| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Aug 25-27) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Barbie (Warner Bros) | £1.9m | £89.6m | 6 |
| 2. | Oppenheimer (Universal) | £1.6m | £53.7m | 6 |
| 3. | Meg 2: The Trench (Warner Bros) | £776,085 | £11.5m | 4 |
| 4. | Andre Rieu’s 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around (Piece of Magic) | £770,000 | £770,000 | 1 |
| 5. | Blue Beetle (Warner Bros) | £767,682 | £3.1m | 2 |
Scrapper, the debut feature from 2020 Screen Star of Tomorrow Charlotte Regan, made a strong start at the UK-Ireland box office, recording the best location average of any new title this weekend (August 25-27).
The film, about a young girl living alone who is forced to confront reality when her estranged father returns, took £98,847 from 95 sites, for a £1,040 site average.
Including previews and screenings on Monday (August 28), the film has amassed a total of £231,000 to date. It represents a strong result for an independent title, which is released by Picturehouse Entertainment.
Barbie held the top spot for a sixth weekend in succession for Warner Bros, adding £1.9m to reach £89.6m. It has overtaken 2019’s Avengers: Endgame (£88.7m) to become the seventh highest-grossing film of all time in the territory and will next have the £94m of 2009’s Avatar in in its sights for sixth place. A drop of 28% was Barbie’s best hold for several sessions.
Having claimed the global chart crown this weekend, Oppenheimer is hot on the heels of Barbie for the number one UK-Ireland spot. The Universal blockbuster added £1.6m with a drop of 18.1%. It has held better than Barbie for every one of the five holdover weekends to date, and should overtake it on a weekend-by-weekend basis within a fortnight.
Oppenheimer is up to £53.7m in total and looks set to overtake the £56.8m of 2017’s Dunkirk to become Christopher Nolan’s highest-grossing film in the territory.
Meg 2: The Trench is swimming along nicely for Warner Bros, adding £776,085 – a fall of just 19.9% – to reach £11.5m. A strong tail could see it catch the £15.9m of the 2018 first film.
Event cinema release Andre Rieu’s 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around scored enough to break into the top five across the weekend. The latest film from the reliably popular concert violinist took £350,184 on its Saturday August 26 release day. Distributor Piece of Magic Entertainment is predicting a £770,000 weekend total once all figures are in.
Warner Bros’ stablemate Blue Beetle did not hold quite as well as Meg 2, dropping 36% across its second session with £767,682. The superhero adventure has almost £3.1m to date.
While Barbenheimer has been a resounding success for the UK-Ireland exhibition sector, the lack of follow-up hits is now starting to show. Takings for the top five dropped 20.9% to £5.9m - the lowest level since December last year, before the release of Avatar: The Way Of Water.
Mayhem continues
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem leads Paramount’s slate, adding £478,000 on its fourth weekend – a solid 19% drop – to reach an £8.2m cume.
Haunted Mansion added £379,000 on its third weekend for Disney, and is up to £3.3m total.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One dropped just 6% on its seventh session, adding £372,000 to reach £25.7m, extending the record for highest-grossing Mission: Impossible title in the UK and Ireland for Paramount.
Universal’s Strays held on to a place in the top 10 on its second weekend, falling 35.7%, with £327,189 contributing to a £1.4m total.
Also for Universal, comedy-horror The Blackening opened outside the top 10, bringing in £244,657 from 365 sites at a £682 average. Including previews and Monday’s screenings, the US title has £430,932.
Gran Turismo dropped 41.1% on its third weekend for Sony, adding £184,765 to reach a £2.4m total.
Moviegoers Entertainment’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani scored a strong £160,281 on its fifth weekend. It now has more than £2m in total, and will enter the top 10 highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time in the territory today.
Disney’s Searchlight Pictures comedy Theater Camp started with a flat £127,000 from 352 sites, at a £361 location average. Including previews and Monday’s screenings, the film has £186,000.
Horror Talk To Me is proving an extended success for Altitude, adding £115,000 on its fifth weekend with £2.3m in total.
Vertigo Releasing opened The Dive to £49,579 from 190 sites at a £261 average across the weekend. Including previews and Monday, the film has £82,289.
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny remains in cinemas after nine weekends for Disney, adding £52,000 – a fall of just 3.7% – to reach £20.2m total.
Insidious: The Red Door is still in cinemas after eight weekends, adding a further £28,195 to reach a decent £8m cume.
Louis Garrel’s The Innocent opened to £21,363 from 42 sites for MetFilm at the weekend, and has taken £32,029 to date.
Christian Petzold’s Afire started with £14,783 for Curzon, with £15,819 including previews. The distributor also has Venice 2022 title L’Immensita in cinemas, which added £11,124 on its second weekend to reach a £118,691 total.
Park Circus’ re-release of Training Day starring Denzel Washington took £2,737, with further chain bookings in the coming days.
The Red Shoes: The Next Step started with £1,461 from 35 sites for Miracle/Dazzler.
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