| Rank | Title (origin) | Distributor | June 13-15 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How To Train Your Dragon (US) | Universal | £5.7m | £8.1m | 1 |
| 2 | Lilo & Stitch (US) |
Disney | £1.5m | £33.2m | 4 |
| 3 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (US) |
Paramount | £1.2m | £22.6m | 4 |
| 4 | The Salt Path (UK) |
Black Bear | £590,102 | £6m | 3 |
| 5 | Ballerina (US) |
Lionsgate | £580,303 | £2.6m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.36
Universal’s How To Train Your Dragon topped the UK-Ireland box office this weekend with £5.7m – the biggest opening of the four-film franchise.
The first live-action title of the franchise took an £8,618 location average from 663 sites. Its start is over 7% up on the previous biggest opening of the franchise, 2019’s How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
Including £2.4m from Monday-to-Thursday previews, How To Train Your Dragon has £8.1m total. Universal will be confident of surpassing the £17.4m of the first film and £20.1m of The Hidden World, although the £27.6m of 2014’s How To Train Your Dragon 2 remains a lofty target.
Among comparisons, the three-day How To Train Your Dragon result is ahead of 2023 live-action The Little Mermaid (£5m), and CGI title Mufasa: The Lion King (£4.4m) from December.
Another live-action remake of an animation, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch, was dethroned on its fourth weekend in cinemas. The film still took £1.5m – a 58% drop, that brings it to £33.2m total. It has now surpassed the totals of animated comparisons Sing 2 (£33m), Shrek Forever After (£32.7m) and The Incredibles (£32.4m).
Also on its fourth weekend, Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning posted a slightly better hold, dropping 48% with £1.2m. Christopher McQuarrie’s action blockbuster is now up to £22.6m, closing in on 2018’s Fallout (£24.4m) and 2023’s Dead Reckoning Part One (£26.6m) to become the highest-grossing title in the franchise.
Black Bear’s relationship drama The Salt Path< held onto fourth spot, adding £590,102 on its third weekend. This 58% drop that brought it to just shy of £6m – a decent result for a UK independent title in the current marketplace.
Lionsgate action title Ballerina dropped 59% on its second session, with £580,303 taking it to £2.6m total. The John Wick franchise title has overtaken the £1.6m of 2015’s John Wick, but the totals of John Wick 2 (£6m), John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (£10.4m) and John Wick: Chapter 4 (£17.6m) should be beyond it.
Takings for the UK-Ireland box office top five came in at £9.5m – down less than 1% on last weekend, although down 34% on the equivalent weekend from last year when Inside Out 2 came out. While How To Train Your Dragon will play on, exhibitors will hope Disney’s Elio and Sony’s 28 Years Later can provide competition from next weekend, heading into the summer season.
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Karate Kid: Legends dropped out of the top five on its second weekend for Sony. A £471,543 session marked a 53% drop, with the action title now up to £4.9m – down on the £12.4m of 2010’s The Karate Kid.
Gore horror Final Destination: Bloodlines leads Warner Bros’ slate, adding £304,539 on its fifth session after a 51% drop. The sixth title in the franchise now has £11.1m total, and could still catch the £12.8m of 2009’s The Final Destination to become the highest-grossing in the series.
The Ballad Of Wallis Island posted another outstanding hold for Universal, dropping just 3% across the weekend with £239,791. Now through a third weekend in cinemas, the comedy-drama, which stars Carey Mulligan, Tim Key and Tom Basden, has £905,734 and should cross the £1m mark this week.
Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience, a Trafalgar Releasing release of episodes from popular kids’ series Peppa Pig, dropped 69% on its third weekend with £153,259, and has an impressive total of almost £2m.
Entertainment Film Distributors’ horror Clown In A Cornfield added £129,641 on its second weekend – a 63% drop that brought it to £657,225.
Wes Anderson’s Cannes Competition entry The Phoenician Scheme added £129,616 on its fourth weekend for Universal – a 56% drop that brought it to £2.9m.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners added £80,115 on its ninth weekend for Warner Bros, with a 37% drop better than the market average. It has now crossed the £16m mark, in an impressive result for the vampire drama.
Indian comedy Housefull 5 A added £56,054 on its second weekend in cinemas for Bakrania Media, and has £354,180 in total. A separate print of the film with a different ending, Housefull 5 B, also made £15,239.
John Maclean’s crime thriller Tornado opened to £52,905 from 165 sites at a £321 average. Including previews, the film – which stars Tim Roth and Jack Lowden alongside Japanese cast Takehiro Hira and Koki – has £70,094 total.
Marvel Cinematic Universe title Thunderbolts* added £34,000 on its seventh weekend for Disney and has £16.2m total – the 31st -highest-grossing of 36 MCU titles to date, just behind Ant-Man (£16.3m).
Warner Bros’ A Minecraft Movie extended its position as the highest-grossing release of the year, adding £29,273 on its 11th weekend in cinemas to hit £56.6m.
Central City Media opened Hong Kong drama The Way We Talk, which premiered at BFI London Film Festival last year, to £19,314 including previews, with several sites still to report.
Vertigo Releasing’s shark horror Dangerous Animals added £14,640 on its second weekend, and has £203,207 in total.
Lionsgate’s re-release of Oasis documentary Supersonic took £8,009 from Sunday screenings alone, with encores tomorrow (Tuesday, June 17). The film’s original release made £763,841 in 2016.
Anime Ltd’s Japanese title Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye added £7,490 on its second weekend, and has £109,797 total.
Park Circus’s re-release of Pat O’Connor’s IRA drama Cal starring Helen Mirren made £5,409 including previews.
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