- Despicable Me 4 £8,856,183 – NE
Took £2.43m 27.44% Friday; £3.99m 45.05% Saturday: £2.436m 27.51% Sunday.
129th biggest opening between Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe and Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania (close to Die Another Day, Wonka, Spider-Man 2 and Transformers) and 189th biggest opening inflated between Mary Poppins Returns and Wonka (close to The Lego Movie, Jurassic Park 3, Paddington 2 and X-Men).
23rd biggest animated opening between Shrek Forever After and Finding Dory (close to The Secret Life of Pets, Monsters, Inc, The Boss Baby and The LEGO Batman Movie) and the 27th biggest animated opening between Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (close to Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Inside Out and Bolt).
The other Despicable Me sequels and Minion’s spinoffs have all opened similarly £10m+. Still, Despicable Me 4 opened 20% less than 2017’s Despicable Me 3, while the European Championships Final did affect the BO for other films it surely would have had less impact on Despicable Me 4 as children would have gone in the afternoon to see it taking 40% less on Sunday compared to less than 20% less for Minions: The Rise of Gru.
Despicable Me took 6.17% less than Inside Out 2 on Friday (£2.58m); 24.1% less on Saturday (£4.95m) and 55.1% less on Sunday (£3.77m)
Movio research said 84% were infrequent (moviegoers have been to less than 6 films in the past 6 months), has only been three big family films opening over the last 6 months (Migration, Kung Fu Panda 4 and Inside Out 2) so a sizeable percentage of the audience couldn’t have seen more than 3 films over the last 6 months?
2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru opened £10,424,758; £2.7m Fri £4.2m on Sat (up 55%) and £3.52m on Sun; 7.05% from 3D £729,432 from 142 screens Vs 28% of Minions BO coming from 3D in 2015
2017’s Despicable Me 3 opened £11,154,904 taking £47,562,575
2015’s Minions opened £11,556,856 (3D took £3,194,166) taking £47,091,449
2013’s Despicable Me 2 opened £14,822,427 (£4,868,323 previews 33%) taking £46,815,412
2010’s Despicable Me opened £3,664,376 taking £19,750,505
The 14 Illumination Entertainment films have taken £445m (£485m inflated) since the first Despicable Me opened in 2010; upcoming Super Mario Bros 2 April 2026, Minions 3 June 2027 and Despicable Me 5 in July 2028.
Opened in 684 cinemas 51st widest opening similar to Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Where The Crawdads Sing and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (close to Inside Out 2, Wicked Little Lies, Empire Of Light, House of Gucci and 1917).
Development started soon after the release of Despicable Me 3 and was confirmed in 2022. The first trailer was released in January, the second in May featuring one of Pharrell Williams’ new original songs featured in the film. In June they released a parody multi-verse trailer with Steve Carell saying Illumination would release 100 years’ worth of films, television series, and stage productions starring the Mega Minions including Mega Minions: The Tax Write-Off and an untitled Mega Minions spin-off series spoofing the cancellation of Warner Bros. films like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme.
This isn’t new as 10 years ago, over the end credits of 22 Jump Street Sony Pictures teased a slate of future films and before the start of 2008’s Tropic Thunder teased upcoming trailers including Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown.
- 2. Inside Out 2 – £2,225,169 – £44,485,366
Down 56.6% in its fifth weekend
Took £500k 22.47% (-49.6% £993k) Friday; £1.08m 48.54% (-44.9% £1.96m) Saturday; £645k 28.99% (-70.33% £2.174m Sunday
31st biggest fifth weekend between Mamma Mia 2 and Bohemian Rhapsody (close to Sing, Despicable Me 3, Spectre and Jurassic Park) and the 82nd biggest inflated fifth weekend between Quantum of Solace and The Grinch (close to Slumdog Millionaire, Chicken Run, A Fish Called Wanda and The Greatest Showman).
3rd biggest Pixar fifth weekend between Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 3 (close to Toy Story 4, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2 and Finding Dory) and 8th biggest inflated between Incredibles 2 and Ratatouille (close to A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc, Up and Toy Story)
Inside Out 2 has overtaken Dune Part 2 to become the biggest film of 2024 and has overtaken the total BO of 2015’s Inside Out.
After three weekends of strongholds was surprising Inside Out 2 dropped 56% in its fifth weekend, especially with Despicable Me 4 opening lower than expected, as Despicable Me shouldn’t have been as affected by the football as the films targetting adults as parents would take children to see it in the afternoon, especially on a school night.
Pixar sequel’s fifth weekends
2019’s Toy Story 4 dropped 29.1% £2,704,238 #2 669 screens and £47,287,515 of £65,802,558: #1 The Lion King £16,671,765
2018’s Incredibles 2 dropped 2% £2,354,530 #3 658 screens and £45,007,302 of £56.1m; #1 The Meg £3,651,111; #2 Mamma Mia: Here we Go Again! £3,568,169
2016’s Finding Dory dropped 48% £1,510,744 #1 611 screens and £35,832,165 of £46,258,802
2013’s Monsters University dropped 32% £1,200,912 #6 519 screens and £23,998,963 of £30,554,711: #1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa £2,175,850
2015’s Inside Out dropped 28% £1,379,702 #2 397 screens and £30,651,236 of £39,114,257: #1 Paper Towns £2,072,789
The 25 Pixar films have taken £775m in the UK BO since Toy Story in 1996 and almost £1.1bn inflated.
