- Deadpool and Wolverine £8,021,084 – £33,433,823
Down 53.6%/37% without previews in the second weekend (similar drop to Hobbs & Shaw, Iron Man 3, Captain America: The Winter Soldier and The Proposal (opened the same weekend as D&W in 2009 and also starring Ryan Reynolds)
Took £2.39m 29.8% (-43.23% £4.21m) Friday; £3.02m 37.65% (-35.33% £4.67m) Saturday; £2.61m 32.55% (-30.19% £3.74m) Sunday; took £1.41m Mon (-35.3%); £1.34m Tues (35.6%)
The 31st biggest second weekend is between The Jungle Book and LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring. It is close to Oppenheimer, LOTR: The Two Towers, Inside Out 2, and Super Mario Bros. The 59th inflated second weekend is between The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe and The Da Vinci Code. It is close to Independence Day, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Shrek The Third, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
6th biggest comic-book second weekend between Marvel Avengers Assemble and The Batman (close to Avengers Age of Ultron, The Dark Knight Rises, Black Panther and The Dark Knight) and 9th inflated MCU second weekend between Spider-Man 3 and Spider-Man (close to Avengers Age of Ultron, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3 and Men In Black)
5th biggest MCU second weekend between Avengers Assemble and Black Panther (close to Captain Marvel, Iron Man 3, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2)
Opened in 707 cinemas including 54 IMAX screens and about 2,000 screens: 26th widest opening similar to Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Jurassic World Dominion (close to Kung Fu Panda 4 and The Batman; 33rd 700+ cinema opening since 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Took £25.55m over Thurs-Thurs; £20.9m over opening 7 days without previews; Monday £2.18m; Tues £2.08m; Weds £2.11m; Thurs £1.9m.
21st biggest opening week including previews (£25,412,739) between The Lion King and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (close to Jurassic World, Beauty and the Beast, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness and Avengers Age of Ultron)
30th biggest 7 days (Fri-Thurs) (£20,645,544) between Fast & Furious 7 and Fifty Shades of Grey (close to Super Mario Bros, Fantastic Beasts, Joker and The Simpsons)
2016’s Deadpool dropped 59%/43% without previews £5,694,280/£6.1m #1 inflated 571 screens and £25,866,491 68.76% £37,616,432 (£40.45m inflation inflated); took 2.74x opening #1 for 3 weeks.
2018’s Deadpool 2 dropped 71%/51% without previews £3,771,293/£4.13m inflated #2 615 screens and £20,682,579 63.63% £32,501,893/£35.87m inflated; took 2.51x opening; #1 Solo: A Star Wars Story £6,061,231
2016’s Suicide Squad dropped 62% £4,241,508/£4.53m inflated #1 587 screens and £22,214,243 66.93% of £33,191,023/ £35.47m; took 2.95x of opening; Suicide Squad took to Deadpool 3 on Monday £1.78m/£2.18m; Tuesday £1.91m/£2.08m
2019’s Joker down 22% £9,766,609 #1 673 screens and £30,030,142 51.96% of £57.8m took 4.6x opening; after opening almost 40% more would have expected Deadpool and Wolverine to take more in its second weekend, but Joker took 22% more, while Deadpool 3 has taken more without Thursday previews would have taken less than Joker.
Deadpool 3 second weekend was also similar to The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises inflated in the second weekend and close to Batman’s second weekend.
2012’s The Dark Knight Rises dropped 49.3% £7,275,558 (£9,045,906 inflated) and £30,551,765 of 54.15% of £56,424,320 (£70,153,943 inflated) 3.93x opening
Curiously 2002’s Spider-Man re-released this weekend’s second weekend inflated was similar £7,857,083/£4,255,920 uninflated and £16,562,565 60.16% of £27,529,785/£50,824,218 inflated.
2008’s The Dark Knight dropped 39.8% £6,643,217 510 screens (£10,261,435 inflated) and £25,374,829 51.46% of £49,309,894 (£75,102,762 inflated) 4.41x opening
2022’s The Batman dropped 45.3% £7,406,390 (£7,627,908 inflated) and £26,541,848 65.03% £40,811,982 (£42,032,626 inflated) 3.02x opening
Also took similar to Oppenheimer’s second weekend £8,222,657 694 screens #2 down 24.5% and £27,657,602 of £59,550,749: #1 Barbie £13,226,848
But Deadpool & Wolverine couldn’t be compared to the first two films as it has received far more hype and media coverage than those films received and needed to be compared to other MCU films like MCU’s.
2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse dropped 71%/62% without previews £5,690,351 #1 701 screens and £30,386,638 72.21% of £42,082,090; took 2.13x opening
2016’s Captain America Civil War dropped 67% £4,806,575 #1 605 screens and £27,372,922 74.44% of £36,771,782; 2.54x opening
2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron dropped 53%/41% without previews £8,591,670 #1 589 screens and £32,297,331 of 66.97% of £48,227,409; 2.68x opening
2012’s Avengers Assemble dropped 49%/39% without previews £8,121,916 #1 and £29,851,680 57.84% of £51,614,076/ £64,173,231 inflated; 3.27x opening
34 MCUs have taken £1.11bn since 2008 and almost £1.325bn inflated.
123rd biggest between Spider-Man 3 and The Matrix Reloaded (close to Jurassic World Dominion, Inception, The Inbetweeners Movie 2 and The Lego Movie) and 268th biggest inflated between True Lies and Hot Fuzz (close to Home Alone, Pretty Woman, Rain-Man and The Mummy (1999).
24th biggest comic book between Spider-Man 3 and Suicide Squad (close to Batman Vs Superman, Men In Black, Deadpool 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) and 37th biggest inflated between Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man Homecoming (close to Hancock, Man of Steel, Batman Begins and Superman III).
It feels like a memorial of Fox’s X-Men films, with lots of studio in-jokes groaning about the multi-universe but then the film features one and how hard it has been for Marvel to bring back Blade, they have been developing a Blade reboot since 2013, in 2015 Wesley Snipes said he hoped to return as Blade, while Mahershala Ali was cast as Blade in the new version Snipes did return to play Blade in Deadpool and Wolverine saying “there will only ever be one Blade”.
