| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Oct 26-28) | Total gross to date | Week |
| 1. | Venom: The Last Dance (Sony) | £4.3m | £4.3m | 1 |
| 2. | The Wild Robot (Universal) | £1.9m | £6.4m | 2 |
| 3. | Smile 2 (Paramount) | £1m | £4m | 2 |
| 4. | Transformers One (Paramount) | £377,581 | £3.4m | 3 |
| 5. | The Apprentice (Studiocanal) | £372,604 | £1.6m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.30
Sony’s Venom: The Last Dance started with a £4.3m weekend – enough to top the UK-Ireland box office, although down on the starts of the first two films in the franchise.
The Last Dance played in 622 sites, taking a £6,915 location average. This is down on the £5.6m start of 2018’s Venom, from 556 sites at a £10,160 average; and the £6.2m start of 2021’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage, from 597 sites at a £10,331 average.
The Last Dance has surpassed the openings of several recent comic book adaptations, including The Flash (£4.25m in June 2023), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (£3.7m in August 2023) and The Marvels (£3.4m in November 2023).
It knocked Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot down to second. The Dreamworks animation fell 37% from its opening weekend, with £1.9m, and is at £6.4m so far – down slightly on the £6.7m of fellow Universal animation Migration at the same stage in 2023. That film ended on £21.5m, so crossing the £20m mark is still a possible achievement for The Wild Robot.
Paramount horror Smile 2 added just over £1m on its second weekend, a drop of 40.5% that brings it to £4m in total. It has slipped behind the rate of 2022’s Smile, which had £4.8m at this stage and ended on £11.7m.
Former number one Transformers One posted a £377,581 third weekend – a 41.2% drop that brings it to £3.4m in total for Paramount.
It held slightly better than Studiocanal’s The Apprentice, which still maintained a top five spot. It dropped 42.1% with £372,604 bringing it to £1.6m from two weekends.
Takings for the top five rose for the second consecutive weekend, going up 20.9% to £8m. However they are still down 12.8% on the equivalent weekend from last year, and with 2024 still running at a deficit to 2023, big results are needed from Paddington In Peru (November 8) and Gladiator II (November 15).
Signature, Mubi set records
Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice posted the best hold in the top 10 on its eighth weekend in cinemas. The Warner Bros comedy-horror dropped just 21.3% with £367,938, and now has an impressive £25.3m in total, passing the £25.1m of Burton’s 2019 Dumbo.
Terrifier 3 has become Signature Entertainment’s highest-grossing film, adding £269,117 to hit £2.8m and overtake the £2.4m of 2022’s Orphan: First Kill.
Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language feature film The Room Next Door started with £239,043 – slightly down on his previous film, 2022’s Parallel Mothers with £247,075, and less than his record opening of £433,283 for 2006’s Volver. Playing in 233 sites, The Room Next Door made a £1,026 site average.
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance has become Mubi’s highest-grossing title in the UK and Ireland. The film posted another excellent hold on its sixth weekend, dropping just 32% with £150,000 taking it to £3.4m, ahead of the £3.3m of 2024’s Priscilla. The Substance is already Mubi’s highest-grossing worldwide release, topping the $10m figure of Priscilla from Mubi territories at the start of this month.
On only its fourth weekend in cinemas, Warner Bros’ Joker: Folie À Deux slipped below the £150,000 mark, with £144,712 – a 71% drop. It was enough to take it beyond the £10m mark, with £10.1m; but the film will likely finish with less than one fifth of the £58.3m of 2019’s Joker.
Warner Bros’ 40th anniversary re-release of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare On Elm Street made £117,132, at £245-per-cinema.
With Halloween titles new and old flooding the market, Park Circus’ Hocus Pocus re-release took £91,004, in addition to the £2.2m of the film’s original 1993 run.
Despicable Me 4 is now the highest-grossing title in the six-film Despicable Me/Minions franchise. The Universal animation added £57,194 on its 16th weekend in cinemas, to take it to £47.93m and beyond the £47.9m of 2017’s Despicable Me 3.
Max Eggers and Sam Eggers’ horror The Front Room starring Brandy opened to £56,555 from 263 sites at a £218 site average for Universal.
The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan continues its strong cinema run through a fifth weekend for Studiocanal, adding £55,119 to cross the £2m mark to £2.1m.
Sky Cinema’s Lee starring Kate Winslet, released by Studiocanal, added £53,501 on its seventh weekend, and is up to £4.3m.
Speak No Evil starring James McAvoy added £38,381 on its seventh weekend in cinemas, and is up to £5.5m for Universal.
Warner Bros animation Buffalo Kids added £24,687 on its third weekend, and is up to £494,642.
UK animated feature Rebellious made £18,049 on its opening weekend in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with £21,817 including its Scottish figures to date, through Miracle/Dazzler.
On its second weekend, Sony anime My Hero Academia: You’re Next added £17,271 to reach £296,725. It is ahead of the £244,678 of 2018’s Two Heroes, but down on the £391,983 of 2020’s Heroes: Rising and the £374,158 of 2021’s World Heroes’ Mission, all from the My Hero Academia series and released by National Amusements.
On its third weekend in cinemas, Moviegoers Entertainment’s Jigra added £17,193, with the film at £229,505 in total.
Salem’s Lot added £17,002 on its third weekend for Warner Bros – an 85.6% fall - and has £739,072 in total.
Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-winning documentary Dahomey opened to £15,509 for Mubi, from 25 sites at a £620 average. Including previews the film has £29,712.
Back To The Future: Part II added £14,836 on its second weekend in cinemas, and is up to £80,900 for Park Circus.
National Theatre Live’s Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer added £13,742 on the sixth weekend of its re-release, to reach £2.9m, in addition to the £5.5m of the 2022 original run.
Francois Ozon’s The Crime Is Mine added £10,024 on its second weekend for Parkland Film Capital, and is up to £64,829.
Park Circus’ Carrie re-release added a further £3,228 on its second weekend, taking it to £67,635.
A BFI Distribution re-release of animated classic Watership Down took £3,216, and £8,141 including previews.
Sony anime Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp made £698 from limited screenings.
On its second weekend in cinemas, Trafalgar Releasing’s event cinema title Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland is up to £627,046. The distributor also released Tears For Fears Live to £124,061 and Whitney Houston – The Concert For A New South Africa to £36,425 across the last week.
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