| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Feb 18-20) | Total gross to date | Week |
| 1. | Uncharted (Sony) | £3.8m | £12.2m | 2 |
| 2. | Sing 2 (Universal) | £3.2m | £23.3m | 4 |
| 3. | Death On The Nile (Disney) | £1.3m | £4.7m | 2 |
| 4. | Dog (Entertainment Film Distributors) | £822,123 | £822,123 | 1 |
| 5. | Belfast (Universal) | £756,381 | £11.3m | 5 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.36
Sony action-adventure Uncharted led the UK-Ireland chart for a second successive weekend, as holdovers dominated the top titles amid the continued revival of the post-pandemic box office.
Uncharted added £3.8m, dropping just 19.9% on its strong opening, to reach £12.2m. Sony will have high hopes of it becoming one of few titles to cross the £20m barrier since the pandemic began.
One film that has managed that in the past week is Universal’s Sing 2, which added £3.2m – an outstanding hold, falling just 1.4%. It is now up to £23.3m from four weekends.
The film could pass the £29.5m of the 2017 first film; this would be a significant result both for Universal and the wider theatrical industry, demonstrating that sequel grosses can top first films for post-pandemic releases.
Disney’s Death On The Nile dropped 29% on its opening weekend, with £1.3m taking it to a £4.7m cume. It will finish below the £24.2m of director Kenneth Branagh’s previous Agatha Christie adaptation, 2017’s Murder On The Orient Express.
Entertainment Film Distributors recorded the highest opening of the weekend, with Channing Tatum’s Dog starting with £822,123 from 478 locations at an average of £1,720.
Belfast, another title directed by Branagh, added £756,381 – a 27.8% drop – on its fifth session to reach a strong £11.3m.
Despite just the one new title in fourth place, takings for the top five stood at almost £9.9m. This is up 79.3% on the £5.5m for the top five on the first weekend UK-Ireland cinemas were open post-lockdown in May 2021, when all five titles were new. The session compares favourably with strong weekends from 2021, for example, it is up 16.6% on the £8.5m top five total for the first weekend in August 2021, when strong new releases The Suicide Squad and Jungle Cruise stood first and second.
Spider-Man climbs the all-time chart
With a £639,000 on its 10th weekend in cinemas, Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home fell just 4.5% on its previous session, and is now beyond the £94m mark. Today it will pass the £94.03m of Avatar to become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in the territory; and will expect to finish above the £95.2m of Spectre.
Paramount’s 18-rated Jackass Forever dropped 41.5% on its third weekend, adding £585,000 to reach £5.3m total.
Universal’s Marry Me took a 52% post-Valentine’s Day hit, with £336,443 taking it to £1.7m from two sessions.
Encanto added £83,039 for Disney – a fall of just 10% - and is up to £7.6m from a lengthy 13-weekend run.
Scream added £77,000 on its sixth weekend, and is now up to £7.4m for Paramount – the third highest-grossing title of the franchise.
Entertainment Film Distributors’ Moonfall added £75,840 and has topped the £2m mark from three weekends.
Pedro Almodovar’s Oscar-nominated Parallel Mothers added £71,634 on its fourth weekend, taking the film to a £1.1m cume. Almodovar is one of few directors of non-English language fare who has repeatedly reached seven figures, most recently with 2019’s Pain And Glory (£1.5m).
An excellent second weekend for Bafta- and Oscar-nominated Danish title Flee saw it increase its weekend takings by 6.8%, with £37,270 bringing it to £133,512. Distributor Curzon will hope the increased attention on the film across the end of awards season will bring further expansion.
Despite scoring fewer Oscar nominations than expected, Universal’s Licorice Pizza rolls on at the box office, adding £30,286 to reach £2.4m total.
National Amusements’ anime Belle added £15,678 on its third weekend to reach £310,280 – a record for Mamoru Hosoda amongst his Studio Chizu titles.
The Real Charlie Chaplin opened to £14,374 from 47 locations for Altitude, at an average of £306. Including previews, the film has £21,000.
Stacey Gregg’s Irish drama Here Before starring Andrea Riseborough opened to £7,388 from 26 locations through Wildcard Distribution.
Polish-language title Love, Sex And Pandemic added £1,004 for Kinostar on its second weekend, to reach £69,222 cume.
In event cinema, National Theatre’s The Book Of Dust – La Belle Sauvage took £341,659 from 505 cinemas on Thursday, February 17 at an average of £676 from 596 locations. It has £342,886 including encores; with a further 163 encores to go, mainly at the beginning of March.
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