Disney’s Wild Horse Nine is the widest new release at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, galloping into 655 cinemas. Martin McDonagh’s latest dark comedy premiered at Venice and is set in 1973. Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich play CIA agents dispatched to Santiago, then head to the Chilean territory of Easter Island, where their trip turns sideways.
McDonagh’s most recent cinema release, The Banshees Of Inisherin, opened to £1.6m for Disney from 550 locations in October 2022 and finished on £10m, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri grossed £2.2m across its January 2018 three-day opening with a £15.3m total for 20th Century Fox.
Anime Limited is releasing Godzilla Minus Zero at 475 sites. It is the first Japanese film to be filmed for Imax and follows on from global box office hit Godzilla Minus One, which grossed $116m at the worldwide box office, and opened to £786,000 from 469 sites in UK-Ireland for Anime Limited in December 2023.
Takashi Yamazaki returns as writer and director for Godzilla Minus Zero, which is set in 1949, two years after the first film, with the Shikishima family facing an all-new disaster.
Universal has concert film George Michael: The Faith Tour, shot at Paris’s Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in 1988, at 605 sites. Recent successful music tour docs have included record-breaker Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which opened to £5.7m from 651 venues in the territory and went on to gross over £12m, plus Oasis’s Don’t Look Back In Anger, which grossed £1.6m from 670 locations for Disney in its opening weekend in September.
Further event cinema releases this weekend are Trafalgar Releasing’s K-Pop boyband film Stray Kids World Tour ‘Run It’ Live Viewing at 318 venues, plus German band show Rammstein – Live in Mexico City is on 60 sites this weekend, and encore screenings of National Theatre Live’s Golden Boy – NT Live 2026, starring Josh O’Connor, after its global release on Thursday, November 5.
Sony is releasing Nitesh Tiwari’s fantasy action-adventure Ramayana starring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi at 359 sites. The Indian Hindi-language film is based on a 5,000-year-old Sanskrit saga, with Hans Zimmer and A R Rahman composing the music.
Icon Film Distribution has John Madden’s Parkinson’s drama Onwards And Sideways at over 300 sites. Rhys Ifans, Laura Linney, Monica Dolan and Rory Kinnear star in the Toronto world premiere.
Signature Entertainment’s festive comedy Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint is out at 172 venues. Cast includes John Bradley, Celia Imrie, Richard E Grant, Adjoa Andoh and Jim Broadbent.
Festival breakouts
Entertainment Film Distributors has Peter Farrelly’s Toronto premiere, I Play Rocky, at 145 sites. Anthony Ippolito plays Sylvester Stallone as he rises from an obscure actor to Rocky superstar. EFD plans to expand to around 600 sites in mid-November. Park Circus is coinciding with a re-release of Rocky at 324 sites this weekend.
Fresh from its BFI London Film Festival audience award win, Altitude has Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s La Bola Negra opening at 130 cinemas this weekend. The film explores early 20th-century queer culture in Spain and premiered at Cannes in Competition, before winning the TIFF People’s Choice award in September and being selected as Spain’s official Oscar submission. Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau and Penelope Cruz star.
Trinity CineAsia has Chen Sicheng’s Chinese box office hit, crime thriller Traces Of Justice, at 22 sites. Another Chinese film out this weekend is a re-release of Zhang Yimou’s 1991 period drama Raise The Red Lantern, at 12 cinemas for Central City Media.
A24 is giving Chris Rock’s Toronto selection Misty Green a very limited theatrical release at a handful of sites, ahead of it landing on Netflix on Monday, November 9. An actress, once Hollywood’s next big thing, finds herself floundering. The cast includes UK stars Rosalind Eleazar and Daniel Kaluuya alongside Rock, Adam Driver and Anna Kendrick.
Tull Stories is releasing Richard Hawkins’ Second World War propaganda porn drama Think Of England in three locations, with plans to expand in the second week.
Screenbound has Alex Cox’s surreal western Dead Souls at three sites across the weekend as part of a wider Q&A tour with the director, plus drama Amazing Grace starring Hannah Walters at one venue, with further sites planned across the next two months.
Also new in UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend are Netflix’s documentary Avedon, directed by Ron Howard and examining the life and work of US photographer Richard Avedon; Sundance prize-winning and Bifa-nominated Dogwoof Syrian refugee documentary One In A Million, from Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes; Balda Film and Blue-Eyes Film & Distribution’s thriller Manipulation, from Czech filmmaker David Balda; and Dreamz Entertainment has Indian Telugu-language 1940s-set drama Fauji, directed by Hanu Raghavapudi.
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