- Elemental – £3,049,002 – NE
Took £707k Friday (23.2%); £1.22m Saturday (40.1%); £1.12m Sunday (36.7%)
Took £106,278 from previews which helped Elemental open £2,775 more than Indy 5
513th biggest opening between Central Intelligence and Twister (close to Lost in Space, Doctor Dolittle, The Huntsman: Winter’s War and Men in Black 3) and 828th biggest inflated between Eddie the Eagle and Cocktail (close to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Turner & Hooch, My Girl and The Haunted Mansion).
21st biggest Pixar opening between Onward and The Good Dinosaur (close to Lightyear, Monsters University, Cars and Cars 3).
89th biggest animated opening between Tarzan and Ice Age (close to Shrek, Chicken Little, Horton Hears a Who and Gnomeo and Juliet) and 110th biggest inflated between Beauty and the Beast (1992 and Pocahontas (close to Antz, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie).
14th biggest opening of 2023 between Scream VI and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
118th widest opening in the UK (623 cinemas) between Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Alien: Covenant, Scream and Hobbs & Shaw; 651st 600+ cinema opening since 2015’s Jurassic World.
Opening with previews was 10.3% of the US opening ($29,602,429) close to Tangled, Christopher Robin, Coco and Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and without previews 9.9% close to Minions, Turbo, Casper and Minions The Rise of Gru; industry uses 10% of US as a guide to UK opening.
Elemental is the first original Pixar film to have a theatrical release since Onward in 2020, Soul, Lucia and Turning Red were all released straight to Disney+ while the last Pixar film was Toy Story prequel Lightyear which disappointed both critically and at the BO.
While Elemental opened 60% less than 2015’s Inside Out (£7,376,513) as with most Pixar films it will have long legs despite the arrival of Mission Impossible 7 on Monday, Barbie, and Oppenheimer next week as it’s the only major family film on release until mid-July. Elemental will take the bulk of its BO next weekend as last weekend Sat/Sun over the next two weeks, but school holidays start on July 21st so it could still take £25m+.
Elemental received its world premiere out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival receiving a mixed reception, similar to Dial of Destiny getting hasher reviews than it would have done if premiered elsewhere. The plot of the film is like many other Pixar film formulas, what if x had feelings? Toys with feelings (Toy Story), monsters with feelings (Monsters Inc), robots with feelings (Wall-E), feelings with feelings (Inside Out) and now elements with feelings (Elemental).
Elemental is the first Pixar film since 2018’s Incredibles 2 to have a short attached, which was the norm for Pixar films.
The 23 Pixar films that have had cinema releases have taken over £715m since 1996’s Toy Story and £1bn inflated.
Despite Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 Elemental will have a stronghold as it will next weekend against Barbie and Oppenheimer as plays to a younger audience and is the only major family release until Haunted Mansion in August.
- 2, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – £3,046,227 – £13,162,996
Down 57.4% in the second weekend (43% without previews)
Took Friday £722k (23.7%) 48.4% drop (£1.4m); £1.32m Saturday (43.3%) 40% drop (£2.2m); £1.01m Sunday (33.1%) 42.6% drop (£1.76m)
231st biggest second weekend between Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Men in Black 3 (close to Solo: A Star Wars Story, Blade Runner 2049, T2: Trainspotting 2 and Jumanji: The Next Level) and 433rd inflated between Arthur Christmas and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (close to Three Men and A Baby, The Full Monty, Bad Boys for Life and Enemy of the State).
Dial of Destiny was #1 Fri-Sun as Elemental opening included BO from secret screening previews, but Dial of Destiny BO was inflated with IMAX/PLF while Elemental had a substantial percentage of children tickets.
What was surprising is that despite the closure of 14 Empire Cinemas on Friday which saw Elemental and Insidious: The Red Door open in fewer screens than they were due to Dial of Destiny increased its cinemas from 743 last week to 745.
2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull dropped 54.7% £5,532,530 (£8,479,666 inflated) £27,588,451 68.5% of £40,285,476 (£61,745,239 inflated)
1989’s The Last Crusade dropped 14.9% £1,478,383 (£5,056,958 inflated) and £4,553,323 28.6% of £15,923,168 (£54,466,802 inflated)
While Indiana Jones films have all had fantasy elements they were based on some reality, but Dial of Destiny is like Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (aliens) time travel feels like the easy option as similar to multi-universe gives the ability to change the timeline making anything possible, cheat cinema.