4th biggest Pixar film between Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 2 (close to Toy Story 4, Finding Dory, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo).
66th biggest between Mary Poppins Returns and 1917 (close to Minions: The Rise of Gru, The Inbetweeners Movie, Finding Dory and Frozen) and 109th biggest inflated between Paddington and Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (close to Spider-Man 2, Ocean’s Eleven, Cats and Dogs and Men In Black 2).
11th biggest animated film between Minions The Rise of Gru and Toy Story 2 (close to Minions, Despicable Me 3, Finding Dory and Frozen) and 25th biggest inflated animated film between Finding Dory and Inside Out (close to Up, Ice Age II, Shrek Forever After and Shark Tale).
- 3. Longlegs £1,371,352 – NE
Took £546k 39.82% Friday: £589k 42.96% Saturday: £236k 17.21% Sunday.
1,273rd biggest opening between Ouija and Prince of Persia (close to Parasite, Where The Crawdads Sing, Prisoners and 12 Monkeys) and 1,908th biggest inflated opening between Christmas with the Kranks and Finding Neverland (close to The Game, Dead Again, Ruthless People and American Psycho).
97th biggest horror opening between Ouija and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (close to 28 Days Later, Evil Dead (2013), The Strangers and Saw) and 1,46th biggest horror opening between The Purge: Anarchy and 13 Ghosts (close to The Mothman Prophecies, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Dreamcatcher and The Fly II).
25th biggest 2024 opening between Challengers and Priscilla (close to Poor Things, Wicked Litle Letters, All Of Us Strangers and The Bikeriders).
Opened in 475 cinemas 790th widest release similar to The Spy Who Dumped Me, Now You See Me, Hop, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Ocean’s Thirteen and Tarzan; 1,406th 400+ cinema opening since 1989’s Batman (Twister also opened in 400 cinemas in 1996); £2,887 screen average 1,824th highest similar to Collateral Beauty and 102 Dalmatians.
While Longlegs have an extraordinarily strong opening it could have been much more but due to the football, it dropped 60% Sat-Sun.
Received critical acclaim (92% Rotten Tomatoes) as it’s about a female FBI agent tracking a serial killer It has been compared to 1991’s The Silence of Lambs (opened £1,594,006/£4,192,814 inflated taking £17,119,333/£45,030,061 inflated) and has also been compared to 1996’s Seven opened £2,628,821/£5,627,098 inflated taking £19,516,175/£41,775,164 inflated.
Longlegs opened so well despite being booked into the smallest screens in cinemas but was helped with its trailer playing before A Quiet Place Part II.
Had Black Bear’s second-biggest opening after Ferrari (£1,981,677); Longlegs is the 6th film Black Bear has released since February 2023 after they acquired STX assets in 2022 having brought them from Jahm Najaf who acquired the studio from Eros. Black Bear had previously partnered with STX.
The independent sector has been tough over the last decade with so many companies struggling to find a foothold in the marketplace with the US studios taking a high percentage of the UK BO annual. With so many UK-launched indies either being sold to the US or international studios.
Redbus was acquired by Helkon and then acquired by Lionsgate who also recently acquired eOne assets, while Studiocanal is owned by Canal+, which acquired Optimum in 2006. The only UK distributor that stayed British over its 46+ years is Entertainment Films, but they are far from the company they were 20 years ago when they had an output deal with New Line.
The challenge for an upstart UK distributor is to try to make a name for themselves and acquire some big high-profile titles as Guild and First Independent Films did in the 90s or do they slowly grow organically as Optimum did.
STX acquired international rights to Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman in 2016 and launched the UK operations soon after, but then Paramount Pictures dropped US rights Netflix acquired global rights. Apple did a similar acquiring global rights to CODA at the Sundance Film Festival after it had been pre-sold to local distributors internationally a few years earlier.
- 4. Fly Me To The Moon – £862,358 – NE
Took £403,870 (46.9%) from previews.
Took £152k 17.63% Friday; £224k 25.99% Saturday; £81k 9.4% Sunday.
1,889th biggest opening between Syriana and The Last King of Scotland (close to Failure to Launch, Out of Sight, Crazy, Stupid, Love and Long Shot) and 2,508th inflated biggest opening between Darkness Falls and Frost/Nixon (close to Money Monster, Showgirls, Peter’s Friends and Sabrina).
31st biggest 2024 opening between The Beekeeper and Monkey Man (close to All Of Us Strangers, The Bikeriders, The Iron Claw and The Holdovers).
Opened in 647 cinemas 114th widest opening similar to Spider-Man: Far From Home and Magic Mike’s Last Dance (close to Mean Girls (2024), Christopher Robin, IF and Creed III); 221st 600+ cinema opening since 2015’s Jurassic World.
