- DC League of Super-Pets – £2,694,626 – NE
576th biggest opening between A Quiet Place and Kill Bill Volume One (close to The Lion King 3D, School of Rock, Fantastic Four (2015) and Goosebumps) and 926th biggest inflation inflated between King Arthur and The Magic Roundabout (close to Open Season, Pacific Rim, Tron Legacy and Muppets Most Wanted).
97th biggest animation opening between The Emoji Movie (-£8,183) and Sausage Party (close to The Smurfs 2, Ice Age, Pixels (-£8,183) and Captain Underpants (+£198,882)
Close to The Paw Patrol Movie (£2,410,496); The Bad Guys (£2,279,074 including £712,925 previews); Angry Birds (£2,138,507)
While other Warner Animation films Smallfoot (£2,324,189); Storks (£2,247,038);
Disappointing opening for DC League of Super-Pets as advertising has been very strong with Warner Bros heavily pushing the film for weeks, the combination of superheroes and pets has been a winning combination before as has been family films about pets many times before in the UK BO. But, maybe the issue was it targeted the same audience as Minions The Rise of Gru.
Had the biggest opening ever for an animated film in the UK 725 screens, the second biggest Warner Bros opening and the joint 8th widest opening (2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi). Almost every week records seem to be breaking for openings, but as I’ve said many times before these films are opening far too wide there is no reason for films to play on over 500 screens in the UK let alone over 600 or 700, especially for a family film that will likely play till the end of the summer holidays.
Took £950k from Friday 35% of opening similar to Fantastic Beasts 3, The Batman, Thor: Love and Thunder and Doctor Strange 2.
Animated superhero comedy DC League of Super-Pets should top the charts this weekend as Family films featuring pets have been hugely successful at the box office in the UK.
2001’s Cats and Dogs opening £3,707,358 (£6,734,138 inflation inflated) taking £23,013,391 (£41,802,102 inflation inflated); 2010’s Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore opened £1,553,005 (£2,729,587 inflation inflated) taking £3,972,149 (£5,020,262 inflation inflated) while the third film Cats & Dogs: Paws Unite! Still managed to open with £456,532 #2 in October 2020 in the middle of the pandemic from 531 screens taking £1,375,548 after 6 weeks.
While 2017’s The LEGO Batman Movie opened £7,906,468 (including £2,449,040 previews) taking £26,771,191; 2016’s The Secret Life of Pets opened £9,580,039 (including £3,630,044 previews) taking £35,825,195 and 2019’s The Secret Life of Pets 2 opened £3,490,598 taking £18,638,365.
Away from The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie Warner Animations Warner Animation Storks, Smallfoot, and The LEGO Ninjago Movie haven’t performed as well.
Was due to be released in May 2021 pushed back to May 2022 and then moved to July 29th, 2022, after Warner Bros delayed Black Adam to October.
There are big questions over DC Extended Universe upcoming films after news that the Batgirl film might not be completed after poor test screenings along with the legal issues surrounding Ezra Miller that could impact the release of the $200m budget The Flash due for release in June 2023. Before that Shazam! Fury of the Gods opens in December, days after Avatar: The Way of Water and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in March with Blue Beetle in August.
As often the case when BO is softer than expected and after the increases of BO of many films last weekend the Women’s Euro Final on Sunday had little impact on BO as would have surely seen a much bigger second-weekend drop of Wher The Crawdads Sing than its 39%/36% without previews which dropped out of the top 5 after a week. As Minions: The Rise of Gru dropped 36% with the arrival of DC League of Super-Pets, while Elvis and Top Gun Maverick continued to hold strongly.
- 2. Minions: The Rise of Gru – £1,992,011 – £33,515,009
Down 35.5% in its fifth weekend
5th biggest Illumination 5th weekend between Despicable Me 2 (£93,381 less) and Despicable Me 3 (£258,586 less)
5th biggest film of 2022 between Jurassic World Dominion and Sing 2 (on Monday overtook Jurassic World Dominion); 7th 2022 release taking £30m+ and 8th film this year to take £30m+ I 2022 as Spider-Man No Way Home took £44m of it’s BO in 2022.
The 11 Illumination Entertainment films have taken over £345m since the first Despicable Me opened in 2010 and almost £400m worldwide inflation inflated; upcoming Mario opening in April 2023, Migration in June 2023 and Despicable Me 4 July 2024.
110th biggest film between Jurassic World Dominion and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (close to The Secret Life of Pets, Fantastic Beasts 2, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the WereRabbit and Incredibles) and 255th biggest inflation inflated between Tarzan and Rain-Man (close to Wall·E, Three Men And A Baby, The BFG and Night at the Museum).
15th biggest Universal Pictures film between Jurassic World Dominion and Sing 2 (close to Fifty Shades of Grey, Fast & Furious 7, Furious 8 and Sing) and 19th biggest inflation-inflated Universal Pictures film between Hot Fuzz and Sing 2.
