UK-Ireland top five, August 8-10 Rank Film (origin) Distributor August 8-10 Total Week 1 Weapons (US) Warner Bros £2.6m £2.8m
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | August 8-10 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weapons (US) | Warner Bros | £2.6m | £2.8m | 1 |
| 2 | Freakier Friday (US) |
Disney | £1.8m | £1.8m | 1 |
| 3 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps (US) |
Disney | £1.4m | £19m | 3 |
| 4 | The Naked Gun (US) | Paramount | £1.1m | £4.4m | 2 |
| 5 | The Bad Guys 2 (US) | Universal | £812,771 | £7.4m | 3 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35
Warner Bros’ Weapons shot to the top of the UK-Ireland box office, holding off the challenge of fellow opener Freakier Friday from Disney.
Weapons started with £2.6m from 630 cinemas at a £4,063 average – a sturdy start for an 18-rated film. For comparison, Sony horror Bring Her Back – also 18-rated – started with £500,320 the previous weekend.
Weapons has £2.8m including previews; Warner Bros will hope to push the title towards the £10m mark across its run with positive word-of-mouth.
Freakier Friday started with £1.8m for Disney – ahead of the £1.2m start of the 2003 film, which ended on £6.6m. Disney will be looking to beat that mark with the novel title.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps added £1.4m on its third weekend for Disney – a 55% drop that brought it past the £19m mark. It has now topped the totals of two Disney superhero releases from earlier this year, Thunderbolts* (£16.2m) and Captain America: Brave New World (£18m).
The Naked Gun fell back 40% on its second weekend for Paramount, with £1.1m taking it to £4.4m total. It is closing in on the £5.3m of 1994’s The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.
Animated sequel The Bad Guys 2 dropped 39% on its third weekend, with £812,771 bringing it to £7.4m total for Universal. It is slightly behind the 2022 first film, which added £807,324 on its third session for £7.9m total.
Takings for the top five came in at £7.6m – down 13% on last weekend, and down a concerning 35% on the equivalent weekend from last year. Although monthly year-on-year takings continue to rise, it has been a slower August so far and cinemas will need upcoming titles such as Universal’s Nobody 2 to perform well.
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Jurassic World Rebirth dropped 48% on its sixth session for Universal, with £663,735. It now has £33.4m total, moving closer to the £35.1m of 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion, the lowest of the three Jurassic World titles.
Superman dropped out of the top five on its fifth weekend, adding £650,000 – a 48% drop. The Warner Bros title has topped £26m, behind only three of the 15 films from the previous DC Extended Universe and with the £30m of fellow Superman origin story Man Of Steel still just about in reach.
F1: The Movie added £281,000 on its seventh weekend for Warner Bros – a 42% drop that brought it to £21.4m total, just behind the £21.5m of Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, also starring Brad Pitt.
Indian romance Saiyaara is now in the top five highest-grossing Indian films in the territory with £2.6m total. The Yash Raj Films release added £244,273 on its latest session – a 50% drop.
Steven Leckart’s Stans, a portrayal of rap star Eminem through the eyes of his most devoted fans, started with £212,163 – a solid start for a documentary, from 260 sites at an £860 average. The Trafalgar Releasing title has a decent £352,326 including previews.
Animation Smurfs added £195,000 on its third weekend for Paramount – a 45% drop that brought it to just brief of £4.5m, but still down on the three previous Smurfs films since 2011.
Bring Her Back starring Sally Hawkins leads Sony’s horror-laden slate, and took £117,944 on its second session – a 76% drop that brought it to £1.7m total.
Universal’s How To Train Your Dragon live action remake added £93,678 on its ninth weekend in cinemas – a 49% drop that brought it to £22.4m. It will finish as the second-highest-grossing title of the franchise, behind How To Train Your Dragon 2 (£25.6m).
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Sony’s I Know What You Did Last Summer remake added £53,301 on its fourth weekend, and has £2.8m in total.
Park Circus’s 30th anniversary re-release of Sense And Sensibility brought in £45,997 this weekend from 387 sites at a £119 average, with further midweek bookings from sites that didn’t screen at the weekend.
The Ballad Of Wallis Island again held better than most holdovers. The Universal comedy drama added £41,230 on an impressive eleventh weekend in cinemas – a drop of just 18%, that brought it to a £2.3m total.
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later added £27,594 on its eighth weekend in cinemas for Sony, and has a £15.5m cume – more than the first two films in the series combined.
Paramount comedy Friendship starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd added £18,000 on its fourth weekend and has £583,000 total.
Curzon’s Amadeus re-release added £12,648 on a third weekend in cinemas, and has £144,658 in total.
Indian comedy Son Of Sardaar 2 added £11,725 on its second weekend, and has £120,671 in total for Moviegoers Entertainment.
Julien Colonna’s Cannes Un Certain Regard 2024 crime drama The Kingdom started with £10,308 for Vertigo Releasing.
Romantic drama Young Hearts opened to £5,993 for Peccadillo Pictures, with £7,886 including previews.
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