- Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy £4,130,747 – £35,959,640
Dropped 40.1% in the third weekend.
£1.37m 33.2% (-41.7% £2.35m) Friday; £1.67m 40.4% (-31.8% £2.45m) Saturday; £1.09m 26.4% (-50.3% £2.193m) Sunday
60th biggest third weekend between Minions and Mamma Mia 2 (close to Titanic, The Kings Speech, Les Miserables and Aladdin (2019) and the 114th inflated third weekend between Borat and Incredibles (close to Mrs. Doubtfire, Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire and Toy Story).
Third weekends
2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary dropped 18.1% £3,487,692/£6,714,229 and £21,842,647 52.39% of £41,692,598/£80,263,286
2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason dropped 40.4% £3,009,954/£5,342,836 and £27,007,461 75.1% of £35,954,611/£63,821,436
2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby dropped 25.5% £4,807,165/£5,170,460 and £31,350,360 65.24% of £48,050,641/£51,681,998
118th biggest between Die Another Day and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (close to Love Actually, Captain America: Civil War, Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 and Inception) and 242nd biggest inflated between Monsters University and Transformers (close to Calendar Girls, Back to the Future Part II, The Fugitive and Moulin Rouge).
As with many recent sequels Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy pulls at the heartstrings with two key deaths and then it includes emotional scenes from Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent. Mad About the Boy also features many callbacks to the other three films including the iconic Big Knickers, the diary, where she embarrasses herself publicly and runs outside in the snow as she did in the first film to Mark Darcy.
It’s very much a cinema audience film playing best to crowded cinema who have grown up with Bridget Jones over the last 24 years, read the books since 1996 and newspaper column since 1994 which became fanfiction for BBC’s Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth as Mr Darcy broadcast in 1995.
Mad About the Boy took $90.2m from 75 territories; the UK $45.6m; Australia $7.7m; Holland $4.4m; Poland $4.3m; Spain $2.3m…
- 2. Captain America: Brave New World £1,451,359 – £15,693,915
Dropped 50.4% in its third weekend.
Took £354k 24.4% (-65.6% £1.03m) Friday; £670k 46.2% (-36.8% £1.06m) Saturday; £427k 29.4% (-49% £837k) Sunday
395th biggest third weekend between The Departed and Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (close to Jason Bourne, Goldeneye, Mr And Mrs Smith and The Mask) and 662nd biggest inflated third weekend between Maid In Manhattan and Racing Stripes (close to Beverly Hills Cop II, In the Line of Fire, Pulp Fiction and Judge Dredd).
26th biggest MCU third weekend between Iron Man 2 and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (close to Captain America: Winter Soldier, Iron Man, Blade Widow and Eternals).
53rd biggest comic-book third weekend between Justice League and The Mask (close to Venom, Spider-Man 2, Men In Black 2 and Batman Forever) and 69th biggest inflated third weekend between Black Widow and Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania (close to X-Men: First Class, Blade 2, X-Men: The Last Stand and Fantastic Four (2005).
Brave New World’s third weekend was 143% more than The First Avenger; 18.6% less than Winter Soldier and 48% less than Civil War.
2016’s Captain America: Civil War dropped 42% £2,789,985 and £32,162,068 87.5% of £36,771,782/£43,585,543
2014’s Captain America; Winter Soldier dropped 35.5% £1,782,201 and £14,618,819 75.9% of £19,261,224/£20,648,459
2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger dropped 59.3% £597,916 and £8,629,339 92% of £9,379,436
Currently 30th biggest MCU between Ant-Man and Eternals (close to Blade Widow, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Iron Man and Thor; Brave New World will likely take a similar BO to Black Widow and less than Winter Soldier’s £19.3m.
432nd biggest between Black Swan and Snow White and the Huntsman (close to Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, Django Unchained, Kong: Skull Island and Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and 738th biggest inflated between Phantom of the Opera and Little Voice (close to the Perfect Storm, Dick Tracy, Adams Family Values and Die Hard 2 Die Harder). The 35 MCU films have taken £1.155bn and £1.275bn inflated since 2008.
“Sources” told the trade press the budget for Brave New World was $180m but the actual budget was more than double over $350m with overruns and reshoots (replaced several sequences with new ones featuring Giancarlo Esposito as Sidewinder) increased to $380m and global marketing will be another $150m so the film would need to take $800m+ to turn s profit. As always Marvel says the reshoots were planned.
