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No film tops £1m at UK-Ireland box office as ‘Regretting You’ leads ‘Bugonia’, ‘Springsteen’

No film tops £1m at UK-Ireland box office as ‘Regretting You’ leads ‘Bugonia’, ‘Springsteen’

UK-Eire high 5, October 31-November 2
 Rank  Movie (origin)  Distributor  October 31-November 2  Complete  Week
1 Regretting You  (US)   Paramount  £905,000  £3.8m  2
Again To The Future – fortieth anniversary  (US)  Common  £862,167  £862,167  1
Bugonia  (UK)  Common  £767,975  £986,251  1
Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere  (US)  Disney  £608,784  £2.9m  2
Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film  (US)  Common  £597,920  £5.2m  3

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Romantic drama Regretting You usurped Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere to assert high spot at this weekend’s UK-Eire field workplace, on a flat session when no launch took greater than £1m.

It marks a worryingly low Halloween weekend for exhibitors and distributors alike, in comparison with the equal weekend from 2024, when three movies took greater than £1m on the weekend alone. It’s the first weekend this 12 months the place no launch has topped £1m.

Amid the grim total image, Paramount’s Regretting You posted a powerful maintain on its second weekend, falling simply 24% with £905,000. The newest adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel is now as much as £3.8m.

In an indication of the dearth of recent titles available in the market, a 40th anniversary re-release of Again To The Future by Common took second place with a £862,167 weekend. Taking part in in 605 websites, it took a £1,471 common. Robert Zemeckis’ sci-fi journey traditional made £12.2m on its unique run – an enormous whole for 1985 – in addition to £3.5m as a Secret Cinema occasion in 2014.

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia was this weekend’s high new entry, beginning with £767,975 for Common. Taking part in in 565 websites, it took a £1,362 common, and has £986,251 in whole, from previews together with 35mm screenings throughout the previous week at websites together with Picturehouse Central, Barbican, Watershed Bristol, Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Tyneside Cinema, and Dublin’s IFI and Lighthouse.

It’s the third-highest opening for Lanthimos, after 2019’s The Favorite with £2.2m (ending on £17m) and 2024’s Poor Issues with £1.6m (ending on £7.6m).

Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere dropped 51% on its second weekend for Disney, with £608,784. The Bruce Springsteen biopic is at £2.9m whole.

Children live-action animation hybrid Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Film fell 31% on its third weekend for Common, with £597,920 taking it to £5.2m whole.

Takings for the highest 5 dropped 25%, falling for the second weekend in a row; and are actually on the lowest degree because the finish of August. The figures are additionally down 49% on the equal weekend from final 12 months. Exhibitors will hope {that a} stronger November slate can push the 12 months in the direction of ending on a excessive, with upcoming large releases together with Disney’s Predator: Badlands (November 7), Paramount’s The Working Man (November 12) and Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (November 14).

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On a Halloween weekend with no main horror title, Common sequel Black Cellphone 2 made the many of the absence with a £419,228 third session – a 33% drop which introduced it to £3.3m whole. A powerful tail all through November may nonetheless see it catch the £4.7m whole of 2022’s The Black Cellphone.

UK unbiased comedy-drama I Swear has crossed the £5m mark in a wonderful consequence for the Studiocanal launch. Kirk Jones’s movie posted one other respectable maintain on its fourth weekend, falling 36% with £379,914.

Sony anime Chainsaw Man – The Film: Reze Arc added £359,008 on its second session, having dropped 67%. The movie is as much as £2.1m, having flown previous the £1.2m of one other latest Sony anime, 2021’s Demon Slayer: Mugen Practice.

Altitude animation Pets On A Practice added £268,000 on its second weekend – a 4% improve on its earlier session, that brings it to £1.4m in whole.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other leads Warner Bros’ slate, with £266,511 – a forty five% drop – on its sixth weekend taking it to an honest £11.2m whole.

Disney sci-fi Tron: Ares dropped 49% on its fourth weekend, with £194,540 bringing it to a £4.8m cume.

