Taylor Swift leads UK-Ireland box office; ‘One Battle After Another’ sets PTA record

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Taylor Swift leads UK-Ireland box office; ‘One Battle After Another’ sets PTA record

UK-Eire prime 5, Oct 3-5
 Rank  Movie (origin)  Distributor Oct 3-5  Complete  Week
1  Taylor Swift: The Official Launch Occasion Of A Showgirl  (US)  Piece Of Magic  £3.5m  £3.5m  1
 One Battle After One other  (US)  Warner Bros  £2m  £6m  2
 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale  (UK)  Common  £865,075  £15.6m  4
 The Smashing Machine  (US)   Leisure Movie Distributors  £862,322  £862,322  1
 The Conjuring: Final Rites  (US)   Warner Bros  £510,757  £17.3m  5

GBP to USD conversion fee: 1.34

Occasion cinema title Taylor Swift: The Official Launch Occasion Of A Showgirl topped the UK-Eire field workplace on its one-and-only weekend in cinemas, with a £3.5m session.

Taking part in in 656 cinemas and beginning at 20.00 BST on Friday, October 3, The Official Launch Occasion Of A Showgirl  took a powerful £5,275 location common, having bought out a number of screenings upfront.

It closed its screenings on Sunday as a three-day-only occasion.

The £3.5m weekend was down on the £5.7m opening of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour from October 2023 – the largest opening ever for an occasion cinema title within the area. That movie performed for a number of weeks on its option to a £12.3m whole gross.

Nonetheless, £3.5m nonetheless represents a superb outcome for distributor Piece Of Magic, with the discharge having topped the worldwide field workplace chart too.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other posted a superb maintain on its second weekend for Warner Bros, dropping simply 19% with slightly below £2m.

The revolutionary thriller is as much as £6m from simply 10 days in cinemas, already making it Anderson’s highest-grossing movie forward of There Will Be Blood  (£5m). Warner Bros will now look to push the movie previous the £10m mark throughout its run.

One other former primary, Common’s Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, added £865,075 – a 34% drop on its fourth session that introduced it to £15.6m whole. It has handed the £15.1m whole of 2022’s second movie A New Period, though the £28.5m of 2019’s Downton Abbey will seemingly be past it. 

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt opened to £862,322 for Leisure Movie Distributors, from 650 websites at a £1,327 common.

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Warner Bros horror The Conjuring: Final Rites continues to flourish by means of its fifth weekend in cinemas. The movie added £510,757 on its newest session – a 39% drop that introduced it to £17.3m, already the highest-grossing title within the nine-film Conjuring universe by nearly £6m.

Takings for the highest 5 rose for a second consecutive weekend, up 13% to £7.7m. This brings extra excellent news for exhibitors, after September takings had been up 18% on final yr. Though there will probably be no Taylor Swift subsequent weekend, Disney’s Tron: Ares will look to take care of the great feeling.

Urchin strides out

Stephen King adaptation The Lengthy Stroll posted £276,169 on its fourth weekend in cinemas – a 41% drop that introduced it to £4.1m whole.

Him, the most recent horror from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, opened to £274,742 from 433 websites at a 648 common for Common.

Common animation The Unhealthy Guys 2 posted a 13% enhance on its 11th weekend in cinemas, with £264,716 bringing it to £13.8m whole. It has now made greater than eight instances its £1.6m opening from late July, and can cross the marginally larger £13.8m of 2022’s The Unhealthy Guys immediately.

A re-release of sci-fi blockbuster Avatar: The Method Of Water led Disney’s slate this weekend, taking £254,000 from 430 websites at a £591 web site common. The Avatar sequel made £77.4m following its December 2022 launch, and is the 12th -highest-grossing movie of all time within the territory; its re-release comes weeks earlier than the launch of third movie Avatar: Hearth And Ash on December 19.

Disney comedy The Roses added £238,000 on its sixth weekend – a 31% drop that introduced it to £9.8m. A complete past £10m will symbolize an affordable efficiency following a £2.2m opening weekend for the Benedict Cumberbatch- and Olivia Colman-starring movie.

Anime Demon Slayer: Infinity Citadel leads Sony’s slate, including £172,445 on its fourth weekend. This drop of 47% introduced it to £6.6m whole – comfortably the highest-grossing anime title ever on the UK-Eire field workplace.