The cameo of Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes was questioned by many on how he could be running for Congress as he was Hydra controlled and could still be turned. Adamantium was included in the film to link up with the upcoming X-Men universe joining the MCU.
A source told Vulture “I think everyone on the crew knew this is not going to be a good film. Some of the action sequences were not believable. We had a lot of frustrations on set. My co-workers who spent more time on Brave New World than I did said, “Yeah, this has been a really rough production.” When the studio had its test in front of an audience, it didn’t respond.
All other MCU films begin with a Marvel logo, but Brave New World didn’t why not?
Next from MCU is Thunderbolts* in May and Fantastic Four in July.
- 3. Dog Man £680,901 – £12,053,949
Down 66.5% in its fourth weekend.
Took £84k 12.35% (-90.3% £863k) Fri; £340k 50% (-41% £576k) Sat; £256k 37.6% (-56.9% £594k) Sun
585th biggest fourth weekend between Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 1 and Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (close to Speed, The Emoji Movie, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Fantastic Mr Fox) and 884th biggest inflated fourth weekend between Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny and Prince Of Persia (close to 28 Days Later, Grown Ups, Déjà vu and Dangerous Minds).
33rd biggest Dreamworks Animation fourth weekend between Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Wild Robot (close to Abominable and The Bad Guys)
A spinoff to 2017’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie dropped 16.9% £276,313 and £6,315,046 77.96% of £8,100,263; despite receiving positive reviews and strong word of mouth it struggled to find an audience against The Emoji Movie opening the week after.
Recent Dreamworks Animation fourth weekends
2024’s The Wild Robot down 69.5% £665,209 and £12,735,553 93.56% of £13,611,793
2024’s Kung Fu Panda 4 dropped 48.6% £901,615 and £18,587,205 85.24% of £21,805,140
2023’s Trolls Band Together dropped 47.6% £959,193 and £13,950,141 91.08% of £15,316,583
2023’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish dropped 44.5% £1,763,083 and £20,493,900 79.95% of £25,633,299
2022’s The Bad Guys dropped 8.6% £738,011 and £9,362,010 69.46% of £13,478,928
587th biggest between Robots and Batman (close to Hairspray, The Lion King 3D, Home Alone and Pretty Woman) and 992nd biggest inflated between The First Wives Club and What Happens in Vegas… (close to Knight & Day, Open Season, The Hannah Montana Movie and Shaun of the Dead).
- 4. The Monkey £603,786 – £2,198,710
£180k 29.8% (-50.7% £365k) Fri; £264k 43.7% (-26.5% £359k) Sat; £160k 26.5% (-53.8% £346k) Sunday.
1,714th biggest second weekend between The Women and Maybe Baby (close to The Woman King, The Good Liar, Madame Web and Den of Thieves) and 2,287th biggest inflated second weekend between The Missing and The Expendables 3 (close to Very Bad Things, Escape Plan, Eastern Promises and Bugsy).
46th biggest second weekend over the last 52 weeks between Transformers One and The Brutalist (close to Conclave, Babygirl, Trap and Blink Twice).
The Monkey is based on the 1980 short story The Monkey by Stephen King. Osgood Perkins described the film as “The Monkey is Robert Zemeckis on ecstasy or something,”… “It’s a very playful comedy with a lot of really excessive gore, language. It’s a kids’ movie that’s rated R.”
The Monkey is Osgood Perkins’s follow-up to last year’s Longlegs dropped 4.5% in the second weekend £1,309,011 and £3,957,946 48.9% of £7,838,045.
Stephen King said on social media “You’ve never seen anything like “The Monkey,” .. “It’s batshit insane. As someone who has indulged in batshittery from time to time, I say that with admiration.” While others have described it as bloody, darkly funny and disturbing and need to see it with a large audience as benefits from crowd reaction.
The first trailer has been viewed over 109m times across all platforms including TikTok; 43m in its first 24 and over 100m in its first 72 hours. This compares to 28 Years Later 60.2m and 146m global views to date.
Osgood Perkins’s next film Keeper will be released in October starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland. The first teaser trailer was attached to The Monkey. The budget for Keeper was $8m a non-WGA writer Nick Lepard wrote the script, and it took three weeks to shoot in August 2024.