In 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark was the #6 biggest film in the UK taking opening with £983,710 (£4,993,738 inflated) taking £3.31m (£17.1m inflated) and #1 in the US; #1 Superman II; #2 For Your Eyes Only; #3 Flash Gordon; #4 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; #5 Any Which Way You Can; #6 Clash of the Titans; #7 Private Benjamin; #8 Raiders of the Lost Ark; #9 The Elephant Man; #10 Tess.
In 1984 Temple of Doom was #1 biggest film in the UK taking £9.25m (£41.3m inflated) and #2 in the US (behind Ghostbusters); #2 Never Say Never; #3 The Jungle Book; #4 Police Academy; #5 Sudden Impact; #6 Terms of Endearment; #7 Educating Rita; #8 Trading Places; #9 Greystoke: The Legend of the Apes; #10 Jaws III.
In 1989 The Last Crusade was #1 biggest film in the UK (£15.92m) and #2 in the US (behind Batman); #2 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (£15.61m); #3 Batman (£12.03m); #4 Rain Man (£9.66m); #5 The Naked Gun (£7.74m); #6 Licence To Kill (£7.55m); #7 Lethal Weapon 2 (£6.74m); #8 Twins (£6.55m); #9 Dead Poets Society (£5.87m); #10 Cocktail (£5.76m).
In 2008 Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was #4 biggest film in the UK (£40.28m) and #3 in the US ($317.1m); #1 Mamma Mia! (£68.9m); #2 Quantum of Solace (£51.1m); #3 The Dark Knight (£49.31m); #4 The Crystal Skull; #5 Sex and the City (£26.23m); #6 Hancock (£24.41m); #7 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (£23.3m); #8 High School Musical 3 (£22.63m); #9 Wall·E (£22.2m); #10 Kung Fu Panda (£19.63m).
In 1989 The Last Crusade opened only at the Empire Leicester Square and Plaza Lower Regent Street selling out most of its screenings over its opening 5 days while Dial of Destiny opened on three screens at Odeon Leicester Square, one at Odeon West End, two at Cineworld Leicester Square (IMAX and Super Screen), five at Vue West End, three at Vue Piccadilly and two at Picturehouse Central. The problem with the Dial of Destiny opening on all of the major screens of these cinemas is it then lost all of them on Monday to Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. Previously films would open in one of these cinemas allowing the films to sell out these cinemas and play for much longer on the main screens.
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was #1 for only 1 week toppled by Sex and the City (£8,767,265); The Last Crusade was #1 for 6 weeks toppled by Batman also had a bigger opening £2,058,159; but it still took a huge £83,260 at the Empire 1 Leicester Square in its 7th weekend taking £978,995; played at the Empire for 21 weeks taking £1,452,298 taking £15,794 in its 21st weekend Empire 2.
With the arrival of Dead Reckoning on Monday Dial of Destiny is likely to be the most affected film, as it loses all IMAX and PLF screens so will drop upwards of 60% in its third weekend and then suffer a similar drop in its fourth weekend against Barbie and Oppenheimer. This could see Dial of Destiny take less than £20m which would surely be about half of what it was expected to take.
- 3. Insidious: The Red Door – £2,279,084 – NE
Took £816k Friday (38.5%); £837k Saturday (36.7%); £628k Sunday (27.5%)
709th biggest opening between Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and The Bad Guys (close to The Silence of the Lambs, Speed, Starship Troopers and Shutter Island) and 1,165th inflated between Conspiracy Theory and The Bad Guys (close to Presumed Innocent, Star Trek V The Undiscovered Country, Flashdance and Eyes Wide Shut).
3rd biggest horror opening of 2023 after M3gan (£2,356,357) and Scream VI (£3,043,922)
16th biggest 2023 opening between Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Shazam! Fury of the Gods.
34th biggest opening horror between Interview with the Vampire and The Grudge (close to A Quiet Place, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Others and What Lies Beneath) and 69th inflated between Annabelle and Exorcism of Emily Rose (close to Final Destination, Species, Scream (1997) and The Lawnmower Man).
Had the second-biggest opening of the Insidious film series after 2013’s Insidious 2
2011’s Insidious opened £1,441,292 taking £7,035,245
2013’s Insidious 2 opened £2,877,742 taking £6,996,519
2015’s Insidious Chapter 3 opened £1,440,299 taking £3,874,112
2018’s Insidious: The Last Key opened £1,840,992 taking £5,040,84
Horror has been one of the strongest-performing genres of films since cinemas reopened three years ago, with 19 horrors released including Evil Dead Rises, Scream VI, M3gan, The Menu, Smile, Nope, The Black Phone, Scream, Candyman, A Quiet Place Part II and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It taking over £100m. There are 6 more horrors due for release this year Last Voyage of the Demeter, The Nun II, The Exorcist: Believer, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Saw X and Thanksgiving.
With Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 opening on Monday and Oppenheimer opening next week Insidious: The Red Door is likely to be front-loaded.
- 4. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse – £964,566 – £27,743,603
Dropped 37% in the sixth weekend.
81st biggest sixth weekend (170th £1m+ 5th weekend) between Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and Finding Dory (close to Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Moana, The Dark Knight Rises and Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull) and the 166th biggest inflated between Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (close to True Lies, Crocodile Dundee II, Ghostbusters 2 and Despicable Me).
6th biggest comic-book sixth weekend between Avengers Infinity War and The Dark Knight (close to Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Dark Knight Rises, Captain Marvel and Avengers: Age of Ultron) and 13th biggest inflated between Avengers: Age of Ultron and Spider-Man: The Movie (close to Men In Black, Batman, Men In Black 2 and Batman Forever).
2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse dropped 16% £502,544 #10 and £9,294,314 452 screens 92.6% of £10,040,340.
168th biggest between Four Weddings and a Funeral and The Grinch (close to Shrek, The Pirates of the Caribbean, The LEGO Batman Movie and Sonic the Hedgehog 2) and 352nd biggest inflated between Dumbo and Home (close to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Dances with Wolves, Airplane and Top Gun).
30th biggest comic-book film between Spider-Man and X-Men: Days of Future Past (close to Spider-Man Homecoming, Man of Steel, The Amazing Spider-Man and Hancock) and 47th inflated between Batman Returns and Men in Black 3 (close to Superman III, Batman and Robin, X-Men and Iron Man).
Across The Spider-Verse has performed similarly to previous non-MCU Spider-Man films and opening before The Flash and Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts targetting helped it outlast its rivals unlike Into The Spider-verse opening the same weekend as Aquaman and three weeks after Ralph Breaks The Internet.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse opens March 29th against Mickey 17 the new film from Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho little is known about this sci-fi film starring Robert Pattinson. But expectations are high after Parasite.
- 5. The Little Mermaid – £490,836 – £25,970,520
Down 41.4% in the seventh weekend
153rd biggest seventh weekend between Thor: Love and Thunder and The Mummy (1999) (close to Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, Alice in Wonderland, The Golden Compass and Stardust) and 281st inflated between Reservoir Dogs and Flushed Away (close to My Girl, Beauty and the Beast (1992), Stuart Little 2 and Space Jam).
Over the last few weeks, it has taken a similar weekend BO to Peter Rabbit 2 and inflation-inflated Beauty and the Beast (1992).
5th biggest Disney reimagination 7th weekend between Alice in Wonderland (£668,339) and Aladdin (£481,015) close to Cinderella (£327,653), Maleficent (£312,747) and Disney’s Christopher Robin (£299,288).
Ahead of opening wouldn’t have expected a remake of the beloved 1989 The Little Mermaid would have performed similarly to Dumbo rather than The Jungle Book (£46,235,032), Alice in Wonderland (£42,169,542) and Aladdin (£36,710,978) as the original animated film was the 9th biggest film of 1990 taking (15.46x opening) £6,266,749 (£21,731,902 inflated).
The biggest Disney re-imaginations on seventh weekends:
2019’s The Lion King up 13% £1,226,965 #2 656 screens £71,715,237 94.3% of £76,023,435
2019’s Aladdin dropped 37% £435,750 #7 418 screens £34,643,748 94.4% of £36,710,978
2017’s Beauty and the Beast dropped 36% £835,004 #4 550 screens £70,113,995 96.7% of £72,507,458
2010’s Alice in Wonderland dropped 26% £498,948 #8 410 screens £41,423,309 98.2% of £42,169,542
2016’s The Jungle Book dropped 46% £779,205 #5 558 screens £42,543,223 92% of £46,238,425
2019’s Dumbo down 49% £239,186 #6 505 screens £24,670,089 98.1% of £25,142,945
182nd biggest film between The Golden Compass and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (close to Elvis, The Croods, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Dumbo) and 391st inflated between Bolt and Rocketman (close to Speed, American Pie, Beauty and the Beast (1992) and The Beach).
