‘Wicked: For Good’ holds UK-Ireland box office lead while ‘Zootropolis 2’ opens with £6m

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Universal’s Wicked: For Good continued its reign at the UK-Ireland box office in its second weekend on release, bringing in £7.7m, while Disney’s Zootropolis 2 took the number two spot with a £6m debut.

Wicked: For Good’s £7.7m was a 57% drop on its opening weekend. Jon M Chu’s musical has grossed £32.1m in the territory so far – already over the halfway point of the first film’s £61.4m UK-Ireland running total.

Disney’s Zootropolis 2 opened to £6m from 618 sites, up 67% on the opening weekend of the first film, which debuted at £3.6m in 2016. Its site average is an impressive £9,708.

Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba and Shakira are among the voice cast of the sequel, directed by Jared Bush and Bryon Howard.

Zootropolis 2 – known as Zootopia 2 outside of Europe – has outperformed Wicked: For Good this weekend at the global box office, with a $497.2m three-day across 52 territories (and $556.4m covering the five-day Thanksgiving weekend in the US), and a particularly strong performance in China.

Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t conjured up £605,504 on its third weekend, boosting its overall figure to £5.5m.

Cinema Live’s event release Westlife - Royal Albert Hall is flying high with £527,713 from 415 sites, for an impressive site average of £1,272.

Paramount’s The Running Man caught £267,000, bringing its total up to £4.4m on its third weekend.

Studiocanal’s Nuremberg added £249,816 in its third weekend, now on a £2.6m total.

‘Pillion’ takes off 

Picturehouse and Warner Bros’ Pillion, which won four British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) on November 30, has brought in £213,000 from 161 sites, for a location average of £1,329. It also  secured £135,000 in previews, taking its total so far up to £348,000 – a strong start for a certificate 18 independent UK film.

The film is Harry Lighton’s feature debut and stars Alexander Skarsgard as a mysterious biker who forms a BDSM relationship with a timid traffic warden, played by Harry Melling.

Pillion is Picturehouse’s fifth best-performing opening of all-time and the only film in the distributor’s top five with an 18 certificate, behind 2023’s Anatomy Of A Fall (£412,000, released in partnership with Lionsgate), 2018’s The Wife (£392,000), February 2025’s The Last Showgirl (£384,000) and January 2025’s Presence (£365,000, released in partnership with Warner Bros). (Figures include previews).

Paramount’s A Paw Patrol Christmas added £103,000, now for a cumulative figure of £901,000 in its fourth session.

Trafalgar Releasing’s Cinderella 2024 – Royal Opera House London brought in £96,243 across the weekend from 153 screenings, for an average of £629. Including £323,193 from pre-Friday screenings, the total stands at £419,437.

Trafalgar’s K-pop concert Seventeen World Tour [New] In Japan: Live Viewing grossed £14,939 from 32 cinemas on Saturday (November 29) only, for a site average of £467.

AA Films UK’s Indian romance Tere Ishk Mein, from director Aanand L. Rai, grossed £94,969 from 74 sites, for a respectable site average of £1,284. Another Indian romance out this weekend was Vibhu Puri’s Gustaakh Ishq, which brought in £3,161 from 33 locations for Moviegoers, for an average of £96.

Sony’s The Choral added £84,514 in its fourth weekend, now standing at £3.7m overall.

Sony’s Blue Moon, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott and Margaret Qualley, opened to £71,785 from 143 locations, for an average of £502. Including previews, the total is boosted to £81,400.

Also new this weekend was an awards-qualifying release for Netflix’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Black Bear’s boxing biopic Christy.

True Brit’s Christmas Karma added £68,246 in its third weekend, now totalling £988,918.

Bakrania Media’s Laalo added £45,561 on its third weekend.

Universal’s Bugonia added 41,700 in its fifth weekend, down 57% on its previous session, for an overall figure just shy of £3m. 

Mubi’s Die My Love added £20,207 on its fourth weekend, totalling £982,457.

Signature Entertainment’s Australian science fiction Primitive War, directed by Luke Sparke, opened to £15,259 from 109 locations, averaging £140.

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