New Line Cinema made three films the first Blade released in 1998 opened £1,642,390/£3,227,724 taking £6,312,955/£12,406,601 inflated; Blade 2 in 2002 opened £2,540,226/£4,689,648 taking £9,022,422/£16,656,779 inflated and 2004’s Blade: Trinity opened £2,633,626/£4,645,505 taking £6,094,509/£10,750,225 inflated.
The end credits feature a dedication to the 20th Century Fox X-Men films including Daredevil, Elektra and The Fantastic Four but also includes Blade never part of the X-Men films as it was made by New Line/Warner Bros and rights reverted to Marvel in 2012. In Deadpool and Wolverine, kill off Channing Tatum’s Gambit. 20th Century Fox had been developing a Gambit spinoff with Rupert Wyatt attached to direct since 2014 and Channing Tatum attached, its production start date kept being delayed and it was finally cancelled after Disney acquired Fox in 2020.
Deadpool 3 has similarities with Spider-Man: No Way Home which featured cameos of other Spider-Man and their villain, Deadpool 3 its old Fox Marvel characters that are stuck in the void.
Ryan Reynold appeared alongside Hugh Jackman as Deadpool and Wolverine in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine and they fought each other with Wolverine killing Deadpool. After Wolverine changed the timeline in 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past everything after the 70s was wiped. The events in X-Men Origins: Wolverine never happened shouldn’t be the hostility between Deadpool and Wolverine. As in Batman Vs Superman and Captain America: Civil War when Deadpool and Wolverine fight it feels tiresome as both have super healing powers.
In 2017 20th Century Fox was also making Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants and had plans for many other films including Gambit (was due to be made in 2015 but was delayed and then cancelled in May 2019). There were sequels planned for both Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants, X-23, Alpha Flight and Exiles, Kitty Pryde and X-Force.
There were predictable headlines over the last week “What superhero fatigue”. After many articles written over the last couple of years due to Phase 4 including Blade Widow, Shang-Chi, Eternals, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels all coming to come short of expectations after Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Marvel’s upcoming slate is sequels, reboots (including the third version of Fantastic Four in 20 years) and more Avengers films.
People have very short memories of Marvel over the last decade with Disney being heralded with the success the majority have had but in the mid-90s Marvel Entertainment was heavily in debt and sold film rights to many of their properties including Iron Man to Universal Pictures in 1990, X-Men to 20th Century Fox in 1994, Blade to New Line in 1998, Spider-Man to Sony Pictures in 1999, Black Widow to Lionsgate in 2004. (Captain America was also sold to Universal Pictures in the 80s and then on to Cannon Films in 1984 making the 1990 film). Sony has had enormous success with Spider-Man films, but they could have acquired rights to many more characters in 1999, but Sony was only interested in Spider-Man.
After the enormous success of Batman in 1989 in the 90s comic-book movies struggled at the box office from The Mask to Barb Wire apart from the Batman sequels. So was a massive gamble for 20th Century Fox to make X-Men in 1999 having a $75m budget. It was originally due to be released in December 2000 but was brought forward to July after Steven Spielberg delayed Minority Report to make A.I. X-Men was a critical and box office success with $54.5m/$109m inflated opening, the biggest opening for a comic-book movie and the sixth-biggest opening of all time (now 256th showing how BO has changed over the last 21 years) taking $157.3m/$315m. The film took time to introduce several of the X-Men making the film accessible to non-fans.
Spider-Man followed two years later opening with double $114.84m/$215m inflated taking $407.02m/$755.2m inflated ($418m international) and $825.02m worldwide. With Spider-Man 2 opened with $88.15m in 2004 taking $373.58m ($414.39m international) $788.97m worldwide and Spider-Man 3 in 2007 opening with $151.11m taking $336.53m ($558.45m international) $894.98m worldwide.
After the success of X-Men 2 and Spider-Man 2 in September 2005, Marvel Entertainment announced plans to make 10 films with budgets of $165m, Captain America, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Dr Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, Shang-Chi and Avengers. Paramount attached to release the films worldwide. Iron Man opened with $98.61m taking $319.03m ($266.76m international) and $585.79m worldwide and the year later Disney acquired Marvel. Spider-Man films and Marvel were a multibillion-dollar brand due to 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures taking the gamble on what Marvel did next Disney owning Marvel (as they did with Star Wars after buying Lucasfilm) took the next step without learning the knowledge themselves.
Interestingly, 2005 was also the year Ryan Reynolds became a fan of Deadpool and was Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and died fighting Wolverine. In 2012 Ryan Reynolds shot some test footage which was “leaked” online in 2014 fans loved it and within a few months 20th Century Fox approved the film and started shooting in March 2015 telling Ryan “Go make your movie however you want to make it.” The buzz ahead of February 2016 was incredibly positive but as William Goldman famously said “Nobody knows anything…… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one.”
The industry never learned in July 1989 UIP boss Chris Hedges said he ‘believes that the release of the major films is having a positive effect on each other’. This was after Indiana Jones 3 had the biggest-ever opening in the UK and Licence to Kill had a small drop.
- 2. Despicable Me 4 £2,561,637 – £30,845,824
Down 17.8% in the fourth weekend
Took £781k 30.5% (-26.32% £1.06m) Friday; £861k 33.62% (-27.65% £1.19m) Saturday; £919k 35.88% (+6.24% £865k) Sunday.
66th biggest fourth weekend between Big Hero 6 and Paddington (close to Jurassic Park, Harry Potter Chamber Of Secrets, Alice in Wonderland and Mrs Doubtfire) and 132nd biggest fourth weekend inflated between Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Grinch (close to The Flintstones, Moulin Rouge, Bean and A Fish Called Wanda).
13th biggest animated fourth weekend between Minions and Incredibles 2 (close to Super Mario Bros, Finding Dory, Monsters, Inc. and The Grinch) and the 23rd biggest animated fourth weekend between Incredibles 2 and The Grinch (close to Incredibles, Chicken Run, Ratatouille and The Croods).
