- A Complete Unknown £1,236,908 – £8,316,754
Dropped 25.8% in its third weekend.
Friday £349k 28.2% (-14.1% £406k); Sat £511k 41.3% (-26.2% £692k) Sun £374k 30.2% (-33.9% £566k).
491st biggest third weekend between Creed 3 and The Last Samurai (close to Three Billboards Outside, Forrest Gump, Tenet and The Pursuit Of Happyness) and 790th biggest inflated third weekend between Date Movie and Rush Hour 3 (close to Dead Poets Society, Phone Booth, Intolerable Cruelty and Philomena)
Timothée Chalamet’s performance of the Bob Dylan song Tomorrow Is a Long Time on Saturday Night Live two weeks ago has seen an 800% spike in listening on streaming platforms. Tomorrow Is a Long Time was first released as a live song in 1963, but a studio version of the song wasn’t released until a decade later on a compilation album. Timothée Chalamet also performed Outlaw Blues and Three Angels on SNL.
The odds have shortened over recent weeks for Timothée Chalamet to follow in the footsteps of Jamie Foxx and Rami Malek winning Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a real musician in a biopic. Timothée Chalamet also received a Best Actor BAFTA nomination; the BAFTA ceremony is next Sunday.
Recent musician biopics’ third weekends
2024’s Bob Marley: One Love dropped 43% £1,351,557 #2 669 screens and £13,760,796 of £17,126,572
2006’s Walk the Line dropped 16% £958,306 #4 and £4,864,122 of £9,737,493
2022’s Elvis dropped 55% £1,325,853 #3 and £13,802,061 of £27,492,430; had long legs staying in the top 5 for 7 weeks and top 10 for 11 weeks.
2019’s Rocketman dropped 12% £2,166,839 #3 and £16,051,346 of £23,502,881: top 5 for 5 weeks and top 10 for 7 weeks
2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody dropped 20% £4,559,647 #2 and £28,907,411 of £55,376,188.
887th biggest between Closer and Fame (close to The Pursuit of Happyness, Little Voice, The Commitments and Where The Crawdads Sing) and 1,432nd biggest inflated between Star Trek X: Nemesis and Double Jeopardy (close to Boogie Nights, Shine, Jojo Rabbit and Amelie).
Upcoming musician biopics include Micheal (Micheal Jackson), Deliver Me From Nowhere (Bruce Springsteen), And Sam Mendes’s four Beatles films, and Ridley Scott directed Bee Gees biopic which was due to be his next film after Gladiator II but has recently been delayed.
- 2 Mufasa: The Lion King £1,124,692 – £29,385,700
Dropped 18.3% in its seventh weekend.
£149k 13.3% (-3.3% £154k) Friday; 562k 50% (£654k -14.1%) Sat; £412k 36.7% (-27% £564k) Sun.
The 34th biggest seventh weekend between Frozen and Inside Out 2 (close to Paddington, Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Ghost and Moana) and the 86th inflated seventh weekend between Despicable Me 2 and Inside Out 2 (close to Dances with Wolves, Doctor Dolittle, Forrest Gump and A Fish Called Wanda).
Mufasa: The Lion King and Sonic The Hedgehog 3 have held well over the last month due to a lack of competition in family films as rivals’ studios expected Mufasa to take £50m+. Dog Man opening Friday ahead of half-term will see both films drop more next weekend than they have done over the last month.
Seventh weekends
1994’s The Lion King dropped 31.4% £532,372/£1,305,540 and £18,519,608 82.2% of £22,525,524/£55,239,516
Disney’s reimagination sequels have failed to repeat success.
2013’s Maleficent dropped 30.3% £312,747 and £17,968,329 92.4% of £19,453,353; Sequel 2019’s Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil dropped 61.6% £91,311 and £14,551,955 98.5% of £14,773,607.
2010’s Alice in Wonderland dropped 26.2% £498,948/£668,339 and £41,423,309 98.2% of £42,169,542; sequel 2016’s Alice Through The Looking Glass dropped 52.9% £37,526 and £9,613,602 97% of £9,915,284.
