| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Oct 4-6) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Joker: Folie à Deux (Warner Bros) | £5.7m | £5.7m | 1 |
| 2. | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros) | £1.1m | £22.8m | 5 |
| 3. | Speak No Evil (Universal) | £408,214 | £4.8m | 4 |
| 4. | The Substance (Mubi) | £358,000 | £2.2m | 3 |
| 5. | The Outrun (Studiocanal) | £319,542 | £1.1m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.31
Warner Bros blockbuster Joker: Folie à Deux topped the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend; but its £5.7m start was 54.9% down on the £12.6m opening of the 2019 first film.
Folie à Deux took an £7,826 average from 725 cinemas – also down 58.2% on the £18,734 average from 671 sites of Joker.
A potential yardstick for Folie à Deux’s performance is 2021 comic book sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which opened to £6.2m and ended on £18.1m.
Warner Bros achieved a box office one-two this weekend, with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dropping down a place following four weeks in top spot. Tim Burton’s comedy-horror sequel took £1.1m - a 37.8% drop - and is up to £22.8m in total.
Universal’s Blumhouse Productions horror Speak No Evil is putting in a good showing, dropping 37% on its fourth session with £408,214 taking it to £4.8m.
Coralie Fargeat’s body horror The Substance posted the best hold of all new films in the top 20, dropping just 15% across its third weekend in cinemas. It added £358,000 from 411 cinemas with an £871 location average up on last weekend; and has £2.2m in total, as the second-highest-grossing title ever in the territory for distributor Mubi, behind only Priscilla (£3.3m) from January.
Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan also posted a decent hold, falling just 19.6% with £319,542 taking it to £1.1m from two weekends for Studiocanal.
Cumulative takings for the top five titles rose 114.4% to £7.9m – a positive move from last weekend’s two-year low, but still down on projected levels due to Joker: Folie à Deux’s underperformance. An increasing number of pre-Halloween horror titles offer the best chance of returns next weekend, including Warner Bros’ Salem’s Lot; plus Paramount’s Transformers One and Park Circus’ Gladiator re-release.
Different Man opens
Despicable Me 4 dropped out of the top five on its 13th weekend in cinemas; but still added a further £295,462. The Illumination animation is up to £47.4m, just behind Despicable Me 2 (£47.5m), Minions (£47.8m) and Despicable Me 3 (£47.9m), and ahead of Minions: The Rise Of Gru (£47m).
Sky Cinema title Lee, released by Studiocanal, added £237,762 on its fourth weekend – a 40.7% drop that took it to £3.4m total.
Signature Entertainment’s animation 200% Wolf continues to draw family audiences, putting on £124,589 on its third weekend to hit £596,053.
Universal opened Aaron Schimberg’s Sundance title A Different Man starring Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve to £88,811, at a £415 site average. The film has £88,947 including previews.
Alexandre Aja’s horror Never Let Go leads Lionsgate’s slate, adding £68,124 on its second weekend after a 73% drop, and hitting £520,271 cume.
Deadpool & Wolverine continues to lead Disney’s slate, adding £66,470 on its 11th weekend in cinemas to hit £57.5m.
Chinese-Spanish animation Dragonkeeper added £60,789 on its second weekend in cinemas, and has £211,086 for Vertigo Releasing.
Warner Bros’ Interstellar re-release added £58,678 on its third weekend, and is up to £1.1m – a strong total for a re-release, in light of the £21.8m of the 2014 original run.
With 102 screenings across Saturday and Sunday, The Met’s Les Contes d’Hoffman took £53,692 for Trafalgar Releasing, with delayed live and encore screenings to come.
The Critic starring Ian McKellan fell 59% on its fourth session, with £46,612 taking it to £1.4m.
Now in cinemas for nine weekends, domestic abuse drama It Ends With Us put on £46,055 to hit £21.6m for Sony, still in the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2024.
Alien: Romulus dropped 59% on its eighth weekend for Disney with £32,833, and is up to £13.3m.
Zoe Kravitz’s Blink Twice has made it to a respectable £3.2m on its seventh weekend for Warner Bros, adding £32,455 in this latest session.
National Theatre Live’s re-release of filmed play Prima Facie added £24,046 to hit £2.6m after three weekends; in addition to the £5.5m of the original 2022 run.
The Shaun Of The Dead 20th -anniversary re-release added a further £22,885 on its second session for Universal, and is up to £454,708.
Still in cinemas after 17 weekends and now available on both Disney+ and physical formats, Inside Out 2 added £21,457 to hit £59.1m as the highest-grossing release of the year so far.
Irish Oscar entry Kneecap put on £18,052 on its seventh weekend in England, Scotland and Wales and ninth in Ireland and Northern Ireland, for Curzon and Wildcard Distribution respectively. The film is up to an impressive £2.1m.
Curzon also has Megan Park’s Sundance title My Old Ass in cinemas, adding £17,305 on its second session to hit £125,255.
Indian drama Ardaas Sarbat De Bhalle Di added £15,620 on its fourth weekend for Shree, handled by Bakrania Media; and is up to £311,790.
Park Circus’ re-release of Young Frankenstein opened to £14,042; while the company’s re-release of 2004 comedy Mean Girls put on £2,824 to hit £69,799 from two sessions.
Still playing in select venues for Trafalgar Releasing after opening last weekend are event titles Paul McCartney And Wings – One Hand Clapping, adding £6,126 to hit £150,501; and Edward Scissorhands, adding £3,505 to reach £194,744.
Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram added £4,955 for Trinity/CineAsia, and is up to £47,882 from two weekends.
Twisters is slowing down after 12 weekends in cinemas for Warner Bros, adding £1,883 to top up its £14.5m total.
Lightbulb Distribution opened Michael Felker’s sci-fi thriller Things Will Be Different to £1,058 from six sites.
Farah Nabulsi’s Toronto 2023 drama The Teacher is up to £49,069 from two weekends for Miracle/Dazzler.
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