| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Aug 11-13) | Total gross to date | Week |
| 1. | Barbie (Warner Bros) | £4.4m | £78.2m | 4 |
| 2. | Oppenheimer (Universal) | £3.2m | £45.8m | 4 |
| 3. | Meg 2: The Trench (Warner Bros) | £1.6m | £7.6m | 2 |
| 4. | Haunted Mansion (Disney) | £1m | £1m | 1 |
| 5. | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount) | £795,000 | £5.7m | 2 |
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is approaching the £80m mark at the UK-Ireland box office, after a £4.4m weekend saw it hold top spot for the fourth consecutive session.
Barbie dropped 44.3% on its previous session – its biggest drop to date, but enough to propel it to an outstanding £78.2m total from four weekends in cinemas.
That makes Barbie the 11th -highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland, and a sure-fire bet to overtake Star Wars: The Last Jedi (£82.7m) in 10th place before the end of its run.
It will also overtake Titanic (£82.8m) and likely Avengers: Endgame (£88.7m), while several of the six films to have grossed more than £90m may even be within reach.
Barbie has also become the highest-grossing film ever in the UK and Ireland for Warner Bros, overtaking 2011’s Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (£73.1m).
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer held better than Barbie for the third consecutive weekend. The Universal historical drama dropped 43% on its previous session, with a fourth weekend of almost £3.2m taking it to a £45.8m total. It should pass the £49.3m of Nolan’s The Dark Knight within the next week; and may even chase down the £56.8m of Dunkirk to become the director’s highest-grossing film of all time.
After a sharp start, Meg 2: The Trench dropped 58.9% across its second weekend for Warner Bros, adding £1.6m to reach a £7.6m cume. The shark thriller will need a long tail to catch the £15.9m of 2018 first film The Meg.
Haunted Mansion opened its doors to just shy of £1m for Disney, from 535 sites at a £1,845 average. Final figures are still to come, which should push its opening result beyond the £1m mark.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem added £795,000 on its second weekend for Paramount – a 52% drop – and is up to £5.7m total.
Top five takings dropped 45.1% compared to last weekend, down to £10.9m having been at £34.4m for the opening weekend of Barbie and Oppenheimer. However the figures are still more than double the £4.9m for the comparative weekend last year, indicating that Barbenheimer is still having an effect upon UK audiences.
Mission record is possible
It was a slow start for Sony’s Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story, which opened to £713,578. The film has just over £1m including previews.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is closing in on becoming the highest-grossing title in the Mission: Impossible series. It added £568,000 on its fifth weekend – a 45.3% drop – and is up to almost £24.1m. It should overtake the £24.4m of Mission: Impossible Fallout by this time next week.
Disney’s Elemental dropped 47.3% on its sixth session, with £440,000 taking it to a decent £15.2m total.
Moviegoers Entertainment’s romantic comedy Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani continued its excellent run into a third weekend, falling just 21.1% with £212,292 taking it to a £1.4m cume. It took a £3,033 location average from just 63 sites – a strong result for a third weekend on a non-English language film – and has now passed the £1.3m of 2018 Indian title Sanju.
Altitude’s horror Talk To Me was among the best-performing holdovers of the weekend, dropping 40% with £151,000 taking it to a cume just shy of £1.8m.
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny added £74,000 on its seventh weekend for Disney – a 61.3% drop – and is up to £19.8m total, less than half of the £40.3m of 2008’s The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.
Sony’s Insidious: The Red Door added a further £65,320 – a 47.2% drop – and is up to £7.9m, already the highest-grossing title in the Insidious series.
Lionsgate’s Joy Ride dropped 82.2% on its second weekend, adding £46,048 to reach a £635,934 total.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse put on a further £36,428 for Sony. It is now up to almost £30.5m, still with a chance of overtaking the £30.7m of 2017’s live-action Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Park Circus’ re-release of Enter The Dragon took £36,159 on its opening weekend.
Vertigo Releasing opened Puffin Rock, a family animation from Oscar-nominated studio Cartoon Saloon, to £28,343 from 303 locations at a £94 average.
Emanuele Crialese’s Venice 2022 title L’Immensita starring Penelope Cruz opened to £25,171 – the second-biggest opening of the year for distributor Curzon. It took a decent £868 location average, and has £28,225 including previews.
After 19 weekends in cinemas, Universal’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is finally nearing the end of its run. It dropped 60% on its last session, adding £17,808 to reach £54.4m as the second-highest-grossing film of the year.
Playing in kids screenings with £2.49 tickets, Miracle/Dazzler’s family animation Katak: The Brave Beluga took £15,941. It will expand to the whole Cineworld circuit from this Friday.
Universal’s Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken added £14,557 on its seventh weekend, and is closing out with a £2.4m total.
Event cinema release Mamamoo: The My Con Movie brought in £14,722 from screenings on Wednesday and Saturday for Trafalgar Releasing.
Norwegian animation Just Super added £5,872 on its second weekend for Signature Entertainment, to reach a £64,757 total.
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