Reviews have been mixed saying it’s far too long for a romcom with 2hr 11 running time. The plot is similar to the political satire 1997’s Wag The Dog when a Hollywood producer fakes a war with Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal.
Fly Me To The Moon is the second of three films to date Sony Pictures have acquired theatrical rights from Apple after Napoleon was released last November and Wolfs (September). Apple is making the actor lead big-budget tentpole films studios used to make regularly over a decade ago.
Despite Scarlett Johansson’s films taking over $15bn worldwide, 2017’s Rough Night was her last non-tentpole leading film opening £244,462 #11 from 378 screens.
Greg Berlanti directed the film in his previous 2018, Love Simon opened £1,179,593 taking £3,540,552.
Anyone But You was the last major rom-com opened £1,253,694 taking £11,364,012.
Other recent rom-coms include.
2022’s Ticket To Paradise opened £2,805,615 taking £9,486,303
2019’s Last Christmas opened £2,654,354 taking £17,758,583
2018’s Crazy Rich Asians opened £1,599,858 taking £5,624,525
2016’s How To Be Single opened £1,876,539 taking £5,766,935
The biggest rom-coms in the UK are the Bridget Jones’s Diary trilogy (the fourth coming in February 2025)
Channing Tatum’s recent films include Magic Mike’s Last Dance opened £1,529,155 taking £5,680,002 and 2022’s The Lost City opened £2,743,211 taking £10,606,648.
It used to be rom-coms like Fly Me to the Moon would be counter-programming to the tentpoles but failed to find an audience while Longlegs over-performed. After the success of Anyone But You at Christmas and with the casting of Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum it would attract a similar female audience, but despite several days of previews it failed to find an audience.
Fly Me To The Moon could be part of an Apollo-extended universe following Hidden Figures and a prequel to First Man and Apollo 13.
- 5. A Quiet Place: Day One £824,948 – £8,012,216
Down 49% in its third weekend
Took £275k 33.33% (-40.99% £466k) Friday; £421k 51.03% (-26.27% £571k) Saturday; £129k 15.64% (-77.76% £580k) Sunday.
771st biggest third weekend between Knight & Day and A Good Day To Die Hard close to World War Z, The Invisible Man, Terminator: Genisys and Fantastic Four (2005) and 1,118th inflated biggest between Central Intelligence and Zathura (close to Black Rain, The Color of Money, Olympus Has Fallen and Scream (2022).
18th biggest 2024 between Garfield and Poor Things (close to One Life, Mean Girls, Furiosa and Challengers).
Third weekends
2018’s A Quiet Place dropped 46% £1,024,722 #2 582 screens and £8,262,665 of £11,801,912
2021’s A Quiet Place Part II dropped 22% £1,024,942 #4 587 screens and £8,339,827 of £11,547,774
A Quiet Place was originally conceived as a Cloverfield movie; 2008’s Cloverfield dropped 67% £709,327 #5 377 screens and £8,389,436 of £9,120,932; 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane dropped 38% £481,242 #6 and £4,462,425 of £5,029,725 and The Cloverfield Paradox was sold to Netflix. As with A Quiet Place, these two films weren’t originally conceived at Cloverfield Films, (10 Cloverfield Lane was called The Cellar and The Cloverfield Paradox was God Particle). Had the two films been more successful than A Quiet Place would have been a Cloverfield film, as they do feel they share the same universe.
762nd biggest between Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie and Death on the Nile (close to The Panic Room, Saw 3D, True Grit and Nope) and 1,018th biggest inflated between Onward and The Gift (close to Chronicle, Déjà Vu, Children Of Men and Layer Cake).
Also opened
The Commandant’s Shadow – Warner
£18,798 #20 from 76 screens
Documentary The Commandant’s Shadow tells the true story that inspired Academy winner The Zone of Interest (opened £585,855 106 screens taking £3,436,903). Acquired by Warner Bros in April had a limited release in US cinemas in May.
UK box office in detail
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £14,900,553 up 70.2% from last weekend’s £8,755,143: 1,881,383 admissions up 70.2% from 1,105,447 admissions.
5th biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 14 June 2024 #1 Inside Out 2 £11,321,387 (74.84%) and 16 February 2024 #1 Bob Marley: One Love £6,950,773 (47.15%)
23rd biggest since cinemas reopened out of 191 weeks between 24 June 2022 #1 Elvis £4,023,573 (26.87%) and 17 February 2023 #1 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania £8,834,435 (59.61%)
233rd biggest top 10 of the last 22 years (out of 1,162) between 23 May 2003 #1 The Matrix Reloaded £12,165,276 (81.64%) and 14 October 2016 #1 The Girl on the Train £3,412,472 (22.91%) and 491st inflated between 17 June 2011 #1 Green Lantern £2,472,969 (21.82%) and 08 September 2017 #1 It £10,002,443 (71.47%)
The top 3 took (£12,452,704) 83.6% of the top 10; Despicable Me 4 59.44% (£8,856,183); Inside Out 14.93% (£2,225,169); Longlegs 9.2% (£1,371,352).
