UK/US Box Office Report October 30th – Nov 1st 2015

Top 5 Breakdown

Spectre – £19,894,607 – total £41,214,634

2D took £18,449,043 total £38,331,160 – IMAX (40 screens) £1,445,564 – total £2,882,474

Spectre-tacular breaking records on Tuesday £6.3m and Wednesday £5.71m and taking 60% of Mondays box office with first shows at 7.30pm with £4.18m.

Broke Harry Potter the Prisoner of Azkaban’s 7 day opening record but can’t be compared as was released in 2004 with majority of tickets sold children’s tickets. While majority of Spectre tickets had premiums added Odeon with £2 ‘blockbuster tax’ and other exhibitors cynically adding surcharges.

Had the best IMAX screen average launch in the UK beating The Dark Knight but again was thanks to cinemas like BFI IMAX increasing ticket prices by 19% for Spectre from £19.50 to £22.

By opening Monday did impact on its official opening weekend being the third biggest Fri-Sun opening behind 2011’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 £23.75m and was lower than 2012’s Skyfall £20.18m.

The big question will be how it holds in its second weekend Skyfall dropped only 20% taking £16.107m in its second weekend breaking through the £50m barrier in 10 days. Will be helped by none of the new releases unlikely to crack the top 5.

Will hold top spot for three weeks until The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 opens on November 20th similar to Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 in November 2012.

Spectre has taken more money in 7 days than all of Sony Pictures UK other films released in 2015 showing how important James Bond has become to Sony. If the rumours are correct Sony will likely loose rights for the next Bond films leaving a massive whole.

Millions were spent by many companies for product placement within the film but KikKat launched an ad campaign playing up on James Bond’s ladies’ man image for free.

2. Hotel Transylvania 2 – £2,406,894 – total £16,016,221

3D took £94,429 – total £1,780,232 – 2D took £2,312,464 – total £14,235,989

Up 5.7% in its third weekend thanks to half term week. Has done surprisingly well thanks to be the only animation film on release during half term holidays and similar to Pixels despite receiving poor reviews audiences still came out to see it.

With school holidays over and Halloween also over will likely see heavy drops in the coming weeks.

3. Pan – £787,726 – total £7,162,520

3D took £55,272 – total £1,542,215 – 2D took £732,455 – total £5,620,305

After receiving poor reviews surprisingly how strong Pan has performing during half term two weeks dropping only 35.1% in its third weekend showing there is still much love for Peter Pan in the UK. limited

4. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension – £704,556 – total £2,957,618

3D £483,565 total £2,095,493 – 2D £220,991 total £862,125

Down only 52.1% in its second weekend surprisingly low drop for a film with poor reviews and word of mouth and held better than many of the previous films.

But this is probably more thanks to 3D surcharges than anything else with almost 71% of its box office surprisingly from 3D.

Suffragette – £589,338 – £7,442,207

After a minimal drop in its second weekend had a big 56% drop in its third weekend due to the loss of many screens to Spectre and half term holidays. With schools back this week will hold better than the family films this weekend before the influx of more adult dramas out in two weeks’ time.

After three weeks The Imitation Game had taken £9,463,537 and The Iron Lady £7,162,492

Complete UK Box office top 10 – November 6^th – 8^th 2015

Film	Studio	Release date	Weeks	w/e box office	Change +/-	Total
Spectre	Sony	26/10/2015	1	19,894,607	NE	41,213,634
Hotel Transylvania 2	Sony	16/10/2015	3	2,406,894	+5.7%	16,016,221
Pan	Warner	02/10/2015	3	787,726	-35.1%	7,162,520
PA: Ghost Dimension	Paramount	23/10/2015	2	704,556	-52.1%	2,957,618
Suffragette	Pathe	12/10/2015	3	589,338	-56.1%	7,442,207
The Martian	20^th Century Fox	30/09/2015	5	589,120	-65.3%	21,976,303
The Last Witch Hunter	eOne	23/10/2015	2	386,170	-68.8%	2,177,240
Tannhauser Opera	By Experience	31/10/2015	1	162,876	NE	162,876
Inside Out	Disney	24/07/2015	15	156,262	+55.2%	38,910,964
Crimson Peak	Universal	16/10/2015	3	153,312	-69.3%	2,335,419

Other box office news:

Last year Interstellar opened with £5,362,778, Say When £93,000, The Skelton Twins £19,204 and November Man £5,000.

This weekend’s top 10 box office took £47,149,888 up 281%% from last weekend £12,356,303 was up 387% from same weekend last year. (£9,677,382);

Can only really be compared to Skyfall’s opening October 26th 2012 (including 7 days of Skyfall) £43,832,546 up 7.5% shows it’s not really as impressive as it looks as industry average ticket prices are up 11.8% since 2012. (in reality prices are up much more)

Spectre took 85.6% of the top 10 box office compared with 66.9% for Skyfall in 2012.

US Box Office