The biggest Disney re-imagination sixth weekends:
2017’s Beauty and the Beast dropped 36.4% £835,004 and £70,113,995 96.8% of £72,430,579
2019’s The Lion King dropped 12.2% £1,226,964 and £71,715,236 94.4% of £75,938,299/£83,826,626
2016’s The Jungle Book dropped 46.1% £779,205/£838,092 and £42,543,223 92% of £46,235,032
2019’s Aladdin dropped 37.3% £435,750 and £34,643,748 94.4% of £36,710,978
2023’s The Little Mermaid dropped 41.4% £490,836 and £25,970,520 95.2% of £27,275,784
Disney have two more reimaginations set for release in 2025 Snow White and Lilo & Stitch with Moana set for release in 2026 and Tangled in development. While Snow White has received much negativity coverage nostalgia for the original film will bring in audiences as they have done for all other first-part reimaginations.
The question is will the lower-than-expected BO for Mufasa: The Lion King end Disney’s plans to make more sequels to reimaginations as there were plans for The Jungle Book 2 in 2016 and also plans for Cruella 2 last year but there haven’t been any news since. Disney only have a limited number of further reimaginations of animated films so what do they do once they have made all of the ones they can remake?
161st biggest between Ice Age II and Chicken Run (close to The BFG, King Kong, Shrek and Life of Pi) and 326th biggest inflated between Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical and The Hunger Games (close to Pulp Fiction, Happy Feet, Jumanji and Night at the Museum 2).
- 3. Companion £739,553 – NE
Includes £67,327 previews.
Took £205k 28.95% Friday; £270k 38.14% Saturday; £195k 27.54% Sunday.
2,159th biggest opening between Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties and Police Academy 3 (close to American Psycho, The Craft (1996), Jennifer’s Body and The Butterfly Effect) and 2,726th biggest inflated opening between The Crucible and Sex Drive (close to Who’s That Girl, When Harry Met Sally, Swimfan and The Vanishing (1993).
61st biggest opening over the last 52 weeks between The Apprentice and Kraven the Hunter (close to The Iron Claw, Blink Twice, Imaginary and Wolf Man)
Companion has received positive reviews and opened with a homage to Stepford Wives supermarket scene has been described as Ex Machina meets Don’t Worry Darling meet Blink Twice, or as Empire said realising your boyfriend is a controlling arsehole. Films like Companion used to find a much wider audience a decade or more ago as seen by its opening similar to films like Blink Twice, Happy Death Day 2U and Last Night In Soho.
Drew Hancock previously directed 2022’s Barbarian opened £380,812 #8 taking £1,082,037 and
2022’s Don’t Worry Darling opened £2,771,935 taking £9,995,806
2024’s Blink Twice opened £746,328 taking £1,879,420.
2023’s M3gan opened £2,356,357 taking £6,953,411
2015’s Ex Machina opened £1,093,952/£1,209,265 taking £2,890,149
The trailer and poster for Companion had major spoilers for the film asking the age-old question of why studios keep including spoilers in the trailer, the reason is despite many complaining about spoilers many want them. “As much as people complain that trailers give away too much,” … “nine times out of 10, the more of the plot you give away, the more interest you garner from the audiences. Audiences respond to the trailers with more of the movie.”
- 4. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 £708,302 – £24,168,367
Down 19% in its sixth weekend
Took £59k 7.98% (61k -3.3%) Friday; £367k 49.7% (£424k -13.4%) Sat; £281k 38% (-25.7% £378k) Sunday.
163rd biggest sixth weekend between American Beauty and Gone Girl (close to Spider-Man: Far From Home, Aquaman, Puss in Boots and Free Guy) and 333rd biggest sixth weekend inflated between The BFG and Heat (close to Night at the Museum 2, The Lego Movie 2, Lilo & Stitch and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids).
Opening Sonic The Hedgehog 3 on December 21st the day after Mufasa: The Lion King was a stroke of genius by Paramount Pictures as it gave Sonic 3 an inflated opening of £11.76m (including £7.73m of previews) muting the opening of Mufasa. That said it did affect Sonic 3 as after 6 weeks with the lucrative Christmas holidays should have taken closer to £30m, instead will be similar to the last film. Impossible to compare Sonic 3 BO with the first rim as it only played in cinemas for 5 weeks before the COVID lockdown and its BO was also likely affected by COVID in the weeks before the lockdown.
