| Rank | Movie (origin) | Distributor | August 22-24 | Complete | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weapons (US) | Warner Bros | £1.1m | £8.9m | 3 |
| 2 | Freakier Friday (US) |
Disney | £740,432 | £6m | 3 |
| 3 | Materialists (US) | Sony | £554,097 | £2.7m | 2 |
| 4 | The Unhealthy Guys 2 (US) | Common | £510,810 | £10.4m | 5 |
| 5 | The Incredible 4: First Steps (US) | Disney | £507,819 | £22.2m | 5 |
GBP to USD conversion fee: 1.35
Warner Bros’ Weapons topped the UK-Eire field workplace for a 3rd successive weekend, as the highest 5 titles remained the identical as final weekend and dropped to a lowest cumulative whole since 2022.
Weapons added £1.1m on its third session – a 26% drop that brings it to £8.9m (all whole figures embrace Financial institution Vacation Monday). It is going to move the £10m mark within the subsequent fortnight – a wonderful consequence for an 18-rated title, and a transparent vibrant spot amid a tricky August.
Disney comedy Freakier Friday dropped simply 19% on its third weekend, with £740,432 taking past the £6m mark. It ought to overtake the £6.6m of 2003’s Freaky Friday, additionally starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, inside the subsequent week.
Sony romantic comedy Materialists added £554,097 on its second session – a 33% drop that brings it to £2.7m whole, closing in on the £3.1m of director Celine Music’s Previous Lives from 2023.
The Unhealthy Guys 2 moved up a spot within the chart for Common, dropping simply 6% on its fifth weekend with £510,810 bringing it to a £10.4m whole. An extended tail would give it an outdoor probability of catching the £13.8m of 2022’s The Unhealthy Guys.
Disney’s The Incredible 4: First Steps hangs on within the high 5, additionally after 5 weekends. The Marvel Cinematic Universe title added £507,819 – a 26% drop that brings it to £22.2m whole, the 22nd-highest-grossing of 36 MCU movies.
Neither Common’s Eddington nor Studiocanal’s The Lifetime of Chuck managed to interrupt into the highest 5 on their opening weekends – full figures to come back.
It has been a tricky August for UK-Eire cinemas. Takings for the highest 5 dropped for the fourth consecutive weekend, by 24% to £3.5m. The highest 5 determine can be down a sizeable 56% on the Financial institution Vacation weekend from final 12 months; at its lowest degree since 2022 (9% up), and 16% down on the 2021 Financial institution Vacation, when cinemas had been only some months into the post-pandemic reopening.
Disney comedy The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman; and Darren Aronofsky’s Sony crime comedy Caught Stealing might want to carry out effectively subsequent weekend to get the figures again on monitor after an excellent first half to the 12 months.
Eva Victor’s Sorry, Child scored the best web site common for a brand new title this weekend, with £1,016 – a powerful consequence for an unbiased launch. The Picturehouse Leisure movie introduced it £52,500 on the weekend, and has £96,275 in whole.
Netflix had two movies in UK-Eire cinemas this weekend: The Thursday Homicide Membership and KPop Demon Hunters A Sing-Alongside Occasion, the latter on Saturday and Sunday screenings. The streamer doesn’t report field workplace takings; Display understands there was robust attendance for each titles, particularly the restricted launch for The Thursday Homicide Membership.
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