20th biggest animated film between Up and The Lego Movie (close to Monsters, Inc, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing 2 and Monsters University) and 40th biggest inflation-inflated animated film between Tarzan and Sing 2 (close to Madagascar, Alvin And The Chipmunks II, Sing and The Boss Baby).
Minion Cult views on TikTok have slowed down over recent weeks with 100m views over the last week now up to 1.2bn views.
Fifth weekends
2017’s Despicable Me 3 dropped 27% taking £2,250,597 #3 from 632 screens and £35,851,868 75.4% of £47,562,575; #1 Dunkirk £8,235,532 2nd week; #2 Captain Underpants £2,495,744
2015’s Minions dropped 16% taking £2,268,007 #3 from 580 screens and £37,097,156 77.9% of £47,645,626; #1 Inside Out £7,376,513 1st week; #2 Ant-Man £2,520,129 2nd week
2013’s Despicable Me 2 up 12% taking £2,085,392 #3 from 560 screens and £34,676,246 73.1% of £47,436,199; #1 The Wolverine £4,694,092 1st wk.; #2 Monsters University £3,114,562 up 11% 3rd wk.
2010’S Despicable Me dropped 8% taking £1,089,160 #3 from 520 screens and £18,171,850 92.4% of £19,670,786; #1 Due Date £1,898,324 2nd week
By opening these films at the end of June they get a boost four weeks later when the school holidays start, normally by this time there is another family film released but this year as it was the only major one on release it had an increase, while The Railway Children Returns had a small drop and Lightyear increased by 33.7%.
If Minions: The Rise of Gru holds similar to Minions and Despicable Me 3 it should take about £43m about 10% less.
- 3 Thor: Love and Thunder – £1,908,179 – £30,832,102
Down 37.5% in its fourth weekend; has taken 2.5x opening
7th biggest MCU fourth weekend between Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 and Captain Marvel (close to Avengers: Endgame, Avenger Infinity War, Spider-Man: Far From Home and Avengers: Age of Ultron).
Took £742,148 more than Thor: Ragnarok (£1,166,031) and £1,185,368 more than Thor: The Dark (£722,811);
24th biggest comic-book movie in the UK between Thor: Ragnarok and Spider-Man Homecoming (close to Spider-Man 3, Deadpool 2, Man of Steel and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1) and 39th biggest inflation inflated between X-Men: The Last Stand and Batman and Robin (close to Superman III, The Amazing Spider-Man, Batman Returns and X-Men).
131st biggest in the UK 136th to take £30m+) between The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Notting Hill (close to Incredibles, Thor: Ragnarok, War of the Worlds and Spider-Man Homecoming) and 301st biggest inflation inflated between The Grinch and The Living Daylights (close to Coming To America, Trainspotting, Indecent Proposal and Lethal Weapon 3).
7th biggest 2022 between Sing 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 2
The 29 MCU films have taken almost £985m since 2008 (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will see MCU take over £1bn in the UK) and over £1.21bn inflation inflated.
Fourth weekends
2017’s Thor:Ragnorok dropped 62% £1,166,031 #4 488 screens taking £28,210,484 91.2% of £30,936,228 #1 Justice League £7,264,784 1st week
2013’s Thor: The Dark World dropped 59% £722,811 #4 434 screens taking £18,456,032 91.8% of £20.1m; #1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire £12,189,733 1st week
2011’s Thor dropped 61% £528,701 #3 392 screens taking £12,869,718 92.9% of £13,854,712; #1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides £11,634,860 1st week
Thor: Love and Thunder might have taken similar to Thor: Ragnarok but after Doctor Strange took £42m the fourth film should have taken a similar amount.
One of the biggest problems with the MCU is that similar to Disney’s Star Wars films they aren’t accessible to new audiences, Marvel as Lucasfilm with the TV shows are targeting existing fans with their films and TV shows.
Newbies will need to watch 93 hours of MCU content to fully understand what’s going on, another reason why Top Gun Maverick was so successful is it was a Ronseal movie doing exactly what it said on the tin, could just enjoy the film for what it was.
Phase 4 of the MCU has been disappointing, even dare I say it Spider-Man No Way Home wasn’t as good as the hype but it was an audience film as it feels very different from watching at home. But as with Top Gun Maverick, opened at the perfect time audiences were primed and were accessible to non-comic-book fans with Hollanders opting to see it again and again instead of other films that opened over the months after.
Interestingly, some of the people who were outraged by Martin Scorsese’s comments about comic-book movies a few years ago are now admitting they were right with the disappointing phase 4 of the MCU, these films are theme park rides with all hype and no sustenance. There was criticism early on that the MCU films were about arrogant white men but Iron Man and Captain America changed through the films they appeared in, but in comic-book movies, since there isn’t that story development in the characters.
The problem is Disney is now targeting MCU on the tween and teen audience who want non-stop action which is exhausting older audiences which is why these films open big and then drop big. Of course, as these films are still taking $700m+ at the BO Disney are unlikely to change its approach to these films anytime soon as seen by recent announcements for phase 5 and 6 which feel like they are more of the exhausting same.