Fourth weekends
2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru up 15% £3,086,374 #1 708 screens £28,218,622 61.66% of £45,764,546
2017’s Despicable Me 3 dropped 20% £3,082,983 #2 645 screens £30,319,469 of £47,562,575
2015’s Minions dropped 35% £2,702,320 #2 607 screens £32,293,570 68.58% of £47,645,626
2013’s Despicable Me 2 dropped 17% £1,850,549 544 screens £30,279,559 63.95% of £47,436,199
2010’S Despicable Me dropped 53% £1,177,507 #3 516 screens £16,863,318 85.38% of £19,670,786
The 14 Illumination Entertainment films have taken almost £475m (almost £520m 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.
In June 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.
The 28th biggest animated film between Shrek Forever After and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (close to The Lego Movie, Sing 2, Monsters University and Ice Age II) and the 45th biggest inflated animated between The Croods and Monsters vs. Aliens (close to Wall·E, Sing 2, Sing and The Boss Baby).
141st biggest between Thor: Ragnarok and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (close to Slumdog Millionaire, Gladiator, Notting Hill and The BFG) and 305th biggest inflated between Star Trek and Monsters vs. Aliens (close to Never Say Never Again, X-Men: The Last Stand, Fast & Furious 6 and Prometheus).
- 3 Twisters – £1,184,697 – £10,197,162
Took £335k 28.29% (-28.27% £467k) Friday; £441k 37.25% (-29.55% £626k) Saturday; £408k 34.46% (+0.99% £404k) Sunday.
Down 20.9% in the third weekend
512th biggest third weekend between P.S. I Love You and Ready Player One (close to X-Men, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Looper and Starsky & Hutch) and 811th biggest inflated between Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire and Prisoners (close to Star Trek V The Undiscovered Country, District 9, Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol and Terminator Salvation)
Glen Powell is the man of the moment attached to so many other upcoming films including 90s reboot 1991’s Backdraft and 80s reboot The Running Man but he rejected starring in the upcoming Bourne Identity and Jurassic World films. Starred in Top Gun: Maverick (taking £83,280,268), Anyone But You (taking £11,364,012) and recently Netflix’s Hit Man.
Glen Powell only had a small role in Top Gun: Maverick and was unknown to most he had little to do with its success. Glen Powell said in an interview Top Gun 3 could be made in 2025 with release in summer 2026. While Top Gun: Maverick took $1.5bn worldwide to many it was the perfect sequel, but a third film could never reach similar heights as was the case with Toy Story 4 after the perfect Toy Story 3 ending.
Daisy Edgar-Jones starred in the hugely popular 2020 BBC TV drama Normal People and also in 2022’s Where The Crawdads Sing (taking £8,115,231)
Third weekends
1996’s Twister 38.3% £1,105,196/£2,164,229 and £9,841,876 of £15,004,691/£32.11m inflated; Twister was the 6th biggest film of 1996 after Independence Day £36.86m; Toy Story £22.16m; Babe £20.29m; Seven £19.51m; Mission Impossible £18.61m; the top 10 featured only one sequel Goldeneye.
2004’s The Day After Tomorrow dropped 42.3% £1,849,730/£3,283,374 and £18,603,495 of £25,049,442 (£50,043,095 inflated)
Other natural disaster films include.
2000’s The Perfect Storm dropped 39% £686,134/£1,286,703 and £5,865,674 of £8,857,917/£16,611,200 inflated
2011’s Contagion dropped 51.1% £493,293/£648,770 and £4,855,880 of £5,337,350/£7,019,584 inflated
2013’s The Impossible dropped 41.1% £1,094,321/£1,335,641 and £9,120,400 of £12.75m/£15.46m inflated
2015’s San Andreas dropped 52.9% £844,397/£933,404 and £9,915,841 of £11,316,171
2009’s 2012 dropped 47.5% £1,834,817/£2.68m and £16,217,379 of £19,354,774/£28.35m inflated
1998’s Armageddon dropped 25% £1,696,299/£3,354,715 and £10,443,765 of £17,806,147/£35.21m inflated.
1998’s Godzilla dropped 49% £1,221,899/£2,416,510 and £12,228,887 of £17,195,077/£33,792,806 inflated
927th biggest between True Grit and Deep Blue Sea (close to A.I, Back To The Future Part III, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and Inferno) and 1,468th biggest inflated between Sahara and Law-Abiding Citizen (close to Déjà Vu, Stakeout, The Godfather Part III and A League of Their Own).
Twisters returned to 4DX screens sharing them with Deadpool and Wolverine
- 4. Inside Out 2 – £939,144 – £52,218,942
Dropped 16.4% in the eighth weekend.
Took £283k 30.43% (-26.11% £383k) Friday; £322k 34.62% (-27.31% £443k) Saturday; £325k 34.95% (+9.43% £297k) Sunday.
22nd biggest eighth weekend between No Time To Die and Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (close to Fantastic Beasts, Paddington, Top Gun: Maverick and Skyfall) and the 63rd biggest inflated eighth weekend between Notting Hill and Despicable Me 2 (close to Billy Elliot, Dances with Wolves, Mrs Doubtfire and Moulin Rouge).
2nd biggest Pixar eighth weekend between Toy Story 4 and Incredibles 2 (close to Toy Story 3, Inside Out, Incredibles and Finding Nemo) and 4th biggest inflated between Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 2 (close to Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Incredibles 2 and Inside Out)
Pixar sequel’s eighth weekends
2019’s Toy Story 4 dropped 19% £1,624,953 #3 and £58,766,431 of £65,802,558: #1 The Lion King £4,366,824
2018’s Incredibles 2 dropped 40% £762,307 #6 and £53,279,019 of £56.1m; #1 Disney’s Christopher Robin £1,173,235
2016’s Finding Dory dropped 33% £483,538 #8 and £40,734,647 of £46,258,802: #1 Bridget Jones’s Baby £8,111,077
2013’s Monsters University dropped 34% £389,339 #10 and £28,527,915 of £30,554,711: #1 One Direction: This Is Us £3,471,872
2015’s Inside Out dropped 17% £608,638 #5 and £36,811,931 of £39,114,257: #1 Legend £5,189,074
The 25 Pixar films have taken over £775m in the UK BO since Toy Story in 1996 and almost £1.1bn inflated.
