| Rank | Film (Distributor) | Three-day gross (Oct 15-17) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Time To Die (Universal) | £8.4m | £68.6m | 3 |
| 2 | Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Sony) | £6.2m | £6.2m | 1 |
| 3 | Halloween Kills (Universal) |
£1.6m | £1.6m | 1 |
| 4 | The Addams Family 2 (Universal) | £1.4m | £3.9m | 2 |
| 5 | Ron’s Gone Wrong (Disney) | £865,333 | £865,612 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.37
No Time To Die has topped the UK-Ireland box office for a third consecutive session, with a £8.4m weekend taking it to an impressive £68.6m total.
This was 26% down on the £11.4m third weekend of 2012’s Skyfall, which was up to £72.9m at this stage; but 6% up on the £7.9m third weekend of 2015’s Spectre, although that film was at £77.6m by the end of its third weekend after a Monday debut.
Skyfall and Spectre ended on £103.2m and £95.2m respectively; performance to date suggests Universal’s No Time To Die may finish in between the two.
While it didn’t manage to dethrone Bond, Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage made a strong start with £6.17m from Friday to Saturday. Playing in 602 locations, it took an excellent average of £10,244.
Both its opening weekend and location average are the second-highest of 2021, behind only No Time To Die.
This was up 10% on the £5.6m opening weekend of Venom in 2018; Sony will now be looking to drive the sequel past the £20.2m of the first film.
Universal took the number three spot with new title Halloween Kills, which opened to £1.6m from 500 locations at an average of £3,175. This is a 40% fall on the £2.7m opening of 2018’s Halloween, the first title in a reboot of the franchise.
The studio also held fourth spot with animation The Addams Family 2, which dropped 32% on its opening weekend with £1.4m taking it to a £3.9m cume. The 2019 first film in the series ended on £9.9m, which may be beyond the sequel.
Disney completed the top five with another new entry, animation Ron’s Gone Wrong. Created by UK studio Locksmith Animation, the film opened to £865,333 from 554 at an average of £1,562. While this is below the stellar numbers of No Time To Die and Venom 2, it represents a decent start for a non-franchise title not based on previous IP, in a competitive box office.
Takings of £18.4m for the top five were up 1.9% on last weekend, with a broader spread of well-performing titles. This was the first weekend since the pandemic when four titles grossed over £1m in a three-day session.
Further titles
The Last Duel, another new Disney title, started with £325,033 from 440 locations at a modest average of £739.
Disney also had former number ones Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, which added £184,768 on its seventh weekend for £21m total; and Free Guy, which put on £14,722 on its 10th weekend for £16.8m.
A 25th-anniversary re-release of Scream grossed £90,000 from a one-day special screening on Tuesday 12, reaching a £116,000 cume through the weekend with encore screenings, for Paramount. The distributor also has The PAW Patrol Movie, which dropped 45% in an impressive 10-week run with £70,000 taking it to £8.4m.
For Warner Bros, The Many Saints Of Newark added £31,762 – a 75% drop - and is just shy of £2m from four weekends.
Deadly Cuts fell 47% on its strong opening weekend, with £27,075 taking it to £125,505.
Irish feature Arracht opened to £23,919 from 56 locations and has £34,364 including preview screenings.
Rounding out their runs for Universal are Respect, adding £19,417 to reach £2.1m; The Croods 2: A New Age, adding £12,271 for £9.9m; and Candyman, adding £10,001 for £5.2m.
Picturehouse Entertainment opened Malgorzata Szumowska’s Never Gonna Snow Again to £18,294 from 38 locations at an average of £494, passing the start of the distributor’s recent releases including Deerskin, Wildland, The Reason I Jump and Frankie.
The Beta Test began with £7,163 including previews for Blue Finch Films.
New Wave Films’ The Invisible Life Of Euridice Gusmao opened to £7,104 from 15 locations at an average of £474.
Event cinema release Exhibition On Screen: Raphael Revealed took £13,041 for since a Tuesday 12 opening for Seventh Art, including £3,406 across the weekend, with several sites still to report.
Rep title The Outsiders: The Complete Novel took £3,525 across the weekend for Studiocanal, and has £5,861 including previews.
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