‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ dominates UK-Ireland box office with £23.5m opening weekend; ‘The Odyssey’ passes £50m

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day posted the fourth-biggest three-day opening of all time at the UK-Ireland box office, with a huge £23.5m start.

The Sony title took an enormous £32,777 location average from 716 locations. Its three-day start is behind only 2019’s Avengers: Endgame  (£31.4m), 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens  (£24.2m) and 2011’s Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2  (£23.7m), and ahead of the likes of Avengers: Infinity War  (£23.1m) and all James Bond titles, including 2021’s No Time To Die  (£21m) and 2012’s Skyfall  (£20.2m).

Including its opening on Wednesday (July 29), Brand New Day brought in £36.4m – the third-highest opening when including previews, behind only Endgame  (£43.4m) and Spectre  (£41.3m).

It has also set records for a Spider-Man film, beating the £19.5m three-day opening and £31.9m total opening of 2021’s No Way Home. It has passed the totals of six of the eight standalone Spider-Man films since 2000, behind only No Way Home  (£97.3m) and 2019’s Far From Home  (£37.4m), which it will pass today.

Brand New Day dethroned Universal’s The Odyssey after two sessions atop the chart. However, Christopher Nolan’s epic still posted a strong result, passing the £50m mark.

It fell 43% on its third weekend, with £6.8m bringing it to a £50.4m total. It has now passed the totals of nine of Nolan’s 12 previous features, behind only Oppenheimer  (£59.8m), Dunkirk  (£56.8m) and The Dark Knight Rises  (£56.5m). It is now the third-biggest Imax release of all time in the territory, and the first film to cross £1m at Cineworld’s flagship Leicester Square venue.

Disney’s Toy Story 5 also crossed the £50m mark, and is now on its seventh week in cinemas. The Pixar animation added £1.05m with a 45% drop, and is up to £51.9m total, likely to finish as the third-highest-grossing of the franchise behind Toy Story 3  (£74.1m) and Toy Story 4  (£66.2m).

Minions & Monsters  added £777,000 on its fifth weekend for Universal – a 43% drop that brought it to £14.4m total. It has overtaken animations including Kung Fu Panda 3  (£14.3m) and The Wild Robot  (£14.1m), but is still at less than a third of the totals of most of the previous Minions/Despicable Me films.

Disney’s Moana  held a top five spot on its fourth weekend, with a 48% drop to £718,000. The live-action title has crossed the £10m mark, with £10.5m total.

Takings for the top five titles soared 95% to £32.9m, in one of the biggest UK-Ireland box office weekends on record. The total is the first time the top five have passed a cumulative £20m this year, and is only 4% down on the £34.4m amount for the opening Barbenheimer weekend in July 2023.

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Olivia Wilde’s The Invite added a further £191,000 on its fifth weekend in cinemas for Black Bear – a 38% drop that was better than most titles in the market and brought the film to £3.5m total.

Curry Barker’s horror phenomenon Obsession is maintaining a solid top 10 spot, 12 weekends into its cinema run for Universal. The low-budget film fell 45% on its latest session, with £139,000 taking it to £19.4m total; it should overtake the £19.5m of David Fincher’s Seven within the next week to become the fifth-highest-grossing horror film ever in the territory.

Evil Dead Burn put on £72,400 for Studiocanal – a 69% drop on its fourth weekend, that brought it to £2.4m total.

Imran Perretta’s Venice 2025 Critics’ Week selection Ish started with £20,700 at the weekend for BFI Distribution, from 42 sites at a £492 average. Including previews, the debut feature is up to £31,200.

Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day dropped 80% on its eighth weekend in cinemas for Universal, with £15,500 bringing it to £12.9m total.

Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit brought in £13,000 for Park Circus, from 220 sites at a £59 average. The stop-motion animation made £32m on its original 2005 release.

Curzon’s re-release of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1986 The Sacrifice brought in £9,382 from 14 locations at a £670 average. Including preview and festival screenings, the release has £10,534 in total.

Andy Serkis’s Animal Farm added £8,481 on its second weekend for Vue Lumière, and is up to £83,700 in total.

Backrooms, A24’s highest-grossing release, added £7,217 on its 10th weekend in cinemas, and is up to £13.1m total.

Warner Bros’ Supergirl is closing out its disappointing theatrical run, with £6,459 on its sixth weekend in cinemas contributing to a £5.8m total.

Indian adventure comedy Dhamaal 4 put on £5,978 on its fourth weekend in cinemas for AA Films UK, distributed by Bakrania Media. The film is up to £276,000, ahead of the £229,000 of 2007’s Dhamaal but behind 2011’s Double Dhamaal (£302,000) and 2019’s Total Dhamaal (£530,000).

Event cinema release WHAM! 10 Days In China took £236,000 across the week, predominantly from its Tuesday, July 28 event release day.

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