4th biggest Pixar film between Incredibles 2 and Finding Dory (close to Toy Story 4, Incredibles 2, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.).
44th biggest between The Full Monty and POTC: Dead Man’s Chest (close to HP: Deathly Hallows Part 1, Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Quantum of Solace and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and 112th biggest inflated between Minions and Frozen (close to For Your Eyes Only, The Greatest Showman, Mrs. Doubtfire and Ghostbusters (1984)
6th biggest animated film between Frozen 2 and Shrek 2 (close to Super Mario Bros, Minions, Despicable Me 3 and Despicable Me 2) and the 20th biggest inflated animated between Minions and Frozen (close to A Bug’s Life, The Lion King, Ice Age III and Up).
Took £202,990 31.83% from previews Weds/Thurs
Took £135k 21.06% Friday; £148k 23.09% Saturday; £154k 24.02% Sunday.
2,305th biggest opening between Gamer and Cemetery Junction (close to Alpha And Omega, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, The Commitments and Clueless) and 2,805th biggest inflated between Hotel Rwanda and Quiz Show (close to Everafter, Rugrats Go Wild, Sammy’s Great Escape and The Age Of Adaline).
38th biggest 2024 opening between Imaginary and Night Swim (close to The Iron Claw, The Holdovers, Abigail and The Zone of Interest)
224th widest opening in 600 cinemas since 2015’s Jurassic World similar to Dolittle and The LEGO Batman Movie (close to Doctor Strange, Migration, Peter Rabbit and The Addams Family 2); being a young children’s film most cinemas ended shows at 6 pm.
Harold And The Purple Crayon opened on Wednesday with a five-day opening, having trailers with If, Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 should have seen it open similar to 2021’s Clifford the Big Red Dog opened £1,293,354 taking £10,057,905. Both originated from children’s books first published close to each other Clifford the Big Red Dog was 1963 and Harold and the Purple Crayon.
Opening Wednesday it was DOA by Friday. Harold and the Purple Crayon received mostly poor reviews apart from Daily Telegraph’s Robbie Collins while not helping because it has a remarkably similar plot to Barbie. Harold and the Purple Crayon had been in development at Sony since 2010 and Barbie was in development also at Sony from 2014 to 2018 before moving to Warner Bros
The first weekend of August has been a good date for the smaller family films.
2023’s Haunted Mansion opened £990,084 taking £3,183,228
2018’s Christopher Robin opened £2,553,810 taking £14,875,899
2019’s Dora and the Lost City of Gold opened £1,165,865 taking £6,655,422
2017’s The Emoji Movie opened £2,702,809 taking £14,612,815
2015’s Pixels opened £2,660,772 taking £8,334,036
Directed by Carlos Saldanha he previously directed two Rio and three Ice Age animated films.
As always with films that fail to find their audience at their opening weekend, exhibitors have reduced shows to mornings and early afternoons and will likely drop about 70% in the second weekend.
Also released
- Spider-Man (2024 RE) – Sony Pictures
Opened £253,261 #7 from 487 screens and £29,231,767
Sony Pictures are re-releasing all 8 Spider-Man films over the next two months with Spider-Man 2 re-released on Friday.
Later this month Disney is re-release all 10 Star Wars films exclusively at Odeon cinemas over the following 10 weeks.
Also re-released The Neverending Story (40th Anniversary) – Warner Bros £20,677 #21 from 129 screens
And despite receiving critical acclaim Didi – Universal Pictures opened £19,403 #23 from 20 screens
While people get caught up in the hype of films like Deadpool and Wolverine taking the expected millions at the box office the problem is audiences aren’t getting to see original films like Didi in the cinema anymore. It’s a long way from Long Duk Dong in John Hughes’s Sixteen Candles (it was the 15 anniversary of his death on Tuesday
As I mentioned anniversaries must also say it’s also the 10th anniversary on Thursday 11th August of the death of Robin Williams.
UK box office in detail
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £14,436,761 down 40.4% from last weekend’s £24,215,414: 1,818,652 admissions down 40.5% from 3,057,502 admissions.
8th biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 29 March 2024 (£14,699,986) #1 Kung Fu Panda 4 £5,020,600 (34.15%) and 11 August 2023 (£13,935,685) #1 Barbie £4,428,044 (31.77%)
29th biggest since cinemas reopened out of 194 weeks between 29 March 2024 (£14,699,986) #1 Kung Fu Panda 4 £5,020,600 (34.15%) and 17 June 2022 (£14,423,033) #1 Jurassic World: Dominion £5,717,882 (39.64%)
270th biggest top 10 of the last 22 years (out of 1,165) between 03 November 2017 (£14,453,653) #1 Murder on the Orient Express £4,985,600 (34.49%) and 22 September 2017 (£14,426,112) #1 Kingsman: The Golden Circle £8,525,664 (59.1%) and 530th inflated between 06 March 2009 (£10,781,295) #1 Watchmen £3,243,001 (30.08%) and 16 December 2022 (£13,929,358) #1 Avatar: The Way of Water (80.32%)
The top 3 took (£11,767,418) 81.5% of the top 10; Deadpool and Wolverine 55.56% (£8,021,084); Despicable Me 4 17.74% (£2,561,637); Twisters 8.21% (£1,184,697).