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Horror The Strangers: Chapter 2 dropped 59% on its second weekend for Lionsgate with £136,000, and is as much as £663,111 – unlikely to catch the £1.9m of the 2024 first movie.

Animation Dora: Magic Mermaid Adventures led the Paramount slate this weekend, taking £107,000 throughout the three days from 578 websites at a £102 common.

Lionsgate’s re-release of Catherine Hardwicke’s 2008 vampire hit Twilight made £103,201 this weekend, along with the movie’s £11.2m from its authentic run.

Park Circus’ 30th anniversary re-release of Martin Campbell’s GoldenEye took £99,124 from 367 websites at a £270 common. The James Bond title made £18.3m on its authentic launch.

Indian romantic comedy Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari opened to £95,826, from 101 websites at an honest £949 common for Moviegoers Leisure. Together with previews, the movie has £101,402.

Urchin

Harris Dickinson’s UK impartial title Urchin made an honest begin, with £69,279 from 68 websites at a £1,019 common for Picturehouse Leisure. Together with previews, the movie is as much as £131,116 already.

Opera Tosca – ROH London 2025 took £68,830 on the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing from 117 screenings at a £588 screening common; and has £356,212 in whole.

Brian Kirk’s motion thriller Lifeless Of Winter added £49,651 on its second weekend for Vertigo Releasing – a 36% drop that introduced it to £216,590.

Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell romance A Huge Daring Lovely Journey added £46,819 on its third weekend for Sony – a 71% drop that introduced it to £1.2m whole.

Smurfs topped up by an additional £37,000 on its 12th weekend for Paramount, and is now as much as £5.8m – nonetheless effectively down on the £17.4m of 2011’s The Smurfs and £12.4m of 2013’s The Smurfs 2, however nearer to the £6.1m of 2017’s Smurfs: The Misplaced Village.

Nationwide Theatre Reside launch Inter Alia starring Rosamund Pike added £36,748 on its fifth weekend in cinemas, and is simply shy of a powerful £2m whole.

Trafalgar Releasing had a trio of live performance movie releases by Kpop group BTS in cinemas this weekend. BTS 2019 ‘Love Your self: Communicate Yoursef’ London Remastered and BTS 2019 & 2021 Live performance Marathon each made £23,393 on the weekend, as a part of £57,464 totals; whereas BTS 2021 Muster Sowoozoo Remastered took £14,467 on the weekend, and £28,593 in whole.

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Signature Leisure animation Diplo: The Mighty Dinosaur added £20,551 on its second weekend, and has £114,921 in whole.

Embeth Davidtz’s Africa-set drama Don’t Let’s Go To The Canine Tonight opened to £13,158 for Sony, from 105 cinemas at a £125 web site common.

Motion thriller The Shadow’s Edge starring Jackie Chan began with £12,725 for Trinity Movie/CineAsia, and took an additional £852 in previews for a £13,577 whole.

Indian authorized comedy Jolly LLB 3 added £12,099 on its third weekend for Bakrania Media, and is as much as £214,549 – down on the £312,540 of 2017’s Jolly LLB 2.

Common’s How To Practice Your Dragon live-action remake is lastly closing out after 17 weekends in cinemas. It added £11,568 on its newest session for a £23.2m whole.

Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror, by which F.W. Murnau’s 1922 horror traditional is paired with Radiohead albums Child A and Amnesiac, took £8,673 on the weekend by means of CinemaLive. The discharge has £95,829 in whole after opening on Thursday, October 2.

Activism documentary Energy Station began with £4,712 from 4 websites at a powerful £1,178 common for Dartmouth Movies.

Nadia Fall’s UK title Brides added £4,707 on its second weekend for Vue Lumière, and has £56,997 in whole.

A field workplace hit all through the summer time, Zach Cregger’s Weapons is closing out for Warner Bros, including £4,345 on its ninth weekend in cinemas to hit £11.8m whole.

Spider-Man 2.1, Park Circus’ prolonged reduce of Spider-Man 2, added £3,617 on a second session, for a £120,776 whole.

Comedy Mr Blake At Your Service began with £1,869 for Vertigo Releasing, from 25 websites at a £75 common.

Spy thriller The Partisan opened to £1,647 from 16 websites at a £103 web site common for Miracle Comms.

Esports screening 2025 Valorant Champions Tour: Finals In Cinema took £1,330 from two cinemas for Piece Of Magic Leisure.

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