- 5. The Last Showgirl £384,166 – NE
Included £92,567 from previews
Took 394k 24.48% Friday; £112k 29.17% Saturday; £178k 46.35% Sunday
Had the second biggest opening for Picturehouse Entertainment after 2018’s The Wife (£392k) and ahead of 2024’s The Taste Of Things (£235k) and 2017’sThe Party (£234k).
The film generated strong media coverage as Pamela Anderson recently promoted the film in the UK appearing on Graham Norton Show. The Last Showgirl received critical acclaim, Pamela Anderson was nominated for Best Actress at the Golden Globes and Jamie Lee Curtis for Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs.
UK box office in detail
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £8,438,548 down 33.8% from last weekend’s £15,135,253: 1,078,172 admissions down 44.2% from 1,930,873 admissions.
39th biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 03 May 2024 #1 The Fall Guy £3,598,996 (41.4%) and 24 January 2025 #1 A Complete Unknown £1,667,821 (21.27%)
137th biggest since cinemas reopened out of 224 weeks between 20 January 2023 #1 Avatar: The Way of Water £2,789,760 (32.99%) and 14 January 2022 #1 Spider-Man No Way Home £3,215,166 (38.11%)
828th biggest top 10 of the last 22 years (out of 1,195) between 08 March 2013 #1 Oz: The Great and Powerful £3,712,948 (43.99%) and 14 January 2022 #1 Spider-Man No Way Home £3,215,166 (38.11%) and 1,053rd inflated between 12 September 2014 #1 The Boxtrolls £2,000,597 (28.12%) and 20 April 2007 #1 Wild Hogs £954,553 (17.91%)
The top 3 took (£6,263,007) 74.2% of the top 10; Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy 48.95% (£4,130,747); Captain America: Brave New World 17.2% (£1,451,359); Dog Man 13.4% (£680,901) 8.07%
298th biggest percentage share #1 (48.95%) between 03 January 2003 #1 Lord of the Rings: Two Towers £5,774,170 (49.04%) and 29 November 2013 #1 THG: Catching Fire £5,525,476 (48.84%)
665th biggest admissions #1 (521,559) between 03 May 2002 #1 About A Boy £2,239,288 (521,979) and 22 January 2016 #1 The Revenant £3,856,489 (520,444)
Down 38% from 2024; (£13,609,322); Dune Part 2 (£9,279,080); Lisa Frankenstein (£91,537); #1 Dune Part 2 £9,279,080 1st week 712 screens (68.18% of top 10)
Down 23.6% from 2023; (£10,910,653); Creed III (£5,003,452); Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba to the Swordsmith Village (£567,638); #1 Creed III £5,003,452 1st week 645 screens (45.86% of top 10)
Down 52.4% 2022 (£17,731,345); The Batman (£13,531,854); The Godfather: Part II (Re: 2022) (£45,151); #1 The Batman £13,531,854 1st week 706 screens (76.3% of top 10)
2021 Lockdown
Down 8.8% 2020; (£9,249,289); The Invisible Man (£2,163,798); Dark Waters (£860,942); Portrait of a Lady on Fire (£229,678); Agrippina – Met Opera 2020 (£216,109); Downhill (£188,720); True History of the Kelly Gang (£85,847); #1 The Invisible Man £2,163,798 1st week 580 screens (23.4% of top 10)
Down 0.6% from 2019: (£8,486,971); Fighting with My Family (£2,022,174); The Aftermath (£595,657); La Fille Du Regiment – Met Opera 2019 (£240,965); Alien (40th Anniversary) (£129,245); What They Had (£16,686); #1 Fighting with My Family £2,022,174 1st week 573 screens (23.8% of top 10)
Down 26% from 2018; (£11,400,044); Red Sparrow (£1,843,124); Game Night (£1,094,478); Monster Family (£126,235); A Fantastic Woman (£98,445); The Flames of Paris – Bolshoi 2018 (£74,391); #1 Black Panther £3,736,954 3rd week 599 screens 46% drop (32.8% of top 10)
Down 47.8% 2017: (£16,157,614); Logan (£9,443,363); Viceroy’s House (£921,309); Fist Fight (£400,112); Trespass Against Us (£32,569); #1 Logan £9,443,363 1st week 602 screens (58.4% of top 10)
Down 9.6% 2016: (£9,333,112); London Has Fallen (£3,229,675); Hail, Caesar! (£1,520,788); Manon Lescaut – Met Opera 2016 (£279,586); The Other Side of the Door (£262,955); The Choice (£139,669); Truth (£26,701); #1 London Has Fallen (£3,229,675 1st week