Sixth weekends
2020’s Sonic The Hedgehog dropped 58.2% £397,171 and £18,986,844 98.5% of £18,986,844 over 5 weeks before COVID lockdown
2022’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2 dropped 53.5% £630,391 and £23,521,600 89.8% of £26,182,692
217th biggest between The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Darkest Hour (close to Ratatouille, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Uncharted and Wreck-It Ralph) and 431st biggest inflated between Superman Returns and Apollo 13 (close to Trolls, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Total Recall (1990) and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls).
- 5 The Brutalist £608,607 – £1,764,081
Down 19.4% in its second weekend
£154k 25.3% (£160k -3.8% Friday; £249k 40.9% (-11.1% £280k) Sat; £204k 33.5% (£263k -22.4%) Sun.
1,703rd biggest second weekend between Boogie Nights and Dead Poets Society (close to The Butler, About Schmidt, Clueless and Ferrari) and 2,272nd inflated second weekend between Blockers and The Good Shepherd (close to Monster’s Ball, Malcolm X, Very Bad Things and The Color Purple (2024)
47th biggest second weekend over the last 52 weeks between Madame Web and Bikeriders (close to Conclave, Babygirl, Trap and Lee)
It was revealed AI was used during post-production of The Brutalist, in response director Brady Corbet said “I understand that we live in a time where even just the mention of AI is a bit triggering. We live in a time where, unfortunately, things can get misappropriated quite easily on the internet and I just wish people had more understanding of the context and facts of the circumstances.” The AI was used when Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones talked in in Hungarian as there was a lot of dialect work needed.
The Brutalist received critical acclaim, 8 BAFTA nominations and 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The film played on IMAX screens but with a running time of 3h 35 mins with a 15-minute intermission, it’s only going to have a couple of shows a day limiting its BO likely to mostly Sat/Sun.
Expanded into 302 screens adding 132 screens from last weekend still having the best screen average in the top 10 £1,976 compared with £1,678 A Complete Unknown #1 playing in more than double.
2024’s The Zone of Interest dropped 34% £388,890 #9 from 242 screens (added 136) and £1,268,103 of £3,436,903
It’s hard to make comparisons with The Brutalist but Paul Thomas Anderson’s films and 2003’s The Pianist (dropped 19.6% £156,904/£321,688 and £478,592 17.4% of £2,750,019/£4,905,439
Previous Paul Thomas Anderson second weekends include.
2008’s There Will Be Blood up 135.6% expanded into 181 screens 2nd-weekend #7 £506,971/£772,156 and £1,729,975 of £4,392,471/£6,690,071
2017’s Phantom Thread dropped 40% £434,351 #11 from 192 screens and £1,658,992 taking £2,611,458
Hard to comparing The Brutalist with other Best Actor Oscar winners second weekend as they were far more accessible films apart from 2023’s The Whale down 45.2% £378,336 and £1,445,301. Others over the last decade include Oppenheimer, Joker, Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour, The Revenant and The Theory of Everything.
it was shot using VistaVision on 35mm and then 70mm prints. It’s the first film to be shot using VistaVision since 1961’s One-Eyed Jacks. VistaVision is eight-perf twice the amount as regular 35mm.
Director Brady Corbet said seeing the film in 70mm was “It’s the difference between seeing the Mona Lisa in person versus a lithograph.” The shame is very few will get to see the film that way.
Also opened.
• Saturday Night – Sony Pictures
Opened £113,463 #21 from 262 screens.
After Having world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival receiving positive reviews, it struggled to find an audience in the US taking $9.8m so it was always expected the film would struggle to find an audience in the UK without award recognition as Saturday Night Live isn’t as popular in the UK. It was surprising Saturday Night was selected as the surprise film at the London Film Festival
Jason Reitman previously directed. 2005’s Thank You for Smoking (never had a UK cinema release). 2007’s Juno; 2009’s Jennifer’s Body; 2010’s Up in the Air; 2011’s Young Adult; 2013’s Labor Day; 2014’s Men, Women & Children; 2018’s Tully; 2019’s The Front Runner; 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife
UK box office in detail
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £6,468,250 down 17.5% from last weekend’s £7,840,790: 796,093 admissions down 21.5% from 1,013,703 admissions.
