| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (May 13-May 15) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (Disney) | £5.7m | £30.4m | 2 |
| 2. | Downton Abbey: A New Era (Universal) | £970,000 | £10.4m | 3 |
| 3. | Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) | £681,351 | £681,351 | 1 |
| 4. | Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount) | £517,000 | £517,000 | 7 |
| 5. | Little Mix Live – The Final Show (For Now) (CinemaLive) | £356,000 | £356,000 | 1 |
Disney’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness easily held on to the top spot at the UK-Ireland box office, grossing £5.7m in its second weekend.
Its box office total now stands at £30.4m, meaning that the sequel has already surpassed the £23.2m that the first Doctor Strange took in 2016. Ticket sales for Multiverse dropped 62% in its second weekend.
Elsewhere, Universal’s Downton Abbey held on to second place in its third weekend, falling 40% on its previous session to add another £970,000 and bring its total to £10.4m.
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s adventure comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once starring Michelle Yeoh took third place for A24, generating £681,351 over its opening weekend from 148 sites.
Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2 showed staying power in its seventh weekend, bringing in £517,000 - an 18% drop – for a £24.2 cume.
CinemaLive’s event cinema release of Little Mix Live – The Final Show (For Now), which played at 430 sites on Saturday night, took fifth place. The last concert of pop group’s Confetti tour from London’s O2 arena grossed £356,800.
Three other holdovers followed: Paramount’s The Lost City, earned £348,000, bringing it to £9.3 million after five weekends; Universal animation The Bad Guys generated £ 304,695 on seventh weekend for a £11.4 million total so far; and Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore scored £268,338 in its sixth weekend, helping its total to hit £20 million mark.
Universal’s launch of Blumhouse horror Firestarter largely failed to set the box office alight. The film about a young girl who has the power to set things on fire with her mind debuted over the weekend with £250,006.
The Northman added £119,148 for Universal on its fifth weekend, bringing its cume to £4.3m.
War drama Operation Mincemeat added £111,359 for Warner Bros, lifting its total to £4.8m after five sessions.
Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad’s debut feature The Quiet Girl, which launched to acclaim in the Generation section at the 2022 Berlinale, opened in 89 locations – 60 in Ireland and 29 in the UK. Released through Breakout Pictures, it grossed £73,601 over its first weekend. Previews added another £11,580, taking its cume to £85,190.
Elsewhere, Bollywood distributor Dreamz Entertainment opened action title Sarkaru Vaari Paata in 53 sites. Depicting a series of Indian banking scams, it took £72,815 over the weekend. The film launched on 11 May with £68,891, helping its first week cume to £178,543.
Sony opened Rosalind Ross’ religious drama Father Stu in 205 locations. But the Mark Wahlberg film to convert many audiences, taking £48,000. Its total stands at £60,000 when previews are factored in.
Trafalgar Releasing continued screenings of Andrew Dominik’s second Nick Cave documentary This Much I Know To Be True in 47 sites. Having opened with £121,260 on May 11, its total stood at £153,579 by the end of the weekend.
Picturehouse Entertainment launched Gaspar Noé’s Vortex in 32 locations, where it generated £12,000 over the weekend. The film, which debuted in the Cannes Premiere strand at last year’s festival, took £25,000 including previews.
Meanwhile, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, released by Mubi, crossed the £1m box office milestone thanks to a £10,321 haul in its eighth weekend.
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