‘Snow White’ retains UK-Ireland box office lead; ‘A Working Man’ takes third spot

Disney’s Snow White live-action remake topped the UK-Eire field workplace for a second weekend, with A Working Man starring Jason Statham as the highest new title.

Directed by Marc Webb and starring Rachel Zegler, Snow White added simply over £2m on its second session – a 48% drop that introduced it to £6.8m. It’s down on the £16.2m of 2023’s The Little Mermaid, the latest Disney stay motion remake, on the identical stage, though up on the pandemic-affected £4.5m of 2021’s Cruella at this level.

Indian motion thriller L2: Empuraan made a superb begin in third place with £764,499, comprised of £646,080 within the UK through RFT Movies, and £118,418 in Eire by means of 2G Entertainments. Directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, the movie tells the story of a person main a double life because the enigmatic chief of a criminal offense syndicate; it took an enormous £1.4m together with previews.

David Ayer’s motion thriller A Working Man opened to £658,134 for Warner Bros, from 496 websites at a £1,327 website common. Statham stars as a building employee who should return to his counter terrorism previous to rescue an area lady.

Former primary Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy  is as much as a sizeable £45.5m on its seventh weekend in cinemas. The Common romantic comedy added £561,120 on its newest session – a slim 29% drop. It nonetheless has the £48.3m of 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Child in its sights to turn out to be the franchise’s highest-grossing title, in addition to the highest-grossing for producers Working Title Movies.

Motion comedy Novocaine began with £442,000 from 549 websites for Paramount, at an £805 website common with a number of websites nonetheless to report. The movie, starring Jack Quaid as a person incapable of feeling bodily ache, has £544,000 together with previews.

Having elevated barely final day trip, takings for the highest 5 are actually all the way down to £4.1m – the bottom stage because the finish of September final yr. The figures are additionally 48.3% down on the equal weekend from final yr, with March having been a tricky month after 4 consecutive months of year-on-year progress. With an April launch slate with out main blockbusters, cinemas might look to fashionable again catalogue choices corresponding to Babe (April 11) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith  (April 25) to fill the gaps.

Even Circulation

Steven Soderbergh thriller Black Bag  dropped 43% on its third weekend in cinemas, with £421,458 bringing it to £3.1m for Common.

Mickey 17 dropped 54.5% on its fourth weekend in cinemas for Warner Bros, including £330,188 to hit a £6.6m cume.

Circulation bucked the field workplace pattern by producing the perfect maintain within the high 50 titles. Gints Zilbalodis’s movie dropped simply 17% on its second weekend, including £292,842 for Curzon to succeed in a robust £868,829 whole. It is going to cross the £1m mark this week, in a robust efficiency for the animal story animation.

With ultimate figures nonetheless to return, Billy Elliot The Musical introduced in £290,753 from Sunday, March 30 screenings alone for CinemaLive – sufficient for second place on the field workplace on that day.

Weekend screenings of Nationwide Theatre Dwell’s Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan introduced in £201,004. Along with Thursday 27’s opening day, the filmed play has £678,938.

Jaume Collet-Serra’s Blumhouse Productions horror The Lady In The Yard began with a reasonable £185,209 for Common, from 329 websites at a £565 common.

Solely opening on the night of Saturday, March 29, Indian motion title Sikandar nonetheless managed to take £181,146 for Bakrania Media, from 240 websites at a £755 common.

Common animation Canine Man added £124,017 on its eighth weekend in cinemas, for a £13.5m whole thus far – topping animated titles together with 2002’s Lilo & Sew  (£13.2m).

Live performance movie Think about Dragons: Dwell From The Hollywood Bowl took £113,046 on Saturday, March 29; plus £75,032 from its Wednesday 26 opening day, for a £188,078 whole for Trafalgar Releasing.

Barry Levinson’s crime drama The Alto Knights starring Robert De Niro fell again a sizeable 72.3% on its second weekend, including £107,145 to hit £714,164 for Warner Bros.

