| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Aug 19-21) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Nope (Universal) | £1.1m | £4.6m | 2 |
| 2. | Bullet Train (Sony) | £836,000 | £6.9m | 3 |
| 3. | DC League Of Super-Pets (Warner Bros) | £811,277 | £10.6m | 4 |
| 4. | Minions: The Rise Of Gru (Universal) | £753,073 | £40.7m | 8 |
| 5. | Fisherman’s Friends: One And All (EFD) | £656,293 | £656,293 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.18
Universal’s Jordan Peele horror Nope held the top spot at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, as several titles increased their takings on last time out.
Nope was not one of those; it fell 38.3% on its opening, with £1.1m bringing it to a £4.6m cume. This was, however, enough to maintain its lead; it is also the only title to have topped £1m on each of the last two weekends.
For comparison, Peele’s 2017 Get Out fell a similar 37% on its second weekend, with £1.4m bringing it to a £4.9m cume; while 2019’s Us dropped 48% with £1.7m taking it to £6.1m.
Those films finished on £10.5m and £10.1m respectively; crossing the eight-figure barrier would represent a good result for Nope.
Sony’s Bullet Train held second spot on its third weekend, dropping just 7.7% with £836,000 taking it to a £6.9m cume.
Warner Bros’ DC League Of Super-Pets stayed in third, dropping just 2.3% on its fourth weekend with £811,277 bringing it to a £10.6m cume.
Minions: The Rise Of Gru maintains a top five spot for Universal after eight weekends in cinemas. The film added £753,073 – a drop of just 0.2% - to reach £40.7m. The £47.8m total of 2015’s Minions should still be just beyond it; but the sequel has now entered the top 80 highest-grossing films of all time.
Entertainment Film Distributors’ Fisherman’s Friends: One And All was the highest-grossing new title this weekend, taking £656,293 with a £1,108 location average. For comparison, the 2019 first film opened to £1.2m at an average of £2,297.
Despite the decent holds for many titles, takings for the top five dropped 14% on last time to £4.2m; and are now down over 74% on the £16.3m from the second weekend in July, as a lack of major new product takes effect. Exhibitors will be looking to Universal’s Beast with Idris Elba (August 26) to bring audiences back; the concern is that the next couple of months look as shorn of blockbusters as the past few weeks have been. Conversely, there is opportunity there for independent releases, such as Signature Entertainment’s Fall on September 2.
Top Gun’s neverending flight
Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick scored an astonishing 27.7% increase on its previous weekend, adding £517,000 on what is now a 13-weekend run. It is now up to £79.6m, and should usurp Titanic’s £80.3m within the next week to become the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time in the territory.
Elvis continues to play well for Warner Bros, increasing an excellent 17.5% with £494,039 bringing it to just shy of £25m from nine weekends. When it crosses that barrier today, it will be only the 12th film to do so since the start of the pandemic.
Thor: Love And Thunder fell from fifth to eighth position, despite dropping just 8% for Disney. A £492,000 seventh weekend brought it to a £35.7m cume - the 12th -highest-grossing of 28 Marvel Cinematic Universe films, with 2013’s Iron Man 3 and 2016’s Captain America: Civil War (both £37m) its next targets.
Horror sequel Orphan: First Kill started well for Signature Entertainment, with £434,601 from 327 sites at an average of £1,329. This is close to the 2009 first film, which started with £570,146 and a £2,001 average.
Anime feature Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero opened to a £400,000 weekend for Sony, with £263,000 previews adding up to a £663,000 total to date.
Sony drama Where The Crawdads Sing starring Daisy Edgar-Jones increased 5.9% on its previous session, adding £271,000 to reach £6.9m after five weekends.
Laal Singh Chaddha dropped 67.1% for Paramount, with £107,000 taking it to a £702,000 total from two sessions.
National Theatre Live’s Prima Facie starring Screen Star of Tomorrow Jodie Comer is now the second-highest-grossing event cinema release of all time in the UK and Ireland. The film added £85,263 from 112 of its 215 locations; and is now just shy of £4m. A strong last few weeks could still see it catch the number one event cinema title - NTLive’s Fleabag from 2019.
Universal’s Jurassic World: Dominion increased its takings 9.6% on last time out, adding £80,583 to reach a £34.7m total from 11 weekends.
Studiocanal’s The Railway Children Return was another to up its weekend amount, increasing 7.9% with £70,563 taking it to £2.7m from six sessions.
Paramount’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition opened to £59,000 this weekend, in limited showings on 418 sites.
Trinity Film opened Kearan Pang’s Hong Kong drama Mama’s Affair to a healthy £57,105 from just 19 locations, with an excellent location average of £3,006.
Dogwoof’s latest documentary, Jono McLeod’s Sundance title My Old School, opened to £26,827 this weekend from 35 sites at a £766 average. Including previews, the film has £44,240.
Universal’s The Black Phone added £23,674 and has topped £4.5m from nine sessions.
Studio Soho Distribution opened documentary Girls Can’t Surf to £16,000 from 55 sites.
Peccadillo Pictures started Cannes 2021 Critics’ Week title Anais In Love with £7,706 from 13 sites at a £593 average.
Mubi documentary Free Chol Soo Lee opened to £5,105 including previews, at an average of £255.
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