20th highest #1 percentage (55.56%) between 01 August 2003 #1 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (55.58%) and 02 May 2008 #1 Iron Man (55.54%)
261st biggest admissions #1 (1,012,763) between 15 May 2009 #1 Angels and Demons (1,017,584) and 27 July 2018 #1 Mission: Impossible Fallout (1,011,095)
Down 39.4% from 2023; (£23,825,557); The Meg 2 (£3,777,784); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (£3,662,250); Joy Ride (£389,935); #1 Barbie £7,916,261 3rd week 40% drop 766 screens (33.23%)
Up 65.2% 2022 (£8,741,052); Bullet Train (£2,858,197); Westlife: Live from Wembley Stadium (£468,215); #1 Bullet Train £2,858,197 1st week 609 screens (32.7% of top 10)
Up 40.6% 2021 (£10,270,607); The Suicide Squad (£3,252,028); Jungle Cruise (£2,241,651); Spirit Untamed (£592,154); The Sparks Brothers (£123,005); #1 The Suicide Squad £3,252,028 1st week 635 screens (31.66% of top 10)
Up 2,114.5% 2020: (£651,914); Unhinged (£175,263); 100% Wolf (£33,130); The Vigil (£30,302); Proxima (£30,051); Summerland (£15,792); Parasite: Black & White Edition (£8,546); Flash Gordon 40th Anniversary 4K Restoration (£5,816); #1 Unhinged £175,263 1st week 243 screens (26.88% of top 10)
Down 8.8% from 2019; (£15,821,627); Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (£6,377,583); Angry Birds 2 (£701,223); The Magic Flute – Glyndebourne 2019 (£132,765); Do the Right Thing (30th Anniversary) (£14,616); #1 Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw £6,377,583 1st week 614 screens (40.31% of top 10)
Down 11.6% from 2018: (£16,330,724); Ant-Man and The Wasp (£4,988,747); Teen Titans Go! to the Movies (£389,726); The Producers (50th Anniversary) (£35,745); #1 Ant-Man and The Wasp £4,988,747 1st week 486 screens (30.5% of top 10)
Down 1.7% from 2017: (£14,684,539); The Emoji Movie (£2,702,809); Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (£1,861,916); England is Mine (£76,895); Maudie (£49,315); #1 Dunkirk £10,023,720 3rd week 690 screens 44% drop (31.5% of top 10)
Down 32.2% from 2016: (£21,285,722); Suicide Squad (£11,252,225); Sid & Nancy (30th Anniversary) (£6,048); #1 Suicide Squad £11,252,225 1st week 573 screens (52.8% of the top 10)
Up 5.2% from 2015; (£13,728,232); Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (£5,351,344); Hot Pursuit (£311,673); The Cobbler (£57,787); #1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation £5,351,344 £7,376,513 1st week 572 screens (38.9% of top 10)
Down 0.9% from 2014: (£14,570,372); Guardians of the Galaxy (£6,363,110); The Nut Job (£666,966); Back to the Future (Re: 2014) (£538,159); Step Up 5: All In (£391,129); Mood Indigo (£60,538); Planes 2: Fire and Rescue (£55,903); #1 Guardians of the Galaxy £6,363,110 1st week 554 screens (43.67%)
Down 5.8% from 2013: (£15,328,027); The Smurfs 2 (£3,220,911); The Heat (£2,500,522); The Conjuring (£2,156,124); Red 2 (£1,023,349); Only God Forgives (£465,917); From up on Poppy Hill (£33,087); #1 The Smurfs 2 (£3,220,911 1st week 510 screens (21.1% of top 10)
Down 23.3% from 2012 (£18,835,047); Ted (£9,333,700); Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (£1,537,178); Brave (Scotland) (£820,084); Sound of My Voice (£3,630); #1 Ted £9,333,700 1st week 509 screens (49.5% of top 10)
Down 0.4% from 2011; (£14,498,785); Captain America: The First Avenger (£2,981,590); Horrid Henry: The Movie (£1,290,308); The Zookeeper (£936,063); Arrietty (£75,584); #1 Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 £8,523,417 3rd week 576 screens 46% drop (31.5% of top 10)
Down 34.2% from 2010: (£21,956,519); Karate Kid (£4,882,306); The A-Team (£3,569,505); Gainsbourg (£135,031); #1 Toy Story 3 £8,115,193 2nd week 564 screens 62% drop (36.9% of top 10)
Up 16.3% from 2009; (£12,415,474); G-Force (£2,478,524); The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (£1,784,719); Land of the Lost (£642,553); Coco Before Chanel (£423,268); Crossing Over (£3,214); #1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince £2,917,786 3rd week 568 screens 44% drop (23.5% of top 10)
Down 9.1% from 2008; (£15,871,733); The X-Files: I Want to Believe (£887,209); Space Chimps (£563,543); The Love Guru (£498,829); Man on Wire (£98,508); #1 The Dark Knight £6,737,306 2nd week 510 40% drop screens (42.4% of top 10)
Up 35.9% from 2007: (£10,622,708); Evan Almighty (£1,152,349); The Hoax (£94,136); Happily, Never After (£62,622); Wind Chill (£23,769); Seraphim Falls (£17,110); #1 The Simpsons £4,027,220 2nd week 519 screens 70% drop (37.9% of top 10)
Up 55.1% from 2006; (£9,307,750); Miami Vice (£2,231,684); My Super Ex-Girlfriend (£714,920); Ant Bully (£382,766); #1 Miami Vice £2,231,684 1st week 408 screens (23.9% of top 10)
Up 49.5% from 2005: (£9,659,697); Herbie: Fully Loaded (£774,412); Stealth (£525,902); The Devil’s Rejects (£323,196); #1 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory £4,441,851 2nd week 532 screens 44% drop (45.9% of top 10)
Up 83.9% from 2004 (£7,849,699); King Arthur (£1,908,084); Garfield (£1,147,437); The Stepford Wives (£946,787); New York Minute (£109,106); Anything Else (£39,149); #1 King Arthur £1,908,084 1st week 400 screens (24.31% of top 10)
Up 32% from 2003 (£10,939,690); Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (£6,080,369); Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (£1,546,483); Spy Kids 3D Game Over (£979,374); #1 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines £6,080,369 1st week 478 screens (55.58%)
Up 13% from 2002 (£12,774,940); Men in Black 2 (£6,191,428); Lost In La Mancha (42,824); Lovely and Amazing (£35,483); #1 Men in Black 2 £6,191,428 1st week 512 screens (48.4% of top 10)
Up 34.2% from 2001 (£10,754,826); Cats and Dogs (£3,707,358); Rush Hour 2 (£2,286,253); Final Fantasy: The Spirits. (£43,546); #1 Cats and Dogs £ 3,707,358 1st week 452 screens (34.4% of top 10).
