| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Nov 4-6) | Total gross to date | Week |
| 1. | Black Adam (Warner Bros) | £2m | £17.1m | 3 |
| 2. | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (Sony) | £972,000 | £10.8m | 4 |
| 3. | The Banshees Of Inisherin (Disney) | £971,681 | £6.3m | 3 |
| 4. | Living (Lionsgate) | £561,513 | £665,530 | 1 |
| 5. | One Piece Film Red (Anime Ltd) | £559,611 | £559,611 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.14
Warner Bros blockbuster Black Adam topped the UK-Ireland box office for a third consecutive weekend, adding £2m to its total to reach £17.1m; as awards contenders Living, The Banshees Of Inisherin and Triangle Of Sadness all performed well.
Black Adam is now the seventh-highest-grossing of 11 DC Extended Universe films, overtaking 2021’s The Suicide Squad and just behind the £17.4m of 2017’s Justice League.
Despite a 42.6% fall on its previous session, Black Adam is holding well across its run and should comfortably pass a £20m total. Warner Bros will be looking to make as much as possible from the final days before blockbuster rival Black Panther: Wakanda Forever lands in cinemas on Thursday, November 11.
Having risen to second spot last weekend, Sony’s Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile dropped 35.2% on its fourth weekend, with £972,000 taking it to a £10.8m cume.
Awards contender The Banshees Of Inisherin held well on its third weekend for Disney. The Searchlight Pictures title dropped just 24%, with £971,681 taking it to a £6.3m cume; and while the £15.3m of director Martin McDonagh’s pre-pandemic Oscar winner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri will be beyond it, further strong holds could push it towards the £10m mark.
Living starring Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood made a sharp start for Lionsgate, with £561,513 from 257 sites at a healthy £2,185 average. Including previews, the film has £665,530, and will look for a further boost from the nine Bifa nominations it scored on Friday, including performance recognition for Nighy and Wood.
Anime Ltd’s action-adventure franchise title One Piece Film Red opened to a strong £559,611 for fifth spot in the chart. Playing in 293 sites, the film took a decent £1,910 location average. It is the 15th feature in the One Piece Film series, but the first to be released theatrically in the UK and Ireland.
The diversity of titles in the top five is a good sign for the industry, with blockbuster, family, awards drama and anime titles all present. However, top five takings dropped again, down 34.8% to £5.1m. The arrival of the Black Panther sequel on Thursday should send figures in a positive direction again next weekend.
Triangle makes its point
Paramount’s former number one Smile added £351,000 on its sixth weekend, with a 46% drop taking it to £11.1m – an excellent result for an 18-rated title.
Horror Prey For The Devil added £347,494 for Lionsgate – a 54.8% drop – on its second weekend, and is up to a £1.7m cume amongst strong horror competition.
Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle Of Sadness dropped just 2% on its opening session, with £215,133 taking it to £690,667 in the week when the film’s acquisition by Lionsgate from Curzon was confirmed. It has already overtaken the £593,432 total of Ostlund’s Force Majeure from 2015, and will top the £722,690 of 2018’s The Square within the next week. Lionsgate will be confident of making it the Swedish director’s first seven-figure result in the UK and Ireland before it launches on digital platforms next month.
Disney horror Barbarian dropped 48% on its second weekend, with £197,505 taking it to £891,830.
George Clooney and Julia Roberts romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise leads Universal’s slate, dropping 16.8% on last weekend with £174,415 taking it to £9.5m from seven sessions.
Universal horror Watcher opened to £139,220 from 241 sites, at a flat £578 location average. Including previews, the film has £140,396.
The Woman King starring Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch and Screen Star of Tomorrow Sheila Atim added £137,000 on its fifth session – a fall of just 12%, that brings it to a £3.6m cume. The film’s Saturday takings were up 1% on the previous Saturday.
Moviegoers Entertainment’s The Legend Of Maula Jatt added £97,306 – a fall of just 19.7% - on its fourth session. It is now up to £1.2m, on a par with Ponniyan Selvan: I as the highest-grossing film of the year from the Indian subcontinent; and has taken £100,000 from its Starcity Birmingham site alone.
Minions: The Rise Of Gru opened in cinemas on July 1, and is still going strong 19 weekends later. The film dropped just 8.3% for Universal, with £89,540 bringing it to £46.7m – just shy of the £47.8m of 2015’s Minions.
Having scored a costume design Bifa nomination for Jenny Beavan, Universal stablemate Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris dropped just 5.3% on its sixth weekend with £88,685 taking it to a £4.6m cume.
A third Universal title, horror threequel Halloween Ends, added £85,712 – a 74.2% drop that was far bigger than most of its competitors. It is now at £4.7m from four weekends, and will finish well down on the £9m of 2018’s Halloween, although within range of the £5m of last year’s Halloween Kills.
Bros, also for Universal, dropped 60.1% on its second weekend, with £78,022 taking it to £463,411, with the flat performance mirroring that of its underwhelming North American figures.
On a lengthy 15-weekend run, Warner Bros’ DC League Of Super-Pets added £74,789 – dropping just 17.4% - and is up to a strong £16.1m total.
Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave, another Bifa nominee in the best international feature category, dropped 29.8% with £74,350 bringing it to £809,259 from three weekends for Mubi
The 20th anniversary re-release of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets added £55,017 on its second weekend for Warner Bros. The re-issue has £616,510 from two sessions, in addition to the £55m of the film from 2002.
Also for Warner Bros, former number one Don’t Worry Darling dropped 41.1% on its seventh weekend with £53,838 taking it to a £10.5m cume.
Vertigo Releasing opened abortion rights drama Call Jane to £40,517 from 245 locations at a £165 cinema average. The film has £42,504 including previews.
The Lost King saw a 6.8% uptick on its fifth weekend, with £37,593 taking it to a £1.4m cume. The film secured a lead performance Bifa nomination for Sally Hawkins on Friday, where she will compete with Emma Mackey, for fellow Warner Bros drama Emily. That film added £29,215 on its fourth weekend – a 6.9% drop – to reach £818,051.
Paramount animation Tad The Lost Explorer And The Curse Of The Mummy scored a 2% increase on its ninth weekend in cinemas, with £27,000 taking it to a £1.9m cume.
With single screenings per day across 11 sites, Anti-Worlds Releasing’s Cannes 2021 title Neptune Frost has £7,785 including previews, with further bookings across the coming weeks.
Releasing in 17 locations through its genre label Darkland Distribution, Parkland Entertainment’s Deus: The Dark Sphere brought in £5,546 at the weekend, with £5,664 including previews.
Hunt, the directorial debut of Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae, opened to £4,881 for Altitude, with £15,581 including previews.
Return To Dust, Ruijun Li’s Chinese drama that has been the subject of a censorship controversy in its homeland, opened to £5,347 from 10 cinemas in the UK and Ireland, and has £8,031 including previews for Modern Films.
The BFI Distribution release of a 4k remaster of Gary Oldman’s Nil By Mouth brought in £4,280 at the weekend and £8,845 including previews, complementing the £789,171 from the initial release in 1997.
For Lightbulb Film Distribution, Justin Benson’s comedy-thriller Something In The Dirt opened to £1,636 over the weekend, and has £9,509 including previews.
T A P E Collective’s release of Miryam Charles’ This House took £380 from eight sites, with £963 including previews.
In the event cinema realm, Trafalgar Releasing has opened three films in UK cinemas across the past week. La Traviata took £101,334 from 140 sites on Saturday 5; The Bodyguard brought in £21,349 from 82 on Sunday 6; while Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies did £11,399 from 31 on Tuesday 1.
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