49th biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 31 May 2024 #1 IF £1,570,568 (23.64%) and 19 April 2024 #1 Back To Black £1,897,014 (30.07%)
169th biggest since cinemas reopened out of 220 weeks between 10 September 2021 #1 Shangi-Chi £3,583,848 (55.24%) and 15 September 2023 #1 A Haunting in Venice £2,186,930 (33.84%)
1,032nd biggest top 10 of the last 22 years (out of 1,191) between 21 September 2007 #1 Run, Fat Boy, Run £1,206,177 (18.65%) and 05 April 2002 #1 Blade 2 £1,335,594 ( 20.66%) and 1,129th inflated between 03 December 2021 #1 House of Gucci £1,511,982 (24.77%) and 15 September 2023 #1 A Haunting in Venice £2,186,930 (33.84%)
The top 3 took (£3,101,153) 48% of the top 10; A Complete Unknown 19.1% (£1,236,908); Mufasa: The Lion King 17.4% (£1,124,692); Sonic The Hedgehog 3 11.4% (£739,553)
1,112th biggest percentage share #1 (19.12%) between 23 August 2024 #1 Alien: Romulus £2,021,921 (19.2%) and 31 December 2004 #1 The Incredibles £1,296,333 (19.1%)
1,156th biggest admissions #1 (159,807) between 30 August 2024 #1 Despicable Me 4 £1,244,979 (160,850) and 27 April 2007 #1 Next £795,012 (157,428)
Down 36.4% from 2024; (£10,173,023); Migration (£3,577,676); Argylle (£2,014,521); The Zone Of Interest (£585,855); American Fiction (£389,375); 10 Things I Hate About You (25th Anniversary) (£23,105); #1 Migration £3,577,676 1st week 601 screens (35.17% of top 10)
Down 41.1% from 2023; (£10,968,696); Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (£4,950,495); Knock at the Cabin (£985,027); The Whale (£690,026); BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas (£535,337); #1 Puss In Boots: The Last Wish £4,950,495 1st week 626 screens (45.13% of top 10)
Down 46.4% 2022 (£12,068,383): Jackass Forever (£2,091,017); Moonfall (£1,163,114); BELLE (£152,287); The Souvenir Part II (£93,044); Beauty And The Beast (1991) (Re: 2022) (£4,409); Jumanji (Re: 2022) (£4,001); #1 Sing 2 £5,149,645 2nd week 640 screens 25% drop (42.7% of top 10)
2021 Lockdown
Down 30.6% 2020; (£9,319,783); Queen & Slim (£507,302); A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (£493,770); Porgy and Bess – Met Opera 2020 (£409,359); The Lighthouse (£384,284); The Rhythm Section (£171,837); Richard Jewell (£158,868); La Boheme – ROH, London 2019/20 (£58,051); #1 1917 £2,798,457 4th week 38% drop 721 screens (30.1% of the top 10)
Down 46.1% from 2019: (£11,997,508); How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (£5,323,448); Green Book (£1,672,562); Escape Room (£820,218); Can You Ever Forgive Me? (£518,230); Carmen – Met Opera 2019 (£293,456); #1 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World £5,323,448 1st week 556 screens (44.3% of top 10)
Down 49.8% from 2018; (£12,874,783); Den of Thieves (£1,082,560); Phantom Thread (£727,104); Winchester (£373,550); Journey’s End (£123,961); Roman J. Israel, Esq. (£22,193); #1 The Greatest Showman £2,201,523 6th week 1st #1 531 screens op 8% (17.1% of top 10)
Down 52.1% 2017: (£13,491,421); Rings (£812,267); Resident Evil 6 (£463,691); Gold (£406,399); Loving (£236,147); Swan Lake – Bolshoi 2017 (£189,737); Toni Erdmann (£157,688); Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (£58,266); #1 Sing £3,800,408 2nd week 554 screens 64% drop (28.1% of top 10)
Down 37.3% 2016: (£10,312,748); Goosebumps (£2,686,105); Dad’s Army (£2,077,942); Point Break (£421,818); Trumbo (£146,105); #1 Goosebumps £2,686,105 1st week 510 screens (26.1% of top 10)
Down 54.3% 2015; (£14,145,093); Big Hero 6 (£4,293,286); Kingsman: The Secret Service (£4,241,292); Inherent Vice (£363,133); Les Contes D’Hoffmann – Met Opera 2015 (£238,597); Trash (£79,178); Son of a Gun (£21,065); #1 Big Hero 6 £4,293,286 1st week 501 screens (30.3% of top 10)
