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| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Sep 26-28 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Battle After Another (US) | Warner Bros | £2.4m | £2.5m | 1 |
| 2 | Hamilton (US) |
Disney | £1.8m | £1.8m | 1 |
| 3 | Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (UK) | Universal | £1.3m | £13.4m | 3 |
| 4 | The Conjuring: Last Rites (US) | Warner Bros | £834,053 | £16.4m | 4 |
| 5 | The Long Walk (US) |
Lionsgate | £466,628 | £3.6m | 3 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.34
Warner Bros’ One Battle After Another topped the UK-Ireland box office this weekend with a strong £2.4m – comfortably a new record opening for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson.
The film surpassed the £794,295 opening of Anderson’s Boogie Nights from 1998. One Battle After Another opened in 650 sites, at a £3,768 site average.
With £2.5m including previews, it has already topped the totals of all Anderson films except Boogie Nights (£4.5m), There Will Be Blood (£5m), Phantom Thread (£2.8m) and Licorice Pizza (£2.6m) – most of which it should overtake within the next week.
Warner Bros will hope this good start will see the film reach beyond £10m across its run.
A one-weekend release of musical Hamilton for its 10th anniversary grossed an impressive £1.8m for Disney, from 738 sites at a £2,395 location average.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale leads Universal’s slate, and posted £1.3m on its third weekend – a 43% drop. The closing title to the Downton Abbey story is up to £13.4m – closing in on the £15.1m total of 2022 second film A New Era, but falling behind 2019’s Downton Abbey (£19.4m at this stage, and £28.5m total).
The Conjuring: Last Rites is playing well for Warner Bros, adding £834,053 – a 44% drop – on its fourth weekend. The horror is up to £16.4m, now £5m ahead of the next highest-grossing title from the nine-film Conjuring universe – 2018’s The Nun (£11.4m).
Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk held a top five spot for a third weekend. The Lionsgate release dropped 43% with £466,628, and is up to a decent £3.6m.
Takings for the top five came to £6.8m – a 12% increase on last weekend, and 85% up on the equivalent weekend from last year, as the box office seems to have rebounded from a tough August with a better September. Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party Of A Showgirl will aim to keep the good feeling going next weekend, with presales on the event release looking strong.
More to follow.
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