UK-Ireland top five, June 5-7 Rank Film (origin)DistributorJune 5-7TotalWeek 1 Scary Movie (US) Paramount £4.2m £4.2m 1 2 Backroom
| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | June 5-7 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scary Movie (US) | Paramount | £4.2m | £4.2m | 1 |
| 2 | Backrooms (US) | A24 | £2.3m | £8.7m | 2 |
| 3 | Masters Of The Universe (US) | Sony | £2.1m | £2.6m | 1 |
| 4 | Obsession (US) | Universal | £1.9m | £10.3m | 4 |
| 5 | The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (Australia) |
Piece Of Magic | £1.8m | £2.7m | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.34
Horror of various shades dominated this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, as Scary Movie set a franchise record opening and both Backrooms and Obsession continued their robust performances.
Scary Movie opened to £4.2m for Paramount, from 576 sites at a £7,274 average. The sixth title in the horror parody series has recorded comfortably the biggest UK-Ireland opening for the franchise, ahead of the £3.5m full opening of 2004’s Scary Movie 3.
It has also overtaken the £2.5m total of the most recent title, 2013’s Scary Movie 5, will catch the £4.5m of 2001’s Scary Movie 2 this week, and is a good bet to overtake the £10.5m of the 2000 first film Scary Movie before the end of its run to become the highest-grossing title in the franchise.
Backrooms, the debut horror sensation from US filmmaker Kane Parsons, added £2.3m on its second weekend. This was a 47% drop from its opening weekend, but still enough for second place, and to hold off Amazon MGM Studios’ blockbuster Masters Of The Universe. Backrooms is up to an excellent £8.7m from two weekends for A24, with the UK release managed by Hamish Moseley’s Holdover and Ireland rollout from Dave Reid’s Beach Pictures.
Backrooms has passed the totals of horror titles including Saw 3D and Saw III (both £8.6m), Annabelle: Creation (£8.3m) and Longlegs (£8.1m).
Masters Of The Universe started with £2.1m, from 610 sites at a £3,483 average. Including previews the Amazon MGM Studios title is up to £2.6m, with distribution handled by Sony.
Curry Barker’s horror Obsession posted another outstanding weekend for Universal, increasing its takings for a second consecutive session on its fourth weekend – a rarely achieved box office feat. The film went up 22% across the weekend with £1.9m, including an excellent 48% Saturday-to-Saturday uptick. Its £10.3m cume is more than 18 times its reported $750,000 budget, in UK-Ireland takings alone. The film also scored a £3,710 location average – higher than those for Backrooms and Masters Of The Universe.
It will top the £10.5m total of Jordan Peele’s 2017 horror sensation Get Out, £10.6m of 2023’s Five Nights At Freddy’s, and £11 of Paranormal Activity 2 – the highest-grossing film in that franchise – this week. At current rates Obsession will be looking to go well beyond £15m for its final cume.
Horror-related titles took up four of the top five spots this weekend, with novel opener The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act landing in fifth place with an impressive £1.8m. The feature-length conclusion to the web series about people trapped in a virtual circus took a £3,082 average from 572 sites; and brought in a robust £2.7m total, having opened on Thursday, June 4 through Piece Of Magic Entertainment.
Takings for the top five titles increased 10% to £12.2m, with all five titles taking over £1.5m despite four being in or related to the horror genre. The top five figure was also up 27% on the equivalent weekend from last year, as June so far continues the positive box office movement from the first five months of the year. Contending with the horror holdovers from Wednesday, June 11 is Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster Disclosure Day from Universal.
More to follow.
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