Down 28.7% 2014: (£9,072,053); That Awkward Moment (£961,167); I, Frankenstein (£811,365); Lone Survivor (£751,564); Out of the Furnace (£191,011); Lost Illusions – Bolshoi 2014 (£58,510); #1 The Wolf of Wall Street £2,385,585 3rd week 515 screens 34% drop (26.3% of top 10)
Down 38.1% 2013: (£10,437,105); Flight (£1,401,214); Bullet to the Head (£429,317); Hyde Park on Hudson (£136,783); Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (£78,747); #1 Les Miserables £2,785,143 4th week 562 screens 31% drop (26.6% of top 10)
Down 24.9% 2012: (£8,612,269); Chronicle (£2,193,072); Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island); Jack and Jill (£848,814); Man on a Ledge (£697,394); Carnage (£298,733); Young Adult (£137,736); Martha Marcy May Marlene (£110,156); #1 Chronicle £2,193,072 1st week 397 screens (25.4% of top 10)
Down 53.9% 2011; (£14,039,027); The Fighter (£2,118,140); James Cameron presents Sanctum (£859,064); A Little Bit of Heaven (£443,156); Brighton Rock (£352,815); #1 Tangled £4,569,135 2nd week 448 screens 11% drop (32.5% of top 10)
Down 44.5% 2010: (£11,642,410); Edge Of Darkness (£1,172,927); Precious: A Novel By Sapphire (£260,921); The Princess And The Frog (platform) (£15,651); #1 Avatar £4,865,081 7th week 424 screens 6% drop (41.7% of top 10)
Down 30.8% 2009; (£9,343,240); Revolutionary Road (£1,013,548); Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist (£398,194); #1 Slumdog Millionaire £2,359,854 4th week 3d #1 416 screens 16% increase (25.2% of top 10)
Down 33% 2008; (£9,648,055); Cloverfield (£3,485,956); Over Her Dead Body (£995,690); Penelope (£769,840); Underdog (£330,914); Things We Lost in the Fire (£42,438); Asterix at the Olympic Games (£9,969); #1 Cloverfield £3,485,956 1st week 386 screens (36.1% of top 10)
Down 15% 2007: (£7,607,816); Dreamgirls (£1,329,817); Arthur and the Invisibles (£1,185,603); Notes on a Scandal (£1,141,364); #1 Dreamgirls £1,329,817 1st week 270 screens (17.5% of top 10)
Down 8.4% 2006; (£7,062,485); Zathura (£1,317,391); Walk the Line (£1,111,142); Derailed (£693,669); #1 Zathura £1,317,391 1st week 400 screens (18.6% of top 10)
Down 43.8% 2005: (£11,511,558); Ocean’s Twelve (£3,394,100); Racing Stripes (£1,145,965); #1 Meet the Fockers £4,588,360 2nd week 456 screens 42% drop (39.9% of top 10)
Down 22.1% 2004; (£8,304,070); Big Fish (£1,644,011); Cold Creek Manor (£136,556); Sylvia (£123,981); The Emperor’s New Clothes (£5,656); #1 Scary Movie 3 £1,894,077 2nd week 417 screens 46% drop (22.8% of top 10)
Down 36.6% 2003 (£10,207,853); Catch Me If You Can (£3,720,957); Banger Sisters (£201,731); #1 Catch Me If You Can £3,720,957 1st week 459 screens (36.4% of top 10)
Down 19.7% from 2002: (£8,058,230); Shallow Hal (£1,277,183); Gosford Park (£837,169); Training Day (£739,718); #1 Vanilla Sky £1,743,556 2nd week 427 screens 41% drop (21.6% of top 10)
2024 Next week: (£7,274,501); The Iron Claw (£754,152); Peppa’s Cinema Party (£490,693); Turning Red (£57,385); #1 Migration £2,468,390 2nd week dropped 31% 678 screens (33.93% of top 10)
US Box Office
- Dog Man – Universal Pictures
Opened $36m; received positive reviews (78% Rotten Tomatoes) and A CinemaScore
Took $1.36m from Thursday midnights; The Wild Robot $1.95m; The Boss Baby $1.5m
2nd biggest January opening for animated film after 2016’s Kung Fu Panda 3 ($41.28m); it was expected to open between $25m-$30m but it’s often harder to track children’s films as they often overperform.
Dog Man was the 26th Dreamworks Animation film to open #1 since Shrek in 2001.
22% from PLF; the audience was 52% male; 70% under 35.