The next reimaginations to be released are Snow White in March 2024 (as with The Little Mermaid with Halle Bailey the praise will be all about Rachel Zegler’s performance) and The Lion King sequel Mufasa in July 2024 with Moana in June 2025 and Lilo & Stitch, Hercules and Bambi undated.
UK box office in detail
This weekend’s top 10 box office took £11,461,680 down 13.9% from last weekend’s £13,307,283: 1,438,103 admissions down 13.9% from 1,669,672.
457th biggest top 10 of the last 21 years (out of 1,110) between 15 April 2022 #1 The Lost City £2,743,211 (24%) and 05 December 2014 #1 Paddington £3,837,885 (33.5% of the top 10) and 769th biggest inflation inflated between 15 March 2002 #1 Ocean’s Eleven £1,357,063 (22%of top 10) and 22 May 2015 #1 Pitch Perfect 2 £2,665,428 (25.8% of top 10).
The top 3 took £8,374,313 73.1% of the top 10; Elemental 26.85% (£3,049,002); Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny 26.83% (£3,046,227); Insidious: The Red Door 20.07% (£2,279,084).
783rd highest percentage (26.85%) #1 between 11 November 2016 Arrival (26.62%) and 06 February 2009 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (26.56%)
798th biggest admissions #1 (382,560) between 24 February 2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (382,677) and 09 February 2007 Music and Lyrics (381,992).
Down 43.2% from 2022 (£20,163,540); Thor: Love And Thunder (£12,283,719); Brian & Charles (£71,890); Dr. Who: Classic Movie Double Bill (£64,730); #1 Thor: Love And Thunder £12,283,719 1st week 692 screens (60.9% of top 10)
Up 18% from 2021; (£9,713,818); Black Widow (£6,889,187); The Truffle Hunters (£14,300); #1 Black Widow £6,889,187 1st week 644 screens (70.92% of the top 10).
Up 4,231% from 2020 (£264,643) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (40th Anniversary) (£50,406); Black Water: Abyss 10.6% (£28,053); #1 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (40th Anniversary) £50,406 1st week.
Down 53.6% from 2019; (£24,700,057); Spider-Man: Far From Home (£14,148,624); Westlife – The Twenty Tour Live (£899,488); Midsommar (£812,052); The Queen’s Corgi (£520,540); Anna (£198,391); Don’t Look Now (4K Restoration) (£13,977); #1 Spider-Man: Far From Home £14,148,624 1st week 635 screens (57.3% of top 10)
Up 105.7% from 2018: (£5,570,742); The First Purge (£1,778,157); The Beatles Yellow Submarine (50th Anniversary) (£163,155); Uncle Drew (£151,337); Whitney (£142,936); #1 The First Purge £1,778,157 1st week 481 screens (31.92% of top 10)
Down 35% from 2017: (£17,613,020); Spider-Man: Homecoming (£9,369,846); It Comes at Night (£226,688); Paw Patrol: Mission Big Screen (£42,460); #1 Spider-Man: Homecoming £9,369,846 1sr week 616 screens (53.2% of top 10)
Down 29.6% from 2016: (£16,278,631); The Legend of Tarzan (£3,570,350); Now You See Me 2 (£2,964,641); The Neon Demon (£126,996); Maggie’s Plan (£102,534); #1 The Secret Life of Pets £3,624,751 3rd week 612 screens 24% drop (22.3% of the top 10)
Down 15.5% from 2015; (£13,559,349); Ted 2 (£3,867,723); Love & Mercy (£105,718); Song Of The Sea (£72,172); The Human Centipede 3 (£938); #1 Minions £4,154,359 3rd week 605 screens 33$ drop (30.6% of top 10)
Down 50.1% from 2014: (£22,934,264); Transformers: Age of Extinction (£11,751,427); How to Train Your Dragon 2 (£7,779,040); Begin Again (£456,438); Boyhood (£332,834); #1 Transformers: Age of Extinction £11,751,427 1st week 533 screens (51.2% of top 10)
Down 8% from 2013: (£10,613,251); Now You See Me (£2,898,997); The Internship (£1,248,431); The Bling Ring (£141,425); A Field in England (£21,399); Chasing Mavericks (£21,985); #1 Despicable Me 2 £3,996,837 2nd 539 screens (37.6% of top 10)
Down 18.7% from 2012 (£14,098,577); The Amazing Spider-Man (£11,091,972); Katy Perry: Part of Me (£449,491); #1 The Amazing Spider-Man £11,091,972 1st week 552 screens (78.6% of top 10)
Up 11.1% from 2011; (£10,318,687); The Guard (£473,878); The Tree of Life (£406,062); #1 Transformers: Dark of the Moon £4,750,519 2nd week 56% drop 522 screens (46.1% of top 10)
