| Rank | Movie (origin) | Distributor | August 15-17 | Whole | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weapons (US) | Warner Bros | £1.6m | £6.3m | 2 |
| 2 | Freakier Friday (US) |
Disney | £915,007 | £4m | 2 |
| 3 | Materialists (US) |
Sony | £830,564 | £1.3m | 1 |
| 4 | The Incredible 4: First Steps (US) |
Disney | £687,828 | £20.8m | 4 |
| 5 | The Dangerous Guys 2 (US) | Common | £542,002 | £8.8m | 4 |
GBP to USD conversion fee: 1.35
Warner Bros horror Weapons held the UK-Eire field workplace lead for a second weekend; as Sony romantic comedy Materialists opened in third place.
Weapons added £1.6m on its second session – a 39% drop that was beneath than its 33% general worldwide drop, however nonetheless introduced it to £6.3m, a robust outcome for an 18-rated title.
Disney comedy Freakier Friday fell beneath the £1m mark on its second weekend, with a 48% drop to £915,007 taking it to only past £4m in whole. It ought to nonetheless catch the £6.6m of 2003’s Freaky Friday earlier than the top of its run.
Celine Music’s Materialists began with £830,564 from 687 websites at a reasonable £1,209 website common. Having opened final Wednesday, August 13, the movie has £1.3m in whole, and may catch the £3.1m of Music’s 2023 Previous Lives within the coming weeks.
Marvel Cinematic Universe title The Incredible 4: First Steps fell 50% on its fourth weekend in cinemas, with £687,828 taking it to £20.8m. In doing so it overtook fellow MCU titles Captain America: The Winter Soldier (£19.4m), Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania (£19.3m) and Thor: The Darkish World (£20.1m), and is presently 23rd of 36 movies within the sequence by field workplace.
Common animation The Dangerous Guys 2 placed on £542,002 on its fourth weekend – a 33% drop that was higher than the market common, and introduced it to £8.8m whole, down on the £13.8m of 2022’s The Dangerous Guys.
Takings for the highest 5 dropped a pointy 40% to only £4.5m – the bottom mark for the reason that finish of March. After a robust first half of the yr, August has been a gradual month for cinemas, which is able to hope that Disney’s UK manufacturing The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will attract audiences from August 29.
Mononoke attracts audiences
Paramount comedy The Bare Gun simply slipped out of the highest 5, falling 52% on its third weekend with £532,000 taking it to £5.7m whole. It has overtaken the £5.3m of 1994’s The Bare Gun 33 1/3: The Ultimate Insult, however will battle to catch the £7.8m and £8.8m of the primary two releases within the sequence.
No person 2, the second movie within the sequence starring Bob Odenkirk, began with £475,480 from 490 websites at a reasonable £970 common for Common. It’s above the £376,067 opening of the 2021 first movie, which ended on £1.4m.
Collectively, Michael Shanks’ physique horror starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, began with £462,061 for Leisure Movie Distributors, from 525 websites at a £880 common. Together with previews, the movie has £502,062.
On its seventh weekend in cinemas, Jurassic World Rebirth added £330,856 – a 50% drop that introduced it to £34.3m whole. One other fortnight or so in cinemas ought to see it overhaul the £35.1m of 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion, the bottom of the three Jurassic World titles.
Superman flies on on the field workplace, including £323,066 on its sixth session – a 50% drop that introduced it to £26.9m. The Warner Bros title is forward of all however three of the 15 options from the earlier DC Prolonged Universe, however will doubtless end behind the £30m of 2013 Superman story Man Of Metal.
Yash Raj Movies’ sequel Conflict 2 began with £292,644 from 298 websites at a wholesome £982 website common, and has £503,422 together with previews – forward of the £145,408 three-day begin of Conflict from 2019 and already catching its £723,039 whole.
A vibrant spot on the field workplace this weekend was Elysian Movie Distribution’s re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 anime Princess Mononoke. The 4K restoration grossed £184,092 from simply 51 websites for a £3,540 website common – the best available in the market this weekend. Princess Mononoke made simply £22,197 on its unique restricted launch; then £143,019 in a 2005 re-release by Studiocanal.
F1: The Film starring Brad Pitt added £138,900 on its eighth weekend for Warner Bros – a 51% drop that brough the racing drama to £21.8m whole.
On its fourth weekend in cinemas, Smurfs added £100,000 for Paramount – a 49% drop that introduced the animated title to £4.8m whole.
Romance is now the third-highest-grossing Indian movie of all time within the UK & Eire. The Yash Raj Movies launch added £94,446 – a 61% drop – on its fifth weekend, and is as much as £2.9m – behind solely Pathaan (£4.4m) and Jawan (£3.1m), each additionally launched by Yash Raj.
The live-action How To Practice Your Dragon remake dropped 31% on its 10th session, with £64,298 taking it to £22.6m for Common.
Common comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island performs on in cinemas by a 12th weekend, including £21,481 on its newest session to hit £2.4m whole.
The Philippou brothers’ Convey Her Again leads Sony’s slate of horrors, including £20,012 on its third weekend to hit £1.8m whole.
Curzon’s 21-screen re-release of Walter Salles’s Central Station introduced in £12,836 at a £611 common, and has £12,932 together with previews.
Anime Ltd’s newest Mamoru Hosoda re-release, Wolf Youngsters, took £11,822 on its opening weekend, primarily from Sunday screenings.
I Know What You Did Final Summer season placed on £8,747 on its fifth weekend for Sony, and has £2.8m in whole.
Occasion cinema launch The Grateful Useless Film 2025 Meet-Up took £8,507 throughout the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing, and has £24,268 following its important launch day on Thursday, August 14.
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later is closing out after 9 weekends for Sony, including £8,247 on its newest session to hit a £15.5m whole – greater than the primary two movies within the franchise mixed.
Love, the second launch in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Love Intercourse Goals trilogy, began with £5,614 from 19 websites at a £295 common for Fashionable Movies. Together with previews the movie has £6,767, barely down on the £9,009 full opening for Goals two weeks in the past.
Reside-action French title Bambi: A Story of Life within the Woods began with £3,589 from 59 websites at a £61 common for Miracle63, with virtually that quantity websites once more nonetheless to report.
Park Circus’s re-release of Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 Ghost Canine: The Means of the Samurai took £3,371 together with previews from the previos weekend. The Park Circus Sense & Sensibility re-release added £3,110 on its second session for a £82,712 whole.
