Rank Film (origin) DistributorJan 24-26 gross Total Week 1 A Complete Unknown (US) Disney £1.7
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Jan 24-26 gross | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Complete Unknown (US) | Disney | £1.7m | £5.9m | 2 |
| 2 | Mufasa: The Lion King (US) | Disney | £1.4m | £27.9m | 6 |
| 3 | Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (US) | Paramount | £872,000 | £23.3m | 5 |
| 4 | Flight Risk (US) | Lionsgate | £810,244 | £810,244 | 1 |
| 5 | The Brutalist (US-UK) | Universal | £703,617 | £753,400 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.25
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist made a muscular start at the UK-Ireland box office with £703,617 from just 170 cinemas; as Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown wore the crown for a second weekend.
Disney’s A Complete Unknown added £1.7m – a fall of just 35%. James Mangold’s film now has £5.9m; a forceful tail, boosted by awards attention, could see it chase down the £10.4m of Mangold’s 2006 Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line.
Disney also held the number two spot, with CGI animation Mufasa: The Lion King. Barry Jenkins’ film dropped just 16%, with £1.4m on its sixth weekend taking it to £27.9m. It has now overtaken animation comparisons including How To Train Your Dragon 2 (£27.6m), The LEGO Batman Movie (£27.5m) and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (£27m).
Sonic The Hedgehog 3 kept its claws in the top three, on its fifth weekend in cinemas. The animated title added £872,000 – a 20.7% drop – and is up to £23.3m for Paramount, above the £19.3m of the 2020 first film and with number two’s above figure still just in reach.
Lionsgate action title Flight Risk starring Mark Wahlberg opened to £810,244, from 526 cinemas at a £1,540 average. That is below the £1.3m of director Mel Gibson’s previous film, 2017’s Hacksaw Ridge.
The Brutalist scored an impressive top five spot for Universal, with its £703,617 opening coming at a forceful per-cinema average of £4,139. It has £753,400 including previews, and has already dwarfed the totals of previous Corbet films Vox Lux (£153,505) and The Childhood of a Leader (£169,982).
It has also far surpassed the openings of recent awards titles Anatomy Of A Fall (£290,958), The Zone Of Interest (£353,315) and Triangle Of Sadness (£219,121). Universal may now be able to persuade more exhibitors to make space for the 214-minute film – especially with the potential for F&B sales during the 15-minute interval.
Takings for the top five came in at £5.4m – up 6.6% on the equivalent weekend from last year, although dropping for the fourth consecutive weekend this year. Cinemas are holding on for Universal’s Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy on February 13 as the next release with major box office potential.
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