| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | August 22-24 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weapons (US) | Warner Bros | £1.1m | £8.9m | 3 |
| 2 | Freakier Friday (US) |
Disney | £740,432 | £6m | 3 |
| 3 | Materialists (US) | Sony | £554,097 | £2.7m | 2 |
| 4 | The Bad Guys 2 (US) | Universal | £510,810 | £10.4m | 5 |
| 5 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps (US) | Disney | £507,819 | £22.2m | 5 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.35
Warner Bros’ Weapons topped the UK-Ireland box office for a third successive weekend, as the top five titles remained the same as last weekend and dropped to a lowest cumulative total since 2022.
Weapons added £1.1m on its third session – a 26% drop that brings it to £8.9m (all total figures include Bank Holiday Monday). It will pass the £10m mark in the next fortnight – an excellent result for an 18-rated title, and a clear bright spot amid a tough August.
Disney comedy Freakier Friday dropped just 19% on its third weekend, with £740,432 taking beyond the £6m mark. It should overtake the £6.6m of 2003’s Freaky Friday, also starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, within the next week.
Sony romantic comedy Materialists added £554,097 on its second session – a 33% drop that brings it to £2.7m total, closing in on the £3.1m of director Celine Song’s Past Lives from 2023.
The Bad Guys 2 moved up a place in the chart for Universal, dropping just 6% on its fifth weekend with £510,810 bringing it to a £10.4m total. A long tail would give it an outside chance of catching the £13.8m of 2022’s The Bad Guys.
Disney’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps hangs on in the top five, also after five weekends. The Marvel Cinematic Universe title added £507,819 – a 26% drop that brings it to £22.2m total, the 22nd-highest-grossing of 36 MCU films.
Neither Universal’s Eddington nor Studiocanal’s The Life of Chuck managed to break into the top five on their opening weekends – full figures to come.
It has been a tough August for UK-Ireland cinemas. Takings for the top five dropped for the fourth consecutive weekend, by 24% to £3.5m. The top five figure is also down a sizeable 56% on the Bank Holiday weekend from last year; at its lowest level since 2022 (9% up), and 16% down on the 2021 Bank Holiday, when cinemas were only a few months into the post-pandemic reopening.
Disney comedy The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman; and Darren Aronofsky’s Sony crime comedy Caught Stealing will need to perform well next weekend to get the figures back on track after a good first half to the year.
Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby scored the highest site average for a new title this weekend, with £1,016 – a strong result for an independent release. The Picturehouse Entertainment film brought it £52,500 at the weekend, and has £96,275 in total.
Netflix had two films in UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend: The Thursday Murder Club and KPop Demon Hunters A Sing-Along Event, the latter on Saturday and Sunday screenings. The streamer does not report box office takings; Screen understands there was strong attendance for both titles, especially the limited release for The Thursday Murder Club.
More to follow.