It will be interesting to see if Black Panther Wakanda Forever can match the success of the original, while it will of course open with $180m+ will it have the legs and play to the non-comic-book audience as the original did? Like Spider-Man’s No Way Home Black Panther opened at the perfect moment audiences had been pumped-up for the film for many years, seen as the first black comic-book movie despite opening 20 years after Blade.
At Comic-Con Marvel announced Phase 5 and 6 which includes 10 films and 10 TV series beginning with Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania and then the third reboot of Fantastic Four and reboot of Blade and Captain America: New World Order with Anthony Mackie replacing Chris Evans as Captain America
They all feel very much like the previous phases for Marvel with fewer solo films and more ensemble comic-book movies with two Avengers films in 2025, it does look like Disney will be focussing much of their slates between 2023-2025 with Marvel releasing about 4 films a year.
The new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer was viewed over 172 m times in the first 24 hours; Marvel’s most watched trailers in the first 24 hours were Avengers: Infinity War 230m in November 2017, Avengers: Endgame 289m December 2018 and Spider-Man: No Way Home 355.5m in August 2021.
It’s easy for trade bodies and exhibitors to call out films like Minions: The Rise of Gru, Jurassic World Dominion, Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Batman, Sing 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home as audiences are always going to come out to see them. But most of the films opening over the next few months will need more work to get audiences excited to see them in the cinema as many of them would be films they would normally wait to see at home.
- 4 Elvis – £1,102,166 – £20,865,625
Down 10.9% in its sixth weekend; has taken 5.2x opening holding similar to Gravity, Paddington 2, The Others, Skyfall and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Elvis has overtaken the BO of Baz Luhrmann’s 2013’s The Great Gatsby (£15.5m) and 2001’s Moulin Rouge (£18.5m). The performance OF Elvis in the UK and the US again show certain films perform better in a crowded marketplace as the films work off each other.
Baz Luhrmann as Christopher Nolan films works better in crowded marketplace why it was always complete madness for Tenet to open alone In summer 2020 as the film was never going to be the success it was going to be being the only major film on release; originally Tenet was to open in the UK on July 16th, 2020, the same day as Top Gun Maverick.
10th biggest 2022 film between Uncharted and Fantastic Beast 3.
255th biggest film in the UK (281st film to take £20m+) between Legend and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (close to Little Women (2019), Mrs Doubtfire, Shakespeare In Love and The Sixth Sense) and 505th biggest inflation inflated between Robin Hood and The Secret Life of Pets 2 (close to A Few Good Men, Pulp Fiction, The Departed and Erin Brockovich).
43rd biggest Warner Bros film in the UK between Fantastic Beasts 3 and Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves (close to Wonder Woman, The Hangover, Interstellar and Batman Forever and 77th biggest Warner Bros film inflation inflated between Fantastic Beasts 3 and The Lego Movie: The Second Part (close to Lethal Weapon 2, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Last Samurai and Ocean’s Twelve).
Elvis is Baz Luhrmann’s 6th film and its 30 years since he made his directorial debut with Strictly Ballroom, he followed that up with three films at 20th Century Fox 1996’s Romeo & Juliet, 2001’s Moulin Rouge and 2008’s Australia, Elvis is his second film for Warner Bros after 2013’s The Great Gatsby.
Sixth weekends
2001’s Moulin Rouge dropped 19% £864,326 #2 (£1.7m inflation inflated) from 393 screens taking £14,024,943 (£27.4m inflation inflated) 77.2% of £18,166,288 (£32,997,702 inflation inflated); #1 American Pie 2 £5,508,709
2013’s The Great Gatsby dropped 63% £158,927 #10 209 screens £15,198,622 98% of £15.5m; #1 Man Of Steel £5,073,356 2nd week.
Elvis will be available on VOD in the UK next Monday, August 8th and then will be released on DVD on September 19th.
- 5. Top Gun Maverick – £981,129 – £76,155,349
Down 10.4% in its 10th weekend; has taken 4.8x opening similar legs to The Wolf of Wall Street, Murder on the Orient Express, Goldeneye, Rush, War Horse and The Jungle Book
4th biggest 10th weekend between The Greatest Showman (£1,239,069) and Skyfall (£890,022) (close to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Slumdog Millionaire, Mamma Mia!, The Kings Speech, Bohemian Rhapsody, Spider-Man: No Way Home and Casino Royale; #1 Avatar (£2,260,319); #2 Titanic (£2,223,046)
10th biggest film in the UK (15th to take over £70m since Titanic in 1998) between Titanic and The Lion King (close to Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Toy Story 3 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) and 45th biggest inflation inflated between Moonraker and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (close to Flash Gordon, Quantum of Solace, Independence Day and Live and Let Die)
After 10 weeks Top Gun Maverick has taken close to The Lion King, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Toy Story 3 and Beauty and the Beast.
