life of a billionaire, when a younger lady and her pals go to his lakeside property. It’s as much as £737,840 together with previews.
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist posted a wonderful maintain on its second weekend, falling simply 14% with £607,434. Common deftly managed the movie’s growth from 170 to 308 places, and has now introduced it to £1.8m – topping the £1.7m lifetime of Triangle Of Unhappiness, and forward of The Holdovers, Phantom Thread, Tar, The Zone Of Curiosity and Anatomy Of A Fall on the similar stage.
Regardless of the respectable maintain from The Brutalist, takings for the highest 5 titles fell 19.9% on final weekend to £4.3m – the fifth consecutive weekend of decline this yr. Maybe of higher concern for exhibitors is the figures are down 42.7% on the equal weekend from final yr; Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy on February 13 can’t come quickly sufficient.
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A Sunday-only launch of Les Misérables: The Staged Live performance by CinemaLive took a powerful £550,670, from 370 websites at a £1,488 common. The hit musical has enduring cinema potential, with the 2013 movie taking £40.9m and a 2019 launch of The Staged Live performance making £3.3m.
Lionsgate’s motion title Flight Threat added £451,241 on its second weekend – a 44.3% drop – and is as much as £1.7m.
Moana 2 added £408,855 on its 10th session for Disney – a 21.8% drop that introduced it to £41.2m. It has now overtaken 2018’s Peter Rabbit (£41.2m) and will catch Paddington 2 (£42.6m) earlier than the top of its run.
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu scared up one other £312,361 on its fifth weekend – a 42% drop that introduced it to £12.5m for Common. Already the distributor’s highest-grossing horror within the territory, it can overtake the totals of fellow style titles The Closing Vacation spot (£12.8m) and Alien: Covenant (£12.9m) earlier than the top of its run.
Trinty Movie/CineAsia’s Detective Chinatown 1900 began with £301,052 together with previews.
Romance We Stay In Time leads Studiocanal’s slate, including £300,829 on its fifth weekend – a 36.8% drop that introduced it to a formidable £8.3m. It’s nonetheless enjoying in enough cinemas to benefit from Valentine’s Day audiences within the subsequent fortnight.
Babygirl starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson added £276,561 on its fourth weekend for Leisure Movie Distributors – a 39% drop that introduced it to £4m.
Depraved fell simply 28% on its 11th weekend in cinemas for Common, including £258,653 to hit an enormous £60.5m whole because the highest-grossing 2024 cinema launch. It’s presently the 27th -highest-grossing UK-Eire launch of all time, and will overtake Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (£61.1m) earlier than it closes out.
Mike Leigh’s Exhausting Truths starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste opened to £237,367 from 260 cinemas at a £913 location common, and has £327,633 together with previews for Studiocanal. It’s barely behind the £285,674 three-day opening of Leigh’s earlier movie Peterloo from 2018.
With writer-director Jesse Eisenberg on the awards path this weekend, A Actual Ache added £203,009 on its fourth session for Disney – a 28.6% drop – and is as much as £2.8m for Disney.
Robbie Williams biopic Higher Man swung by a sixth weekend for Leisure Movie Distributors, with £172,409 taking it to £6.6m. It has now taken greater than 5 occasions its £1.3m opening weekend, signifying good word-of-mouth from audiences.
Paddington In Peru added £160,089 on its 13th weekend in cinemas for Studiocanal, and has crossed £36m.
Conclave fell simply 12% on its tenth weekend in cinemas for Black Bear, with £144,000 bringing the movie to a powerful £7.8m whole – the distributor’s second-highest-grossing launch behind Longlegs (£8.1m).
Steven Soderbergh’s horror-thriller Presence added £118,498 on its second weekend for Warner Bros, falling 59.4%. The primary-person perspective characteristic has £691,754 in whole.
Jason Reitman’s Saturday Evening Stay origin story Saturday Evening began with £69,009 from 265 websites, at a low location common of £260 for Sony. The movie has £113,672 together with previews.
Studiocanal’s Maria starring Angelina Jolie added £60,124 on its fourth weekend. The Maria Callas biopic is as much as £1.6m.
Horror Wolf Man fell 74% on its third weekend for Common, including £40,376 to hit a £1.2m whole.
Naoko Yamada’s Japanese animation The Colours Inside opened to £26,362 together with previews for Anime Ltd.
Daybreak Porter’s music documentary Luther: By no means Too A lot introduced in £20,622 on the weekend for Sony, and has £187,540 in whole following an occasion launch on Thursday, January 30.
The second weekend of Indian motion title Sky Drive added £19,445 for Moviegoers Leisure, with the movie as much as £113,440.
Gladiator II is closing out for Paramount, including £18,000 on its 12th session in cinemas for a complete simply shy of £32m.
Animation Panda Bear In Africa added £11,753 on its third weekend for Miracle Comms, and has £58,007 in whole.
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A re-release of Billy Wilder’s romantic comedy traditional The Condo introduced in £2,957 for Park Circus.
A restricted launch of wine store romantic comedy The Tasting took £151 on the weekend for Parkland Movie Capital, with £2,290 together with previews and a wider rollout across the nation within the coming weeks.