158th highest #1 percentage (59.44%) between 17 February 2023 #1 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (59.61%) and 15 March 2024 #1 Dune Part 2 (59.39%)
225th biggest admissions #1 (1,118,205) between 01 May 2009 #1 X-Men Origins: Wolverine (1,119,156) and 15 October 2021 #1 No Time To Die (1,117,575)
Down 18.1% from 2023; (£18,187,968); Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (£10,391,016); Oklahoma! Starring Hugh Jackman (£124,103); #1 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One £10,391,016 1st week 718 screens (57.13%)
Down 26.1% 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 53.4% 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 5,530% 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.
Up 12.6% from 2019; (£13,229,066); Annabelle Comes Home (£2,223,482); Stuber (£211,274); The Dead Don’t Die (£192,917) The Matrix: 20th Anniversary (4K Restoration) (£163,812); Jaws (Re: 2019) (£34,094); The Matrix Reloaded (4K Restoration) (£876); The Matrix Revolutions (4K Restoration) (£583); #1 Spider-Man: Far from Home £4,396,516 2nd week 647 screens (33.2% of top 10)
Up 4.9% from 2018: (£14,198,894); Incredibles 2 (£9,650,000); Skyscraper (£1,829,830); The Secret of Marrowbone (£171,161); First Reformed (£73,233); Vertigo (60th Anniversary) (£10,845); #1 Incredibles 2 £9,650,000 1st week 664 screens (67.9% of top 10)
Down 22.4% from 2017: (£19,205,602); War for the Planet of the Apes (£7,195,773); Cars 3 (£2,625,000); The Beguiled (£414,924); #1 War for the Planet of the Apes £7,195,773 1st week 597 screens (37.4% of top 10)
Down 7.2% from 2016: (£16,046,904); Ghostbusters (£4,388,944); Ice Age: Collision Course (£3,780,694); Dirty Dancing (Secret Cinema) (£946,086); Keanu (£13,736); #1 Ghostbusters £4,388,944 1st week 581 screens (27.3% of the top 10)
Up 9.9% 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 35.1% 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)
Up 42.8% from 2013: (£10,431,833); Monsters University (£3,463,917); Pacific Rim (£2,193,500); We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks (£19,309); Trap for Cinderella (£2,845); #1 Monsters University £3,463,917 1st week 525 screens (33.2% of top 10)
Down 18.5% from 2012 (£18,271,575); Ice Age: Continental Drift (£10,087,052); Magic Mike (£2,651,015); Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (£357,200); Chariots of Fire (Re: 2012) (£63,857); #1 Ice Age: Continental Drift £10,087,052 1st week 522 screens (55.21% of top 10)
Up 44.4% 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)
Down 31.3% 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
Down 1.4% 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 10.4% from 2008; (£16,622,538); Mamma Mia! (£6,594,058); Journey to the Centre of the Earth (£953,878); Forbidden Kingdom (£676,217); #1 Mamma Mia! £6,594,058 1st week 496 screens (39.6% of top 10)
Down 38.6% from 2007: (£22,106,427); Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (£16,493,305); Moliere (£76,061); Macbeth (£2,093); #1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix £16,493,305 1st week 567 screens (74.6% of top 10)
Up 24.8% from 2006; (£11,936,216); Superman Returns (£4,337,637); Atomised (£25,823); #1 Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest £6,048,087 2nd week 514 screens 56% drop (50.6% of top 10)
Up 33.1% from 2005: (£11,195,244); Madagascar (£5,431,639); Wedding Crashers (£2,182,597); Festival (£34,010); #1 Madagascar £5,431,639 1st week 505 screens (48.5% of top 10)
Up 17.9% 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)
Up 204.8% from 2003 (£4,889,023); Daddy Day Care (£796,259); Veronica Guerin (£271,996); Whale Rider (£121,610); The In-Laws (£108,031); #1 Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle £1,581,273 2nd week 475 screens 52% drop (32.3% of top 10)
Up 43.2% from 2002 (£10,406,087); Scooby-Doo (£5,129,109); Resident Evil (£801,628); Bad Company (£382,949); Nine Queens (£49,438); #1 Scooby-Doo £5,129,109 1st week 472 screens (49.2% of top 10)
2023 Next week: (£35,475,322); Barbie (£18,509,235); Oppenheimer (£10,891,486); #1 Barbie £18,509,235 1st week 721 screens (52.17%)
UK Box Office News
UK and Ireland BO was down 7% for the first six months of 2024 (Jan-June) taking £451.6m compared to £486.6m in 2023.