Captain America: Courageous New World added £100,617 on its seventh weekend for Disney – a 56% drop that introduced it to £17.9m. It’s the 27^th -highest-grossing of 35 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies thus far, overtaking 2018’s Ant-Man And The Wasp (£17.8m).

Indian comedy Mad Sq., about three faculty buddies navigating by means of campus life, opened to £79,948 from 70 websites at an honest £1,142 website common for Dreamz Leisure.

An enormous hit in China and the fifth-highest-grossing movie of all time worldwide, Chinese language animation Ne Zha 2 added £69,056 on its second weekend in cinemas to hit £1.4m for Trinity Movie/CineAsia.

Final Breath starring Woody Harrelson added £30,165 on its third weekend – a hefty 77% drop that introduced it to £758,523 for Leisure Movie Distributors.

Disney CGI animation Mufasa: The Lion King added £27,075 on its 15^th weekend in cinemas, and has £33.2m in whole.

Joshua Oppenheimer’s fiction function debut The Finish began with £25,100 for Mubi, from 68 cinemas at a £369 website common. The musical, starring Tilda Swinton and George Mackay, has £42,968 together with previews.

Alonso Ruizpalacios’s Berlinale 2024 title La Cocina opened to £25,000 for Picturehouse Leisure at a £450 website common; and has £42,000 together with previews.

Returning to cinemas 15 years after its unique launch, Mamma Mia! took £24,347 this weekend for Common. It has £69m in whole – nonetheless the 18^th -highest-grossing movie of all time within the territory.

Polish fantasy title Kleks I Wynalazek Filipa Golarza   began with £21,579 for Magnetes Footage, from 144 websites at a £150 common.

Dreamz Leisure’s Indian up to date replace Robinhood opened to £20,721 from 20 websites at a £1,036 common.

Nonetheless in cinemas after 18 weekends, Black Bear’s papal drama Conclave added £20,000 on its newest session for a formidable £9.6m cume.

On its 14^th weekend in cinemas, Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 placed on £19,000 to hit £26.4m – ending barely behind the £27m of 2022’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2.

Black Bear horror The Monkey from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins added £18,000 on its newest session, for £3.1m from six weekends.

Oscar finest image Anora is sliding down after 22 weeks in cinemas, including £15,467 on its newest session to succeed in a £2.9m whole for Common.

Sony comedy One Of Them Days added £14,987 on its fourth weekend, and has £485,026 in whole.

On its second weekend for Vertigo Releasing, UK worldwide function Oscar entry Santosh topped up by £11,756 for a £67,006 whole.

With an extra £11,000 on its fifth weekend in cinemas, The Final Showgirl turned the third Picturehouse Leisure launch to cross the £1m mark, after The Spouse  (£1.7m) and The Occasion  (£1.1m).

Exhibition On Display: Daybreak of Impressionism, Paris 1874, the newest artwork occasion cinema launch from Seventh Artwork Productions, added £9,617 on its second weekend in cinemas and has £174,707 in whole.

Alain Guiraudie’s French comedy Misericordia began with £8,545 for New Wave Movies, and a complete together with previews of £10,547.

UK unbiased comedy Time Journey Is Harmful began with £8,340 for Jade Movies at a £128 website common, and has £17,698 together with previews.

Moviegoers Leisure’s re-release of 2022 Pakistani title The Legend of Maula Jatt added £3,615, topping up the £1.5m of the unique run.

A second weekend of highschool comedy Y2K got here to £1,26 for Common, for a low £53,285 whole.

Mark Anthony Inexperienced’s Opus starring Ayo Edebiri added £1,070 on its third session to hit £170,047 for Warner Bros.

Altitude has Brazilian Oscar winner I’m Nonetheless Right here in cinemas at £1.3m; and UK unbiased title Sister Midnight, at £121,611.