| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Sept 9-11) | Total gross to date | Week |
| 1. | See How They Run (Disney) | £1.2m | £1.2m | 1 |
| 2. | Jaws (Universal) | £524,099 | £524,099 | 1 |
| 3. | Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva (Disney) | £516,943 | £516,943 | 1 |
| 4. | Minions: The Rise Of Gru (Universal) | £382,237 | £44.8m | 11 |
| 5. | DC League Of Super-Pets (Warner Bros) | £363,794 | £14.6m | 7 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.17
Disney’s comedy whodunnit See How They Run topped the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend, becoming the first new title to open above £1m for almost a month.
See How They Run started with £1.2m from 690 sites at a £1,683 average. The last film to cross £1m on opening weekend was Universal’s Nope, which started with £1.9m on the weekend of August 12-14.
Universal’s re-release of Steven Spielberg’s shark thrillerJaws took second place in the chart, with £524,099 from 462 sites at a £1,134. While this is a strong result for Universal, the presence of a summer blockbuster from 1975 so high in the weekend chart is another sign of the lack of major new product for cinemas right now.
Disney’s Bollywood action feature Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva opened to a decent £516,943 from just 220 sites, at a £2,350 location average. The film is the first instalment of a planned trilogy, written and directed by Ayan Mukerji and led by Indian stars Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Amitabh Bachchan.
Minions: The Rise Of Gru continues to be a money-spinner for Universal, adding £382,237 on its 11th weekend in cinemas. Although this was a 63.6% drop on last time out, the film is now up to £44.8m total, and should finish just short of the £47.8m of 2015’s Minions.
Warner Bros animation DC League Of Super-Pets dropped 63.9% on its seventh weekend, with £363,794 bringing it to a £14.6m cume.
Cumulative takings for the top five titles are down to £2.9m – a worryingly low figure, down 80.7% on the top five total from the second weekend of July. The previous weekend’s National Cinema Day, and the available audience following the cancellation of all football matches this weekend, did not bring about a sustained boost for UK-Ireland venues, who will be looking to the star power of Julia Roberts and George Clooney in Universal’s Ticket To Paradise to bring audiences back from this Friday.
Top Gun’s sweet sixteen
Paramount animation Tad The Last Explorer And The Curse Of The Mummy opened to £348,000 from 614 sites at a £567 weekend location average. Including previews, the film has £816,000.
Bullet Train rides on for Sony, adding £345,343 – a 37.7% drop – on its sixth session to reach £9.8m in total.
Despite being available on digital platforms, Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick continues to attract a theatrical audience, adding £311,000 on an astonishing 16th weekend on release to reach £82.2m. Another week in cinemas should see it pass the £82.7m of Star Wars: The Last Jedi to become the eighth highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland.
Sony’s horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies opened to £306,000 at the weekend from 522 locations for a £586 average.
Universal’s Jordan Peele thriller Nope starring Daniel Kaluuya dropped 49.5% on its fifth weekend with £299,938 bringing it to £7.4m total. It is down on the £10.5m and £10.1m of Get Out and Us, although has still performed well for a title not based on previous material.
Elvis lives on for Warner Bros after 12 weekends, with £214,440 – a 44.6% drop – bringing it to a £27m total – an excellent result for a film that started with a £4m opening weekend back in June.
Orphan: First Kill held better than most holdovers this weekend, dropping 35.4% with £155,325 bringing it to £1.9m from four weekends for Signature Entertainment.
Beast starring Idris Elba added £121,339 on its third weekend for Universal – a 68.2% drop that brings it to £1.8m overall.
Marvel Cinematic Universe title Thor: Love And Thunder put on £104,001 for Disney, and is up to £37.4m from 10 weekends – overtaking Sony’s 2019 Spider-Man: Far From Home to become the ninth-highest-grossing MCU title in the UK and Ireland.
Sea shanty sequel Fisherman’s Friends: One And All heads Entertainment Film Distributors’ slate, adding £94,855 – a 55% drop – to reach £2.8m from four weekends.
On the second weekend of its re-release with additional material, Sony’s MCU hit Spider-Man: No Way Home dropped 81.4%, with £87,000 bringing the film’s total to £97m. It is the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time in the territory, not far behind No Time To Die’s £98m.
Sony stablemate Where The Crawdads Sing added £75,000 – a 50.3% drop – and is at £7.9m from eight weekends in cinemas.
Entertainment Film Distributors also has George Miller’s Cannes 2022 title Three Thousand Years Of Longing, which dropped 76.5% on its second weekend with £72,134 bringing it to £564,212.
David Cronenberg’s Cannes 2022 title Crimes Of The Future started with £58,641 from 160 locations at an average of £367. This is down on the opening averages for Cronenberg’s last three titles, Maps To The Stars (£1,956), Cosmopolis (£1,850) and A Dangerous Method (£3,459).
Universal anniversary screenings of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. added £58,555 on a second weekend to reach £592,816 in total.
Signature Entertainment’s Fall fell 72.2% on its second weekend, adding £54,150 to reach £407,240.
National Theatre Live’s Prima Facie, already the highest-grossing event cinema release of all time in the UK and Ireland, added a further £49,121 to reach £4.7m from seven weeks in cinemas.
John Michael McDonagh’s The Forgiven starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes added £42,851 for Universal, to reach £358,013 from two weekends.
Playing on Sunday, September 11, Trafalgar Releasing’s La Boheme - Glyndebourne took £37,282 from 114 sites at a £327 average.
Sony horror The Invitation dropped 69% on its third weekend, adding £31,000 to reach £667,000.
Official Competition starring Penelope Cruz continued playing through a third weekend for Curzon, adding £28,765 – a 48% drop – to reach £270,556. Curzon also opened Both Sides Of The Blade - a Berlinale 2022 best director winner for Claire Denis – to £12,981 from 23 sites, at a £564 average.
Parkland Entertainment’s It Snows In Benidorm starring Timothy Spall added £11,852 on its second weekend, and is up to £69,171.
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero added £10,000 for Sony on its fourth weekend and is up to a £1.2m cume.
Republic Film Distribution opened heist musical The Score, led by Screen Stars of Tomorrow Will Poulter, Johnny Flynn and Naomi Ackie, to £6,145 from nine cinemas including previews.
Paramount’s Indian Forrest Gump remake Laal Singh Chaddha is closing out, adding £4,338 on its fifth session to reach £862,000.
Having opened in one location on Monday of last week, Screenbound Pictures’ crime drama Big Boys Don’t Cry starring Michael Socha is at £3,373.
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