| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Nov 24-26) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Napoleon (Sony) | £3.8m | £5.2m | 1 |
| 2. | The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes (Lionsgate) | £2.7m | £10.1m | 2 |
| 3. | Wish (Disney) | £2.4m | £2.4m | 1 |
| 4. | Saltburn (Warner Bros) | £572,728 | £2m | 2 |
| 5. | The Marvels (Disney) | £483,939 | £6.6m | 3 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.26
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon charged to the top of the UK-Ireland box office with a £3.8m opening weekend – the director’s sixth-highest in his 46-year feature career.
Opening in 716 locations – a record for distributor Sony – Napoleon took a £5,331 location average. Its £3.8m start is above that of Scott’s Oscar-winning Gladiator, which took £3.6m in 2000. Having opened on Wednesday of last week, the film has £5.2m in total so far.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes added a decent £2.7m on its second weekend, falling 50.4%. The film has crossed the £10m mark after just two sessions for Lionsgate, with £10.1m total. This represents a decent performance in the post-pandemic marketplace; it is still ahead of the £9.9m of the 2012 first film The Hunger Games at the same stage, with that film finishing on £24.1m.
Wish started with £2.4m for Disney, from 618 sites at a £3,923 location average. This is slightly down on the £2.9m start of fellow 2023 Disney animation Elemental; that film grew to a decent £18.4m total, so there is still hope for Wish if it can form a long tail.
Emerald Fennell’s class satire Saltburn added £572,728 on its second weekend for Warner Bros – an excellent hold in the current market, dropping just 26.2%. It is just shy of the £2m mark and could find further audiences as the awards season kicks into gear.
Disney’s The Marvels dropped 61% on its second weekend, with £483,939 taking it to £6.6m total. It is still behind the £8.3m of 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, currently the lowest-grossing of all 33 Marvel Cinematic Universe titles to date.
Takings for the top five rose 15.2% to just shy of £10m - the highest level since £10.9m on the weekend of August 11-13. The major opportunity to keep this progress going next weekend may lie with Trafalgar Releasing’s latest event cinema concert release, Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce.
Cliff faces the music
Event cinema release Cliff Richard: The Blue Sapphire Tour took £327,826 across two days of screenings on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 for Trafalgar Releasing. It is behind the £583,252 total of the singer’s previous event cinema release, 2021’s Cliff Richard: The Great 80 Tour – although could get within range with additional encore screenings.
Trolls Band Together took a 69% hit on its sixth session in cinemas, partly through the presence of genre competitor Wish. The Universal film added £227,473 across the weekend, and has £15.1m in total.
Hindi-language hit Tiger 3 added £113,644 on its third full weekend, and has £1.4m in total for Yash Raj Films.
Universal’s 20th anniversary re-release of Richard Curtis’ Love Actually brought in £104,675 at the weekend, in addition to the £37.6m made from the film’s initial release and subsequent re-releases.
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall added £104,000 on its third weekend in cinemas – enough to take it past the £1m mark to £1.1m, an excellent result for Lionsgate for a film with significant sections not in the English language.
Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon still leads Paramount’s slate after six weekends. It took a hefty 76% drop this session, with £76,000; but still has a strong £9.9m to date, closing in on the £10.4m of 1992’s Cape Fear which is currently Scorsese’s fifth-highest-grossing film in the territory.
Paw Patrol: The Movie put on £60,000 on its seventh weekend in cinemas, and has £7.8m total for Paramount.
Five Nights At Freddy’s dropped 75% on its fifth session for Universal, with £56,758 taking it to £10.5m in total.
Todd Haynes’ Cannes 2023 title May December, released by Studiocanal on behalf of Sky Cinema, dropped 58.2% on its second weekend, adding £24,037 to reach a £230,826 total.
A repertory release of 1985 animation Santa Claus: The Movie took £20,514 for Park Circus, with further screenings planned in the lead up to Christmas.
Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter starring Tilda Swinton started with £18,770 at the weekend for BFI Distribution, from 45 sites at a £417 location average. Including previews, the film has £50,026.
The Great Escaper put on £16,683 on its eighth session for Warner Bros, and has £5.2m total as it nears the end of its run.
Hong Kong drama Time Still Turns The Pages opened to £15,396 from 20 sites for Trinity Film, and has £16,966 including previews.
With a further £12,000, Adam Deacon’s crime comedy Sumotherhood has £2.4m from seven sessions – topping the £2.1m of its 2011 predecessor Anuvahood.
The Miracle Club is closing out for Lionsgate, adding £5,458 on its seventh session in cinemas to reach £1.9m.
Emma Seligman’s Bottoms added a further £5,177 on its fourth weekend for Warner Bros, and is up to £549,514.
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