Top Gun Maverick will likely drop out of the top 5 next weekend the question is will the film be re-released in IMAX cinemas before its PVOD release date? There have been rumours it will be released on PVOD either in August or September but with ET, Spider-Man Far From Home and Avatar all getting IMAX re-release in September Top Gun Maverick would have to be re-released in mid-August.
After the huge success of Top Gun Maverick, Paramount Pictures will surely want a Top Gun 3 but Tom Cruise stars in Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Parts 1 and 2 due for release in 2023 and 2024 and once he finishes filming them he is then due to make the first film shot in space with Doug Liman and then maybe Edge of Tomorrow 2? While Paramount might want a third film it’s unlikely to happen before 2025 if at all.
Reece Witherspoon has been talking about Legally Blonde 3 saying that Top Gun Maverick will be the blueprint for the third film “It’s just like Top Gun. They waited a long time to make another version of that movie, and I loved the nostalgia piece they incorporated into it. So definitely that gave us a lot of inspiration about what we would want to do with Elle Woods and make sure that we had all those same touchstones that mattered to people back then.”
The original Legally Blonde was released in 2001 and was well received both critically and at the BO, the sequel released in 2003 received poor reviews and disappointment, and plans for a third film were announced in 2018 with a release date set for 2020 but was delayed.
Also opened
Secret Cinema returned to the top 10 for the first time since before lockdown with postponed screenings of Dirty Dancing #7 taking £565,779 with tickets up to £90 which is about 12 times the average ticket price. The last screening was on July 31st having run for the last two weeks with Guardians of the Galaxy running from August to October with tickets again up to £90
Encore screenings of Prima Facie took £248,181 in its second weekend taking £2,544,142 to date
Missing from the list is the Women’s Euro Final on Sunday, Everyman Cinemas was going to charge £25 a ticket with a free drink and food but after soft sales on Friday tickets became free and many screenings were sold out. It must have surely been far more lucrative for Everyman Cinemas to offer free tickets as attendees will probably have spent as much on highly profitable food and drink.
Other Cinema News
UK BO Jan- July took £607m overtaking 2021’s BO of £597m which was from May- December,
The first 6 months of 2022 have been strong with 11 films taking £20m+ (12 including Spider-Man No Way Home from 2021); Top Gun: Maverick £76,155,349; Spider-Man: No Way Home £44,887,250 (47% of £96m); Doctor Strange 2 £42,012,031; The Batman £40,793,673; Jurassic World Dominion £33,954,058; Minions The Rise of Gru £33,515,009; Sing 2 £32,790,416; Thor: Love and Thunder £30,832,102; Sonic the Hedgehog 2 £26,687,586; Uncharted £24,091,881; Fantastic Beasts 3 £20,909,602; Elvis £20,865,625.
These 12 films have taken £430m+ 71%+ of 2022 BO with Top Gun Maverick taking 12.6%.
The top 12 films in 2021 took £375m 62.8% of 2021 BO but while 2021 had No Time To Die, Spider-Man No Way Home, Dune, Shang-Chi, Venom 2 and Free Guy opening Aug-Dec this year is much softer starting with a soft July has seen most weeks much lower many previous weeks in July over the last 20 years, August won’t be much better as Bullet Train and Nope will take £10m each at most, then Sept/Oct will be no match for last years No Time To Die which then leaves Black Panther Wakanda Forever and Avatar The Way of Water both needing to beat their predecessors BO.
Distributor share Jan-July 2022
Paramount £128m 21.1%
Universal £110m 18.1%
Disney £105m 17.3%
Warner Bros £86m 14.1%
Sony £75.5m 12.4%
Pathe £5.4m 0.9%
EFD £5.3m 0.9%
Lionsgate £1.5m 0.3%
£516.7m taken from the 37 films released by the 8 biggest UK distributors taking 85.1% of 2022 BO £607m (includes £44.5m taken by Spider-Man No Way Home of its BO in 2022).
Paramount will soon be overtaken by Universal Pictures and Disney as the biggest distributor in the UK as only releasing two small films over the remaining 5 months of the year, while Black Panther Wakanda Forever and Avatar: The Way of Water will see Disney more than double their current BO. The positive for the year is despite Disney taking more than double BO than their rivals this year all of the major studios should take £100m+ this year.
There are about 40 more films due to be released by the major distributors between Aug-Dec including re-issues of several films including E.T., Spider-Man: No Way Home, Jaws and Avatar. These films will take about £400m between them. The top 10 films for the rest of the year will take about £250m; Avatar 2 £80m; Black Panther 2 £45m; Matilda £30m; Shazam 2 £20m; Lyle Lyle Crocodile £15m; Black Adam £15m; Strange World £15m; Bullet Train £10m; I Wanna Dance With Somebody £10m.
Event Cinema, Secret Cinema and Matilda BO will have a big impact on BO over the rest of the year, boosting BO and admissions.
