| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | Feb 20-22 | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wuthering Heights (US) | Warner Bros | £3.9m | £16.3m | 2 |
| 2 | GOAT (US) | Sony | £2.8m | £10.5m | 2 |
| 3 | Crime 101 (US) |
Sony | £763,942 | £3m | 2 |
| 4 | Zootropolis 2 (US) |
Disney | £681,000 | £35.7m | 13 |
| 5 | EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert (US-Australia) | Universal | £525,430 | £525,430 | Previews |
Wuthering Heights has topped the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, moving past £16m total; as Sony animation Goat passed £10m and Universal’s Elvis Presley concert film thrived in previews.
Warner Bros’ Wuthering Heights added £3.9m on its second session – a 49% drop, that brought it to £16.3m total. It has now passed the lifetime total of Warner Bros’ stablemate Sinners (£16.2m), as well as another grand literary adaptation, Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 The Great Gatsby (£15.8m).
Sony animation Goat saw an impressive 25% uptick on its second weekend, boosted by school half terms. The film which has a voice cast including Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Aaron Pierre and basketball star Stephen Curry, added £2.8m, and has moved on to £10.5m total. Sony will be aiming for a cume beyond £20m, should further strong holds allow.
Amazon MGM’s Crime 101, distributed by Sony, dropped 40% on its second weekend, with £763,942 bringing it to just shy of £3m total.
On the weekend when it won the best animated film Bafta, Disney’s Zootropolis 2 saw a 51% increase on its 13th session in cinemas. The film added £681,000, pushing it back into the top five and bringing it to £35.7m overall, overtaking animated comparisons including Ice Age III (£35.2m) and Up (£34.8m).
Universal’s Elvis concert film EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert was the big new hit of the weekend, bringing in £525,430 in previews from just 56 sites at a huge £9,914 site average. It recorded the biggest first weekend ever for a documentary at London’s BFI Imax, and took £211,000 on Friday 20 alone – 48% above Universal projections. The film opens wide this coming weekend; it is directed by Baz Luhrmann, whose biopic Elvis made £27.8m in 2022.
The top five titles brought in a cumulative £8.6m – down 31% on the previous weekend, but a reasonable second session following the opening of Wuthering Heights, GOAT and Crime 101. Next weekend sees new options in cinemas for audiences in the form of Paramount’s Scream 7 and Disney’s The Testament Of Ann Lee.
Studiocanal sci-fi comedy Cold Storage opened to £399,675 from 480 sites at an £833 site average. Georgina Campbell, Stranger Things star Joe Keery and Liam Neeson lead the cast.
Charli XCX mockumentary The Moment started with £324,353 for Universal, from 455 sites at a £719 average.
Cal McMau’s UK prison drama Wasteman opened to £279,592 from 344 sites, at a £813 average. The film, starring Tom Blyth and David Jonsson, has £330,866 including previews for Lionsgate.
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