Had 246.6m views across TikTok, X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube
490th biggest opening between Salt and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1997 SE) (close to Cowboys & Aliens, Robots, The Wild Robot and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).
Based on Dav Pilkey’s graphic novel series selling over 60m copies last year’s instalment was the #1 bestselling children’s book of the year.
2017’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie opened $23.85m taking $73.91m and $125.42m WW
DC League of Pets opened $23m and Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie $22.7m.
Most recently Dreamworks Animation
2024’s The World Robot opened $35.79m taking $143.89m and $324.77m worldwide
Dreamworks Animation films have taken $6.53bn in the US and $17.52bn worldwide.
2024’s Kung Fu Panda 4 opened $35.79m taking $193.59m and $547.69m worldwide
2023’s Trolls Band Together opened $30m taking $103.97m and $210.65m worldwide
2022’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish opened $12.42m taking $186.09m and $485.25m worldwide
2022’s The Bad Guys opened $23.95m taking $97.45m and $250.9m worldwide
Took $4.2m from 30 territories and $4.6m and $40.6m worldwide; Spain $1.1m. has a staggering international opening.
- Companion – Warner Bros
Opened $9.3m; received positive reviews (93% Rotten Tomatoes) and B+ CinemaScore.
Took $1.1m from Thursday previews; The Invisible Man $1.65m; Old $1.5m; Violent Night $1.1m; Night Swim $1.45m; M3GAN $2.75m
34% from IMAX/PLF; IMAX $1.6m 17% of the opening
A few weeks ago, Companion was tracking to open with $5m+
68% of the audience is between 18-34; 24-34 40%.; Social media generated 170m across X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook slightly less than other first instalment horror movies.
Had a $10m budget has direct competition on Friday with Heart Eyes and teen action-comedy Love Hurta; Companion had a global P&A of $29m with $10m spent on TV.
The opening was close to horrors Piranha 3D (2010), Abigail, Happy Death Day 2U and Fright Night (2011)
Comparison horrors included Ready or Not ($8m taking $28.7m and $57.6m WW); Barbarian ($10.5m taking $40.8m and $45.3M WW) and Heretic ($10.8m taking $27.9m and $59.7m WW)
2022’s Violent Night opened $13.4m; 2024’s Night Swim $11.7m; Wolf Man $10.8m; M3GAN $30.4m.
Opened with $5.5m from 60 territories and $15m worldwide; UK $919k.
- Flight Risk – Lionsgate
Dropped 53% in its second weekend $5.43m #5 and $20.74m
The film opened days after President Donald Trump named Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as new ambassadors to Hollywood.
2005’s Flightplan dropped 39.9% $14.8m and $45.91m of $89.7m taking $223.38m worldwide
2013’s Plane dropped 48.6% $5.28m and $19.53m of $32.11m and $74.51m worldwide
2016’s Hacksaw Ridge dropped 30% $10.63m and $32.12m of $67.2m and $180.45m worldwide
2024’s The Beekeeper dropped 48.1% $8.6m and $31.25m of $666.22m and $152.72m worldwide
2018’s Den of Thieves dropped 43.2% $8.63m and $28.77m of $44.94m and $80.5m worldwide
2018’s The Commuter dropped 51.8% $6.6m and $25.62m of $36.34m and $119.94m worldwide
Compared to 1997 Con Air dropped 35% $15.67m and $49.89m of $101,1m/$237.5m and $224.01m/$526.1m worldwide
- Mufasa: The Lion King – Disney
Down 27% in its seventh weekend $6.3m and $229.69m
118th biggest seventh weekend between Meet the Parents and Despicable Me 4 (close to Night at the Museum, Moana, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
178th biggest between Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and The Lost World: Jurassic Park; 532nd biggest inflated between Father of the Bride and The Blues Brothers; 10th biggest 2024 between Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire; 57th biggest Disney between Doctor Strange and Signs.
Seventh weekends
2019’s The Lion King dropped 14.2% $6.92m and $521.15m of $543.63m and $1.662bn worldwide
1994’s The Lion King dropped 29% $9.94m and $218.64m of $312.8m/$1.12bn and $771.1m/$2.1bn WW
Audiences will come out in large numbers to photorealistic animated remakes of the classic animated films as they will come out In similar numbers to see Snow White and Lilo & Sitch this year.
