| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Oct 14-16) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Halloween Ends (Universal) | £2.1m | £2.1m | 1 |
| 2. | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (Sony) | £1.7m | £2.8m | 1 |
| 3. | Smile (Paramount) | £1.4m | £7.2m | 3 |
| 4. | Ticket To Paradise (Universal) | £617,041 | £7.8m | 4 |
| 5. | Don’t Worry Darling (Warner Bros) | £610,841 | £9.4m | 4 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.11
Universal’s horror Halloween Ends scared off the competition at the weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, hitting the top spot with £2.1m in its opening weekend from 576 locations, for a £3,646 average.
The feature is the 12th in the Halloween franchise, and the third and final in its current reboot, with David Gordon Green writing and directing the trilogy. A, supposedly, final showdown takes place between Jamie Lee Curtis as former babysitter Laurie and her arch-nemesis.
It has fallen shy of 2018’s Halloween, opening to £2.7m from 538 cinema, but ahead of sequel Halloween Kills, that debuted to £1.6m from 501 cinemas in October 2021. It has also opened ahead of fellow horror Smile, that opened to £1.5m (September 30-October 2).
Josh Gordon and Will Speck’s Javier Bardem-led family comedy Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile snapped up second place at the UK-Ireland box office in its first outing, with £1.7m from 660 locations for Sony Pictures Entertainment.
This gives a location average of £2,756. This figure rises to £2.8m, including £1.1m from previews. The feature mixes live action with computer animation, and is based on Bernard Warber’s 1965 children’s story of the same name which follows a crocodile living in New York City. Canadian singer Shawn Mendes voices the title character, while Constance Wu, Winslow Fegley, Scoot McNairy and Brett Gelman also star, with music from The Greatest Showman composers.
Recent family-focused successes at the UK-Ireland box office include Minions: The Rise Of Gru that took £10.4m in its opening weekend for Universal from 637 locations back in July (£16,327 site average) and Warner Bros’ DC League Of Super-Pets took £2.6m from 725 locations in its debut in August (£3,632 site average). Reptile rival Jurassic World Dominion took £12.1m from 709 locations (£17,066 site average) back in June.
Holdovers dominate
The box office continued to be mostly dominated by holdovers. In its third weekend, Smile continues to bring in joy for Paramount with £1.4m, a similar figure to the opening weekend and a 17% drop on its second session, with its cumulative figure now at £7.2m.
Universal’s Ticket To Paradise continues its ride in the top five with £617,041 in its fourth weekend, bringing its total up to £7.8m.
Don’t Worry Darling took £610,841 in its fourth weekend for Warner Bros, for a total of £9.4m.
The Woman King just misses out on a top five place, with £610,012 for eOne in its second weekend, down 34% on its opening session. Its overall figure stands at £2.4m.
In its second weekend, Disney’s Amsterdam has taken £327,823, down 48% on its opening, for a total of £1.3m.
The Legend of Maula Jatt, a remake of a 1969 Pakistani cult classic about a young noble boy who is sent to a poor village after his parents are killed, debuted for Moviegoers Entertainment at £267,646 from 79 locations, averaging £3,388, with an additional £47,573 from its Thursday opening, bringing its total to £315,219.
Warner Bros’ Emily – starring Emma Mackey as Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë – brought in a modest £255,829 in its debut weekend from 564 locations, for an average of £454. Its total is plumped up to £276,322, with £20,493 in previews.
On its second weekend, Warner Bros’ The Lost King grossed £195,942, bringing its total to £880,109.
Universal’s Minions: The Rise Of Gru continues to draw in audiences in its 16th weekend, with £118,467, for an overall of £46m.
In its sixth session, Disney’s See How They Run has £63,521, down 44% on its previous weekend, for a total of £4.7m.
Now on weekend number 12, DC League of Super-pets took an admirable £84,732 for Warner Bros, with an overall figure of £15.6m.
Universal’sMoonage Daydream grossed £58,604 in its fifth weekend, now totalling £1.5m.
Paramount’s Tad The Lost Explorer And The Curse Of The Mummy took £44,000 in its sixth weekend, bringing its gross total up to £1.7m.
In its 11th session, Sony’sBullet Train has now arrived at a £10.9m total, after taking £23,000.
In its second weekend, Paramount’s Sinead O’Connor doc tookNothing Compares£22,000, a 31% drop from the first session, for a total of £79,000.
Paramount’sTop Gun Maverick has £22,000 in its 21st session, with a cumulative gross of £83.4m.
A 35th anniversary 4k restoration of The Lost Boys took £20,706 for Park Circus, at 77 sites, for a £268 average.
Universal’s Vengeance took £6,960 in its second weekend, with its total at £62,496.
Shaunak Sen’s Sundance premiere All That Breathes took £3,345 from seven sites for Dogwoof in its opening weekend, for an average of £478. Its total including previews is £8,840. The Hindi-language documentary follows two brothers devoted to protecting a bird known as the Black Kite, against the backdrop of a troubled Delhi, and scooped the Grand Jury Prize in world cinema at Sundance.
Marcos Mereles’ BFI London Film Festival 2021 premiere All Is Vanity took £505 from two sites for Verve Pictures in its first weekend, for an average of £253.
Also released over the weekend wereBarbie: Mermaid Power through National Amusements; Dr Who Am I through Kaleidoscope; andCode Name: Tiranga through Reliance Entertainment.
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