‘Hoppers’ stays top of UK-Ireland box office; ‘Project Hail Mary’ previews hit second place

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Disney’s Hoppers topped the charts again at the UK and Ireland box office as previews of Sony’s Project Hail Mary impressed and Universal’s Reminders Of Him opened third.

Hoppers dropped just 31% in its second weekend with £2.3m. The latest Pixar title is up to £7.7m and is tracking just behind 2018’s Coco which had hit £8.2m at the same point.

In second place was Sony’s sci-fi Project Hail Mary which made £2.04m in previews. It was technically the widest new title of the weekend in 632 venues, though it does not officially release until Friday (March 20). Ryan Gosling stars in Christopher Miller and Phil Lord’s space adventure.

Opening in third place was Universal’s Reminders Of Him with £1.1m from 545 locations. It is the lowest debut for a Colleen Hoover adaptation so far, behind Paramount’s Regretting You (£1.2m opening) and Sony’s It Ends With Us (£4.5m opening).

Studiocanal opened dark comedy How To Make A Killing on £610,898 from 546 locations and £883,785 including previews. It was behind the debuts of previous Glen Powell-headlined titles Anyone But You (£733,416) and The Running Man (£1.7m). 

Mother’s Pride clung to fifth place after dropping just 15% in its second session with £600,639 for Entertainment Film Distributors. The UK pub comedy is now up to £2m.

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Warner Bros’ Wuthering Heights added £532,967 on its fifth week of play for a total of £24.3m.

Paramount’s Scream 7 dropped 60% in its third weekend with £492,000. With a cume of £7.1m, it will likely overtake the £7.7m of Scream VI to become the second-highest-grossing entry in the horror franchise, behind the original Scream (£8.4m).

Despite picking up the best actress Oscar last night (March 15) for Hamnet, Jessie Buckley failed to revive The Bride! which plummeted 75% in its second weekend for Warner Bros. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s creature feature currently stands at £1.2m. 

The Secret Agent became Mubi’s sixth foreign-language title to cross £1m at the box office after the Brazilian thriller added £77,891 in its fourth weekend.

On its 16^th week of release, Disney’s Zootropolis 2 added £36,422 despite now being available to stream on Disney Plus. The animation’s total now stands at £36.1m.

Spanish thriller Sirat was down just 34% in its third weekend with £34,000 and is now up to £349,000 for Altitude.

Bi Gan’s Resurrection opened with £17,103 for Trinity Film Cine Asia and has £42,742 including previews.

More titles to follow.

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