UK box office in detail
This weekend’s top 10 box office took £10,826,088 down 5.5% from last weekend’s £11,455,674
489th biggest top 10 of the last 21 years between 01 February 2013 #1 Les Miserables £2,785,143 (25.7% of top 10) and 24 October 2014 #1 Fury £2,692,786 (24.9% of top 10) and 810th biggest inflation inflated between 02 October 2009 #1 Fame £1,786,358 (22.4% of top 10) and 14 September 2018 #1 The Predator £2,394,163 (24.8% of top 10)
The weekend admissions were 1,257,820 down 9.2% from last week’s 1,384,809
Have increased the average ticket price from £7.52 to £8.07 up 7.44% due to the UKCA website reporting admissions for June 2022 11.86m while CinemaScore reported BO for June was £95.8m and to get the average ticket price divide BO by admissions. Being a 7.4% increase makes it impossible to make any direct comparisons with any other films released pre-pandemic.
Top 3 took £6,594,816 60.9% of the top 10; DC League of Super-Pets 24.9% (£2,694,626); Minion: The Rise of Gru 18.4% (£1,992,011);Thor: Love and Thunder 17.6% (£1,908,179);
792nd (out of 1,557 weeks) lowest #1 percentage of top 10 between 09 September 2011 #1 The Inbetweeners Movie £2,147,393 (24.92%) and 10 December 2021 #1 West Side Story £1,297,786 (24.88% of top 10).
Up 5.4% from 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 1,561% from 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 43.3% from 2019 (£19,106,503); Andre Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert – Shall We Dance? (£1,492,154); The Current War (£454,677); The Intruder (£51,347); #1 The Lion King £10,660,287 2nd week 721 screens (55.8% of top 10)
Down 57.8% from 2018: (£25,665,576); Mission: Impossible Fallout (£7,300,103); Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (£3,449,876); Andre Rieu’s 2018 Maastricht Concert: Amore (£1,486,528); #1 Mission: Impossible Fallout £7,300,103 1st week 584 screens (28.4% of top 10)
Down 47% from 2017: (£20,414,621); Captain Underpants (£2,495,744); Girls Trip (£1,557,981); 47 Meters Down (£637,964); The Big Sick (£488,718); #1 Dunkirk £8,235,532 2nd week 663 screens (40.34% of top 10)
Down 53.8% from 2016: (£23,455,514); Finding Dory (£8,122,075); Jason Bourne (£7,600,420); World Cup ’66 – Minute by Minute (£35,959); League of Gods (£8,349); #1 Finding Dory £8,122,075 1st week 588 screens (34.6% of the top 10)
Down 21.1% 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 25.7% from 2014: (£14,570,372); Guardians of the Galaxy (£6,363,110); The Nut Job (£666,966); 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 (43.6% of top 10)
Down 19.9% from 2013: (£13,514,255); The Wolverine (£4,694,092); Frances Ha (£150,689); #1 The Wolverine £4,694,092 1st week 522 screens (28.5% of top 10)
Down 10.9% from 2012 (£12,156,512); Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (£1,853,294); Searching for Sugar Man (£68,857); #1 The Dark Knight Rises £7,275,558 2nd week 589 screens 49% drop (59.8% of top 10)
Down 25.3% 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 50.7% 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)
Down 12.8% 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 42.7% from 2008; (£18,905,622); The Dark Knight (£11,191,824); Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (£929,246); Baby Mama (£111,945); #1 The Dark Knight £11,191,824 1st week 502 screens (59.2% of top 10)
Down 61.4% from 2007:(£28,049,335); The Simpsons (£13,626,853); Transformers (£8,718,561); Sherrybaby (£36,036); Lonely Hearts (£3,362); #1 The Simpsons £13,626,853 1st week 499 screens (48.6% of top 10)
Up 7% from 2006; (£10,120,532); Cars (£2,668,968); Stay Alive (£140,126); #1 Cars £2,668,968 1st week 513 screens (26.37% of top 10)
Down 27.1% from 2005 (£14,849,850); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (£7,972,168); #1 Fantastic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory £7,972,168 1st week (53.7% of top 10)
Up 37.9% 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 61.2% from 2003 (£6,716,741); Sinbad (£828,550); Agent Cody Banks (£534,312); Goodbye, Lenin! (£135,311) #1 The Hulk £1,384,426 2nd 500 screens 61% drop (20.6% of top 10)
Up 13.3% from 2002 (£9,549,998); Austin Powers in Goldmember (£5,585,978); The Crocodile Hunter (£266,803); Sunshine State (£25,888); #1 Austin Powers in Goldmember £5,585,978 1st week 446 screens (58.5% of top 10)
Up 53.2% from 2001 (£7,051,741); Swordfish (£1,615,206); Dr. Dolittle 2 (£1,610,907); Intimacy (£54,288); #1 Jurassic Park 3 £1,802,580 2nd week 462 screens 62% drop (25.6% of top 10)
Next weekend 2021 (£8,459,738); Stillwater (£478,386); Last Letter From Your Lover (£274,322); Zola (£49,668); Profile (£32,952); #1 The Suicide Squad £2,267,135 2nd week 644 screens down 31% (26.8% of top 10)
