| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (July 26-28) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Deadpool & Wolverine (Disney) | £12.6m | £17.3m | 1 |
| 2. | Despicable Me 4 (Universal) | £3.1m | £25.3m | 3 |
| 3. | Twisters (Warner Bros) | £1.5m | £7.9m | 2 |
| 4. | Inside Out 2 (Disney) | £1.1m | £50.1m | 7 |
| 5. | Longlegs (Black Bear) | £723,000 | £5.7m | 3 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.28
Deadpool & Wolverine roared into life at the UK-Ireland box office with a £12.6m opening – the biggest of the year, and biggest for a Marvel Cinematic Universe title for over two years.
Playing in over 700 cinemas, the film took a location average around £18,000 for Disney, with final figures still to come. Deadpool & Wolverine has £17.3m in total having opened on Thursday, July 25.
It tops the £11.3m start of Inside Out 2 from last month, and £9.3m of Dune: Part Two from March. It is also the biggest opening for an MCU film since the £14.9m of Doctor Strange And The Multiverse Of Madness in May 2022, topping the £12.4m of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and £9.1m of Thor: Love And Thunder.
The Doctor Strange title took £42m by the end of its run; Disney will hope to push Deadpool & Wolverine past £40m, which would be a record for a Deadpool title.
Its opening is ahead of the £10m of 2016’s Deadpool and the £7.7m of 2018’s Deadpool 2.
It knocked Universal’s Despicable Me 4 off top spot on its third weekend. The animated franchise title added £3.1m – a 37% drop that brought it to £25.3m total. That is slightly behind the £25.6m of 2017’s Despicable Me 3 at the same stage; that film went on to be the highest-grossing title of the franchise with £47.9m, boding well for similar figures on number 4.
Amid strong competition and sunny weather, Twisters added £1.5m on its second weekend for Warner Bros. The 52.3% drop took it to £7.9m total, and it should pass the £10m mark within the next fortnight.
Inside Out 2 posted a decent hold on its seventh weekend, dropping just 28%. Its £1.1m weekend took it beyond the £50m mark to £50.1m, now the 49th -highest-grossing film of all time in the territory. It is currently the highest-grossing 2024 release, well ahead of the £39.6m of Dune: Part Two.
Black Bear’s Longlegs added £723,000 on its third weekend, a 45% drop. It has a strong £5.7m to date.
Takings for the top five were up 68% from last weekend, in a positive sign for cinemas after a tough Q2. However, figures were still down 23.7% on the equivalent weekend from last year, the second weekend of the Barbenheimer phenomenon.
TV glows brightly
A Quiet Place: Day One leads Paramount’s slate, adding £168,000 on its sixth weekend. It has £9.5m in total, and will likely end slightly short of the £11.8m of A Quiet Place Part II and £12.2m of A Quiet Place.
Indian romantic comedy Bad Newz added £59,607 on its second weekend – a drop of 64% that brought it to £307,838 in total for Moviegoers Entertainment.
Jane Schoenbrun’s Sundance 2024 thriller I Saw The TV Glow was a strong performer on its opening weekend for Park Circus. The film took £59,149 from just 45 sites at a £1,314 location average.
IF added £40,000 on its 11th weekend in cinemas for Paramount, and has a decent £12.3m in total.
Thelma dropped 61% on its second weekend for Universal, with £25,574 taking it to a low £171,839.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness added £17,719 on its fifth weekend for Disney, and has £1.1m in total – down on the £7.6m of the director’s previous title Poor Things from earlier this year.
About Dry Grasses started with £17,411 for Picturehouse Entertainment, from 38 sites at an average of £458. Including previews it has £26,379.
National Theatre Live’s Present Laughter starring Andrew Scott added £15,153 on its second weekend in cinemas, and has £768,110 in total.
After six weekends in cinemas Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders has £3.8m, having added £14,594 in its latest session for Universal.
Ti West’s MaXXXine is nearing the end of its run for Universal. It added £11,475 on its fourth session to hit £974,096 – more than double the £477,076 of 2023’s Pearl and ahead of the £641,792 of 2022’s X.
Levan Akin’s Crossing put on a further £10,823 for Mubi and has £88,705 from two sessions – more than three times more than the £24,891 of the director’s 2020 title And Then We Danced, although that film was released just as the pandemic hit.
Altitude music documentary blur: To The End added £5,064 on its second session, and has £252,247 across its lifetime, predominantly from its event release the previous weekend.
The Chariots Of Fire re-release took £3,017 from 11 sites for Park Circus.
Tatiana Huezo’s The Echo opened to £993 from seven screens for New wave, and has £1,156 including previews.
Paramount’s Forrest Gump re-release is up to £53,000 from two weekends.
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