- Inside Out 2 £7,762,903 – £23,250,882
Took £1.55m 19.97% (-39.92% £2.58m) Friday; £3.46m 44.58% (-30.1% £4.95m) Saturday; £2.752m 35.45% (-27% £3.77m) Sunday; Monday took £674k (-45% on last Monday)
32nd biggest second weekend between LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring and Super Mario Bros (close to Marvel Avengers Assemble, The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins Returns and Alice In Wonderland) and 65th biggest inflated second weekend between Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (close to Independence Day, Love Actually, Meet the Fockers and Iron Man 3).
The 14th biggest Disney second weekend between The Jungle Book and Mary Poppins Returns (close to Toy Story 4, Toy Story 3, Black Panther and Incredibles 2) and the 21st biggest Disney second weekend inflated between The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe and A Bug’s Life (close to Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, A Bug’s Life and The Lion King (1994)
3rd biggest Pixar second weekend between Toy Story 3 and Incredibles 2 (close to Toy Story 4, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc.)
Movio research said 23% of the audience at opening weekend hadn’t been to the cinema for over 6 months. (Wonka was the last they saw in the cinema), for the second weekend, 87% were infrequent cinemagoers.
Pixar sequel’s second weekends
2019’s Toy Story 4 dropped 37.5% £8,284,437 #1 and £26,989,023
2010s Toy Story 3 dropped 62% (29% without previews) £8,115,193 #1 564 screens £39,791,223 #1.
2018’s Incredibles 2 dropped 29% £6,803,384 #2 650 screens and £22,424,082; Mamma Mia: Here we Go Again! #1 £9,735,931
2017’s Cars 3 dropped 38% £1,636,488 #5 581 screens and £5,072,811: Dunkirk £10,023,720 #1
2016’s Finding Dory dropped 51% £3,975,736 #2 624 screens and £20,251,204: Suicide Squad #1 £11,252,225
2013’s Monsters University dropped 19% £2,791,078 #1 532 screens and £8,633,957
2024’s Inside Out 2 dropped 52% £3,574,424 #2 and £16,966,799; Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation #1 £5,351,344
The 25 Pixar films have taken £750m in the UK BO since Toy Story in 1996 and almost £1.1bn inflated.
Took £1.21m on Monday similar to Toy Story 3 £1.41m and Incredibles 2 £1.56m both opened a week ahead of the summer school holidays; on Tuesday Toy Story took £1.61m/Incredibles 2 £1.61m; Wednesday Toy Story 4 £1.36m/Incredibles 2 £1.55m; Thursday Toy Story 3 £943k/Incredibles 2 £1.22m and Inside Out 2 £780k.
14th biggest Pixar film between Ratatouille and Wall-E (close to Monsters University, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story and Brave).
225th biggest between Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Doctor Strange (close to Trolls, Ghost, Cats and Dogs and Transformers) and 449th biggest inflated between The Revenant and Die Hard with a Vengeance (close to Lilo & Stitch, Liar Liar, Cool Runnings and Space Jam).
Inside Out 2 will take similar to Incredibles 2 (£5,146,128/£5,680,698 inflated); A Bug’s Life (£4,311,358/£8,161,882 inflated) and Monsters, Inc. (£4,234,293/£7,866,507 inflated) in its third weekend and similar to inflated third weekends of Finding Nemo (£6,979,128); Ratatouille (£5,665,426); Up (£5,577,539); Incredibles (£4,126,106). Inside Out 2 will take £30m+ by Sunday
- 2. The Bikeriders £1,085,530 – NE
Took £347k 31.98% Friday; £437k 40.28% Saturday; £301k 27.74% Sunday.
1,586th biggest opening between Scary Movie 5 and Den of Thieves (close to Ex Machina, Layer Cake, Born on the Fourth of July and Snakes on a Plane) and 2,218th biggest inflated opening between Keeping Mum and Hellboy (close to Wall Street, Anna Karenina, O’ Brother, Where Art Thou and Family Business).
26th biggest 2024 opening between Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and The Beekeeper (close to Wicked Litle Letters, Challengers, Monkey Man and The Iron Claw)
Opened in 700 cinemas 32nd widest opening between Killers Of The Flower Moon and Challengers (close to The Batman, Belfast, Wonka and Black Panther Wakanda Forever); 700 screen opening is far too wide for films like these.
Jeff Nichols’s previous films
2015’s Mud opened £239,037 #7 71 screens taking £859,557
2016’s Midnight Special opened £497,109 #6 400 screens taking £1.2m
2017’s Loving opened £236,147 #11 189 screens taking £950,068
Opened similarly to Tom Hardy’s 2012 Lawless £973,234 #2 410 screens taking £4,048,768.
Also, Jodie Comer previously starred in The End We Start From and is currently filming 28 Years Later and Austin Butler his first film since Dune Part 2 and Elvis.