1st quarter (January – March) was up 9% but 2nd quarter (April- June) was down 21%.; June 2024 BO was up 7% from 2023 (£71.4m vs. £66.6m).
| Month | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| January | 15,187,114 | 15,386,610 | 14,029,310 | 14,995,364 | 16,201,679 | 13,711,441 | 16,505,362 | 0 | 8,195,772 | 8,606,271 | 9,594,126 |
| February | 14,332,398 | 15,162,922 | 15,352,658 | 16,479,373 | 16,104,240 | 12,226,237 | 14,544,878 | 0 | 11,134,546 | 9,206,408 | 10,032,765 |
| March | 10,360,563 | 11,544,674 | 13,388,081 | 16,153,356 | 13,530,321 | 11,430,575 | 4,807,037 | 0 | 8,422,607 | 8,234,751 | 9,188,046 |
| April | 12,678,793 | 15,125,896 | 13,134,753 | 15,642,269 | 15,499,145 | 15,981,248 | 0 | 0 | 10,821,011 | 11,453,626 | 8,960,544 |
| May | 12,601,600 | 12,665,652 | 12,498,334 | 11,340,178 | 13,723,204 | 16,570,282 | 0 | 3,518,510 | 11,257,394 | 9,563,166 | 8,053,852 |
| June | 10,399,406 | 13,254,544 | 10,707,878 | 9,583,856 | 10,411,163 | 13,920,453 | 0 | 6,969,321 | 11,861,867 | 8,905,084 | 9,000,000 |
| total | 75,559,874 | 83,140,298 | 79,111,014 | 84,194,396 | 85,469,752 | 83,840,236 | 35,857,277 | 10487831 | 61,693,197 | 18,468,250 | 54,829,333 |
2024 top 10
1) Dune: Part Two £39.6m
2) Inside Out 2 £34.8m
3) Kung Fu Panda 4 £21.9m
4) Migration £21.3m
5) Bob Marley: One Love £17.1m
6) Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes £15.6m
7) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire £15.5m
8) Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire £14.6m
9) Wonka £14.2m
10) Back To Black £12.3m
Top studios 2024 (m)
| Warner | £93 | 20.59% |
| Universal | £82 | 18.16% |
| Disney | £77 | 17.05% |
| Sony | £52 | 11.51% |
| Para | £47 | 10.41% |
| Studiocanal | £25 | 5.54% |
But within a few weeks Disney will become #1 and Universal #2
Inside Out 2, Despicable Me 4 and Deadpool and Wolverine will take £50m+ the three compared will take similar to last year’s Barbie (£95.5m) or Oppenheimer (£58.7m), but August and September look soft until Joker: Folie à Deux, will it match the success of the first film. Before the November madness with Paddington In Peru, Gladiator 2, Wicked and Moana 2 over four weeks and then Mufasa: The Lion King and Sonic The Hedgehog 3 opens in December.
US Box Office
- Despicable Me 4 – Universal Pictures
Dropped 42% in its second weekend taking $43.59m #1 and $210.05m
97th biggest second weekend between The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 and Suicide Squad (close to Up, Despicable Me 2, Sing and Shrek).
IMAX/PLF took about a third of the opening this is the norm for tentpoles.
Took $18.3m from IMAX worldwide; $13.8m US and $4.5m internationally.
42nd biggest animated film between Dr Seuss’ The Lorax and Coco; 213th biggest between It: Chapter Two and 300; 811th biggest inflated between Days of Thunder and Fried Green Tomatoes; 29th biggest Universal Pictures between The Mummy Returns and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish).
Second weekends
2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru dropped 56.9% $46.12 #2 and $210.65m of $370.28m and $940.2m worldwide; 60.6% internationally $569.93m; (70% Rotten Tomatoes) #1 Thor: Love and Thunder $144.16m.
2015’s Minions dropped 57.4% $49.27m #2 and $215.76m 64.2% of $336.04m and $1.15bn worldwide 71% $823.39m internationally; (55% Rotten Tomatoes) #1 Ant-Man $57.22m 1st w/e
2017’s Despicable Me 3 dropped 53.6% $33.58m #2 and $148.77m 56.2% of $264.62m and $1.03bn worldwide 74% $770.17m internationally; (75% Rotten Tomatoes); #1 Spider-Man Homecoming $117.02m
2013’s Despicable Me 2 dropped 47.4% $43.89m #1 and $228.37m 52.1% of $368.06m and $970.76m worldwide 62% internationally $602.7m; (59% Rotten Tomatoes) #2 Grown-Up 2 $41.5m
2010’s Despicable Me dropped 41.8% $32.8m #2 and $118.43m 47.1% of $251.55m and $543.15m worldwide 53% internationally $291.6m; (81% Rotten Tomatoes); #1 Inception $62.78m 1st w/e
2017’s Despicable Me 3 took $95.6m internationally and $192.3m worldwide
2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru took $56.4m (down 41%) in its second weekend from 64 territories and $189.8m and $399.9m worldwide; UK $22.1m; Mexico $22.1m; Australia $20.2m; Germany $10.4m; Brazil $7.3m
Took $88m from 78 territories $226.7m total and $436.75m worldwide; China $17.7m; UK $12.2m; Germany $9.3m; France $8.7m.
72nd biggest animated worldwide between Beauty and the Beast and Sing 2; 310th biggest between Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Les Misérables; 38th biggest Universal Pictures between Warcraft and Les Misérables.
