‘The End Of Oak Street’ opens with £2m at UK-Ireland box office; ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, ‘The Odyssey’ near milestones

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David Robert Mitchell’s mystery title The End Of Oak Street opened in third place at the UK-Ireland box office with over £2m; as Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey entered the all-time top 20.

Brand New Day added £6.1m on its third session, a drop of 50% for Sony. It is up to £78.7m, currently the 12th-highest-grossing film of all time in the territory. It will jump into the top 10 within the next week and is tracking ahead of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was at £69.8m after three weekends and ended on £97.3m, currently the fourth highest-grossing film.

Universal’s The Odyssey posted a 29% fall on its fifth session, with £3.7m taking it to £69.1m total. It is the 19th-highest-grossing film of all time in the UK and Ireland, and the second-highest-grossing literary adaptation, behind Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2  (£73.2m).

The End Of Oak Street started with £2.1m, from 648 sites at a £3,260 average. It is already the highest-grossing film for Mitchell, topping the £1.2m total of his 2015 horror It Follows.

Paramount’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie added £695,000 on its second weekend, marking a 37% drop from its opening. The animation is up to £3.2m, ahead of the £1.9m of 2020’s Paw Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue, but falling behind the rate of 2021’s The Paw Patrol Movie (£8.8m total) and 2023’s Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie (£8.2m total).

Toy Story 5  remained in the top five after nine weekends for Disney, with £527,000, a 29% drop. It is up to £55.2m total, overtaking family animations including 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie  (£54.9m) and 2019’s Frozen 2  (£53.8m), but behind the two most recent Toy Story films (£74.1m for number three, £66.2m for number four).

Takings for the top five came in at £13.2m, down 33% on the previous weekend, but still holding above £10m for the fifth weekend in a row, and a chunky 191% up on the equivalent weekend from last year. While Brand New Day and The Odyssey should continue to hold in seven-figure territory next weekend, challengers will include Sony’s Insidious: Out Of The Further and Black Bear’s Spa Weekend.

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Universal’s Minions And Monsters  put on £403,000 on its seventh weekend, a 26% drop. It is up to £17.2m, overtaking animations including Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip (£17.1m) and Kung Fu Panda 2  (£17m).

Katseye: Wild Hearts led the way among event cinema releases this weekend, with £367,000 from 163 locations at a £2,250 average for Trafalgar Releasing. The concert film from the US pop group is up to £724,000 in total.

Moana  put on £325,000 on its sixth weekend for Disney – a 30% drop that brought it to £12.7m, overtaking the £12.6m of 2013 animation Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2.

New openers this weekend also included A24’s Anthony Bourdain film Tony, which posted a strong £292,000 from just 100 sites, at a £2,920 site average. Including previews, it is up to £402,000, and will look to push towards the £1m mark across its run, with an expansion next weekend.

Olivia Wilde’s The Invite added £91,400 for Black Bear on its seventh session, a 36% drop on its previous weekend. It is up to a healthy £4m total, more than three times the £1.5m of Wilde’s 2019 Booksmart.

True Brit Entertainment’s Sunny Dancer started with £82,900 from 336 sites at a £247 average. Including previews, the UK independent feature is up to £96,600.

Curry Barker’s Obsession is at £19.8m after a £70,400 14^th weekend in cinemas for Universal, falling 25%. It should pass the £20m mark within the next fortnight, as one of the breakout box office successes of the year.

Nimrods: A Green Day Comedy took £65,100 for Trafalgar Releasing, and is up to £145,000.

Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man added £57,900 after a hefty 76% drop from its opening weekend. The Studiocanal bloody horror is up to £518,000 on its second weekend.

Samuel Abrahams’ UK comedy Lady started with a decent £49,400 from 55 screens, at an £898 average. Including previews, the film is already up to £70,600.

Nat Boltt’s Canadian-New Zealand comedy Holy Days opened to £26,900 from 137 screens, at a £196 average for Munro Film.

Charlie McDowell’s drama The Summer Book added £19,200 for Conic Film on its second weekend, and is up to £105,000.

Aardman Animations title The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! made £18,300 on its re-release through Park Circus. The stop-motion animation made £16.9m on its original 2012 run through Sony.

German family fantasy Momo & The Time Thieves took £10,400 for Signature Entertainment on its opening weekend.

Studiocanal’s Evil Dead Burn is up to £2.5m through six weekends, after a £5,160 latest session.

Warner Bros’ Practical Magic re-release put on £2,050 to reach £114,000 across two weekends, ahead of the sequel’s release on September 11.

K-pop concert film Cortis Tour: Put Your Phone Down In LA is up to £50,300 from all of last week’s screenings, for Trafalgar Releasing.

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