Down 31.4% 2015; (£12,304,244); The Second-Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (£3,771,852); Focus (£1,910,245); The Boy Next Door (£406,174); It Follows (£371,142); Catch Me Daddy (£37,679); #1 The Second-Best Exotic Marigold Hotel £3,771,852 1st week 589 screens (30.6% of top 10)
Down 28.9% 2014: (£11,864,224); Non-Stop (£2,652,364); Ride Along (£1,420,992); The Book Thief (expansion) (£1,370,649); Prince Igor – Metropolitan Opera 2014 (£259,667); Nymphomaniac Part 2 (£15,354); Unforgiven (£4,778); #1 The Lego Movie £3,266,594 3rd week 549 screens 45% drop (27.5% of top 10)
Up 8.3% 2013: (£7,788,702); Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (£1,502,782); Safe Haven (£812,460); Broken City (£499,283); Arbitrage (£402,873); Stoker (£367,509); #1 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters £1,502,782 1st week 404 screens (19.3% of top 10)
Down 21.7% 2012: (£10,782,506); This Means War (£1,821,698); Project X (£561,655); Wanderlust (£490,592); Hunky Dory (£31,930); #1 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel £2,342,095 2nd week 1st #1 509 screens 5% up (21.7% of top 10)
Down 9% 2011; (£9,268,880); Rango (£1,638,613); The Adjustment Bureau (£1,395,715); Unknown (£1,356,345); Ironclad (£52,470); The Tempest (£8,445); #1 Rango £1,638,613 1st 470 screens (17.7% of top 10)
Down 43% 2010: (£14,805,412); Alice in Wonderland (£10,555,220); Legion (£212,328); Case 39 (£183,088); Ondine (£102,138); #1 Alice in Wonderland £10,555,220 1st week 533 screens (71.3% of top 10)
Down 13.6% 2009; (£9,768,713); The Unborn (£1,300,543); The International (£760,382O; New in Town (£438,979); Franklyn (£52,567); #1 Slumdog Millionaire £1,676,508 8 weeks split over several weeks 449 screens up 7% (17.2% of top 10)
Up 26.4% 2008; (£6,676,677); The Bank Job (£951,013); Semi-Pro (£774,698); The Accidental Husband (£703,631); Untraceable (£549,524); Margot at the Wedding (£33,958); #1 The Bank Job £951,013 1st week 324 screens (14.2% of top 10)
Up 4.5% 2007: (£8,075,563); Ghost Rider (£1,851,897); The Illusionist (£675,293); Material Girls (£300,962); Freedom Writers (£233,382); #1 Hot Fuzz £2,219,655 3rd week 441 screens 33% drop (27.5% of top 10)
Up 32% 2006; (£6,392,804); Syriana (£864,796); The Weatherman (£406,217); Last Holiday (£399,524); The Matador (£335,017); Kidulthood (£100,056); #1 Date Movie £1,057,768 2nd week 356 screens 18% drop (16.5% of top 10)
Up 87.7% 2005: (£4,495,350); Boogeyman (£788,439); The Flight of the Phoenix (£292,012); Harold & Kumar Get the Munchies (£284,050); #1 Boogeyman £788,439 1st week 318 screens (17.5% of top 10)
Up 24.7% 2004; (£6,768,162); Along Came Polly (£2,252,808); The Missing (£497,573); House of Sand and Fog (£132,163); #1 Along Came Polly £2,252,808 1st week 385 screens (33.3% of top 10)
Up 0.7% 2003 (£8,381,722); Jackass: The Movie (£1,314,740); Analyze That (£575,278); Solaris (£313,804); Adaptation (£238,958); #1 The Ring £1,692,154 2nd week 398 screens 23% drop (20.2% of top 10)
Down 14.3% from 2002: (£9,851,530); A Beautiful Mind (expansion) (£1,226,446); The Mothman Prophecies (£762,516); The Shipping News (limited) (£96,694); #1 Ocean’s Eleven £2,623,689 2-week #1 split 3rd week 437 screens 27% drop (26.6% of top 10)
2024 Next week: (£9,441,790); Dune Part 2 (£5,851,155); Imaginary (£652,808); Shaitaan (£114,929); Titanic – The Musical (£112,010); La Forza Del Destino – Met Opera 2023/24 (£87,642); Soul (£79,251); Origin (£41,156); #1 Dune Part 2 £5,851,155 2nd week dropped 37% 726 screens (61.97% of top 10)
US Box Office
- Captain America: Brave New World – Disney
Dropped 47% in its third weekend taking $14.85m and $163.54m
330th biggest third weekend between The Butler and 21 Jump Street (close to Spectre, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Kong: Skull Island)
27th biggest MCU third weekend between Thor and Thor: The Dark World (close to Doctor Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Captain America: The First Avenger and Ant-Man 3)
Took $26.3m from IMAX worldwide; $14.5m US and $11.8m internationally.
