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‘Dog Man’ barks up £3.2m to top UK-Ireland box office; ‘Macbeth’, ‘September 5’ in top five

Rank  Movie (origin)  Distributor Feb 7-9 gross   Complete   Week
1 Canine Man  (US) Common  £3.2m £3.2m 1
A Full Unknown  (US)   Disney  £831,546 £10m 4
Mufasa: The Lion King  (US) Disney  £700,071 £30.3m 8
4 Macbeth: David Tennant And Cush Jumbo (UK) Trafalgar  £680,840 £1.5m 1
September 5 (Ger-US)                                           Paramount £517,000 £639,000 1

GBP to USD conversion price: 1.24

Common animation Canine Man topped the UK-Eire field workplace with a £3.2m opening weekend.

The movie, primarily based on Dav Pilkey’s youngsters’s graphic novel collection of the identical title, performed in 610 places, taking a powerful £5,347 location common.

That places Canine Man forward of animation comparisons The Smurfs 2  (a lesser £3.2m in 2013), Trolls Band Collectively (£3.1m in 2023) and Ice Age  (£3m in 2002), and shut behind Hen Little (£3.3m in 2006).

Regardless of slipping from high spot on its fourth weekend, Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown  posted maintain. The movie, starring Timothee Chalamet, fell 33% with £831,546 taking it to only shy of £10m for Disney. It’ll go the £10.4m of director James Mangold’s Johnny Money biopic Stroll The Line inside the subsequent week.

Disney CGI animation Mufasa: The Lion King added £700,071 on its eighth weekend in cinemas, a drop of 38% that took it past the £30m mark to £30.3m. Barry Jenkins’ movie has now topped animal-centric titles Life Of Pi (£30m in 2012) and King Kong  (£30.1m in 2005), and has now taken virtually seven occasions its average £4.4m opening from December 2024.

Trafalgar Releasing’s Macbeth: David Tennant And Cush Jumbo scored a wonderful £680,840 on the weekend, from 530 websites at a £1,285 location common. The play, filmed at London’s Donmar Warehouse and directed by Max Webster, took a sizeable £742,686 on its Wednesday, February 5 opening day; and has banked over £1.5m in complete already.

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Munich Olympics drama September 5  opened to £517,000 from Friday to Sunday for Paramount, from 582 websites at an £888 website common. Tim Fehlbaum’s movie, starring John Magaro, Peter Sarsgaard, Leonie Benesch and Ben Chaplin, has £639,000 together with previews.

Takings for the highest 5 titles enhance for the primary time this yr, up 37.4% to only shy of £6m; and is up 16.4% on the equal weekend from final yr. That is additional excellent news for exhibitors, after January was up 10% on the yr earlier than; and with Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy monitoring in direction of a powerful opening subsequent weekend.

Brutalist builds greater

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist posted one other good maintain on its third weekend, falling simply 23% for Common. The 214-minute 20th -century epic added £467,497 to succeed in £2.6m, overtaking the whole of awards favourites TAR (£2.5m) and Anatomy Of A Fall  (£2.1m) and more likely to chase down Phantom Thread  (£2.8m), The Zone Of Curiosity (£3.5m) and The Holdovers  (£3.9m) earlier than the top of its run.

Sonic The Hedgehog 3  added £420,000 on its seventh weekend for Paramount, and is as much as £24.6m, overtaking Zootropolis  (£24.1m from 2016) and The Superb Spider-Man 2  (£24.3m in 2014).

Warner Bros thriller Companion added £365,582 on its second weekend – a forty five.5% drop that introduced it to £1.5m complete.

Becoming Led Zeppelin

Sony opened rock documentary Turning into Led Zeppelin to £295,434 from 385 websites at a £767 location common. Together with previews, Bernard MacMahon’s movie has £417,672, already topping the totals of non-fiction music titles together with Cobain: Montage Of Heck  (£401,679 in 2015).