Up 47.2% from 2010: (£21,686,365); The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (£13,756,653); Predators (£2,203,193); Leaving (£35,532); #1 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse £13,756,653 1st week 523 screens (63.4% of top 10
Up 22% from 2009; (£14,688,163); Bruno (£5,000,229); Fired Up (£30,691); #1 Bruno £5,000,229 1st week 456 screens (34.1% of top 10)
Down 43.2% from 2008; (£20,154,893); Kung Fu Panda (£6,069,679); The Mist (£157,394); #1 Hancock £9,589,095 1st week 450 screens (47.6% of top 10)
Down 6.1% from 2007: (£12,207,040); Die Hard 4.0 (£5,004,916); Dead Silence (£22,580); #1 Shrek the Third £5,084,641 2nd week 70% drop 538 screens (41.6% of top 10)
Down 34.7% from 2006; (£17,550,776); Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest (£13,740,784); District 13 (£98,747); #1 Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest £13,740,784 1st week 514 screens (78.3% of top 10)
Up 72.8% from 2005: (£6,632,112); The Descent (£570,850); #1 War of the Worlds £4,219,120 2nd week 506 screens 51% drop (63.6% of top 10)
Down 9.3% from 2004 (£12,636,832); Around the World in 80 Days (£1,631,963); Fahrenheit 9/11 (£1,304,115); Walking Tall (£356,193); Twisted (£108,235); #1 Shrek 2 £7,097,154 2nd week 512 screens 56% drop (56.1% of top 10)
Down 36.2% from 2003 (£8,411,961); Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (£3,273,078); Dark Blue (£70,049); #1 Charlie’s Angels: Full £8,034,538); The Minority Report (£4,506,315); Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron (£719,681); #1 The Minority Report £4,506,315 1st week 426 screens (56.1% of top 10) Throttle £3,273,078 1st week 473 screens (38.9% of top 10)
Up 42.6% from 2002 (£8,034,538); The Minority Report (£4,506,315); Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron (£719,681); #1 The Minority Report £4,506,315 1st week 426 screens (56.1% of top 10)
Next Week 2022 (£9,715,916); The Railway Children Return (£365,481); #1 Thor: Love and Thunder £4,063,773 2nd week 67% drop (56% without previews) 701 screens (41.83% of top 10)
US Box Office
- Insidious: The Red Door – Sony Pictures
Opened $33.01m; received mixed reviews (37% Rotten Tomatoes) and C+ CinemaScore (better than B- Insidious: The Last Key)
$1m came from PLF.
Took $5m from Thursday midnights compared with $1.985m for Insidious: The Last Key.
2nd biggest horror opening of 2023 after Scream VI ($44.44m taking $108.16m); horror has performed strongly since cinemas reopened with Smile, Evil Dead Rise M3GAN and The Black Phone.
526th biggest opening between Blades of Glory and Birds of Prey (close to The Devil Inside $33.73m; Saw III $33.61m; Scream 2 $32.92m and Saw IV $31.75m)
2010’s Insidious opened $13.27m taking $54m and $100.1m worldwide
2013’s Insidious: Chapter 2 opened $40.27m taking $83.58m and $161.91m worldwide
2015’s Insidious: Chapter 3 opened $22.69m taking $52.21m and $112.98m worldwide
2018’s Insidious: The Last Key opened $29.58m taking $67.74m and $167.88m worldwide
With Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, Oppenheimer and Barbie opening over the next two weeks Insidious: The Red Door is likely to be very front-loaded.
Opened with $31.4m from x territories; Mexico $5.8m; UK $2.8m; France $1.9m; India $1.5m; Malaysia $1.2m; Brazil $1.1m; Germany $1.1m; Australia $1m.
- Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny – Disney
Dropped 55% in the second weekend $27.42m and $122.12m
255th biggest second weekend between 22 Jump Street and Creed III (close to Solo: A Star Wars Story #222 $29.39m; Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation #233 $28.5m; Dunkirk #267 $26.61m and Jumanji: The Next Level #269 $26.5m)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull #86 $44.75m; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade #401 $21.23m; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom $9.23m and Raiders of the Lost Ark $8.01m.
