Top 5 Breakdown
- Hotel Transylvania 2 – £2.3m – total £9.4m
Down only 17.9% in its second weekend (not including previews). This compares to a 41% drop the first film had in 2012 but this was due to Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted opening in its second weekend opening with £6.03m compared to Hotel Transylvania taking £1.02m.
Holding surprisingly strongly thanks to being one of two children’s films released for half-term with some schools on holiday last week and others this week.
Has already overtaking the original films total box office £8.1m with a second week of half term ahead will be the one film that could hold its own against Spectre.
2. The Martian – £1.7m – total £20.4m
Holding in second place down only 29.4% in its fourth weekend (without previews for Suffragette and Pan would have held in second place last weekend too).
It will soon overtake Ridley Scott’s Hannibal his third biggest film in the UK but will lose many of its screens to Spectre and will drop heavily this coming weekend.
In comparison in its fourth weekend Gravity took £1.7m and £22.5m total. While Interstellar took £1.25m and £17.92m both benefited from far more box office from 3D and IMAX (due to The Walk The Martian wasn’t screened in IMAX in the UK).
3. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension – £1.47m -NE
The final part of lucrative found footage film series fizzled out in the US due to Paramount’s plans to shorted theatrical windows but have no excuse for it having the worst opening of the series in the UK. After receiving poor reviews and getting poor word of mouth might not last in cinemas till Halloween next weekend.
| Paranormal Activity | 25 Nov 2009 | £3,503,762 | Icon |
| First Paranormal Activity 2 | 22 Oct 2010 | £3,764,722 | Paramount |
| Paranormal Activity 3 | 21 Oct 2011 | £3,405,036 | Paramount |
| Paranormal Activity 4 | 17 Oct 2012 | £2,544,701 | Paramount |
| Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones | 1 Jan 2014 | £1,579,435 | Paramount |
4. Suffragette – £1.34m – total £5.8m
Holding well in its second weekend down only 12.7% (not including Mon-Thurs box office) thanks to strong reviews and good word of mouth. Likely to hold well against Spectre and over the next couple of weeks.
Last years The Imitation Game dropped 19% in its second weekend but took £2.12m an £6.75m total.
The Iron Lady in 2012 dropped 31% in its second weekend taking £1.48m and £5.17m total.
- The Last Witch Hunter – £1.24m – NE
Average opening behind director’s Breck Eisner biggest film 2005’s Sahara. Receiving negative reviews and poor word of mouth it’s the second horror film that might not last in cinemas till Halloween.
Complete UK Box office top 10 – October 23rd – 25th 2015
| Film | Studio | Release date | Weeks | w/e box office | Change +/- | Total |
| Hotel Transylvania 2 | Sony | 16/10/2015 | 2 | 2,300,000 | -17.9% | 9,400,000 |
| The Martian | 20th Century Fox | 30/09/2015 | 4 | 1,700,000 | -29.4% | 20,400,000 |
| PA- Ghost Dimension | Paramount | 23/10/2015 | 1 | 1,470,000 | NE | 1,470,000 |
| Suffragette | Pathe | 12/10/2015 | 2 | 1,340,000 | -12.7% | 5,800,000 |
| The Last Witch Hunter | eOne | 23/10/2015 | 1 | 1,240,000 | NE | 1,240,000 |
| Pan | Warner | 02/10/2015 | 2 | 2,730,832 | -56.1% | 4,600,000 |
| Sicario | Lionsgate | 08/10/2015 | 3 | 548,742 | -37.2% | 4,400,000 |
| Crimson Peak | Universal | 16/10/2015 | 2 | 500,091 | -48.1% | 1,990,000 |
| Legend | Studiocanal | 09/09/2015 | 7 | 284,844 | -35.8% | 18,060,000 |
| The Lobster | Picturehouse | 16/10/2015 | 2 | 241,794 | +10.8% | 651,584 |
Other box office news:
Also released
Mississippi Grind – eOne – £19,314 from 19 screens.
Last year Fury opened with £2,679,335, The Book of Life £979,415, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible £570,804, Love, Rosie £481,969 and The Babadook £343,504.
This weekend’s top 10 box office took £12,356,303 down 28.8% from last weekend £17,362,134 was up 14.4 from same weekend last year. (£10,797,677);
This weekend last year Ouija opened with £1,245,929, Mr Turner £877,380 but weekend only really be compared with October 26th 2012 when Skyfall opened £26,851,814 but thanks to Mon-Thurs box office added to its weekend Spectre will take more than this on its own. Will be interesting to see how the holdover films perform loosing many screens.
US Box Office
- 20th Century Fox The Martian climbed back to top taking $15.9m in its fourth weekend taking $166.4m to date soon becoming Ridley Scott’s biggest film in the US beating $187m of 2000’s Gladiator soon; in comparison Interstellar had taken $147.1m and Gravity $199.6m.
- Sony Pictures Goosebumps dropped 35% taking $15.5m and $43.7m to date.
- Disney’s Bridge of Spies opening with $11.4m holding strong down 26% and $32.6m to date.
- Lionsgate’s The Last Witch Hunter was the best of the new entries taking $10.8m.
- Sony Pictures Hotel Transylvania 2 took $9m taking $148.3m; in comparison first film had taken $130.3m after five weekends.
Other new entries disappointed
Paramount’s Paranormal Activity 6 took $8.2m lowest opening of series thanks in part to several exhibitors deciding not to screen it after Paramount’s plans for an early digital release. Which will likely mean it will be released digitally in early December.
Universal’s Steve Jobs are two strong weeks on platform release had a disappointing expansion of $7.3m barely beating Aston Kutcher’s 2013’s Jobs. After last year’s Gone Girl success Sept/Oct has been swamped with adult dramas big success The Martian but then The Walk and Steve Jobs both disappointed.
Universal’s Jem and the Holograms had one of the worst openings for a film opening in 2,000 screens. The first trailer was poorly received in May spreading negativity and the film was DOA. It took only 33% of similar themed Josie and the Pussycats opened with in 2001 also made by Universal so was surprising they would make a similar film after that flopped.
Since Straight Outta Compton was released all of Universals films have disappointed. These were the films that would have shown if they had the Midas Touch or were just lucky with dating. None of their remaining films for 2015 are likely to light up at the box office. While 2016 slate is sequel heavy with few big guns will likely see them repeat Paramount/Sony who had their biggest years in 2011 and 2012 followed with a disappointing year. Open Road’s Rock the Kasbah opened with only $1.3m.
On limited release
Focus Features Suffragette opened with $77,000 from 4 screens; reviews have been mixed compared with the very positive reviews from the UK
