‘Zootropolis 2’ stays top at UK-Ireland box office; ‘Fackham Hall’ debuts in top five

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Disney’s Zootropolis 2 continues its leading run with £2.8m at the UK-Ireland box office on its third weekend of release.

This represents a 35% drop on its second session. Globally, the film has now crossed the $1bn mark, taking it past the lifetime total of 2016’s original Zootropolis and the best-performing US title of the year. Its cumulative figure in UK-Ireland is now £15.5m. Disney is gearing up for another major release at the end of this week, with Avatar: Fire And Ash coming to the territory on December 19. 

Universal’s musical follow-up Wicked: For Good grossed £1.9m in its fourth weekend, now totalling £40.7m, still with some progress to make to beat the first film’s £61.4m UK-Ireland total.

On its third weekend, Universal’s Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 took just over £1m, boosting its overall figure to £5.3m.

Moveigoers Dhurandhar added £593,726 in its second weekend, a 94% increase on its opening. The Indian spy action thriller now has an overall figure of £1.2m.

Entertainment Film Distributors’ period drama parody Fackham Hall was the only new release of the weekend to make it into the top five, with a strong start of £407,166. Jim O’Hanlan’s Downton Abbey spoof stars Damian Lewis and Thomasin McKenzie, with comedian Jimmy Carr co-writing.

In event cinema, Trafalgar grossed £224,132 from the weekend for The Nutcracker Royal Opera House London 2025 from 286 sites, for a location average of £784. Including pre-weekend screenings, it has grossed £767,063. Andrea Chenier - Met Opera 2025 opened to £54,910 from 140 cinemas for Trafalgar, averaging £392. The Cure: The Show Of A Lost World grossed £31,373 from 57 sites, for an average of £550, and a total of £71,614.Lionsgate’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t added £216,103 on its fifth weekend, and is now on £6.6m, overtaking the £6.4m total of 2016’s Now You See Me 2.

Studiocanal’s Christmas slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night opened to £183,191 from 458 sites, for a location average of £400. Mike P. Nelson directs the second remake of the 1984 Silent Night, Deadly Night film, following 2012’s Silent Night, and is the seventh film in the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise.

Park Circus’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas re-release added £89,900 in its second weekend, for a gross figure of £162,249.

Studiocanal’s Nuremberg added £87,228 in its fifth weekend, now at a running total of £3.3m.

Picturehouse and Warner Bros have added £84,380 for Pillion in its third session, now totalling £872,289.

In its first weekend on release, Disney’s Ella McCay grossed £82,396 from 400 sites, for a site average of £206. James L. Brooks’ comedy stars Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Lowden, and follows a young US East Coast state governor as she attempts to hold her life together.

Paramount’s A Paw Patrol Christmas added £72,000 in its sixth weekend, for a cumulative figure of £1.1m.

True Brit’s Christmas Karma added £59,511 for a cumulative figure of £1.2m, after five weekends on release.

Mubi’s It Was Just An Accident added £54,213 in the second weekend for the Iranian Cannes Palme d’Or winner, now totalling £289,803.

Universal’s Lurker opened to £19,985 from 138 locations, for a site average of £145. The psychological drama is directed by Alex Russell and premiered at Sundance. Saltburn star Archie Madekwe plays a popstar who becomes a figure of obsession for a troubled young fan.

Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut and Cannes premiere Eleanor The Great grossed £16,471 from 155 sites for Sony, for a site average of £106.

Universal’s 20th anniversary re-release of Love Actually brought in £41,919.

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon added 23,502 in its third weekend for Sony, now totalling £253,844.

More to follow.

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