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UK-Ireland box office down year-on-year in October; hopes pinned on November slate

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.

UK-Eire prime 10 titles October 2024
 Rank  Title  Distributor October gross   Complete gross  Launch date
1  Joker: Folie À Deux  Warner Bros  £10.2m £10.2m  4/10/2024
 The Wild Robotic   Common  £9.5m £9.5m   18/10/2024
 Venom: The Final Dance  Sony  £6.9m £6.9m  25/10/2024
 Smile 2  Paramount  £4.9m £4.9m  18/10/2024
 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  Warner Bros  £4.3m  £25.9m  6/9/2024
 Transformers One  Paramount  £4m £4m  11/10/2024 
 Terrifier 3  Signature  £3.1m £3.1m  11/10/2024
 The Apprentice  Studiocanal   £1.8m £1.8m  18/10/2024
 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.

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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.

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