EntTelligence average ticket prices were $15.17 (standard) and $18.60 (PLF/IMAX)
Brave New World has about 600m followers on social media normal for superhero movies; 21% down TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram combined compared to Deadpool & Wolverine having 1.15bn followers ahead of the opening, Thor: Love & Thunder 963m in July 2022.
Third weekends
2016’s Captain America: Civil War dropped 54.7% $32.93m and $347.21m of $408.08m and $1.155bn WW
2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier dropped 38% $25.58m and $200.5m of $259.76m and $714.42m WW
2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger dropped 49% $13.02m and $143.2m of $176.65m and $370.56m WW
MCU films have taken $12.5bn in the US and $31.2bn worldwide.
Took $18.8m from 52 territories $178.1m total and $341.8m worldwide; UK $19.8m; China $14.2m; Mexico a$13.1m; France $11.5m; Korea $10.7m
- The Last Breath – Focus Features
Opened $7.8m; received positive reviews (78% Rotten Tomatoes) and B+ CinemaScore
Took $1m from Thursday midnights ($650k from DBOX
Audience breakdown 51% men; 18% 18-24 years; 26% 25-34; 53% 35+
social media across TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram was 37.2m.
The Last Breath had a budget of $24m and was adapted from a 2019 documentary of the same name also directed by Alex Parkinson.
- The Monkey – Neon
Down 54% in the second weekend $6.41m and $25m
2024’s Longlegs dropped 46.6% $11.97m and $44.92m of $74.34m and $126.94m worldwide
The Monkey is the fifth horror that has opened this year.
- Paddington In Peru – Sony Pictures
Dropped 31% $6.41m in its third weekend and $31.37m
2014’s Paddington dropped 32.6% $8.26m and $50.3m of $76.27m and $326.08m WW
2017’s Paddington 2 dropped 29.2% $5.66m and $32.11m of $40.9m and $290.13m WW
Took $5.2m from 55 territories and $133m and $164.3m worldwide; almost half from the UK $44.7m
- Dog Man – Universal Pictures
Down 28% in its fifth weekend $4.24m in the fifth weekend and $84.1m
790th biggest fifth weekend between Scary Movie and Mr. Deeds (close to Fantastic Four (2005), Red One, Enchanted and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania).
2017’s Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie dropped 74% $1.11m and $69.26m of $73.91m and $125.42m WW
Most recently Dreamworks Animation
2024’s The World Robot dropped 32.6% $6.8m and $111.67m of $143.89m and $324.77m worldwide
Dreamworks Animation films have taken $6.61bn in the US and $17.63bn worldwide since 1998.
2024’s Kung Fu Panda 4 dropped 24.9% $7.71m and $165.97m of $193.59m and $547.69m worldwide
2023’s Trolls Band Together dropped 35.1% $3.94m and $88.61m of $103.97m and $210.65m worldwide
2022’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish dropped 18.4% $11.8m and $126.76m of $186.09m and $485.25m worldwide
2022’s The Bad Guys dropped 12.7% $6.14m and $74.4m of $97.45m and $250.9m worldwide
Took $3.9m from 52 territories and $26.2m and $105m worldwide.
UK Box Office Top 10
UK Box Office Preview
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy dropped 40% and could see it hold #1 for its fourth weekend taking £2.3m-£2.6m taking close to £40m after a month on release.