CinemaLive’s occasion cinema launch Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical made £163,270 on the weekend, and has £402,322 in whole together with its Thursday, October 30 launch day.

Horror Shelby Oaks began with £152,000 for Altitude, from 404 websites at a £376 common. Together with previews, the movie has £235,000.

Paramount real-life comedy-drama Roofman starring Channing Tatum added £125,000 on its third weekend – a 59% drop that introduced it to £1.8m whole.

Unbiased animation Night time Of The Zoopocalypse has crossed the £1m mark, after a powerful half-term weekend noticed its takings improve 16% to £119,000. The Kazoo Movies launch has £1.1m in whole.

Now on a prolonged 15th weekend in cinemas, Common animation The Unhealthy Guys 2 noticed a half-term-influenced 3% improve on its earlier session, with £66,918 taking it to a £14.5m whole.

One other lengthy runner, Warner Bros’ The Conjuring: Final Rites, added £66,776 on its ninth weekend – a 40% improve, that introduced it to £18.3m whole as one of many high titles thus far within the second half of the 12 months.

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Annemarie Jacir’s Palestinian Oscar entry Palestine ’36 began with £62,814 for Curzon, from simply 45 places at a powerful £1,396 common – above that of Common’s Bugonia. Together with previews the BFI-backed historic drama has £79,634.

Household live-action-animation hybrid Sketch added £62,783 on its second weekend for Kova Worldwide – a 40% drop that introduced it to £454,404 whole after sturdy midweek half-term showings.

Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind added £60,400 on its second weekend for Mubi – a 37% drop that introduced it to £356,337.

S.S. Rajamouli’s newest Baahubali movie Baahubali: The Epic began with £55,119 for AA Movies UK, distributed by Bakrania Media, from 131 websites at a £445 common. The movie has £104,797 in whole, and follows 2017’s Baahubali: The Conclusion, which grossed over £1.4m throughout releases in numerous Indian languages.

Nationwide Theatre Reside’s newest occasion cinema title Mrs Warren’s Career added £38,608 on its second weekend, and is as much as £835,473.

Disney Junior Cinema Membership 2025 added £38,496 on a second weekend in cinemas – a 53% drop that introduced it to £254,663 whole.

A re-release of Catherine Hardwicke’s 2008 Twilight was Lionsgate’s highest-grossing title this weekend, including £38,495 to its takings to hit £369,318.

Common’s Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale placed on £38,208 on its eighth weekend – a 63% drop that introduced it to £18.1m whole.

A re-release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Daybreak – Half 2 by means of Lionsgate added £37,685 on the weekend for an £82,123 whole, in addition to the spectacular £35.9m from the movie’s 2012 unique run.

Lionsgate comedy Good Fortune added £35,093 on its third weekend in cinemas, and is as much as £773,917.

Indian comedy-horror Thamma fell 77% on its second weekend with £24,273, and is as much as £236,810 in whole for Yash Raj Movies.

Luca Guadagnino’s cancel tradition drama After The Hunt added £21,875 on its third weekend, falling 65% and as much as £502,259 in whole for Sony.

Indian household drama Madhaniyan opened to £20,881 for Shree Movies distributed by Bakrania Media, from 34 websites at a £633 common.

Live performance launch Depeche Mode: M took £19,904 from Friday-to-Sunday for Trafalgar Releasing, and has £367,327 in whole having opened on Tuesday, October 28

Indian organized marriage comedy Ikk Kudi opened to £17,611 from 45 websites at a £391 common for Moviegoers Leisure.

Trafalgar Releasing’s ParaNorman re-release added £16,084 on its second session and has £240,572 in whole, along with the £6.4m from the movie’s unique launch.

Stephen King adaptation The Lengthy Stroll is approaching the tip of its street, including £14,983 on its eighth weekend in cinemas for an honest £4.7m whole.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Citadel is approaching the tip of its spectacular run for Sony, including £8,895 on its newest session to hit a £6.9m cume.

Asif Kapadia’s footballer documentary Kenny Dalglish is as much as £30,000 in whole, after a two-day launch on October 29 and 30.

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