| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Mar 31-Apr 2) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (eOne) | £3.4m | £3.5m | 1 |
| 2. | John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate) | £2.6m | £10.1m | 2 |
| 3. | Mummies (Warner Bros) | £647,234 | £647,234 | 1 |
| 4. | Shazam! Fury Of The Gods (Warner Bros) | £468,853 | £4.9m | 3 |
| 5. | Creed III (Warner Bros) | £424,645 | £13.5m | 5 |
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Action-adventure film Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves has opened top of the UK-Ireland box office with a £3.4m weekend.
The eOne title took a £4,940 average from 680 cinemas. It is up to £3.5m in total, with the film having made over £100,000 in previews for hospital charity MediCinema. Honour Among Thieves has already surpassed the £2.1m total of 2001’s Dungeons & Dragons, also based on the popular tabletop game but not affiliated with this new film.
Last weekend’s number one John Wick: Chapter 4 held well for Lionsgate, dropping 46% - a decent result from its strong opening - with £2.6m taking it to £10.1m to date. It will pass the £10.4m total of 2019’s John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum within the next week to become the highest-grossing film of the franchise, having already soared past the £6m of 2017’s John Wick: Chapter Two and £1.6m of 2015’s John Wick.
Warner Bros opened family animation Mummies to £647,234 this weekend, from 657 sites at a £985 location average.
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods added £468,853 on its third weekend, a 57.4% drop that brought it to a £4.9m total for Warner Bros. It will finish short of the £13.4m of Shazam! from 2019.
Creed III dropped 41.9% on its fifth session with £424,645. The boxing title is now up to £13.5m for Warner Bros, way beyond the £5.9m of the 2016 first film and £10.1m of the 2018 sequel.
Takings for the top five fell a slim 3% to £7.5m. The figure is still well down on the £13.7m peak for 2023 in mid-February; cinemas will look to Universal’s Super Mario Bros. and Warner Bros’ Air to boost their results over the Easter holidays.
Rye result
Scream VI drops out of the top five after four weekends, despite a strong hold, falling only 34.1%. The Paramount film added £394,000 to its total to reach almost £7m, currently the fourth-highest-grossing of the franchise so far and coming up on the £7.6m of last year’s Scream.
A 66% uptick on Friday, March 31 contributed to a £273,942 weekend for Universal’s Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, which fell 38% overall across its ninth session. The animated title now has £24.9m, and should finish more than £10m ahead of the £15.6m of 2011’s Puss In Boots.
Geriatric ward drama Allelujah added £271,027 on its third weekend – a 41.4% drop – to hit almost £2.9m for Pathe.
Action-adventure 65 starring Adam Driver leads Sony’s slate, adding £135,762 – a 53.9% drop – to reach £3.2m from four weekends.
Disney’s Searchlight Pictures title Rye Lane was among the best-performing holdovers of the weekend, adding £123,571 on its third session - a drop of just 18%. The romantic comedy, directed by Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 Raine Allen-Miller, is up to £824,157; further strong holds will see it cross the £1m mark.
Studiocanal’s romantic comedy What’s Love Got To Do With It? dropped 41.7% on its sixth weekend in cinemas, with £71,713 bringing it to a £4.6m cume.
Universal’s Cocaine Bear dropped 42% on its sixth weekend, adding £65,490 to reach a £5.6m total.
On the weekend when he picked up the Olivier award for best actor for A Streetcar Named Desire, Screen Star of Tomorrow 2020 Paul Mescal proved his box office power too, with BFI Distribution’s God’s Creatures opening to £56,893 from just 53 cinemas at a £1,073 average. Including previews the film has £65,225.
Disney’s Marvel blockbuster Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania dropped 54% on its seventh weekend, adding £53,117 to reach a £19.2m total. It has passed the £17.8m of 2018’s Ant-Man And The Wasp and £16.3m of 2016’s Ant-Man, and is currently the 23rd -highest-grossing of 31 Marvel Cinematic Universe films to date (Captain America: The Winter Soldier is next ahead with £19.4m).
Released by Miracle Comms, animation Little Eggs African Rescue started with £52,306 from 433 screens at an average of £121.
Paramount’s 80 For Brady fell 75.4% on its second weekend, adding £33,000 to hit £315,000 total.
Infinity Pool fell 65% across its second weekend, adding £29,115 to reach £181,174 for Universal.
Picturehouse Entertainment opened Dominik Moll’s Cannes 2022 title The Night Of The 12th to £28,282 from 37 sites at a £764 average. Including previews, the Cesar- and Lumiere-winning title has £40,880.
Animation Epic Tails added £27,414 for Studiocanal on its eighth session, and is up to a £2.2m total.
Ti West’s Pearl put on a further £25,179 on its third session for Universal, reaching £432,462; while Universal stablemate Champions added £20,119 on its fourth weekend, reaching £830,797.
Sky Cinema’s A Good Person directed by Zach Braff and starring Florence Pugh dropped 67% on its second weekend, adding £23,000 to reach a £152,000 total.
Sony’s Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical may finally be nearing the end of a 19-weekend run, adding £18,185 to reach an excellent £27.9m cume.
Three Colours: Blue, Curzon’s latest re-release of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s psychological drama trilogy, started with £15,125 from 34 sites at a £426 average. The film took £446,454 on its original 1993 release, through Artificial Eye.
Animation Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman opened to £12,844 from 20 sites for Modern Films, at an average of £642.
All The Anime Ltd’s re-release of Makoto Shinkai’s 2017 hit Your Name has taken £31,700 since its Wednesday 29 opening, including BFI Imax screenings.
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