| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Oct 9-11 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other Mommy (US) | Universal | £2m | £2m | 1 |
| 2 | Verity (US) | Sony | £1.9m | £7.3m | 2 |
| 3 | Heart Of The Beast (US) | Paramount | £815,000 | £5.4m | 3 |
| 4 | Resident Evil (US) | Sony | £780,000 | £12.7m | 4 |
| 5 | The Social Reckoning (US) | Sony | £621,000 | £621,000 | 1 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.32
Rob Savage’s horror Other Mommy topped the UK-Ireland box office with a £2m opening weekend, as Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning started its run in fifth place.
Universal’s Other Mommy opened to £2m from 526 sites for a £3,770 average. That is slightly down on the £2.2m start of fellow Blumhouse Productions title Insidious: Out Of The Further from August, at a £4,170 average. It is up on the £1.3m start for a £2,710 average of Blumhouse’s Obsession from May, but that title went on to be a box office outlier with over £20m lifetime.
Amazon MGM Studios’ Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson dropped 44% on its second weekend, released by Sony. The film added £1.9m for a £7.3m total to date, already passing the £6.3m cume of last year’s fellow Hoover adaptation Regretting You.
Paramount action title Heart Of The Beast held third spot for a third successive weekend after another decent hold, dropping just 33%. It put on £815,000 and is up to £5.4m.
Sony horror Resident Evil put on a further £780,000 in its fourth session, dropping 42%, and is up to a strong £12.7m.
Sony also opened Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning to £621,000 from 610 sites at a low £1,020 average. That is down on the £2.5m full opening of David Fincher’s The Social Network, which told the first part of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s story.
The top five titles brought in a cumulative £6.1m - dropping for the second consecutive weekend, down 23% on the previous session. The figure is still up 25% on the equivalent weekend from last year, but exhibitors will hope Universal-DreamWorks animation Forgotten Island and Disney scuba thriller Whalefall can entice audiences back next weekend.
Uprising starts
Georgia Oakley’s Sense And Sensibility added £587,000 on its third weekend in cinemas for Universal. The period drama literary adaptation has reached £5.1m – not in the same range as the £25.3m of Wuthering Heights from earlier this year, but a solid performance with several weeks still to come.
Paul Greengrass’s historical action title The Uprising starring Andrew Garfield took £542,000 from 482 sites for Entertainment Film Distributors. That worked out at a £1,120 average, better than that of The Social Reckoning.
Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom leads Studiocanal’s slate, with a £491,000 fourth weekend, down just 11% on its previous session and at £3.8m total.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Digger dropped 55% on its second weekend for Warner Bros, with a fall slightly heavier than the market average. Its £488,000 second session brought it to £2.2m total; it now looks unlikely to reach £5m across its run.
The Odyssey added £268,000 on its 13th weekend in cinemas for Universal – a 76% increase on its previous session. Christopher Nolan’s epic is up to £87.5m as the 10th -highest-grossing film in the territory, and now just £1.5m behind Avengers: Endgame.
Crime drama Drishyam: The Conclusion put on £215,000 on its second weekend for Zee Studios, dropping 54% and reaching £902,000 total.
Disney’s Avengers: Endgame Encore release added £206,000 on its third weekend after a 71% drop, and is up to £6.3m, in addition to the £88.7m from the film’s 2019 first run.
Queen Budapest, a concert film of UK rock band Queen’s 1986 gig in the Hungarian capital, took £193,000 on Saturday alone, from 350 sites at a £551 average. Having opened last Wednesday, the film is up to £435,000 total for Trafalgar Releasing.
Warner Bros’ Practical Magic 2 added £182,000 on its fifth weekend after a 51% drop, and is up to a healthy £8.2m.
Studiocanal’s Pressure starring Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser put on £149,000 on its fifth session in cinemas after a 47% drop, and is up to £6.9m.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has become only the third film ever to cross £100m at the UK-Ireland box office. It added £127,000 on its 11th weekend for Sony, falling 33%, and is just beyond £100m.
Bad Apples starring Saoirse Ronan added £48,000 on its fourth weekend for Paramount, a 54% drop that brought it to £1.5m total.
De Gaulle: Part 2 - Liberté posted an 18% increase on its fourth weekend for Entertainment Film Distributors, with £32,700 bringing it to a £325,000 total.
Minions & Monsters surged 94% for Universal, with a £31,400 15th weekend in cinemas and £20.1m total.
Animation Coyote Vs. Acme leads Warner Bros’ slate, adding £28,000 on its seventh weekend for a £2.3m lifetime for Altitude.
Frank Berry’s Irish title The Lost Children Of Tuam, a dramatization of the true story of the discovery of nearly 800 children buried at a Catholic institution in Ireland, started with £27,200 for Picturehouse Entertainment, from 38 sites in England, Wales and Scotland at a £716 average. Including previews, the film is up to £36,600 in those territories; and has £275,000 from three weekends on release in Ireland and Northern Ireland, for a cumulative total of £311,000.
Animation Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie added £23,000 on its 10th weekend in cinemas for Paramount, and is up to almost £6.5m.
De Gaulle: Resistance added £20,200 on its seventh session, and is up to £606,000 for Entertainment Film Distributors.
A 30th anniversary re-release of Andrew Fleming’s cult classic The Craft took £17,700 for Park Circus.
Sony horrorInsidious: Out Of The Further added £16,300 on its eighth weekend, bringing it to just below £8.1m. It is around £70,000 behind the £8.1m of 2023’s The Red Door, the highest-grossing film in the Insidious series.
Molly Manners’ UK indie Extra Geography put on £15,200 on its second session for Vertigo Releasing, and has a £88,900 cume.
Anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway brought in £10,700 from screenings on Saturday only, for Anime Ltd.
French comedy Comedie Francaise took £8,800 from limited shows for Tull Stories.
Altitude’s 24 Hour Party People re-release brought in £8,300 at the weekend, and has £13,200 including previews. The film made just over £1m on its original 2002 run.
Indian action title Baththa added £8,090 on its second weekend for Zee Studios, and is up to £52,200.
A Casino Royale re-release brought in £238 at the weekend for Park Circus, for a total of £97,800 since its rollout on James Bond Day (October 5).
Trafalgar Releasing’s opera screenings of Cosi Fan Tutte are up to £81,200 after two weekends in cinemas.
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