2023 Next week: (£13,935,685); Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story (£1,045,838); Haunted Mansion (£990,084); Enter The Dragon (50th Anniversary) (£36,378); #1 Barbie £4,428,044 4th week 44% drop 777 screens (31.77% of top 10)
US Box Office
- Deadpool and Wolverine – Disney
Down 54% in its second weekend $96.8m and $395.38m
Sunday estimates were $97m as Disney normally underestimated as seen with its opening weekend, so a $97m estimate would have surely been $100m+ final but dropped below estimate which rarely happens. It was surprising Warner released Trap a week after D&W as normally rival studios keep a two-week gap against MCU films. Trap opened similar to M. Night Shyamalan’s last film Knock at the Cabin.
8th biggest second weekend between Inside Out 2 and Barbie (close to Jurassic World, The Avengers, Top Gun: Maverick and Spider-Man: No Way Home)
48th biggest between Frozen and Spider-Man: Far From Home; 184th biggest inflated between Aquaman and Austin Powers in Goldmember; 2nd biggest 2024 between Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4; 16th biggest comic-book between Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Far From Home; 26th biggest Disney between Frozen and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.
IMAX/PLF took about 33% and 3D 17%; 414 IMAX 414 cinemas.
Took $64.5m worldwide from IMAX; $34m US; internationally $22m; China $8.5m
EntTelligence ticket pricing standard $15.06; Premium average $18.38
2018’s Deadpool 2 dropped 65.4% $43.46m #2 and $208.17m of $324.59m/$384.1m inflated and $785.89m/$929.96m worldwide inflated
2016’s Deadpool dropped 57.4% $56.47m #1 and $236.86m of $363.07m/$452.5m inflated and $782.83m/$975.6m worldwide inflated
The 34 MCU films have taken over $30bn over the last 15 years, becoming the biggest franchise in history ahead of Spider-Man’s $10.6bn over 10 films; Star Wars’s $10.3bn over 11 films; Harry Potter’s $9.6bn over 11 films; and James Bond $7.8bn over 25 films. Of course, it’s impossible to make direct comparisons with these other franchises as inflation inflated many have taken more than MCU.
The 34 films have made $12.2bn in the US and $30.5bn worldwide.
Deadpool & Wolverine has 1.21 billion posts across TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube, and Instagram combined compared to Spider-Man: No Way Home (1.2bn), Thor: Love & Thunder (963m) and Black Panther (900m). Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War 2.47bn.
It has the widest IMAX opening of all time playing in 1,642 IMAX cinemas in 83 territories.
D&W will face tougher competition from It Ends with Us starring Lady Deadpool, presales have been strong, the book it was based on was extremely popular and targets the 15-35 female audience and could open similar to 2014’s The Fault in Our Stars $48m taking $124.87m and $307.16m worldwide. If it was to open at that level it could get close to D&W dropping another 50%+.
Took $110.5m (dropped 41%) from 55 territories $428.5m total and $824.1m worldwide; China $45.2m; UK $42.4m; Mexico $32.8m; Australia $24.6m; Germany $19.1m; France $17.8m; Brazil $17.4m; India $15.7m; Spain $14.6m; Italy $13.2m; S. Korea $12.6m; Argentina $9.8m.
Took 18% from IMAX/PLF with $19.1m internationally from IMAX and $36.5m worldwide.
96th biggest worldwide between Inception and Spider-Man; 23rd biggest comic-book between Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and Spider-Man; 37th biggest Disney between Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and Coco.
With Deadpool and Wolverine taking $824m and Inside Out 2 taking $1.555bn worldwide along with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ($397m) and The First Omen ($53m) no surprise Disney has taken over $3bn worldwide in 2024 with Alien: Romulus (Aug. 16), Moana 2 (Nov. 27) and Mufasa: The Lion King” (Dec. 20) still to be released.
Despite all the hype around Deadpool 3, Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2 they are doing exactly as expected. Longlegs is having Longlegs and Twisters is performing similarly to Twister in the US but struggling internationally.
Glen Powell is currently the man of the moment attached to many upcoming films including the 90s reboot 1991’s Backdraft and 80s reboot The Running Man but he can’t yet attract audiences internationally as Anyone, But You has taken twice as much as Twisters and similar internationally as Where The Crawdads Sing. Crawdads received mixed reviews while Twisters was positive.
Of course, what didn’t help Twisters was having Dead Reckoning slot opening weekend before Deadpool 3 losing IMAX/PLF/4DX screens within a week and those screens as with Mission Impossible were vital for a film like Twisters.
- Twisters – Universal Pictures
Dropped 35% in the third weekend taking $22.8m #2 and $195.74m.
120th biggest third weekend between Star Trek and Hidden Figures (close to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Wonka and Cast Away).
247th biggest between Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Ice Age: The Meltdown; 704th biggest inflated between The Last of the Mohicans and Get Smart; 6th biggest 2024 between Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4; 123rd biggest sequel between Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Ice Age: The Meltdown; 32nd biggest Universal Pictures between The Mummy Returns and Kung Fu Panda 4.
1996’s Twister dropped 9.7% $37.09m/$90.5m and $95.1m/$231.9m inflated taking $241.83m/$590m inflated and $494.58m/$1.2bn inflated
2004’s The Day After Tomorrow dropped 59.5% $27.86m/$48.4m and $128.47m/$223.1m inflated of $186.74m /$324.16m inflated and $552.63m/$959.33m worldwide inflated
2009’s 2012 dropped 59.5% $26.41m/$38m inflated and $108.13m/$155.42m of $166.12m/$238.75m inflated and $791.21m/ $1.14bn inflated worldwide
2000’s The Perfect Storm 34.4% $27.11m/$54.23m inflated and $100.19m/$200.4m inflated of $182.61m/$365.23m inflated and $328.71m/$657.43m inflated worldwide
1998’s Armageddon dropped 34.7% $23.55m/$54.2m inflated and $99.86m/$229.53m inflated of $201.6m/$463.32m inflated and 553.71m/$1.27m inflated worldwide.
More recent tornado films include.
