UK-Eire field workplace figures for October 2024 have been down 17% in comparison with the earlier 12 months, inflicting the year-to-date determine to fall again to 11% down.
The underperformance of Joker: Folie À Deux meant the year-to-date comparability dropped from 10% down on the finish of September. The 2024 field workplace is at present at £799.1m; complete income for 2023 was £1.1bn.
| Rank | Title | Distributor | October gross | Complete gross | Launch date |
| 1 | Joker: Folie À Deux | Warner Bros | £10.2m | £10.2m | 4/10/2024 |
| 2 | The Wild Robotic | Common | £9.5m | £9.5m | 18/10/2024 |
| 3 | Venom: The Final Dance | Sony | £6.9m | £6.9m | 25/10/2024 |
| 4 | Smile 2 | Paramount | £4.9m | £4.9m | 18/10/2024 |
| 5 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Warner Bros | £4.3m | £25.9m | 6/9/2024 |
| 6 | Transformers One | Paramount | £4m | £4m | 11/10/2024 |
| 7 | Terrifier 3 | Signature | £3.1m | £3.1m | 11/10/2024 |
| 8 | The Apprentice | Studiocanal | £1.8m | £1.8m | 18/10/2024 |
| 9 | The Substance | Mubi | £1.8m | £3.6m | 20/9/2024 |
| 10 | The Outrun | Studiocanal | £1.4m | £2.2m | 27/9/2024 |
Warner Bros’ Folie À Deux was nonetheless the primary movie in October with £10.2m, having opened to £5.6m firstly of the month. Nonetheless it’s prone to end with lower than one-fifth of the £58.3m of 2019’s Joker, and is barely the seventh-highest-grossing launch for director Todd Phillips, who additionally made The Hangover movies.
Dreamworks Animation’s The Wild Robotic took second spot with £9.5m after a £3.2m opening. It was the best-performing animation of the month, and is at present the fifth-highest-grossing animation of the 12 months.
Impartial titles made it into the highest 10 once more, with Terrifier 3 in seventh place with £3m – the highest-grossing movie ever for Signature Leisure.
Mubi’s The Substance achieved the spectacular feat of constructing the highest 10 for successive months, in ninth place with £1.8m in October. It’s Mubi’s highest-grossing title ever, with £3.6m throughout its run.
Studiocanal additionally had two titles within the prime 10 – Donald Trump drama The Apprentice in eight place with £1.8m, and Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan in 10th with £1.4m.
Regardless of these vibrant spots, not one of the October releases got here shut to creating the year-to-date prime 10 (Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes at present in 10th with £15.8m).
Exhibitors nonetheless want a powerful November and December to make up the shortcomings. After a slate of awards contenders this weekend together with Anora and Blitz, Studiocanal’s Paddington In Peru from November 8 might want to climb in direction of the £38m and £42.6m of the primary two movies, whereas huge figures are additionally wanted from Paramount’s Gladiator II (November 15), Common musical adaptation Depraved (November 22) and Disney animation Moana 2 (November 29).
All figures on this article have been supplied by Comscore.