- Inside Out 2 – Disney
Down 32% in the fifth weekend taking $20.74m #3 and $572.59m The Avengers (close to The Sixth Sense, Frozen, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Zootopia).
3rd biggest animated film between The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Finding Dory; 16th biggest between The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Lion King; 64th biggest inflated between Mrs. Doubtfire and Toy Story 3; 8th biggest Disney between Incredibles 2 and The Lion King (2019).
Inside Out 2 has a 100-day window despite this it will take about 75% of BO within 21 days and 85%+ after 45 days.
Recent Pixar sequel’s fifth weekends
2019’s Toy Story 4 dropped 25.8% $20.75m #3 and $376.48m of $434.03m and $1.073bn worldwide
2013’s Monsters University dropped 51.8% $5.12m #10 and $249.11m of $268.49m and $743.55m WW
2016’s Finding Dory dropped 45.8% $11.28m #4 and $445.74m of $486.29m and $1.029bn WW
2018’s Incredibles 2 dropped 42.7% $16.26m #4 and $535.86m of $608.58m and $1.243bn WW
2015’s Inside Out dropped 34.7% $11.54m #4 and $306.24m of $356.92m and $858.85m WW
Took $50.2m in 47 territories $777.5m total and $1.350bn worldwide; Mexico $94.9m; Brazil $66m; UK $57m; Korea $53.3m; Italy $43.3m.
3rd biggest animated worldwide between The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Frozen; 17th biggest worldwide between The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Black Panther; Biggest 2024 worldwide ahead of Dune: Part Two $711.2m; 8th biggest Disney between Avengers: Age of Ultron and Black Panther.
- Fly Me To The Moon – Sony Pictures
Opened $9.4m #5; received mixed reviews (62% Rotten Tomatoes) and A- CinemaScore
Took $875k from Thursday midnights; Don’t Worry Darling $3.1m; Lucy $2.74m; The Martian $2.5m; Where the Crawdads Sing $2.3m; No Hard Feelings $2.15m; Challengers $1.9m.
The plot is similar to the political satire 1997’s Wag The Dog (opened $1.19m taking $43.06m) when a Hollywood producer fakes a war with Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal.
Despite Scarlett Johansson’s films taking over $15bn worldwide, 2017’s Rough Night was her last non-tentpole leading film opening $8m taking $22.1m and $47.34m worldwide.
Greg Berlanti directed the film his previous 2018, Love Simon opened $11.75m taking $40.82m and $66.71m worldwide.
Anyone But You was the last major rom-com opened $6m taking $88.31m and $220.12m worldwide.
Other recent rom-coms include.
2022’s Ticket To Paradise opened $16.5m taking $68.27m and $168.77m worldwide
2019’s Last Christmas opened $11.44m taking $35.15m and $123.44m worldwide
2018’s Crazy Rich Asians opened $26.51m taking $174.83m and $239.345m worldwide
2016’s How To Be Single opened $17.87m taking $46.84m and $112.54m worldwide
The biggest rom-coms in the US are My Big Fat Greek Wedding $241.43m; What Women Want $182.8m; Pretty Woman $178.4m; Hitch $177.78m
Channing Tatum’s recent film’s Magic Mike’s Last Dance opened $8.3m taking $26m and $57.1m worldwide and 2022’s The Lost City opened $30.45m taking $105.34m and $192.9m worldwide.
Comparisons were made with 2003’s Down With Love opened $7m taking $20.3m and $39.46m worldwide.
The film has a $100m budget and was made by Apple. Sony Pictures acquired global theatrical rights for Fly Me To The Moon (then called Project Artemis) and Wolfs (set for September release) in December after acquiring Napoleon (opened $20.63m taking $61.52m and $221.39m worldwide) and Argylle (opened $17.47m taking $45.2m and $96.21m worldwide). These films will be given a 45-day theatrical window. Killers of the Flower Moon (opened $23.25m taking $68.02m and $157.02m worldwide) was sold to Paramount and F1 will be released by Warner Bros next summer.
Apple is making the kind of films studios used to make over a decade ago but doesn’t have the audience they used to get in cinemas 20+ years ago. By selling theatrical rights to these films to studios they get a wider mix of films while they have a much higher profile when they are released on streaming. Apple was the first streamer to win the Best Picture Oscar for CODA in 2022.
Opened $9m from x territories and $19m worldwide.
- A Quiet Place: Day One – Paramount Pictures
Dropped 45% in the third weekend $11.35m #3 and $115.78m
557th biggest third weekend between Angels & Demons and Mission: Impossible III (close to Unstoppable, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Live Free or Die Hard and The Bourne Identity).
Third weekends
2018’s A Quiet Place dropped 36.6% $20.91m #4 and $131.27m of $188.02m and $340.95m worldwide
2021’s A Quiet Place Part II dropped 37.7% $12.01m #1 and $109.35m of $160.07m and $297.37m worldwide.
649th biggest between Ghost Rider and Remember the Titans; 1,439th biggest inflated between Clash of the Titans and Real Steel; 8th biggest 2024 between Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; 18th biggest horror between The Nun and The Grudge; 88th biggest Paramount Pictures between Double Jeopardy and The Addams Family.