42% of its audience was 45+ showing that the film was playing to those who grew up with the original films, which said it was lower than the opening audience split for Top Gun: Maverick which was 45% over 45, 21% over 55 with male to female 57% and 43%.
PLF, Imax, Screen Box, and 4DX took 35%; 21% PLF; 11% IMAX; 3% 4D/D-box/ScreenX; El Capitan was the top-grossing cinema; opened in 400 IMAX; 900 PLF; 280 D-Box and 85 Screen X; average ticket price was $12.96 and IMAX/PLF $16.41.
2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull dropped 55.3% $44.75m ($90m) and $215.63m ($320m) taking $317.1m ($470m) and $790.65m worldwide ($1.2bn)
1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade dropped 27.7% $21.23m ($75m) and $77.14m ($220m) taking $197.17m ($520m) and $474.17m worldwide ($1.25bn)
1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom dropped 35.3% $16.38m ($55m) and $68.12m ($225m) taking $179.87m ($565m) and $333.1m worldwide ($1.1bn)
1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark dropped 3.5% $8.01m ($31m) and $21.86m ($85m) taking $248.15m ($940m) and $389.92m worldwide ($1.5bn)
In 1981 after Raiders of the Lost Ark Variety said it would have to be one of the biggest films of all time to register a profit for Paramount, showing nothing has changed over the past 41 years. The budget for Dial of Destiny is about $300m so it would need to take over $1bn worldwide to turn a profit.
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened with $269m worldwide from 12,000 screens in 56 territories; UK $21.5m from 536 screens; France $14.1m; Germany $12.6m; Spain $11.7m; Korea $10m; Australia $9m; Russia $8.4m; Italy $6.5m; Brazil $5.7m; Mexico $4.5m.
1989’s Last Crusade took $277m internationally; 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in$153.5m; 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark $141.8m.
Took $31.8m (down 55%) from 52 territories $126.7m and $247.9m worldwide; UK $16.8m; France $11.4m; Japan $9.5m; Australia $7.5m; Germany $7.4m; Spain $7.2m; Korea $6m; Italy $4.5m; Mexico $4.2m; Brazil $3.3m.
$11m from IMAX worldwide including $5m internationally.
- Joyride – Lionsgate
Opened $5.8m; received positive reviews (91% Rotten Tomatoes) and B- CinemaScore
Took $1.1m Thursday midnights.
Another original film that received positive reviews since it premiered at SXSW in March opened below expectations (ahead of the opening was expected to open between $7m-$9m) the film was compared to 2011’s Bridesmaids (opened $26.24m taking $169.1m and $306.44m worldwide).
2017’s Girls Trip opened $31.2m taking $115.17m and $140.55m worldwide
2017’s Rough Night opened $8m taking $22.1m and $47.34m worldwide
2023’s No Hard Feelings opened $15m taking $40.56m and $67.62m worldwide (to date)
It will struggle to find an audience internationally. After the robust performance of John Wick Chapter Four in March Lionsgate films (all original) have struggled to find an audience despite most of them receiving positive reviews; Sisu $7.26m; About My Father $12.05m and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, $20.37m.
They will be hoping for better things from Expendables 4 opening in September and prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in November and then another long-gap legacy sequel opening in February 2024 Dirty Dancing 2.
It again shows the struggles indies have in trying to stay competitive with the studios.
- Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures
Dropped 33% in the sixth weekend taking $8.03m and $357.68m
67th biggest fourth weekend between Frozen II and The Dark Knight Rises (close to Iron Man #53 $20.44m; Joker #65 $19.24m; Black Panther: Wakanda Forever #82 $17.54m; Thor: Ragnarok #91 $16.83m).
Across The Spider-Verse has already overtaken the lifetime total of Into the Spider-Verse, the reason is that it plays like a Spider-Man film as the audience sees it is the same that saw No Way Home and other recent MCU films.
14th biggest animated film between Despicable Me 2 and Inside Out; 61st biggest between Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3; 172nd inflated between Up and Jumanji: The Next Level; 2nd biggest 2023 between The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3; 21st biggest comic-book film between Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3; 6th biggest Sony Pictures between Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3; overtaken The Amazing Spider-Man $262.03m; The Amazing Spider-Man 2 $202.85m; Spider-Man 3 $336.53m; Spider-Man: Homecoming $334.2m.
2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse dropped 30.2% taking $13.12m and $133.97m of $190.24m and $384.25m WW, unlike live-action Marvel films the BO was almost 50/50 US and international.
