Top 5 Breakdown
- Spectre – £7,824,688 – total £77,570,546
2D took £7,130,024 total £71,646,018 – IMAX (40 screens) £694,664 – total £5,924,529
Has become the fourth biggest film in the UK overtaking 2010’s Toy Story £74m by next weekend will become third biggest film in the UK toppling 1998’s Titanic £80.1m
Down 40.3% in its third weekend 5% more than Skyfall in 2012 SPECTRE is currently 0.5% ahead but as it has dropped 5% more will likely to end up just below 2009’s Avatar £94m.
Will likely drop more heavily this weekend against The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 than Skyfall’s 47% drop versus Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2. Then following weekend with arrival of The Good Dinosaur and Bridge of Spies both likely be bigger competition than Nativity 2, Silver Linings Playbook and Gambit were to Skyfall in 2012 when it dropped only 32% in its fifth weekend.
| Skyfall | Spectre | |||||||||||||||||
| w/e drop | w/e BO | Total | w/e BO | w/e drop | Week BO | Total | 2012 prices | Week drop | ||||||||||
| w/e 1 | N/A | £20.1m | £37.2m | N/A | N/A | £42.1m | £42.1m | £39.6m | N/A | |||||||||
| w/e 2 | -20% | £16.1m | £53.4m** | £13.1m | -34.1% | £22.7m | £63.9m | £60.8m | -44.9% | |||||||||
| w/e 3 | -35% | £10.4m | £77.1m | £7.8m | -40% | £10.9m* | £77.5m | £69.7m | ||||||||||
| w/e 4 | -47% | £5.6m | £85.8m | £4.4m* | -47%* | £5.94m* | £80.7m* | £76.1m | ||||||||||
| w/e 5 | -32% | £3.8m | £91.4m | £2.9m* | -32%* | £2.99m* | £83.7m* | £78.9m | ||||||||||
| w/e 6 | -41% | £2.27m | £94.9m | £1.8m* | -41%* | £2.39m* | £86.1m* | |||||||||||
* estimates using Skyfall drops but Spectre will likely drop as did in w/e 2.
** Skyfall totals are 4 days less than Spectre
Average price is from BFI claimed average ticket price £6.37 in 2012 to 2014’s £6.74 (up 5.8%).
The reaction to SPECTRE has been very Marmite either loving it or loathing it
Many have said SPECTRE wraps up Daniel Craig’s James Bond films but it also sets up Bond 26 to be a remake of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Every Easter egg and references from SPECTRE
Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich wrote an interesting insight to the ending of SPECTRE to try to make an understanding of what happened to Bond after Oberhauser brain drilled him.
2.The Lady in the Van – £2,241,679 – NE
After strong media campaign following premiere at the London Film Festival received strong reviews. Following on from recent strong opening of Suffragette taking £1,536,360 of its £2,931,131 opening 5 weeks ago The Lady in the Van is likely to performance as well during the week as weekend.
Its opening is similar to 2012’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel £2,222,051 taking £4.79m in its opening 7 days increasing by 5% in its second weekend will The Lady in the Van do similar?
Opening is director Nicholas Hytner’s biggest opening film in the UK ahead of 2006’s The History Boys £794,672 which featured much of the same supporting cast.
3. Prem Ratan Dham Payo – £911,777 – NE
Incredible debut for the Bollywood film in the UK playing on only 141 screens; only 32% of the screens Steve Jobs opened in.
Opening is just behind 2010’s My Name is Khan £936,454 from 91 screens, 2013’s Chennai Express £935,671 from 126 screens.
4. Hotel Transylvania 2 – £905,669 – total £18,552,562
3D took £8,359 – total £1,8,26,345 – 2D took £897,310 – total £16,726,217
Incredible how Hotel Transylvania 2 and Pan have both held in the last two weekends after half term holidays. Especially as both were so poorly received critically
Maybe parents are sending their children to see them as they go to see other films.
It should now overtake Big Hero 6’s £19.34m in the next two weeks but then it will be facing much tougher competition with The Good Dinosaur.
