| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Sept 2-4) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Minions: The Rise Of Gru | £1.05m | £44.2m | 10 |
| 2. | DC League Of Super-Pets (Warner Bros) | £1m | £14m | 6 |
| 3. | Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount) | £600,258 | £81.6m | 15 |
| 4. | Bullet Train (Sony) | £554,000 | £9.2m | 5 |
| 5. | Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony) | £469,309 | £96.5m | 38 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.17
Universal animation Minions: The Rise Of Gru returned to the top of the UK-Ireland box office over the weekend as several holdovers received a major boost from National Cinema Day.
On its 10th weekend of release, the animated sequel added £1.05m to reach an impressive £44.2m and is closing on the £47.8m taken by 2015’s Minions. It marks the first time back in the number one slot for the family film since the weekend of July 22-24.
Like most titles on release, the film benefited massively from the UK’s National Cinema Day on Saturday (Sept 3), with two-thirds of its weekend takings being recorded on Saturday when tickets were priced at £3.
The figures also represent a bounce back from last weekend when no film reached the £1m mark for the first time since December 2020.
Warner Bros. animation DC League Of Super-Pets was the other title that just tipped over the mark, taking £1.008m and bringing it to £14m on its sixth outing.
Event cinema record
The weekend also saw National Theatre Live’s Prima Facie become the highest-grossing event cinema release of all-time in the UK and Ireland.
Suzie Miller’s play, starring Jodie Comer, added £82,678 at the weekend to reach a total of £4.57m from eight weekends. This puts its comfortably ahead of another NTLive release: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag – NT Live 2019, which grossed £4.43m from a four-month in 2019.
Further holdovers rounded out the top five, which included Sony’s rerelease of Spider-Man: No Way Home. An extended cut, titled The More Fun Version, took £469,000 over the weekend. The Marvel superhero feature was first released on December 15, 2021, and these latest takings bring its cumulative total to £96.5m.
Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick also climbed back up the charts, taking £600,258 – up 9% on last weekend – on its 15th weekend of release. At £81.6m, it has now comfortably passed the £80.3m of Titanic to become the ninth-highest-grossing film of all-time in the territory.
Sony’s Bullet Train retained its number four position with £554,000, just 7% down over the weekend, to reach a cume of £9.2m from five weekends.
New releases and holdovers
The highest charting new title on release was Entertainment Film Distributors’ Three Thousand Years Of Longing, which ranked just outside the top 10. George Miller’s first feature since 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Idris Elba as a Djinn alongside Tilda Swinton, opened with £306,674 from 546 sites – the widest release for a new title over the weekend.
Entertainment holdover Fisherman’s Friends: One And All dipped a further 34% on its third outing, adding £210,565 for a £2.5m total – some way off the £7.4m of the 2019 first film.
Universal’s 40th anniversary release of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. proved popular and took £438,671 across the weekend. Universal also opened The Forgiven, starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes, taking £182,452.
Universal holdovers included Jordan Peele horror Nope, which added £455,679 on its fourth outing for a cume of £6.95m, and Idris Elba-starrer Beast, which added £381,000 for a total of £1.46m after two weekends.
Further key holdovers included Warner Bros’ Elvis, which added £387,231 on its 11th weekend for a cume of £26.6m; and Disney’s Thor: Love And Thunder, which added £290,708 on its ninth outing for a total of £37.17m. Sony’s Where The Crawdads Sing dropped just 8% on its seventh weekend with £151,000, taking £7.73m to date and its horror The Invitation took £100,000 on its second outing for a cume of £583,000.
Signature Entertainment opened Scott Mann thriller Fall at 442 sites – a record wide release for a non-animation title for the company – and took £195,000, rising to £218,285 including previews. On its third outing, Signature horror thriller Orphan: First Kill added £240,281 from 272 locations (£883 average), reaching £1.65m after three outings.
Also receiving a fresh release to mark its 40th anniversary was Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, which Paramount released at 410 sites and grossed £96,000. It will play across 430 locations in total by the end of the week. Paramount’s Indian Forrest Gump remake Laal Singh Chaddha added £20,000 on its fourth weekend to bring its cume to £851,000.
Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s Venice 2021 title Official Competition added £55,433 for a £203,739 cume after two weekends. Studiocanal’s The Railway Children Return took £41,579 on its eighth outing for a total of £2.9m to date.
Dublin-based Wildcard Distribution opened Blackbird, the debut feature of Irish dance star Michael Flatley, which took £51,489 from 105 sites for screen average of £490.
Parkland released Isabel Coixet’s It Snows In Benidorm across 85 locations and took £24,371 – a £262 average – rising to £25,358 with previews.
On its second weekend, Vertigo Releasing’s period romantic comedy Mr. Malcolm’s List added £8,633 from 63 locations for a cume of £106,357.
Doc specialist Dogwoof released Alex Pritz’s Sundance premiere The Territory at 18 sites and took £7,917 – a £440 average – totalling £10,390 including previews. Dogwoof’s My Old School added £14,487 on its third outing for a cume of £127,452.
Trinity Film added £10,554 to the total for Mama’s Affair at the weekend and is up to £133,312 total from three weekends.
606 Distribution released Brett Harvey’s Long Way Back, which performed strongly in the South-West from where the Cornish director is based. Opening in 15 locations nationwide, it returned £3,838 (£6,251 including previews), with an average of £416 including previews.
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