True Brit Entertainment’s The Death Of Robin Hood is leading the new releases over the UK National Cinema Weekend, and there are plenty of re-releases from studios hoping to take advantage of the 530 cinemas offering £4 tickets.
It marks a return of the initiative after it was paused last year and is also the first time it will run across two days. National Cinema Day was last held August 31, 2024, and posted over 1 million admissions at 630 venues.
The Death Of Robin Hood is opening in 490 locations. It has been eight years since the last major film to adapt the famed folklore – 2018’s Robin Hood debuted with £1m from 468 venues for Lionsgate, while Ridley Scott’s 2010 iteration starring Russell Crowe grossed £5.8m from 537 venues in its opening weekend for Universal.
Hugh Jackman stars in Michael Sarnoski’s The Death Of Robin Hood as the ageing outlaw who is living in self-imposed exile and takes refuge in a priory. Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgard, Murray Bartlett and Noah Jupe also star.
Re-releases dominate the rest of the openers this weekend, led by Disney’s Pixar animation Cars in 495 sites for its 20th anniversary. Studiocanal is screening Terminator 2: Judgement Day in 457 sites 35 years after its original release, while Paramount has Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home playing in 370 locations for its 60th anniversary. Lionsgate is showing all five of The Hunger Games films across 250-320 sites, ahead of Sunrise On The Reaping launching in November. Similarly, Park Circus is screening Shaun The Sheep: Farmageddon in 118 sites before The Beast Of Mossy Bottom opens later this month.
The Incomer and Neon debut
Neon is releasing its first title in the UK and Ireland - Australian horror Leviticus, which is out in 288 cinemas, with Picturehouse Entertainment booking cinemas on Neon’s behalf. Directed by Adrian Chiarella, the film follows two teenagers who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of one another. It premiered in the Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival in January and went on to play SXSW and Sydney.
Universal Pictures is opening UK comedy The Incomer in 256 locations after the film opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival last month. Louis Paxton’s debut feature won the Next Innovator award in Sundance and follows two siblings whose lives are changed when an awkward land official arrives to relocate them.
Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin and Grant O’Rourke star in the Scotland-set film.
Universal will be hoping to repeat the success of its fellow UK island-based comedy The Ballad Of Wallis Island, which became a sleeper hit after opening on £127,719 back in June last year, eventually ending on £2.6m.
US comedy Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass opens in 108 venues for Sony. Zoey Deutch stars in David Wain’s film, which premiered at Sundance, as a Midwest bride whose fiancée uses his “celebrity sex pass”, spurring her to travel to Hollywood and seek out her own pass.
Trafalgar Releasing has concert title Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour - Live From Paris screening in 100 sites over the weekend after playing on Wednesday (September 1) where it grossed £10,730.
BFI Distribution is releasing Ed Sayers’ documentary Super Nature in 32 cinemas. Filmed exclusively for the Super 8 format, the film is described as a “love letter” to nature.
Willem Dafoe stars in Kent Jones’ drama Late Fame, which Vertigo Releasing is opening n 29 locations. The film, which premiered in Venice Horizons last year, centres on a New York poet whose forgotten work captivates an eccentric group of young creatives.
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