| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Oct 21-23) | Total gross to date | Week |
| 1. | Black Adam (Warner Bros) | £5.6m | £5.6m | 1 |
| 2. | The Banshees Of Inisherin (Disney) | £1.55m | £1.6m | 1 |
| 3. | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (Sony) | £1.5m | £4.9m | 2 |
| 4. | Smile (Paramount) | £995,000 | £9m | 4 |
| 5. | Halloween Ends (Universal) | £703,033 | £3.7m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.15
Warner Bros’ Black Adam topped the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend with £5.6m, the highest opening for a film in the territory since early July.
Playing in 664 locations, Black Adam also became the first film to take over £1m on each day of a weekend since Disney’s Thor: Love And Thunder, which topped the charts with a £9.1m weekend from July 8-10.
Black Adam brought in £1.8m on Friday, £2.1m on Saturday and £1.7m on Sunday. Its weekend location average stood at a solid £8,417.
The £5.6m figure is the sixth-highest opening from 11 titles in the DC Extended Universe – the superhero franchise often placed in comparison to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Black Adam tops the £4.1m opening of 2019’s Shazam! and £5.2m of 2018’s Aquaman, and slots in behind the £6.3m of 2017’s Wonder Woman.
Both Aquaman and Wonder Woman topped the £20m mark. Similarly led by a major star in Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Black Adam will be aiming to pass that same point across its run.
Martin McDonagh’s Venice 2022 title The Banshees Of Inisherin started with £1.55m from 550 locations, at an average of £2,818. Including previews, the film has £1.64m. In Ireland alone, the film was the number one title this weekend.
It is down on the £2.16m opening and £4,463 average of McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri from January 2018; but comfortably up on the £818,449 start of 2012’s Seven Psychopaths.
Those two films finished on £15.3m and £3.2m respectively; Banshees will be targeting a point in-between them, with the £10m mark a possibility if it holds well.
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile posted an excellent £1.5m second weekend, dropping just 11.8%, to hold third place in the chart for Sony. The film is up to £4.9m, and will look to be the latest family-oriented title this year to show a long tail.
Smile dropped a slim 30% for Paramount on its fourth weekend, with £995,000 taking it to just over £9m. It is now the highest-grossing horror film of the year, ahead of Nope (£8m) and Scream (£7.6m).
Last weekend’s number one Halloween Ends dropped to fifth place, with a £703,033 weekend representing a 67% fall on its opening session. It is now up to £3.7m for Universal, behind 2018’s Halloween (£5.8m) but ahead of last year’s Halloween Kills (£3.2m) at the same stage.
Two new titles in the top five plus two more on the second weekends have rejuvenated the box office after a slow summer. The top five total was £10.3m, topping £10m for the first time since Thor: Love And Thunder came out in July when it was £16.3m.
Strong non-English language performance
Universal romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise dropped 40% on its fifth weekend, with £375,993 taking it to a £8.6m cume.
eOne’s The Woman King starring Viola Davis dropped 51.8% on its third weekend, with £293,977 taking it to just below £3m in total.
Warner Bros’ former number one Don’t Worry Darling fell 53.6% on its fifth weekend, with £283,458 bringing it to just shy of £10m – a strong result on the Florence Pugh- and Harry Styles-starring thriller.
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris fell 47% on its fourth session for Universal, with £208,783 bringing it to a £3.9m total.
Pakistani action feature The Legend Of Maula Jatt added £198,880 on its second weekend – a drop of just 25.7%, outperforming most other holdovers. The film is now up to £756,094, with a strong chance of crossing the £1m mark rarely reached by non-English language titles.
Park Chan-wook’s Cannes 2022 thriller Decision To Leave made a strong start for Mubi, opening to £190,933 from 114 sites. This brought a £1,675 average – a great performance for a non-English language title. Including previews, the film has £410,107.
The weekend opening tops the £142,012 from 126 sites of Mubi stablemate The Worst Person In The World from March this year. That film went on to an excellent £1.1m total; Mubi will be aiming for a similar seven-figure performance from the South Korean Oscar entry.
Still in cinemas after 17 weekends, Minions: The Rise Of Gru added £96,755 – a drop of just 18%. It is now up to £46.2m, inching towards the £47.8m of 2015’s Minions.
Emily fell 67.7% on its second weekend, bringing in £82,590 for Warner Bros to reach a moderate £606,936.
Distributed by Warner Bros on behalf of Pathé, Stephen Frears’ The Lost King dropped 62.9% on its third weekend, with £72,669 taking it to just short of £1.2m.
Warner Bros’ animation DC League Of Super-Pets added £65,551 – a drop of just 22.6% - on its 13th weekend in cinemas, to reach a healthy £15.7m.
In event cinema, Trafalgar Releasing’s Medea – Met Opera 2022 brought in £51,920 from 130 sites on Saturday, plus a few Sunday screenings.
David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream added £28,419 on its sixth session for Universal, and is up to almost £1.6m.
Paramount animation Tad The Lost Explorer And The Curse Of The Mummy added £25,000 on its seventh weekend in cinemas, and is up to £1.8m total.
Repertory distributor Park Circus opened a 40th-anniversary 4k restoration of Poltergeist to £13,908; while its 35th-anniversary re-release of The Lost Boys added £6,371 to reach £107,931 from two sessions.
2022 behemoth Top Gun: Maverick is finally dropping off Screen’s weekly box office tracking, after adding £11,000 on its 22nd weekend in cinemas to reach £83.4m total. The Paramount blockbuster finishes as the eighth-highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland, ahead of 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi with £82.7m and behind 2019’s Avengers: Endgame with £88.7m.
Paramount’s Sinead O’Connor documentary Nothing Compares added £7,300 in its third weekend to reach a £101,000 cume.
Playing in 12 sites, Signature Entertainment sci-fi Vesper started with £3,055.
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