| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (August 9-11) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | It Ends With Us (Sony) | £4.5m | £4.5m | 1 |
| 2. | Deadpool & Wolverine (Disney) | £4.1m | £43.7m* | 3 |
| 3. | Despicable Me 4 (Universal) | £1.4m | £35.5m | 5 |
| 4. | Trap (Warner Bros) | £1.1m | £1.1m | 1 |
| 5. | Inside Out 2 (Disney) | £619,000 | £54.3m* | 9 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.28
* - figure is through Monday, August 12
Sony’s It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively, wooed audiences at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office with a huge £4.5m, taking top spot and ending the two-week run in first of Deadpool & Wolverine.
The romantic drama based on Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name took an excellent £7,087 location average from 630 sites.
The film’s opening surpasses that of many recent romantic dramas. It is 88% up on The Fault In Our Stars (£2.4m), 155% up on Me Before You (£1.7m) and 509% up on Anyone But You (£733,416).
The latter title, released in late 2023, went on to gross over £11m in the UK and Ireland; Sony will be looking for It Ends With Us to outstrip that following its strong start.
It moved Deadpool & Wolverine down to second spot after two weeks atop the charts. The Disney blockbuster still recorded a strong £4.1m third weekend, dropping 49%. It had reached £43.7m by the end of Monday, August 13, after numerical errors at many cinemas caused delays in reporting figures; Deadpool & Wolverine is now the second-highest-grossing film of 2024, ahead of Dune: Part Two (£39.6m) and behind only Inside Out (£54.3m to date).
Universal’s Despicable Me 4 held third spot with £1.4m, down 44%. The film has £35.5m after five weekends in cinemas, tracking in line with Despicable Me 3 (£35.9m at this stage) and ahead of Minions: The Rise Of Gru (£33.5m) and Despicable Me 2 (£34.7m), which suggests it will end in the £47m-£48m range of those titles.
M Night Shyamalan’s thriller Trap opened to £1.1m for Warner Bros, in 535 sites at a £2,004 location average. It is above the openings of Shyamalan’s last two films – 2021’s Old (£867,431) and 2023’s Knock At The Cabin (£986,320).
Inside Out 2 added £619,000 at the weekend, a 34.1% drop; its £54.3m total includes Monday, August 12 takings. Already the highest-grossing film of 2024 and 37.9% ahead of 2015’s Inside Out (£39.4m), it is now in the top 40 highest-grossing films of all time in the territory, ahead of Frozen 2 (£53.8m) and just behind The Super Mario Bros Movie (£54.7m).
Takings for the top five dropped 11.6% to £11.7m; although figures are 7.4% up on the equivalent weekend from last year, when cinemas were still benefitting from the fourth weekend of the Barbenheimer phenomenon.
Kneecap starts well in Ireland
Twisters added £586,887 on its fourth weekend for Warner Bros – a 50.5% drop that brought it to a decent £12m total. Having opened to £3.1m last month, it will now finish with more than four times that – the rough benchmark for a par performance at the UK-Ireland box office.
Eli Roth’s action adventure Borderlands started with £554,424 for Lionsgate at a £1,019 location average. Including previews, the film has £812,980.
Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap scored an excellent opening in Ireland, the homeland of the band that form the subject of the film. Released by Wildcard Distribution, it made €292,000 (£249,678) from 109 cinemas, at a strong £2,291 site average, with final figures still to come in. The film opens in the UK on August 23 through Curzon.
Harold And The Purple Crayon dropped 51% on its second weekend for Sony, adding £215,080, and has £1.6m including Monday. The studio’s re-release of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 took £208,243 - slightly down on the £253,261 of last weekend’s Spider-Man, but still a decent result for a re-issue, with Spider-Man 3 coming next weekend.
Children’s animation complication Bluey At The Cinema: Family Trip Collection started with £176,929 for Vue Entertainment, playing in 304 cinemas and taking a £582 site average.
Elysian Film Distribution’s re-release of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro added £23,594 on its second weekend, to hit a £171,036 total.
Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One added £17,000 on its eighth weekend, to hit £9.8m - behind the £11.8m of A Quiet Place Part II and £12.2m of A Quiet Place.
Christopher Zalla’s teacher drama Radical starring Eugenio Derbez opened to £15,900 for Altitude, taking £19,317 including previews.
Pamela Adlon’s Babes starring, written and produced by Ilana Glazer opened to a flat £14,074 at a £148 site average, and has £22,048 including previews for Universal.
Jane Schoenbrun’s Sundance title I Saw The TV Glow took £13,813 on its third weekend for Park Circus, and has £202,420 in total.
Sundance crime comedy Thelma starring June Squibb put on £10,369 on its fourth weekend for Universal, and has £266,586 in total.
On its second weekend in cinemas, Modern Films’ UK animation Kensuke’s Kingdom added £10,098 to hit £85,244. Its best-performing sites are spread across the country, including the Forum Hexham in Northumberland, Plaza Cinema Liverpool, Barbican London and Depot Lewes.
Sony’s romantic comedy Fly Me To The Moon added £9,957 on its fifth weekend to reach £1.7m; while Bad Boys: Ride Or Die put on £8,884 and stands at £12m from 10 weekends for the studio.
Indian romantic comedy Bad Newz added £8,753 on an impressive fourth weekend in cinemas, and has £387,788 for Moviegoers Entertainment.
Vertigo Releasing opened two limited titles this weekend: a new cut of Tinto Brass’ Caligula, which made £7,663 including £2,347 from one preview; and Neil Marshall’s Duchess starring Charlotte Kirk, which took £222 at a £25 site average.
Sky Peals, the debut feature of 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow Moin Hussain, started with £7,495, in 28 cinemas at a £268 average. Developed and funded by Film4 and funded by the BFI, the film has £16,917 in total including previews and its BFI London Film Festival screenings.
The Neverending Story put on a further £1,040 on a second weekend of the re-release for Warner Bros, to hit £54,519, in addition to the £2m from the film’s initial 1984 run.
Indian crime drama Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha added £910 on its second weekend, and has £30,552 in total for Bakrania Media.
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