2014’s Into The Storm dropped 54.5% $7.89m and $31.51m of $47.61m taking $161.51m worldwide
2017’s Geostorm Dropped 56.9% $5.9m and $23.78m of $33.7m taking $221.9m worldwide
Took $7.5m from 77 territories $78.8m total internationally and $274.84m worldwide; UK $13.1m; Mexico $11m; Australia $7.2m; France $4.6m; Germany $3m..
618th biggest worldwide between The Silence of the Lambs and Gran Torino; 11th biggest 2024 worldwide between Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and A Quiet Place: Day One; 253rd biggest sequel between Beverly Hills Cop II and Creed III.
- Trap – Warner Bros
Opened $15.45m #3; received mixed reviews (48% Rotten Tomatoes) and C+ CinemaScore.
Took $2.2m from Thursday midnights; 2021’s Old $1.5m; 2015’s The Visit $1m, 2016’s Split $2m and 2019’s Glass $3.7m.
2023’s Knock at the Cabin opened $14.12m taking $35.39m and $54.76m worldwide
2019’s Glass opened with $42.8m taking $111.04m in the US and $246.99m worldwide.
M. Night Shyamalan’s biggest opening in the US was 2002’s Signs $60.11m taking $227.96m and 2004’s The Village with $50.74m taking $114.19m; but of course, ticket inflation since Signs was released is over 60% so inflation inflated opening would be closer to $100m and a total of $370m.
M. Night Shyamalan’s biggest film to date The Sixth Sense opened with $26.68m in August 1999 taking $293.5m and $672.8m worldwide would be $1.3bn inflation inflated.
2000’s Unbreakable opened with $30.33m taking $95.01m and 2017’s Split opened with $40.01m taking $138.29m and $278.45m worldwide
2021’s Old opened with $6.5m from 23 territories and $23m worldwide
Knock at the Cabin opened $7m from 60 territories and $21.2m worldwide.
Opened with $4.4m worldwide from 38 territories.
- Harold and the Purple Crayon – Sony Pictures
Opened $6m #6; received mixed reviews (30% Rotten Tomatoes); A- CinemaScore.
Took $725k from Thursday midnights; The Garfield Movie $1.9m; IF $1.75m; Zootopia $1.7m; The Boss Baby $1.5m; Migration $1.5m
The first trailer was released in March and a second in May and they have been played with The Garfield Movie, Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4. The first weekend of August has been a good date for the smaller family films.
Carlos Saldanha previously directed two Rio and three Ice Age animated films.
2023’s Haunted Mansion opened $24.08m taking $67.65m and $117.44m WW
2018’s Christopher Robin opened $24.58m taking $99.21m and $197.74m WW
2019’s Dora and the Lost City of Gold opened $17.43m taking $60.47m and $120.59m WW
2015’s Pixels opened $24.01m taking $78.74m and $244.87m
2017’s The Emoji Movie opened $24.53m taking $86.08m and $217.77m WW
Other recent family films include.
2024’s If opened $33.71m taking $111.14m and $186.15m WW
2024’s The Garfield Movie opened $24m taking $91.8m and $221.87m WW
2022’s Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile opened $11.4m taking $46.88m and $111.08m WW
2021’s Clifford the Big Red Dog opened $16.62m taking $48.94m and $107.34m WW
It opened with $3m from 32 territories.
- Despicable Me 4 – Universal Pictures
Dropped 21% in its fifth weekend taking $11.45m #4 and $314.17m
86th biggest fifth weekend between The Secret Life of Pets and Look Who’s Talking (close to Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Inside Out, Finding Dory and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).
20th biggest animated film between Shrek the Third and Up; 97th biggest between Thor: Ragnarok and Iron Man 2; 310th biggest inflated between Hannibal and The Nutty Professor; 13th biggest Universal Pictures between Oppenheimer and Meet the Fockers.
Fifth weekends
2022’s Minions: The Rise of Gru dropped 39.2% $10.96m #4 and $320.49m of $370.28m and $940.2m worldwide; 60.6% internationally $569.93m; #1 DC League of Super-Pets $23m
2015’s Minions dropped 39.9% $7.44m #6 and $302.8m of $336.04m and $1.15bn worldwide 71% $823.39m internationally; #1 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation $28.5m
2017’s Despicable Me 3 dropped 41.6% $7.59m #7 and $230.29m of $264.62m and $1.03bn worldwide 74% $770.17m internationally; #1 Dunkirk $26.61m
2013’s Despicable Me 2 dropped 38.3% $10.13m #5 and $326.41m of $368.06m and $970.76m worldwide 62% internationally $602.7m; #1 2 Guns $27.05m
2010’s Despicable Me dropped 40.2% $9.28m #6 and $209.28m of $251.55m and $543.15m worldwide 53% internationally $291.6m; #1 The Other Guys $35.54m.
Took $26.9m from 78 territories $438.3m total and $754.6m worldwide; China $45.7m; Mexico $40.1m; UK $39.1m; Australia $27.4m; Germany $26.9m; France $24.2m; Brazil $24m; Spain $17.3m; Japan $15.6m; Argentina $14.3m.
24th biggest animated worldwide between Shrek Forever After and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted; 125th biggest between Shrek Forever After and X-Men: Days of Future Past; 17th biggest Universal Pictures between Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and F9: The Fast Saga.
- Inside Out 2 – Disney
Down 21% in the eighth weekend taking $6.81m #5 and $626.97m.
45th biggest eighth weekend between March of the Penguins and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (close to Toy Story 2, Back to the Future, Zootopia and The Greatest Showman).
The biggest animated film ahead of Incredibles 2 ($608.58m); 12th biggest between Barbie ($636.23m) and The Avengers ($623.35m); 46th biggest inflated between Back to the Future and The Sixth Sense; 5th biggest Disney between Avengers: Infinity War and The Avengers.
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.