Moana 2 added £244,461 on its 11th weekend in cinemas for Disney, and is as much as £41.5m, overtaking the likes of Peter Rabbit  (£41.2m in 2018) and The Hobbit: The Battle Of The 5 Armies  (£41.3m in 2014).

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Lionsgate motion title Flight Danger added £213,828 on its third session, and has £2.1m in complete.

Jesse Eisenberg’s A Actual Ache was the best-performing Disney holdover of the weekend, falling simply 27% on its fifth session. The cousin drama added £148,485 to hit an honest £3.1m complete.

Motion comedy Love Hurts began with a flat £139,995 from Common, from 371 websites at a £378 common.

Babygirl dropped 51.6% on its fifth weekend for Leisure Movie Distributors, and has £4.3m in complete.

Depraved, now via a 12th weekend in cinemas, added £131,782 on its newest session for Common to hit a powerful £60.7m complete. It’s the 27th -highest-grossing movie of all time within the UK & Eire, and will overtake Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King  (£61.1m) earlier than it closes out.

Having been the highest-grossing title throughout January within the UK and Eire, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu added £125,629 on its sixth session for Common, to hit a powerful £12.8m complete.

We Dwell In Time leads Studiocanal’s slate, including £125,534 on its sixth weekend to hit a powerful £8.6m forward of the Valentine’s Day weekend audiences arriving.

Mike Leigh’s Arduous Truths dropped 52.6% on its second weekend, with £112,531 taking it to a £641,101 complete for Studiocanal.

Conclave continued a powerful cinema run for Black Bear, including £97,461 on its newest session to cross the £8m mark. It ought to now overtake 2024’s Longlegs  (£8.1m) to turn into the distributor’s highest-grossing UK-Eire launch ever.

Studiocanal’s Paddington In Peru added £97,014 on its 14th weekend in cinemas, and is as much as £36.2m – not far behind the £38m of 2014’s Paddington.

Deliver Them Down, the debut function of Display Star of Tomorrow filmmaker Chris Andrews, made £80,972 from 122 cinemas at a £664 location common on its opening for Mubi. 

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Robbie Williams biopic Higher Man added £77,028 on its seventh weekend for Leisure Movie Distributors, and has £6.8m in complete.

The second weekend of Les Miserables – The Staged Live performance  added £58,719 for CinemaLive; the musical launch has £1.1m in complete.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated The Seed of the Sacred Fig opened to £56,515 from 70 cinemas for Lionsgate, at a £807 location common. The Iranian drama has £81,644 together with previews.

A second weekend of Chinese language thriller title Detective Chinatown 1900 placed on £54,452 for Trinity/CineAsia, for a £435,971 complete thus far.

Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Presence added £37,756 on its third weekend for Warner Bros, and has £800,673 in complete.

Pablo Larrain’s Maria added £26,996 on its fifth session for Studiocanal, and has £1.7m in complete.

Polish comedy Dalej Jazda added £16,671 on its second weekend for Magnetes Photos, and is as much as £78,840.

BFI Distribution’s launch of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles took £16,007 on the weekend. The movie, which topped the newest Biggest Movies of All Time ballot of the BFI’s Sight And Sound journal, has £23,952 in complete.

Park Circus’ re-issue of Michel Gondry’s Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Thoughts took £13,019; the movie made £5.1m on its authentic 2004 run.

Trafalgar Releasing’s occasion cinema title IU Live performance: The Profitable introduced in £11,738 throughout screenings on February 5 and eight.

Jason Reitman’s Saturday Evening is closing out after simply two weekends for Sony, including £9,643 on its newest session to hit £179,681.

Rachel Morrison’s The Fireplace Inside opened to £8,985 for Curzon, from 61 cinemas at a £147 website common.

Common horror Wolf Man added £5,372 on its fourth session, and is closing out with £1.2m.

Luther: By no means Too A lot placed on £3,021 on its second weekend for Sony and has £196,629 in complete.

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