| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Sept 30-Oct 2) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Don’t Worry Darling (Warner Bros) | £1.8m | £6.2m | 2 |
| 2. | Smile (Paramount) |
£1.5m | £1.9m | 1 |
| 3. | Ticket To Paradise (Universal) | £1.3m | £5.2m | 2 |
| 4. | Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (Universal) | £806,794 | £806,794 | 1 |
| 5. | Avatar re-release (Disney) | £735,000 | £2.4m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.12
Olivia Wilde’s thriller Don’t Worry Darling retained the UK-Ireland box office lead for a second weekend with a £1.8m session, holding off the challenge of Paramount horror Smile.
Don’t Worry Darling is now up to a healthy £6.2m, after topping the midweek charts every day from Monday to Thursday.
The Warner Bros film stars Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as a couple living in a stylish utopia in the desert, where the wife begins to question her reality. Its cume to date has passed the totals of several other Florence Pugh films, including 2019’s Midsommar (£2.8m) and Fighting With My Family (£5.9m).
Smile opened to £1.5m at the weekend for Paramount, playing in 518 locations at a £2,834 average. This marks a strong result for an 18-rated film with reported a budget of just $17m, which it has already topped through its US result alone.
Including previews since its Wednesday September 28 opening, the film is up to £1.9m in the UK and Ireland.
Universal romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts held well on its second weekend, falling just 20.6% with £1.3m bringing it to a £5.2m cume.
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, a Universal stablemate, opened to £806,794 from 668 sites at a £1,208 average.
The second and final weekend of Disney’s Avatar re-release saw the film drop 40%, with £735,000 bringing the re-release total to £2.4m. Added to the total from the original 2009 release, the film is up to £96.4m – the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland.
Takings for the top five dropped 3.6% to just below £6.2m; but are still well above the £2.3m low point of two weekends ago. Cinemas will look to a pair of monarchs – Pathé’s The Lost King and eOne’s The Woman King – to maintain this level next weekend.
Minions hive
Disney’s former number one See How They Run dropped 33% on its fourth weekend, with £318,000 taking it to a £4.3m cume.
Despite having been in cinemas for 14 weekends, Universal animation Minions: The Rise Of Gru scored a 6.4% increase on its last session. It added £284,904 to reach a £45.8m cume; and will still harbour hopes – albeit slim ones – of catching the £47.8m total of 2015’s Minions.
Warner Bros’ DC League Of Super-Pets fell a slim 5.5%, with £222,548 on its 10th weekend bringing it to a decent £15.4m cume.
Universal’s David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream dropped 45.6% on its third weekend, adding £204,349. It has crossed the £1m barrier to reach almost £1.2m – a good result for a non-fiction title.
Tad The Lost Explorer And The Curse Of The Mummy scored a 1% increase on last weekend, with £204,000 bringing it to £1.6m from four weekends for Paramount.
Bullet Train leads Sony’s slate, adding £97,000 – a 37.8% drop – on its ninth weekend with a £10.8m cume.
Top Gun: Maverick is still in the skies for Paramount, adding £91,000 on a 19th consecutive weekend in cinemas – a 35% drop – to reach £83m for Paramount as the eighth-highest-grossing film of all time.
Signature Entertainment’s Orphan: First Kill added a further £38,791 on its seventh weekend - a decent stretch for a horror title released through an independent distributor. The film is up to a £2.8m cume.
Elvis is still in cinemas for Warner Bros after 15 weekends, adding £25,778 to reach a £27.6m total.
Universal thriller Nope added £23,439 on its eighth weekend and is up to a £7.9m cume.
Prima Facie, already the highest-grossing event cinema release of all time in the UK and Ireland, added a further £20,708 on an impressive 11th weekend in cinemas for National Theatre Live. That took it beyond a £5m total – the first event cinema title ever to have crossed that mark.
Sony’s horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies put on £14,000 on its fourth weekend and is up to £895,000.
Peter Strickland’s Berlinale 2022 feature Flux Gourmet opened to £13,214 through Curzon, and has £21,399 including previews. The figure is down on the opening for previous titles In Fabric (£42,710 in 2019), The Duke Of Burgundy (£43,155 in 2015), Berberian Sound Studio (£45,516 in 2012) and Katalin Varga (£30,815 in 2009).
Disney’s Bollywood title Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva has become a rare non-English language film to pass the £1m mark, with £12,900 on its fourth weekend bringing it to £1.02m.
Signature Entertainment’s Fall is closing out, with £11,551 in its fifth session bringing it to £689,836 overall.
Universal’s Jaws re-release added £7,506 on its fourth weekend in cinemas, and has taken £927,268 in total.
Playing in 50 sites over the weekend, Anime Ltd’s Venice 2021 title Inu-Oh opened to £4,300 at an £86 average. Including previews, the film has £20,900.
Andela Rostuhar and Davor Rostuhar’s documentary Love Around The World played three showings over the weekend for Munro Films, taking £301. Adding in four previews, the film has £1,979 to date, at an average of £282 per screening.
In last week’s event cinema releases, DIO: Dreamers Never Die brought in £28,877, while RSC Richard III took a £60,378 single-day total, both through Trafalgar Releasing.
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