The Little Mermaid dropped 31.6% $3.68m and $289.22m of $298.17m and $569.62m worldwide.
2019’s Aladdin dropped 25.7% $7.51m and $320.7m of $355.5m and $1.054bn worldwide
1996’s 101 Dalmatians dropped 57.4% $3.12m and $125.98m of $136.18m and $320.68m worldwide
2000’s 102 Dalmatians dropped 39.5% $1.63m and $61.17m of $66.95m and $183.61m worldwide
2014’s Maleficent dropped 32.1% $4.18m and $222m of $241.41m and $759.85m worldwide
2019’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil dropped 35.2% $1.32m and $111.54m of $113.9m and $491.7m worldwide
2010’s Alice in Wonderland dropped 31% $3.65m and $324.13m of $334.19m and $1.025bn worldwide
Took $11.7m and $423.5m from 55 territories and $653m worldwide; France $39.5m; UK $36.6m; Germany $29.3m; Mexico $29.1m; Italy $23.4m$35.3m IMAX worldwide.
164th biggest worldwide between The Martian and Ice Age: The Meltdown; 7th biggest 2024 worldwide between Dune: Part Two and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire; 52nd biggest Disney worldwide between Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Big Hero 6.
- Sonic The Hedgehog 3 – Paramount Pictures
Dropped 39% in the seventh weekend $3.25m #6 and $230.58m.
414th biggest seventh weekend between Monsters vs. Aliens and Miss Congeniality (close to The Bad Guys, Bolt, Wreck-It Ralph and Yogi Bear)
177th biggest between The Exorcist and Mufasa: The Lion King; 527th biggest inflated between The Help and Ant-Man; 9th biggest 2024 between Twisters and Mufasa: The Lion King; 16th biggest Paramount Pictures between War of the Worlds and Star Trek Into Darkness.
Seventh weekends
2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog took $148.97m and $319.71m WW (5 weeks due to COVID)
2022’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 dropped 12.1% $4.09m and $181.85m of $190.87m and $405.42m worldwide
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 has been dated for Spring 2027.
Took $7m from 61 territories $232m total and $462.5m worldwide; UK $30.1m; Mexico $21.7m; France $19m; Australia $18.2m; Brazil $12.9m.
295th biggest worldwide between Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Cars; 14th biggest 2024 between Venom: The Last Dance and Sonic the Hedgehog 3; 33rd biggest Paramount Pictures between Bumblebee and Gladiator II.
UK Box Office Top 10
UK Box Office Preview
In 2017’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie opened £2,495,744 #2 (including £1,228,837 previews) taking £8,100,263 despite receiving positive reviews was squeezed by the stronghold of Despicable Me 3 and The Emoji Movie opened the following weekend £2,702,809 #2. Spinoff Dog Man should open between £2.5m-£3m and play strongly over the next few weeks with half-term next week and Dog Man being the only family film opening.
A decade ago, there used to be a couple of family films opening ahead of February half-term but over recent years there has only been one opening last year Migration opened £3,577,676; in 2023 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish £4,950,495; in 2022 Sing 2 £6,867,533. 2020 was the last year with two family films opening ahead of February half-term Dolittle opened £5,085,520 and Sonic The Hedgehog £4,733,768.
A Complete Unknown and Mufasa: The Lion King will drop about 25% in their fourth and ninth weekends taking about £800k.
Action-comedy Love Hurts is likely to open similar to 2015’s John Wick £539,602; 2021’s Nobody £574,399; It is Ke Huy Quan’s first film since winning Best Supporting Actor for 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once and produced by David Leitch so no wonder the trailer looks like previously directed films John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Hobbs & Shaw, Bullet Train and The Fall Guy with action scenes playing over a romantic pop song.
Despite receiving positive reviews, the lack of award recognition will see September 5th struggle to find an audience. It’s a tense powerful film especially when it dawns on the ABC control room the terrorists are watching their TV coverage in the room.
When September 5th premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September it was seen as the film to beat for Oscars.
Similar films based on real events include Argo and Spotlight while Steven Spielberg directed 2006’s Munich opened £1,209,970/£1,980,177 taking £4,719,662/£7,723,964.
Opening in three weeks
- Last Breath – Entertainment Films
Survival thriller starring Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis and Djimon Hounsou and directed by Alex Parkinson; film remake of the 2019 documentary of the same name.
