| Rank | Movie (distributor) | Three-day gross (Jan 3-5) | Complete gross thus far | Week |
| 1. | Mufasa: The Lion King (Disney) | £3.3m | £20.7m | 3 |
| 2. | Nosferatu (Common) | £3.1m | £5.3m | 1 |
| 3. | Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (Paramount) | £2.7m | £18.7m | 2 |
| 4. | Moana 2 (Disney) | £1.8m | £38.2m | 6 |
| 5. | We Stay In Time (Studiocanal) | £1.7m | £2.8m | 1 |
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Robert Eggers’ vampire horror Nosferatu scared up a £3.1m opening weekend on the UK-Eire field workplace, with a formidable £5.3m begin together with previews; as Mufasa: The Lion King held high spot.
Holding the crown for a formidable third consecutive weekend, Mufasa: The Lion King dropped simply 23% throughout its newest outing with £3.3m. Barry Jenkins’ CGI prequel has £20.7m in whole, and whereas it received’t problem the colossal £76m of the 2019 CGI title, it would overtake the £22.6m of the unique 1994 animation inside the subsequent week, for Disney.
Common title Nosferatu took a powerful £4,920 location common from 622 websites. Its £1.3m takings on Saturday, January 4 was the most important Saturday consequence for a horror title for the reason that pandemic; whereas the movie has already topped the overall runs of 2024 horror titles The Substance (£3.9m) and Entice (£3.8m).
The £5.3m whole opening is greater than any 2024 horror title together with Alien: Romulus (£3.7m), and the second largest for the reason that pandemic, simply behind 5 Nights At Freddy’s (£5.4m).
Nosferatu is already Eggers’ highest-grossing movie, forward of 2022’s The Northman (£4.7m), 2020’s The Lighthouse (£1.4m) and 2016’s The Witch (£1.2m).
London’s BFI Imax was the highest-grossing Nosferatu website, accounting for two% of its whole Friday-Saturday takings; with whole Imax share working at a powerful 12%.
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is as much as £18.7m for Paramount, after a 37.1% drop on its second official weekend noticed it herald £2.7m. The movie will catch the £19.3m of 2020’s Sonic The Hedgehog inside the subsequent week, and should still overtake the £27m of 2022’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2 throughout its run.
Disney’s Moana 2 posted a great maintain on its sixth weekend, falling simply 21% with £1.8m taking it to £38.2m whole. It should overtake the £39.6m of Dune: Half II inside the subsequent week to turn out to be the fifth-highest-grossing 2024 launch.
We Stay In Time sneaked a high 5 spot on its opening weekend for Studiocanal, with £1.7m throughout its first Friday-to-Sunday. Enjoying in 691 websites, it took a £2,415 website common. John Crowley’s romantic drama, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, has £2.8m in whole having opened on New Yr’s Day.
Can Depraved go high?
Depraved added £1.7m on its seventh weekend in cinemas for Common – a 39% drop, and simply £10,385 behind We Stay In Time. Jon M. Chu’s musical extravaganza is now as much as £57.3m, and nonetheless retains an opportunity of overtaking Inside Out 2’s £59.2m to turn out to be the highest-grossing 2024 movie launch.
Robbie Williams biopic Higher Man added £925,006 on its second weekend in cinemas – a slim 26.4% drop that took it to £3.8m for Leisure Movie Distributors.
Paddington In Peru placed on an extra £674,456 on its ninth session, a slim drop of simply 17.7%. Studiocanal’s flagship title is now as much as a wholesome £34.9m, near the £38m of 2014’s Paddington.
Gladiator II has topped the takings of 2000’s Gladiator. Director Ridley Scott’s sequel added £295,000 on its eighth weekend in cinemas – a 47.5% drop that introduced it to £31.4m for Paramount, simply forward of the £31.3m of Gladiator.
Papal palaver proved widespread once more this weekend, as Edward Berger’s Conclave dropped simply 22% on its sixth session. The Black Bear movie added £286,000 to hit a good £6.2m cume.
RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys posted a powerful £80,364 opening from simply 76 websites for Curzon, at a £1,057 location common. Together with previews, the awards contender has £125,739.
Polish motion title Diabel opened to £41,485 from 96 websites at a £432 location common for Magnetes Photos.
Queer placed on £31,000 for Mubi on its fourth weekend – a 47.9% drop that introduced it to £733,000 whole.
Justin Kurzel’s thriller The Order starring Jude Legislation and Nicholas Hoult added £28,000 on its second weekend in cinemas, and is as much as £160,000 for MetFilm Distribution.
Elysian Movie Distribution’s re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away added £27,613 on its second session, to hit a £160,425 whole. The movie made £1.1m on its unique 2003 run via Studiocanal.
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winner Anora added £25,327 on its 10th weekend in cinemas – a 27% drop – and has slightly below £2m in whole for Common. The studio additionally has animation The Wild Robotic in cinemas, which noticed a 210% enhance throughout the ultimate weekend of the varsity holidays with £24,889 bringing it to £13.8m from 12 periods.
Kraven The Hunter is falling away after 4 weekends for Sony, including £24,267 on its newest session to hit £1.5m whole.
Indian motion thriller Child John added £11,460 on its second weekend, to hit a £158,158 whole for Bakrania Media.
After taking £8,916 on its occasion launch on January 1 and a pair of, Asif Kapadia’s docufiction title 2073 is as much as £25,577 whole via Altitude, and can roll out throughout additional websites all through January.
BFI Distribution’s launch of Luchino Visconti’s 1960 crime drama Rocco And His Brothers took a decent £8,602 from simply 5 websites, at a £1,720 common.
Warner Bros has three titles closing out their runs at the beginning of the brand new 12 months: animation Lord Of The Rings: The Warfare Of The Rohirrim with £8,553 and £958,893 whole; the Interstellar re-release with an extra £1,325; and Purple One with £1,089 for £8.2m.
