An honest September noticed the UK-Eire field workplace scale back its year-on-year deficit from -15% in the beginning of August 2024, to -10% by the top of September.
Though nonetheless down on final yr at this stage, the 4 weeks in September 2024 introduced in £60.1m, up 21% on the equal weeks of September 2023.
| Rank | Title | Distributor | September gross | Complete gross | Launch date |
| 1 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Warner Bros | £21.6m | £21.6m | 06/09/24 |
| 2 | Communicate No Evil | Common | £4.4m | £4.4m | 13/09/24 |
| 3 | Lee | Studiocanal | £3.1m | £3.1m | 13/09/24 |
| 4 | Prima Facie – NT Stay 2022 (2024 re-issue) | Nationwide Theatre Stay | £2.6m | £2.6m | 06/09/24 |
| 5 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Disney | £2.1m | £57.4m | 26/07/24 |
| 6 | It Ends With Us | Sony | £2.1m | £21.5m | 09/08/24 |
| 7 | Despicable Me 4 | Common | £1.9m | £47.5m | 12/07/24 |
| 8 | The Substance | Mubi | £1.8m | £1.8m | 20/09/24 |
| 9 | Alien: Romulus | Disney | £1.7m | £13.3m | 16/08/24 |
| 10 | The Critic | Lionsgate | £1.4m | £1.4m | 13/09/24 |
Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice contributed over one third of this complete, holding the primary spot throughout all 4 weeks with a £21.6m gross. It recorded the fifth-biggest opening of the yr and fifth-biggest September opening of all time with £7.3m, and is presently the sixth highest-grossing launch of the yr.
Common horror Communicate No Evil held the quantity two spot for 3 weeks with a complete of £4.3m up to now. It’s the fourth highest-grossing horror title of 2024, and director James Watkins’ second highest-grossing movie behind 2012’s The Lady In Black (£21.3m).
Ellen Kuras’ Lee starring Kate Winslet was quantity three throughout September with £3.1m. The Sky Cinema movie, launched by Studiocanal, will shortly enter the highest 10 highest-grossing UK movies of the yr (presently quantity 11).
Unbiased releases additionally contributed to the September rating – most notably Mubi’s Cannes pickup The Substance starring Demi Moore, which broke into the highest 10 for the month in eighth place with £1.8m.
Whereas field workplace figures are nonetheless down on pre-pandemic ranges, the September figures give trigger for cautious optimism amongst distributors and exhibitors – particularly with a This fall slate that’s arguably stronger than the summer time releases.
There will probably be excessive hopes for Warner Bros’ Joker: Folie a Deux opening at this time, after the primary movie grossed £58.3m from a 2019 launch, additionally within the first week of October. Sony’s personal comedian e-book franchise entry Venom: The Final Dance opens on October 24, with the primary two titles making £20.2m and £18.1m.
Enduring affection for the marmalade-loving bear may see Studiocanal’s Paddington In Peru outstrip the £38m and £42.6m of the primary two movies; whereas Paramount’s Gladiator II will take over cinemas from November 15.
Each Common’s Depraved from November 22 and Disney’s Moana 2 from November 29 will hope to convey music and pleasure to the darkish winter months; whereas in December, Sony’s Kraven The Hunter (December 13), Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King (December 20), EFD’s Robbie Williams movie Higher Man (December 26) and Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (December 27) all have the potential to go properly past £20m.
A number of independently-produced competition hits with field workplace potential are additionally launched by the studios on this interval, together with Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice (October 18) by way of Studiocanal; Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner The Room Subsequent Door (October 25) by way of Warner Bros; and Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora (November 1) by way of Common.
Different unbiased titles with potential embrace Andrea Arnold’s Chicken (November 8) by way of Mubi; and Alonso Ruizpalacious’ La Cocina (December 26) by way of Picturehouse Leisure.
All information supplied by Comscore