What of course helped A Quiet Place: Day One was its strong trailer being played with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Bad Boys: Ride Or Die the only adult major release.
Took $10.4m from 67 territories $104.5m total and $220.28m worldwide; China $17.3m; Mexico $11.2m; UK $10.3m; Australia $6.7m; France $5.2m.
816th biggest worldwide Captain Phillips and Dracula Untold; 13th biggest 2024 between The Garfield Movie and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; 27th biggest horror between Interview with the Vampire and Smile; 87th biggest Paramount Pictures between Crocodile Dundee 2 and Jack Reacher.
- Longlegs – Neon
Opened $22.6m #2; received critical acclaim (92% Rotten Tomatoes) and C+ CinemaScore.
It was expected to open with about half.
Took $3m from Thursday midnights; The Conjuring 2 $3.4m; M3GAN $2.75m; Evil Dead Rise $2.5m; Immaculate $1m.
945th biggest opening between Contagion and Now You See Me 2 (close to Smile, Saw 3D, Disturbia and Chronicle).
Comparisons have been made with
1991’s The Silence of the Lambs opened $13.76m/$35.25m inflated taking $130.74m/$334.8m inflated and $272.74m/$698.4m inflated worldwide
1995’s Se7en opened $13.94m/$34.1m inflated taking $100.12m/$244.2m inflated and $327.33m/$798.4m inflated worldwide
Comparisons have also been made with 2022’s Smile opened $22.6m taking $105.93m and $217.4m worldwide; it had a similarly strong marketing campaign.
Had the biggest opening for Neon ahead of Immaculate $5.33m taking $15.67m and $27.18m worldwide.
Many films receive critical acclaim but don’t find an audience so why did Longlegs? It also had a strong marketing campaign similar to Five Nights at Freddy’s last year, Neon released 11 videos over the last 90 days receiving over 30m views, helping Longlegs find an audience unlike many other horrors this year. It also had an ace in the hole being trailered with A Quiet Place Part II and being vastly different to anything else on release.
It’s hard to say Nicolas Cage was responsible for its strong opening as he has starred in many films over the last decade that struggled to find an audience 2023’s 2022Renfield opened $8.02m taking $17.29m and 2022’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent opened $7.13m taking $20.3m despite similarly having a strong marketing campaign as he was playing himself. All of his BO hits over the last decade have been animated films.
It’s Nicolas Cage’s biggest live-action opening since 2007’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets $44.78m (taking $219.96m and $459.24m worldwide). He has made a lot of films since, but they have struggled to find a wide audience. But before National Treasure 2 he had a lot of success with action films including The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off and Gone in 60 Seconds.
Having a low CinemaScore and audience rating of 63% it will probably be front-loaded as many horrors are.
Neon compared its opening with The Blair Witch Project opening 25 years ago over the same weekend as an indie horror that over-performed and ‘came out of nowhere.’”; Blair Witch opened on platform release $1,512,054 from 31 screens and then expanded into 1,101 screens $29.2m and 2,142 screens $24.34m over the next two weeks taking $140.53m/$298.23m inflated and $240.63m/$527.62m inflated worldwide Longlegs has a long way to go to match its success.
Longlegs premiered at SXSW as their other horror Immaculate (opened $5.3m).
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It could be close for #1 if Despicable Me 4 has a similar second-weekend drop as Despicable Me 3 taking £4m-£5m against the 5-day opening of Twisters.
2010’s Despicable Me dropped 29% £2,589,170 #2 549 screens and £7,585,348: #1 Paranormal Activity 2 £3,764,722
2013’s Despicable Me 2 dropped 73% (60% without previews) £3,996,837 #1 539 screens and £22,914,407; #2 Now You See Me £2,898,997
2015’s Minions dropped 46% £6,238,498 #1 586 screens and £20,973,912; #2 Terminator: Genisys £3,793,617
2017’s Despicable Me 3 dropped 53% £5,275,120 #2 625 screens and £19,578,209; #1 Spider-Man: Homecoming £9,369,846
2022’s Minions: The Rise Of Gru dropped 59% £4,327,537 #2 654 screens and £18,491,693; #1 Thor: Love And Thunder £12,283,719
Twisters has received positive reviews and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell his first cinema release since Anyone But You (recently starred in Netflix’s Hit Man).
Glen Powell is attached to star in another 90s reboot 1991’s Backdraft and 80s reboot The Running Man, rejected starring in the upcoming Bourne Identity and Jurassic World films.
28 years after 1996’s Twister opened £3,044,033 (including £681,365 previews) (£6,515,876 inflated) taking £15,004,691 (£32,118,149 inflated); Twister was the 6th biggest film of 1996 after Independence Day £36.86; Toy Story £22.16m; Babe £20.29m; Seven £19.51m; Mission Impossible £18.61m; the top 10 featured only one sequel Goldeneye. Having a 5-day opening Twisters should open between £4m-£5m.