US Box Office
- DC League of Super-Pets – Warner Bros
Opened with $23m; received mixed reviews 71% Rotten Tomatoes) and A- CinemaScore
852nd biggest opening between The Haunting in Connecticut and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement; #847 Smallfoot; #805 The Bad Guys; #921 Cats and Dogs; #949 Storks; #998 The LEGO Ninjago Movie
Took $2.2m from Thursday midnights in comparison The Bad Guys took $1.2m
Opened similar to The Bad Guys $23.95m went on to take $96.67m and $245.67m worldwide
2001’s Cats and Dogs opened $21.7m taking $93.38m and $200.68m worldwide
And bigger than 2021’s PAW Patrol: The Movie opened $13.14m (released on Paramount+ same day) taking $40.12m and $144.32m worldwide and 2008’s Teen Titans GO! To the Movies opened $10.41m taking $29.79m and $52.09m worldwide; 2010’s Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore opened $12.27m taking $43.58m and $112.48m worldwide
But should have surely opened closer to
2017’s The LEGO Batman Movie opened $53m taking $175.93m and $312.13m worldwide
2019’s The Secret Life of Pets 2 opened $46.65m taking $158.87m and $430.05m worldwide
2016’s The Secret Life of Pets opened $104.35m taking $368.38m and $875.45m worldwide
Warner Animation has had mixed success at the BO
2016’s Storks opened $21.31m taking $72.8m and $183.51m worldwide
2017’s The LEGO Ninjago Movie opened $20.43m taking $59.36m and $123.16m worldwide
2018’s Smallfoot opened $23.04m taking $83.31m and $214.11 worldwide
Took $18.4m internationally from 63 territories including the UK $3.1m; Mexico $2.1m and France $1.6m
- Nope – Universal Pictures
Dropped 58% taking $18.58m and $80.62m
488th biggest second weekend between 2 Fast 2 Furious and The Proposal; #475 Glass; #278 Split; #233 Get Out; #165 Us.
1,016th biggest film between Moonstruck and Eat Pray Love; 1,759th biggest inflation inflated between Like Father Like Son and Safe Haven; 41st biggest horror between Scream (2022) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; 134th biggest Universal Pictures film between Fried Green Tomatoes and The Mummy; 16th biggest 2022 film between Scream and Morbius.
Get Out had a $4.5m budget, Us $20m and Nope $68m, Us made a $119m profit and Get Out $124.8m.
EntTelligence reported the average ticket price of $13.21
Second weekends
2017’s Get Out dropped 15.4% taking $28.23m and $78.07m of $176.19m and $255.74m worldwide
2019’s Us dropped 53.3% taking $33.22m and $127.84m of $175.08m and $255.18m worldwide
Get Out received 98% Rotten Tomatoes and Us 93%; Jordan Peele films don’t travel well taking 70% of their global BO in the US and that will be likely for Nope.
Starts its international release in August
- Thor: Love and Thunder – Disney
Dropped 42% in the fourth weekend taking $13.17m and $301.62m
155th biggest third weekend between The Lorax and Saving Private Ryan; #160 Shang-Chi; #152 Spider-Man: Homecoming; #142 Doctor Strange; #134 Deadpool 2; #109 Captain America: Civil War; #98 Doctor Strange 2; #86 Thor: Ragnarok
Had the 17th biggest MCU fourth weekend between Doctor Strange and Shang-Chi (close to Doctor Strange 2, Captain America: CA: Civil War, Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok).
13th biggest MCU film after 4 weeks between Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming (close to Iron Man 3, Captain Marvel, Iron Man 2 and Thor: Ragnarok).
Fourth weekends
2017’s Thor Ragnarok dropped 22.2% taking $16.86m #4 and $277.65m 88.1% of $315.06; $538.91m internationally (63.1%) and $853.97m worldwide; #1 Coco $50.8m 1st wk.
2013’s Thor: The Dark World dropped 21.9% taking $11.08m #3 and $186.7m 90.5% of $206.3m; $438.42m internationally 68% and $644.78m worldwide; #1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $74.11m 2nd wk.
2011’s Thor dropped 38.3% taking $9.53m #5 and $159.89m 88.3% of $181.03m; $238.29m internationally 60% and $449.32m worldwide; #1 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $90.15m 1st wk.
Had the 4th lowest Rotten Tomatoes score for MCU ahead of Eternals, Thor: The Dark World and The Incredible Hulk, with Black Widow #19 shows Phase 4 has been disappointing so far apart from Spider-Man No Way Home.
95th biggest film between Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse; 223rd inflation inflated between The Amazing Spider-Man and Men in Black 2; 6th biggest 2022 film between Minions: The Rise of Gru and Sonic the Hedgehog 2; 30th biggest comic-book film between Iron Man 2 and Man of Steel; 35th biggest Disney film between Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and The Sixth Sense.