The recent Pixar sequel’s eighth weekends
2019’s Toy Story 4 dropped 38.4% $4.52m #9 and $419.7m of $434.03m and $1.073bn worldwide
2013’s Monsters University dropped 51.3% $683,659 #20 and $260.17m of $268.49m and $743.55m WW
2016’s Finding Dory dropped 54.7% $1.95m #11 and $473.87m of $486.29m and $1.029bn WW
2018’s Incredibles 2 dropped 31.4% $4.98m #9 and $583.11m of $608.58m and $1.243bn WW
2015’s Inside Out dropped 40% $2.7m #12 and $335.39m of $356.92m and $858.85m WW
Took $20.5m in 47 territories $928.2m total and $1.443bn worldwide; Mexico $101.1m; Brazil $78.5m; UK $66.4m; S. Korea $59.3m; France $57.5m; Italy $47.7m; Germany $46.7m; China $46.3m; Spain $45.2m; Australia $35.5m; Argentina $29.4m.
Biggest animated worldwide ahead of Frozen II ($1.555n); 10th biggest worldwide between The Lion King (2019) and The Avengers; Biggest 2024 worldwide ahead of Dune: Part Two $711.2m; 5th biggest Disney between The Lion King (2029) and The Avengers.
- Longlegs – Neon
Dropped 39% in the fourth weekend taking $4.14m #7 and $66.97m
Comparisons have been made with
1991’s The Silence of the Lambs dropped 16.2% $8.89m #1 and $58.12m of $130.74m/$334.8m inflated and $272.74m/$698.4m inflated worldwide
1995’s Se7en dropped 17% $8.64m #1 and $57.75m of $100.12m/$244.2m inflated and $327.33m/$798.4m inflated worldwide
Comparisons have also been made with 2022’s Smile dropping 32.6% $12.56m #2 and $71.33m of $105.93m and $217.4m worldwide; had a similarly strong marketing campaign.
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.
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 dropped 40.4% in fourth weekend $14.5m #3 and $107.27m of $140.53m/$298.23m inflated and $240.63m/ $527.62m inflated worldwide.
Taken $14.21m internationally from 8 territories.
UK Box Office Top 10
UK Box Office Preview
Deadpool and Wolverine will drop about 55% in its third weekend taking about £4m with Despicable Me 4 holding #2 down 20% £2m+.
The three new releases will open between the 3rd to 5th with M. Night Shyamalan likely to have the biggest opening similar to his last two films 2023’s Knock at the Cabin opened £985,027 #3 taking £2,020,346 and 2021’s Old opened #4 £866,860 taking £3,181,707. It’s his first film for Warner Bros since 2006’s Lady in the Water opened £452,744 #9 (£671,214 inflation inflated) in the top 10 for only one week.
A long way from many of his other films
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
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 Unbreakable £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).
The film was pitched as The Silence of the Lambs at a Taylor Swift concert, and she has her Wembley Stadium concert this week.
It Ends With Us could be compared to The Fault In Our Stars as they were both based on extremely popular young adult novels. 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.
Colleen Hoover’s book became a “BookTok” cultural phenomenon with more than 3.8bn views on her TikTok hashtag, Selling over 20m books and writing five of the top 10 bestselling print books of any genre in 2022. The book was published in 43 foreign languages, It Ends With Us was the top-selling print book of 2022 and was on the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 90 weeks.
The 15 certificate will see it not open as strongly in the UK. While PG-13-rated films like The Hunger Games get 12A films like It Ends With Us suffer as the 15 certificate means many of its target audience can’t legally see it.
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.
In the US as with many young adult adaptions, it’s hard to predict if audiences will come out to see it, Deadline said on Tuesday presales are predicting an opening $30m+, but then is predicting an opening between $25m-$30m. It premiered on Tuesday Blake Lively was there with Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds and in a viral video, Brandon Sklenar is interviewed by Ryan Reynolds, Ryan’s mum and Hugh Jackman. Embargo ends on Wednesday afternoon, and social media reactions have been positive, while I say you have to take them with a pinch of salt they are also fans of the book.
Borderlands based on a videogame, 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, and 2005’s BloodRayne.
Also, Spider-Man 2 (2024 Re-issue) is likely to open similar to Spider-Man (2002 RE) £253,260
The new releases will push Twisters and Inside Out 2 out of the top 5 despite both likely to continue to hold strongly and with both Trap and Borderlands only in the top 5 for a week Inside Out 2 will likely return into the top 5 in two weeks.
With Harold And The Purple Crayon opening inflated with previews, it will likely drop 60% taking about £200k.
Opening in two weeks
- Afraid – Sony Pictures
Sci-fi horror starring John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, David Dastmalchian, and Keith Carradine, written and directed by Chris Weitz.
Originally called They Listen, the film was produced by Blumhouse Productions about smart home AI that develops self-awareness and becomes involved in a family’s life similar to M3gan.
2023’s M3gan opened £2,356,357 taking £6,953,411 but Afraid will likely open similar to 2016’s Don’t Breathe £1,028,938 taking £3,719,221.
- Touch – Universal Pictures
Romantic drama starring Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, and Palmi Kormakur and directed by Baltasar Kormákur based on the 2022 novel of the same name. Opened in Iceland in May and the US in July. Receiving positive reviews 93% Rotten Tomatoes).
- Sing Sing – Black Bear
The drama stars Colman Domingo and Paul Raci and is directed by Greg Kwedar.
Premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival receiving positive reviews 97% on Rotten Tomatoes) opened on limited release in the US in July.
- Andre Rieu’s 2024 Maastricht Concert: Power Of Love – Piece Of Magic
André Rieu’s concerts have been popular since the first one released in 2014’s Maastricht Concert £830,586, but since cinemas reopened after COVID haven’t found similar success.
2015’s Andre Rieu: Maastricht Concert £1,107,000.
2016’s Andre Rieu: Maastricht Concert £1,414,075.
2017’s Andre Rieu: Maastricht Concert £1,439,604.
2018’s André Rieu’s Maastricht Concert Amore £1,783,222.
Andre Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert – Shall We Dance? £1,492,154 #4 587 screens.
2020’s Andre Rieu: Magical Maastricht: Together In Music (September) £124,101 #4 403 screens.
2021’s Andre Rieu: Summer Concert: Together Again (August) £420,056 #4 551 screens.
2022’s Andre Rieu: Maastricht Summer Concert opened #1 £798,706
2023 Andre Rieu: Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around #5 £710,326