Took $9.2m from 63 territories $284.6m total and $642.2m worldwide; China $49.6m; UK $35m; Mexico $27.8m; Australia $20.6m; France $13.4m; Brazil $12.6m; Germany $8.5m; Spain $8.2m; Japan $6.9m; Italy $6.8m.
36th biggest animated film worldwide between How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa; 176th biggest worldwide between Logan and War of the Worlds; 4th biggest 2023 between Fast X and The Little Mermaid; 45th biggest comic-book film worldwide between Logan and Iron Man; 18th biggest Sony Pictures worldwide between Hancock and Casino Royale.
- Elemental – Disney
Dropped 17% in the fourth weekend taking $10.03m and $109.62m
310th biggest fourth weekend between Men in Black 3 and Batman Begins (close to Wall-e #306 $10.07m; Monsters University #273 $10.63m; Ratatouille #258 $10.89m and Toy Story #254 $10.97m).
105th biggest animated film between Mr Peabody & Sherman and Epic; 679th biggest film between Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Porky’s; 1,301st biggest inflated between The Jackal and Beowulf; 11th biggest 2023 between Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Scream VI; 130th biggest Disney between Bedtime Stories and The Princess Diaries.
23 Pixar films have taken $6.3bn since 1995 ($8.5bn inflation inflated) and $15.2bn worldwide.
Took $29.8m (down 7%) from 48 territories $98m total and $252.32m worldwide; Korea $25.8m; China $15.4m; Mexico $13.5m; France $9m; Australia $8m; Brazil $6.9m; Germany $5.4m; Argentina $4.9m; Italy $4.8m; UK $3.8m.
114th biggest animated film worldwide between Robots and Hercules; 658th biggest worldwide between Paddington and Get Out; 14th biggest worldwide between The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; 116th biggest Disney worldwide between Wild Hogs and Hercules.
- The Little Mermaid – Disney
Dropped 32% in the seventh weekend taking $3.68m and $289.22m Splash.
327th biggest seventh weekend between Mr. & Mrs Smith and Knocked Up (close to Enchanted, Splash, Alice in Wonderland and Hook
114th biggest between Monsters, Inc. and Home Alone; 253rd inflated between National Treasure: Book of Secrets and Ted; 4th 2023 film between Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Ant-Man and the Wasp; 42nd biggest Disney film between Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University.
Took $4.6m from 52 territories $253.1m total and $542.32m worldwide; the UK $31.2m; Mexico $20.6m; Japan $17.1m; Brazil $16m; Australia $13.7m.
213th biggest worldwide between Cinderella and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows; 6th biggest 2023 between Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; 60th biggest Disney film between Cinderella and WALL-E (close to Armageddon, Aladdin, Oz the Great and Powerful and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil).
UK Box Office Top 10
UK Box Office Preview
Dead Reckoning Part One opened on Monday giving it a 7-day opening; it has all IMAX/PLF screens for 10 days until Oppenheimer which will see it open bigger than last year’s Top Gun: Maverick £15,931,497 (including £4,735,406 from 2 days of previews). 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol also had 4 days of previews taking £5,380,621 of £8,188,209 opening (£14,925,183 inflated).
Dead Reckoning will take about £12m from its 4 days of previews (taking £2.8m Mon; £2.5m Tues; £2.4m Weds; £2.3m Thurs; £3.2m Fri; £3.8m Sat; £3.4m Sun) having similar to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (£20,864,500); Skyfall (£20,180,369); Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (£19,784,924); Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (£19,765,718); Beauty and the Beast (£19,700,000) and Jurassic World (£19,350,727).
Taking about 12% of opening from 54 IMAX screens close to Top Gun: Maverick.
This weekend will have the highest top 10 BO since 17 December 2021 £34,452,923 when Spider-Man: No Way Home took 92.6% (£31,899,232). The difference is this weekend has hold-overs including Elemental which targets different demographics. The top 10 should take about £26m which would be the 18th biggest top 10 ever similar to 26 October 2012 when Skyfall opened £20,180,369 (3,168,033 admissions) and 75.9% share of the top 10.
Next weekend is likely to be similar level if Barbie opened £8m+, Oppenheimer £6m+ and Dead Reckoning £5m+ (£20m+) but the question is if there will be another £20m+ weekend in 2023 and when in 2024 there will be another.
It could be the third £20m+ top 10 of 2023 after 07 April 2023 when Super Mario Bros opened.
