| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Aug 12-14) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Nope (Universal) | £1.9m | £1.9m | 1 |
| 2. | Bullet Train (Sony) | £906,000 | £5.1m | 2 |
| 3. | DC League Of Super-Pets (Warner Bros) | £830,589 | £8.2m | 3 |
| 4. | Minions: The Rise Of Gru (Universal) | £754,416 | £38.6m | 7 |
| 5. | Thor: Love And Thunder (Disney) | £535,000 | £34.6m | 6 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.21
Universal’s latest Jordan Peele horror Nope topped the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend, with a £1.9m start.
Playing in 681 locations, Nope took a £2,730 location average – below the opening averages of Peele’s 2017 Get Out (£4,473, £2.2m opening) and 2019 Us (£4,828, £2.8m opening), although neither of those films opened in top spot.
Bullet Train dropped from top spot on its second weekend, adding £906,000 – a 50.9% fall. The film now has £5.1m in total for Sony.
Former number one DC League Of Super-Pets dropped 32.4% for Warner Bros, adding £830,589 on its third weekend to reach a £8.2m total.
Universal’s Minions 2: The Rise Of Gru is motoring on after seven sessions in cinemas, dropping 32.1% - a good result this weekend – with £754,416 bringing it to £38.6m cume. It has now entered the top 100 highest-grossing films of all time in the UK and Ireland, and while the £47.8m of 2015’s Minions should be beyond it, the sequel’s figure still represents a good result for Universal.
Thor: Love And Thunder held a top five spot for Disney on its sixth weekend, dropping 43% on its previous session with £535,000 bringing it to a £34.6m cume. It is 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.
The continued warm weather finally took a toll on takings this weekend, after many films had previously held up well against the heat. Takings for the top five stood dipped below £5m for the first time in several months, with £4.9m down 16.7% on last weekend’s £5.9m; and down a substantial 70% on the £16.3m amount from the second weekend in July. While several big films have held reasonably well, the decline is also an indication of the lack of big new product in cinemas.
Elvis lives on
Elvis finally left the top five building on its eighth weekend for Warner Bros, adding £420,620 – a 43% drop – to reach a strong £22.7m cume.
Another long-runner, Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, dropped 35% with a £405,000 12th weekend taking it to a £78.5m cume – the 10th -highest-grossing film of all time in the territory. Should it hold well throughout the remainder of the school holidays, it could catch ninth place Titanic’s £80.3m.
Paramount’s Indian Forrest Gump remake Laal Singh Chaddha was just behind Top Gun for the weekend, with a £325,000 opening and £412,000 including Thursday previews. Playing in 355 sites, this brought an opening average of £914 across the three-day weekend.
On its fourth session, Sony’s Where The Crawdads Sing fell back 48.9%, with £256,000 taking it to a £6.1m cume.
NTLive’s event cinema release of the play Prima Facie featuring Jodie Comer continues to take impressive sums through encores, with £104,010 at the weekend from just 152 of its 286 polled locations bringing it to £3.6m from four weekends.
Jurassic World: Dominion dropped 46.4% on its 10th weekend for Universal, with £73,504 bringing it to £34.5m – down on the £41.6m of 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and especially the £64.5m of 2015’s Jurassic World.
The Railway Children Return continues its journey for Studiocanal, dropping 33.4% with £65,371 bringing it to £2.4m from five weekends.
Universal horror The Black Phone is still in cinemas after eight weekends, with a 64.7% drop to £31,406 bringing it to a £4.5m cume.
Lightyear is closing out for Disney, adding £14,000 on its ninth session to reach £10.3m.
Ari Folman’s animated Where Is Anne Frank started with £11,017 this weekend for Altitude, with £14,285 including previews.
Sundance 2022 documentary Fire Of Love added £10,153 for Dogwoof, and is up to £173,903 from three weekends.
Vertigo Releasing opened Martin Bourboulon’s Eiffel to £10,149 from 28 locations, of which £3,611 was previews. Its three-day total of £6,538 came at an average of £234.
Curzon documentary Blind Ambition, about Zimbabwean men attempting to reach the Blind Wine Tasting Championships, opened to £5,864 from 17 sites, with £26,343 including previews.
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