| Rank | Movie (origin) | Distributor | July 18-20 | Complete | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Superman (US) | Warner Bros | £4.9m | £16.4m | 2 |
| 2 | Jurassic World Rebirth (US) |
Common | £3.3m | £24.9m | 3 |
| 3 | F1: The Film (US) | Warner Bros | £1.3m | £18.2m | 4 |
| 4 | Smurfs (US-Bel) | Paramount | £1.2m | £1.2m | 1 |
| 5 | I Know What You Did Final Summer season (US) | Sony | £941,968 | £941,968 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion charge: 1.35
Opening titles Smurfs and I Know What You Did Final Summer season stumbled on the UK-Eire field workplace; however there was higher information for holdovers together with primary Superman.
Warner Bros’ Superman dropped simply 30% on its second weekend, with £4.9m taking it to a £16.4m whole. The primary in a brand new collection of DC Comics variations, it has already grossed greater than the totals of eight of the 15 titles from the earlier DC Prolonged Universe; and can overtake 2017’s Justice League (£17.4m) this week.
With moist climate throughout a lot of the territory this weekend in distinction to the sunshine of the weekend earlier than, a number of holdover titles noticed will increase of their weekend-on-weekend takings.
Common’s Jurassic World Rebirth noticed a 2% uptick on its third session with £3.3m. The dinosaur blockbuster is now as much as £24.9m, and whereas the primary two Jurassic World movies might be past it, a powerful tail might nonetheless see it catch the £35.1m of 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion.
Warner Bros’ F1: The Film sped to an 8% improve on its fourth weekend, with a £1.3m session and £18.2m whole. Amongst driving-themed movies, it has handed 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Highway (£17.5m) and can quickly overtake 2011’s Quick & Livid 5 (£18.5m) and 2019’s Quick & Livid: Hobbs & Shaw (£20.7m).
Paramount’s Smurfs took fourth place on its opening weekend, with a £1.2m session, with marginally extra together with previews. The animation took a £2,013 location common from 596 websites.
Sony’s I Know What You Did Final Summer season remake opened to £941,968 from 502 cinemas at a £1,876 common. It now faces a problem to match the £4.4m of the unique movie from 1997, though ought to catch the £2.7m of its 1999 sequel.
Takings for the highest 5 dropped by 7% to £11.6m; though are up by 2% on the equal weekend from final yr. The blockbusters proceed subsequent weekend with Disney’s newest Marvel providing, The Incredible 4: First Steps and Common animation The Unhealthy Guys 2.
Dragon, Ballad improve takings
Regardless of dropping out of the highest 5 on its sixth weekend in cinemas, Common’s live-action How To Practice Your Dragon remake posted a 16% uptick. The movie added £675,900 to hit £20.5m, overtaking the £20.1m of 2019’s animated How To Practice Your Dragon: The Hidden World and behind solely 2014’s How To Practice Your Dragon 2 (£27.6m) within the franchise.
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later dropped simply 12% on its fifth weekend, with £438,640 bringing it to £14.7m for Sony. It has overtaken fellow zombie movie World Conflict Z (£14.6m) from 2013; and will catch 2004 vampire title Van Helsing (£15.1m) within the subsequent week.
Authentic animation Elio leads Disney’s slate, and skilled a formidable 28% enhance on its fifth session with £307,000 taking it simply previous the £4m mark.
Disney live-action remake Lilo & Sew added £196,000 on its ninth session in cinemas – a 23% improve that introduced it to £36.4m whole.
Andrew DeYoung’s US comedy Friendship starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd began with £180,000 from 161 websites at a £1,118 common for Paramount.
Punjabi comedy Sarbala Ji made a very good begin for Bakrania Media, with £88,022 from 65 websites at a £1,354 website common.
James Griffiths’ music-themed comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island posted a superb 57% improve on its eighth weekend in cinemas, with £72,651 taking it simply past the £2m mark – a success for UK producer Rupert Majendie of Child Cow Productions and distributor Common.
Park Circus’s 50th anniversary re-release of Stanley Kubrick’s 185-minute Barry Lyndon took a good £60,823 from 63 websites at a £965 common.
Irish romantic drama 4 Letters Of Love began with £54,596 from 144 websites at a £379 common for Vertigo Releasing, and has £58,059 together with one preview.
Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is hanging on in cinemas, with Paramount’s Mission: Inconceivable – The Remaining Reckoning growing by 1% on its ninth weekend with £49,583 taking it to £26.1m for Paramount.
The Salt Path is approaching the tip of its highway for Black Bear, dropping 49% on its eighth weekend with £19,000 bringing it to simply shy of £8m whole.
Mubi’s Harvest started with £15,396 from 29 websites at a £531 common, and has £40,672 inlcuding previews.
Common’s doll horror M3GAN 2.0 didn’t expertise the boosts seen elsewhere, dropping 63% on its fourth weekend with £9,170 bringing it to £1.2m.
A BFI Distribution re-release of 1999 comedy Human Site visitors made £4,675 on the weekend, and has £14,511 together with previews from the center of final week.
Experimental biopic The Ballad Of Suzanne Césaire opened to £1,854 from three websites for T A P E Collective, and has £1,976 together with previews.