There were 5 £20m+ weekends in 2022 (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Top Gun Maverick, Jurassic World: Dominion, Thor: Love and Thunder and Minions: The Rise of Gru). 3 £20m+ in 2021 (two for No Time to Die and Spider-Man No Way Home). 1 in 2020 (Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker) and 8 in 2019 (Captain Marvel, Avengers Endgame x2 weeks, Aladdin, Toy Story 4, Spider-Man: Far from Home, The Lion King x2 weeks, Joker, Frozen 2 and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker x2 weeks).
Despite all the negativity surrounding Elemental after its US opening and while it might not have opened as big as earlier Pixar films like 2015’s Inside Out (£7,376,513) they normally have long legs as even last year’s Lightyear only dropped 38.4% in its second weekend. If Elemental did similar it would take £1.8m-£2m in its second weekend as it’s unlikely to be affected by Dead Reckoning opening targeting a much younger audience.
It’s a different story for Dial of Destiny, Insidious: The Red Door, Across the Spider-Verse and The Little Mermaid all likely to drop about 50%, with Dial of Destiny having the biggest drop as it loses all premium screens.
While similarities will continue next weekend with No Way Home having a 75%+ second weekend drop (No Way Home dropped 85.52% taking £4,619,518 from a 2-day weekend) taking about £5m+ against Oppenheimer £6m+ and Barbie £8m+.
In 2018 Mission: Impossible Fallout also opened in a crowded marketplace opening #1 with £7,300,103 with Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! #2 £7,104,808 2nd weekend (27% drop); Incredibles 2 #3 £5,146,128 (24% drop) and Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation opening #4 £3,449,876 with Andre Rieu’s 2018 Maastricht Concert: Amore #5 £1,486,528.
In 2015 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation opened #1 £5,351,344; Inside Out #2 £3,574,424 2nd weekend; Southpaw #3 £1,129,608; Ant-Man #4 £1,126,080; Minions #5 £1,007,186.
Mission Impossible films such as Christopher Nolan’s films work strongly in a crowded marketplace so having the two films opening so close together should be a positive. The Cruise Vs Nolan battle should have happened three years ago this weekend as Top Gun: Maverick and Tenet were due to open against each other in July 2020.
Top Gun: Maverick was going to open three weeks after the US due to Euro 2020. COVID saw both films delayed while Christopher Nolan believed he was the saviour of cinema forcing Warner to still open Tenet a month later Paramount Pictures delayed Top Gun: Maverick for almost 2 years becoming the real saviour of cinema and delayed the release of Mission Impossible 7 and 8 a year.
There are reports in the US that Barbie could open $120m+ with $20m+ midnights which will again see Oppenheimer battling out against MI for second.
Next weekend will show that films don’t need IMAX or PLF to open big and exhibitors will have very mixed feelings having had the put their 100% support towards Christopher Nolan as he is giving them exactly what they claim to want but looking over at Dead Reckoning and Barbie at what they are missing out on as Dead Reckoning would have played more weeks in IMAX. It’s also audiences who are missing out on not being able to see it in IMAX beyond its opening weekend. But the problem is the delusions of grandeur from Christopher Nolan believing he is the Messiah of cinema, even though Super Mario Bros and Barbie will both take more than Oppenheimer.
Opening in two weeks
- Haunted Mansion – Disney
Supernatural horror comedy the second based on the Disney theme park ride The Haunted Mansion (previously made in 2004) starring LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Dan Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto and directed by Justin Simien.
Plans for the reboot started in 2010 with Guillermo del Toro attached to direct, he left the project in 2013 and was in development until 2020.
2004’s The Haunted Mansion opened £1,677,927 #2 from 427 screens taking £8,078,765
- Gran Turismo – Sony Pictures
Coming-of-age sports drama based on the racing video game starring David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Darren Barnet, Geri Halliwell Horner, and Djimon Hounsou and directed by Neill Blomkamp.
Sony Pictures first announced plans to develop Gran Turismo in 2013 with Joseph Kosinski attached to direct.
Not to be confused with Clint Eastwood’s 2008’sGrand Torino which is a very different film
2008’s Speed Racer opened £362,102 #4 from 442 screens taking £1,615,794.
2008’s Death Race opened £683,038 #4 from 372 screens taking £1,920,818
2014’s Need For Speed opened £2,011,249 from 477 screens taking £4,727,066
1990’s Days Of Thunder opened £590,553 (£2,046,395 inflated) taking £3,430,086 (£11,885,994 inflated)