- Steve Jobs – £895,160 – NE
After generating huge media coverage over the last few weeks after closing the London Film Festival; much was centred on its poor performance in the US after opening strongly on platform release, its director Danny Boyle did question the studios release strategy expanding from 60 screens to 2,500 after just three weeks as other platform releases like last year’s Oscar winner took 10 weeks to get to the same amount of screens.
Opening was better than 2013’s closing London Film Festival Saving Mr Banks £792,248 can’t be compared with last year’s Fury £2,679,335.
Many will of course compare it to Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 The Social Network that opened with £2.49m and of course Steve Jobs was originally to be directed by David Fincher. Opening is Danny Boyle’s worst since 2005’s Millions opened with £282,294 but opened on 40% less screens and far less media coverage.
After rejecting making Alien Resurrection and James Bond films surprising Danny Boyle has announced his next film will be Trainspotting 2 20 years after first film was release. It will likely be another sequel Universal will be adding to its 8 already set for release in 2016.
Big question will be will Steve Jobs failure at the box office hurt Michael Fassbender Oscar chances as Leonardo DiCaprio watches on to see if he will be the perennial actor bridesmaid at Oscars this time for a role he once had. But disappointing box office performance of Birdman and Theory of Everything last year didn’t hurt both films from Oscar success.
Was then strangely Universal chose to go immediately wide with its release in the UK but after the mixed buzz and with rest of November overloaded with films it had to go immediately wide.
Other box office news:
Also released
The Hallow –eOne – £51,709 from 46 screens
Fathers and Daughters – Warner – £25,000 from 104 screens
Tangerine – Metrodome – £18,611 from 15 screens
This weekend’s top 10 box office took £14,753,814 down 17% from last weekend £17,777,621 was up 27.3% from same weekend last year. (£11,589,718);
Last year The Imitation Game opened with £2,683,498, Nativity 3 £1,786,952, The Drop £616,103.
This weekend last year The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 opened with £12.64m and What We Do in the Shadows £127,765.
Complete UK Box office top 10 – November 13th – 15th 2015
| Film | Studio | Release date | Weeks | w/e box office | Change +/- | Total |
| Spectre | Sony | 26/10/2015 | 3 | 7,824,688 | -40.3% | 77,570,546 |
| The Lady in the Van | Sony | 13/11/2015 | 1 | 2,241,679 | NE | 2,241,679 |
| Prem Ratan Dhan Payo | 20th Century Fox | 13/11/2015 | 1 | 911,777 | NE | 911,777 |
| Hotel Transylvania 2 | Sony | 16/10/2015 | 5 | 905,669 | -17.9% | 18,552,561 |
| Steve Jobs | Universal | 13/11/2015 | 1 | 895,160 | NE | 895,160 |
| Brooklyn | Lionsgate | 06/11/2015 | 2 | 780,197 | -24.8% | 2,780,295 |
| Pan | Warner | 02/10/2015 | 5 | 484,350 | -6.9% | 8,414,737 |
| The Martian | 20th Century Fox | 30/09/2015 | 7 | 293,293 | -32.6% | 23,104,486 |
| Suffragette | Pathe | 12/10/2015 | 5 | 242,199 | -40.1% | 9,233,061 |
| Burnt | Entertainment | 06/11/2015 | 1 | 174,802 | -60.7% | 944,610 |
US Box Office
- Sony Picture’s SPECTRE dropped 50% in its second weekend to $35.4m with total $130.7m. Dropping similar to Skyfall is currently 18% down and will likely finish with less than $250m.
2. 20th Century Fox Peanuts Movie dropped 44% with $25.2m and $82.5m total.
3. Lionsgate Love the Coopers opened better than expected with $8.4m
4. 20th Century Fox The Martian took $6.7m in its sixth weekend taking $207.4m to date.
5. Warner Bros The 33 opened with $5.8m.
On limited released
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo – Fox International – Opened strongly taking $2.4m from only 286 screens. One of the biggest openings in US for a Bollywood film.
By the Sea opened with $95,440 from 10 screens; after opting to go on limited release after receiving poor reviews Universal still plan to expand it to 100 screens this coming weekend.
Spotlight – Open Road – expanded into 60 screens taking $1.4m and total $1.8m
Brooklyn –Searchlight – expanded into 23 screens taking $485,000 and $832,996 total.
