| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Apr 7-9) | Total gross to date | Week |
| 1. | Super Mario Bros: The Movie (Universal) | £8.7m | £19.8m | 1 |
| 2. | Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (eOne) | £1.6m | £8.2m | 2 |
| 3. | John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate) | £1.3m | £13.4m | 3 |
| 4. | Air (Warner Bros) | £807,693 | £1.6m | 1 |
| 5. | The Pope’s Exorcist (Sony) | £689,666 | £921,015 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.24
Super Mario Bros: The Movie blasted the competition at the UK-Ireland box office during the Easter bank holiday weekend, taking £8.7m from 720 locations for Universal –the biggest wide release for an animation in the territory.
This gives it a Friday-Sunday location average of £12,151. With a strong performance on Easter Monday, taking £4.1m, its cumulative total fixes up to £19.8m.
Both Friday and Monday were national holidays in the UK and Ireland.
Chris Pratt voices Italian-American plumber Mario, who goes on an ancient quest with his brother Luigi, voiced by Charlie Day. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic direct.
Its three-day opening comfortably whizzes past recent video game adaptations, such as Sonic The Hedgehog 2, which began with £5m in April of last year, closing on £26.7m.
The three-day figure doesn’t quite match up to last year’s animation box office hit, Minions: The Rise Of Gru, that opened to £10.4m from 637 locations in July, to an average of £16,327 per site.
Last year, the total takings from the top five films at the UK-Ireland box office across the Easter weekend (Friday-Sunday gross) came to £8.1m. This year, that figure has risen to £13.1m.
Dungeons And Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, in its second weekend for eOne, took £1.6m. It had an impressive Easter Monday, taking £758,000 – its best-performing day since opening weekend, bringing its total up to £8.2m.
John Wick: Chapter 4 took £1.3m in its third weekend. The Lionsgate title boasts a total of £13.4m.
The second highest opener was Warner Bros’s drama Air that grossed £807,693 from 599 sites, averaging £1,348. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, the film tells the story of how shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro led then underdog shoe company Nike in its pursuit of basketball star Michael Jordan. Matt Damon, Affleck and Viola Davis also star. Including previews, its cumulative figure stands at £1.6m.
Sony opened Julius Avery’s horror The Pope’s Exorcist, starring Russell Crowe stars as Gabriele Amorth, a real-life Vatican chief exorcist who uncovers a centuries-old conspiracy, opened to £689,666 from 440 locations, for a site average of £1,567 and an overall figure of £921,015.
Warner Bros dominates holdovers
Warner Bros continued to perform well in holdovers. Warner Bros’ second weekend for Mummies brought in £173,109, for an overall of £1.7m, Shazam! Fury Of The Gods fourth weekend took £157,957, totalling £5.6m, while Creed III made £141,225 across Fri-Sun. Its total gross to date after six weekends is £14m.
Paramount’s Scream VI added £155,000 in its fifth session, for a total of £7.4m.
Pathe’s fourth weekend of Allelujah saw £73,730 in takings, with an additional £44,970 from Easter Monday, taking its overall up to £3.2m.
Universal’s Puss In Boots: The Last Wish dropped 73% in its 10th session, taking £73,744. Its total is £25.4m.
In event cinema, Hamlet – Bristol Old Vic Live took £38,689 from 170 sites when playing ‘as live’ at 170 sites on Thursday (April 6). Including encore screenings across the weekend, it has taken £40,235.
Disney’s romantic comedy Rye Lane is moving towards the £1m mark. In its fourth weekend, it brought in just shy of £60,000. Its overall figure, including £34,000 from Easter Monday, is £991,000.
All The Anime took £59,626 from 106 sites for Weathering With You, Makoto Shinkai’s 2019 anime feature, averaging £563.
Curzon’s Cannes title Godland, directed by Hlynur Palmason and following a 19th century Danish priest travelling into the Icelandic landscape, opened to £24,031 in 32 locations, to an average of £751. That figure was plumped up by £13,723 taken on Easter Monday, bringing its total, including previews, to £56,577.
Toby Amies’ documentary about cult rockers King Crimson, In The Court Of The Crimson King, made £8,947 across Friday-Sunday from 25 locations for Munro Films, averaging £358. This figure was boosted by £14,575 from previews and £1,152 from Easter Monday, to a total of £24,674.
Cannes premiere God’s Creatures, now on its second weekend, took £22,603, for a total of £153,494 for BFI Distribution.
In this weekend’s re-releases, 1979 satire Monty Python’s Life Of Brian took £21,457 from 114 locations for National Amusements, for an average of £188, and a total to-date of £32,969. The re-release of 1978’s Superman brought in £15,399 for Warner Bros, from 359 sites, averaging £43, for a cumulative figure of £43,986.
Signature Entertainment let Little Bear’s Big Trip out at 258 sites, taking £21,060 across the weekend for a site average of £82, bolstered to £36,555 with Easter Monday’s figures, with some still to report.
Fellow Cannes title, Dominik Moll’s The Night Of The 12th, made £13,170 in its second weekend. Its total is £82,641.
What’s Love Got To Do With It? added £17,749 for Studiocanal on its seventh weekend, delivering an overall figure of £4.7m.
In its seventh weekend, Universal’s Cocaine Bear scooped up £12,835, down 80% on its previous session, for an overall figure of £5.6m.
Little Eggs African Rescue added £11,158 in its second outing for Miracle Comms.
A re-release of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s 1994 title Three Colours: White opened for Curzon to £8,164 from 30 sites, averaging £272. Including £3,256 from Easter Monday, it has taken £11,420.
Signature Entertainment’s Locarno premiere LOLA grossed £7,658 across three days from 17 sites, for an average of £450, raised to £10,200 across the four-day bank holiday weekend.
Pearl’s fourth weekend took £5,370 for Universal, a drop in 79%, for an overall total of £459,206.
Infinity Pool made £4,962 for Universal, in its third weekend, down 83% on its second, for an overall figure of £209,543.
BFI Distribution took £2,838 from two sites for Top Hat, the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers 1935 musical classic, averaging £1,419. Its total is now £4,388.
Modern Films has released BFI London Film Festival winner Blue Bag Life in two London locations at the weekend, playing with a Q&A screening at Curzon Bloomsbury with Bertha DocHouse and at the ICA. The documentary feature follows artist Lisa Selby and her relationships with her estranged mother and partner, both facing drug addiction. It took £1,212 at the weekend, for a site average of £606, and a £4,952 total including previews. Additional Q&A screenings will run nationwide over the next month, including Broadway Nottingham, Glasgow Film Theatre and Curzon Soho.
Further titles released this Easter weekend were: Barber (Eclipse Pictures), Beautiful Disaster (Shear Entertainment), Leonor Will Never Die (Conic), The Outwaters (Blue Finch Films) and Ravanasura (Dreamz Entertainment).
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