Took $31.8m (down 49%) from 48 territories and $360.9m and $662.4m worldwide; UK $37.3m; Australia $27.3m; Mexico $26m; Korea $22.6m; Brazil $20m.
Took $38m from IMAX worldwide including $14.2m internationally
144th biggest worldwide between Kung Fu Panda 2 and Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones; 7th biggest 2022 worldwide between Minions: The Rise of Gru and Fantastic Beasts 3; 35th biggest comic-book film between Man of Steel and Justice League; 44th biggest Disney film worldwide between The Sixth Sense and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
- Minions: The Rise of Guru
Dropped 39% in the fifth weekend taking $10.96m and $320.49m
The 98th biggest fifth weekend between Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Deadpool; #147 Despicable Me; #118 Despicable Me 2; #79 The Secret Life of Pets;
16th biggest animated film between Shrek the Third and Up; 78th biggest film between Shrek the Third and Transformers; 197th biggest inflation inflated between Pearl Harbor and Lethal Weapon 3; 10th biggest Universal Pictures film between Minions and Meet the Fockers (overtaking Despicable Me 3 and Despicable Me)
EntTelligence had the highest average ticket price for an animated movie at $12.82; Lightyear ($12.45), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($11.76), The Bad Guys ($11.32) and Sing 2 ($10.69).
Despicable Me franchise has taken over $4bn worldwide since the first film was released in 2010
Fifth weekends
2015’s Minions dropped 39.9% $7.44m #6 and $302.8m 90.1% of $336.04m and $1.15bn worldwide 71% $823.39m internationally; (55% Rotten Tomatoes) #1 Mission Impossible Rogue Nation $28.5m 2nd w/e
2017’s Despicable Me 3 dropped 41.6% $7.59m #7 and $230.29m 87% of $264.62m and $1.03bn worldwide 74% $770.17m internationally; (75% Rotten Tomatoes); #1 Dunkirk $50.51m 1st week
2013’s Despicable Me 2 dropped 38.3% $10.13m #5 and $326.41m 88.7% of $368.06m and $970.76m worldwide 62% internationally $602.7m; (59% Rotten Tomatoes) #1 2 Guns $27.05m 1st wk.
2010’s Despicable Me dropped 40.2% $9.28m #4 and $209.28m 83.2% of $251.55m and $543.15m worldwide 53% internationally $291.6m; (81% Rotten Tomatoes); #1 The Other Guys $35.54m 1st w/e
The 12 Illumination Entertainment films have taken over $3bn in the US and over $7.8bn
Took $25.3m (down 40%) from 79 territories and $391.6m and $710.4m worldwide; Mexico $35.2m; UK $40m; Australia $27.6m; Germany $23.4m.
25th biggest animated film worldwide between Up and Kung Fu Panda 2; 125th biggest film worldwide between Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; 5th biggest 2022 film between The Batman and Thor: Love and Thunder; 15th biggest Universal Pictures film worldwide between F9: The Fast Saga and Sing.
- Elvis – Warner Bros
Down 13% in the sixth weekend $5.74m and $128.91m
507th biggest film between The Ring and The Nutty Professor; 976th biggest inflation inflated between Death Becomes Her and Blade 2; 9th biggest 2022 film between Uncharted and Lightyear; 85th biggest Warner Bros film between Get Smart and Central Intelligence.
2013’s The Great Gatsby dropped 60.3% in its 6th weekend taking $1.67m and $139.97m of $144.85m and $353.65m worldwide
While other Baz Luhrmann films took
1996’s Romeo + Juliet took $46.35m ($102m inflation inflated) and $147.54m worldwide ($325m inflation inflated)
2001’s Moulin Rouge took $57.38m ($97m inflation inflated) and $179.21m worldwide ($303m inflation inflated)
2008’s Australia took $49.55m ($67m inflation inflated) and $211.78m worldwide ($285m inflation inflated)
Took $6.2m (down 8%) from 73 territories taking $106.1m and $234.3m worldwide; the UK $25.1m; Australia $19.9m; France $7.4m; Japan $4.2m; Germany $4.5m; 703rd biggest film worldwide between Artificial Intelligence: AI and Mr Bean’s Holiday; 13th biggest 2022 film worldwide between The Bad Guys and Lightyear; 115th biggest Warner Bros film between Artificial Intelligence: AI and Eraser.
- Top Gun: Maverick – Paramount Pictures
Dropped 18% in the 10th weekend taking $8.4m and $650.31m
16% have seen the film more than once in the cinema and 4% have seen it more than 4 times or more
7th biggest 10th weekend between E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Platoon; but as Platoon, Silver Linings Playbook and The King’s Speech had platform openings it had the 4th biggest 10th weekend after Titanic. Avatar and E.T; 1986’s Top Gun took $4.04m down 14.4% in its 10th weekend $12m inflation inflated taking $95.34m of $176.8m
9th biggest film between Jurassic World and The Avengers; 23rd biggest inflation inflated between Shrek 2 and Spider-Many; Biggest Paramount Pictures film in the US ahead of Titanic. (Paramount will re-release Titanic next February for its 25th anniversary)
Universal Pictures has now overtaken Paramount Pictures as the #1 studio in the US taking 23.2% and $1,114bn; Paramount #2 23% $1.1bn; Disney #3 17.4% $837m (with Black Panther 2 and Avatar 2 still to be released Disney could take upwards of $2bn for the year); #4 Warner Bros 13.1% $626m; #5 Sony Pictures 11.2% $540m.