Inside Out 2 will drop 30%-40% in its sixth weekend taking £1.3m-£1.6m
Longlegs will drop about 50% in fourth taking £600k-£800k.
Fly Me To The Moon will drop 80%+ in its second weekend after taking almost 50% of its opening weekend from previews.
Also re-released is Robert Zemeckis’s Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for its 30th anniversary, the film was originally released in October 1994 £1,897,804/£4,653,999 inflated taking £16,064,449/£39,394,972 inflated; took $330.45m/$875m inflated in the US and $678.22m/£1.8bn inflated worldwide and won six Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. Director Robert Zemeckis, writer Eric Roth, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are reunited in drama Here opening at the end of the year.
Opening in two weeks
- Trap – Warner Bros
Psychological thriller starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill and written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
The second trailer revealed the twist in the film, but M. Night Shyamalan has said that is not the case. The film was pitched as The Silence of the Lambs at a Taylor Swift concert, so the pitch reveals the “twist” in the trailer showing that it’s not the real twist. It’s the first M. Night Shyamalan film since 2006’s Lady in the Water for Warner Bros.
Previous M. Night Shyamalan films
2023’s Knock at the Cabin opened £985,027 #3 taking £2,020,346
2021’s Old opened #4 £866,860 taking £3,181,707
2019’s Glass opened £3,423,380 35.5% of £9,646,964.
2017’s Split opened £2,548,516 23.1% of £11,018,069
2015’s The Visit opened £1,031,292 36.7% of £2,805,591.
2013’s After Earth opened £2,249,532 36.6% of £6,137,273
2010’s The Last Airbender opened £1,653,776 #3 39.1% of £4,225,793
2008’s The Happening £1,632,055 (£2,350,787 inflation inflated) 41.9% of £3,895,001 (£5,610,300 inflation inflated)
2006’s Lady in the Water opened £452,744 #9 (£671,214 inflation inflated) in the top 10 for only one week
2004’s The Village £2,945,763 (£4,913,979 inflation inflated) 29.5% of £9,980,280 (£16,648,619 inflation inflated)
2002’s Signs £3,767,713 (£6,578,128 inflation inflated) 23.4% of £16,084,656 (£28,082,535 inflation inflated)
2000’s £2,004,890 (£3,412,870 inflation inflated) 17.8% of £11,222,712 (inflation inflated £19,563,228)
1999’s The Sixth Sense £4,792,296 (£8,730,858 inflation inflated) 18.6% of £25,407,279 (£46,288,321 inflation inflated).
- It Ends With Us – Sony Pictures
Romantic drama based on the 2016 novel by Colleen Hoover starring Blake Lively, Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj, and Amy Morton and directed by Justin Baldoni.
In 2021 the novel grew in popularity from the #BookTok community on TikTok for its dealing with themes of domestic violence and abuse cycles. The book debuted at #1 on The New York Times best sellers list selling 925,221 copies in 2022 and was the best-selling novel of 2023.
The trailer was viewed 128.1m in the first 24 Hours becoming the biggest recent debut for female-led films Wicked 112.9m views; Barbie 101.6m; Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour 96.2m; Mean Girls 79.3m; Challengers 75m; The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 61.6m and its had many more views playing with many summer films.
Films about abusive relationships include.
2013’s Safe Haven opened £812,460/£985,403 taking £2,076,306/£2,518,276 inflated
2002’s Enough opened £340,600/£628,800 inflated taking £897,245/£1,656,452 inflated
1992’s Fried Green Tomatoes opened £154,934/£382,267 inflated taking £2,022,981/£4,991,280 inflated
1991’s Sleeping With the Enemy opened £1,300,204/£3,398,553 inflated taking £9,230,825/£24,128,097 inflated.
Blake Lively recent films include.
2015’s The Age of Adaline opened £570,386 taking £1,084,834
2018’s A Simple Favor opened £1,621,900 taking £4,930,383; a sequel has been made and will be released by Amazon/Lionsgate next year.
Likely to open similarly to 2022’s Where The Crawdads Sing £1,395,704 taking £8,115,231.. Unless Ryan Reynold could have the trailer attached before Deadpool and Wolverine with an intro if you see another film this summer make it It Ends With Us. In 1999 Austin Powers 2 trailer voiceover “if you only see one film this summer see Star Wars, if you see two see Austin Powers 2”.
- Borderlands – Lionsgate
Sci-fi action comedy based on the video game series of the same name starring an ensemble cast of Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Gina Gershon, and Jamie Lee Curtis, and directed by Eli Roth.
The film adaption was first announced in 2015 Leigh Whannell was in talks to direct but then in 2020 Roth was attached to direct and filming started in April 2021. There were reshoots in January 2023 Tim Miller directed those as Eli Roth was directing his next film Thanksgiving.
Cate Blanchett said in an interview “The gun-slinging stuff was so much fun. I got really absorbed in that whole world. I think there also may have been a little Covid madness.”
There are meagre expectations for Borderland so likely to be comparable to 1994’a Street Fighter, 1999’s Wing Commander, 2006’s DOA: Dead or Alive, 2005’s BloodRayne.