2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary dropped 20.6% £2,768,335/£5,329,380 and £27,009,116 64.78% of £41,692,598/£80,263,286
2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason dropped 43.6% £1,696,588/£3,011,538 and £30,571,861 85.03% of £35,954,611/£63,821,436
2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby dropped 37.6% £2,997,832/£3,224,389 and £37,866,152 78.8% of £48,050,641/£51,681,998
Sci-fi Mickey 17 will likely open between £2m-£2.5m
Has its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2025.
Was originally set for release in March 2024, but was delayed due to the SAG strike and post-production delays to January 2025 and then April 18th before moving forward a month to 7th March, moved to March to get IMAX screens for two weeks.
After three of Bong Joon-ho’s previous films premiered at the Cannes Film Festival; 2008’s Shaking Tokyo; 2017’s Okja and 2020’s Parasite many expected Mickey 17 to also premiere at Cannes as its far more high-profile festival than Berlin. Had it opened at Cannes Mickey 17 would have only had one week with IMAX screens due to Thunderbolts and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.
It was Bong Joon-ho’s first film since Oscar-winning Parasite opened £1,397,387 (137 screens taking £12,030,000 (COVID lockdown shortened its release); its release was affected by COVID with cinemas closing a month after opening, while it opened in 137 screens expanding over several weeks Mickey 17 will open wide in 600+ screens in IMAX/PLF screens.
Mickey 17 has been compared to films like
1996’s 12 Monkeys open £1,363,967/£2,670,962 taking £6,106,751/£11,958,429
1999’s Fight Club opened £1,177,219/£2,214,626 322 screens taking £5,018,967/£9,441,857
2009’s District 9 opened £2,288,378/£3,352,642 taking £8,875,093 /£13,002,664
2016’s Arrival opened £2,924,059/£3,145,041 taking £9,144,719
Captain America: Brave New World will drop 50%-60% in its fourth weekend taking £550k-£750k
Being the only children’s film on release Dog Man will have a smaller fourth weekend drop of about 30%-40% taking £400k-£500k.
Marching Powder starring Danny Dyer is the first film released by new British independent distributor True Brit Entertainment launched by former Lionsgate UK boss Zygi Kamasa in 2023 with plans to release a slate of British films. They planned to release 4-8 British films annually, co-financing $50m worth of films each year.
Over the last 20+ years, so many British-based film distributors have either been acquired by international companies including Optimum by Studiocanal, Redbus by Lionsgate and Electric by eOne. The one surviving UK-based distributor Entertainment Films making fewer films and no longer being the force it was 20 years ago. Despite hundreds of millions of Lottery funding and billions spent making films in the UK few are fully financed by British companies, and they haven’t been for over 30 years.
In the 90s British companies like First Independent Films and Rank Film Distributors closed while Polygram was sold to Universal Pictures, Bridget Jones’s Diary was in development at Working Title Films when it was owned by Polygram. Working Title Films have had huge success with “British” films over the years since, but they are of course now owned by Universal Pictures and Studiocanal.
Upcoming films include The Death Of Robin Hood, Sunny Dancer, 500 Miles, In The Shadows, The Scurry, Christmas Karma, Giant and The Dreadful.
The Critic released last year via Lionsgate was the first film acquired by True Brit Entertainment.
Despite being a sleeper hit in the US earlier this year One Of Them Days will struggle to find an audience.
Opening in three weeks
- A Working Man – Warner Bros
Action thriller starring Jason Statham, David Harbour, Michael Peña, and Jason Flemyng and directed by David Ayer.
Sylvester Stallone was originally attached to star in a TV show adaption of the Chuck Dixon novel Levon’s Trade but in 2023 it was switched to a film. Amazon acquired US and UK rights in January 2024.
- The Woman In The Yard – Universal Pictures
Psychological horror starring Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Russell Hornsby, Peyton Jackson and Estella Kahiha and directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. From Blumhouse Productions.
- Novocaine – Paramount Pictures
Action-comedy thriller starring Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Jacob Batalon, Betty Gabriel and Matt Walsh and directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen.
Looks similar to films including Very Bad Things, Fargo, In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths and American Psycho
- Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (Sunday) – CinemaLive
Billy Elliott The Musical – Live was previously released in 2014 opening £1,904,000 #1
It’s the 25th anniversary of the film the musical was based on opened £1,541,109/£2,890,033 taking £16,972,531/£31,828,488