Paramount’s 2023 slate is probably their strongest for more than a decade with Transformers: Rise of the Beats, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1, Scream 6 and Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie.
Tom Cruise’s 42 films have taken $5.1bn in the US and $12.1bn worldwide;
Took $13.8m (down 16%) taking $671m and $1,321n from 64 territories; the UK $94.9m; Japan $75.9m; Australia $60m; Korea $57.8m; France $50m, 15th biggest film worldwide between Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II; 2nd biggest Paramount Pictures film between Titanic and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Has taken $100m+ IMAX worldwide
Top Gun Maverick is the 50th film to take $1bn+ since Jurassic Park in 1993; its Paramount’s first $1bn+ film globally since 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction (inflated with China BO)
UK Box Office Top 10
UK Box Office Preview
Two weeks ago Brad Pitt came to Europe for the promo tour for Bullet Train having premiered in Paris, Berlin and London but the film was embargoed until the 2nd of August day before opening in the UK.
David Leitch previously directed Deadpool 2 (Brad Pitt had a cameo), Atomic Blonde and Hobbs & Shaw (opened the same weekend as Bullet Train in the UK)
Received mixed reviews (57% Rotten Tomatoes) compared to early Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie films thinking it’s far cleverer than it really is and has seen it all before in films like John Wick.
2017’s Atomic Blonde opened £1,686,430 (including £555,569 previews) taking £3, 063,918
2018’s Deadpool 2 opened £12,974,669 (including £5,240,000 previews) taking £32,501,893
2019’s Hobbs & Shaw opened £6,377,583 (including £1,468,289 previews) taking £20,448,914
While Brad Pitt’s biggest films have been
2004’s Troy opened £6,017,523 (including £2,273,204 previews) (£10,828,861 inflation inflated)) taking £17,964,987 (£32,328,974 inflation inflated))
2005’s Mr and Mrs Smith opened £3,943,422 (including £405,373 previews) (£6,764,936 inflation inflated) taking £13,375,272 (£22,945,265 inflation inflated)
1996’s Seven opened £2,629,000 (£6,536,098 inflation inflated) taking £19,510,000 (£48,504,862 inflation inflated)
2013’s World War Z opened £4,535,899 taking £14,458,634
And ensembles including the Ocean Eleven trilogy, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Interview with the Vampire, Sleepers and The Lost City (cameo)
Comparisons have been made with John Wick
2017’s John Wick: Chapter Two opened £2,232,055 (including £248,415 previews) taking £5,766,633
2019’s John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum opened £3,562,524 (including £849,972 previews) taking £9,587,828
2010’s Kick-Ass opened £3,881,704 (including £2,041,132 previews) taking £11,528,933
2013’s Kick-Ass 2 opened £2,482,187 (including £1,000,667 previews) taking £5,055,634
2014’s Lucy opened £3,076,997 taking £14,129,734
So would expect an opening for Bullet Train to be similar to John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and Lucy with its opening boosted by two days of previews; opening #1
DC League of Super-Pets will drop to #2 down 30%-40% taking £1.6m-£1.9m with Minion The Rise of Gru dropping 30% taking £1.3m-£1.6m
With the arrival of Bullet Train, Thor: Love and Thunder will likely drop upwards of 50% taking £900k to £1.1m. With Elvis and Top Gun Maverick dropping 15%-20% taking £650k-£850k. Both films could drop out of the top 5 if Westlife: Life From Wembley Stadium performs similar to July 2019’s Westlife – The Twenty Tour £899,488 or 2015’s Take That Live £965,000; 2017’s Take That: Wonderland Live from the O2 2017 £1,004,918 or BTS – Permission to Dance on-Stage Live in March 2022 £899,126.
Opening next week
- Nope – Universal Pictures
Sci-fi horror starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Brandon Perea, and Michael Wincott written and directed by Jordan Peele.
It’s Jordan Peele’s third film after Get Out and Us; received positive reviews 82% Rotten Tomatoes
Jordan Peele films don’t travel well internationally taking 70% of their BO in the US.
2019’s Us opened £2,766,839 3.7% of US ($71.11m) taking £9,071,603 5.2% of $175.08m
2017’s Get Out opened £2,160,099 6.5% of US ($33.37m) taking £10,053,463 5.7% of ($176.2m)
Jordan Peele films have become a brand similar to M. Night Shyamalan and their BO I has been similar as those who went to see Get Out will have also seen Us and will also see Nope.
Attached to the front of IMAX screenings of Nope will be the trailer of Christopher Nolan’s ensemble Oppenheimer.