The Bikeriders received its UK premiere at the London Film Festival when 20th Century Fox owned the film
Jeff Nichols had been previously attached to direct A Quiet Place spin-off but left due to creative differences. He was replaced by Pig director Michael Sarnoski and the film A Quiet Place: Day One opens on Thursday.
He told The Wrap “It’s hard to say this without sounding pretentious but I’ve made enough films at this point in my career, that if I do this, it’s going to become my film, and the truth is ‘Quiet Place,’ those are John [Krasinski’s] films. At some point, you realize, it’s never going to be my film. It’s better if I just step away and let some other people do that.”
- 3. Bad Boys: Ride Or Die £1,009,386 – £9,067,223
Down 45.7% in its third weekend
Took £284k 28.2% (-43.3% £501k) Fri; £452k 44.8% (-45.5% £829k) Sat; £273k 27.1% (-48.5% £520k Sun.
613th biggest third weekend between Pokemon Detective Pikachu and A Haunting In Venice (close to Don’t Worry Darling, Fatal Attraction, The Italian Job (2003) and Indecent Proposal) and 937th biggest inflated third weekend between Crash (2005) and The Time Traveller’s Wife (close to Wanted, The A-Team, A Good Day To Die Hard and Far and Away)
Third weekend
1995’s Bad Boys took £462,484 (£1,059,195 inflation inflated) taking £3,697,132 (£7,521,751 inflation inflated) and £8,408,498 (£13,673,278 inflation inflated)
2003’s Bad Boys 2 dropped 52% taking £711,618 (£1,134,742 inflation inflated) and £7,269,958 (£11,592,636 inflation inflated) taking £8,141,704 (£13,673,278 inflation inflated
2020’s Bad Boys For Life dropped 32.8% £1,844,179 #3 and £11,287,270 of £15,953,076
809th biggest between The Legend of Tarzan and The Other Woman (close to Alita: Battle Angel, Knight & Day, Kill Bill – Volume 2 and Blade 2) and 1,309th biggest inflated between 300: Rise of An Empire and Central Intelligence (close to Predator, Edge of Tomorrow, Broken Arrow and The Lawnmower Man).
- 4. Doctor Who – Empire Of Death – £364,353 – NE
Took £364k Friday.
It had an exclusive screening at 11 pm on Friday on 276 screens at the same time it was released on iPlayer ahead of its broadcast on BBC1 on Saturday evening watched by 2.55m.
41st biggest 2024 opening between The Watchers and Love Lies Bleeding
Presales were strong for Doctor Who, but it played on less than half of the screens most other films playing in the top 10, it had an 11 pm only showing, had Event Cinema surcharges and was shown for free the day after so only the biggest Doctor Who fans went to see it.
While Everyman cinemas are showing England’s European Championship matches for free tickets for Doctor Who were £27.75.
2013’s Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor opened £1,798,629 #3 from 440 screens; the same weekend The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opened £12,189,733 #1
Includes £194,595 previews (Thursday)
Took 83k 29.43% Friday; £166k 58.87% Saturday; £33k 11.7% Sunday.
Plated in 232 screens
The second Event Cinema film in the top 5 is a concert film of the Swedish rock band Ghost’s last two North American 2023 concerts, the film includes a story based on a web series made by the band.
UK box office in detail
The weekend’s top 10 box office took £11,256,622 down 25.6% from last weekend’s £15,127,051: 1,382,713 admissions down 27.6% from 1,909,981 admissions.
20th biggest weekend of the last 52 weeks between 07 July 2023 #1 Elemental £3,049,002 (26.6%) and 17 November 2023 #1 THG: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes £5,420,68 (49.3%)
56th biggest since cinemas reopened out of 188 weeks between 22 July 2022 #1 Minions: The Rise Of Gru £3,086,374 (26.94%) and 06 January 2023 #1 Avatar: The Way of Water £5,870,063 (52.36%)
488th biggest top 10 of the last 22 years (out of 1,159) between 14 August 2015 #1 Pixels £2,660,772 (23.62%) and 21 October 2011 #1 Paranormal Activity 3 £3,405,036 (30.33%) and 799th inflated between 19 February 2016 #1 Deadpool £5,694,280 (54.33%) and 17 October 2008 #1 Burn After Reading £2,045,565 (27.9%)
The top 3 took (£9,857,819) 87.6% of the top 10; Inside Out 68.96% (£11,321,387); The Bikeriders 9.64% (£1,085,530); Bad Boys: Ride Or Die 8.97% (£1,009,386)
77th highest #1 percentage (68.96%) between 19 June 2015 #1 Jurassic World (69.39%) and 22 November 2019 #1 Frozen 2 (68.85%)
276th biggest admissions #1 (980,165) between 30 May 2014 #1 Maleficent (980,665) and 01 June 2012 #1 Prometheus (979,055)
Up 37.3% from 2023; (£8,200,506); No Hard Feelings (£1,181,383); Asteroid City (£1,176,972); #1 Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse £1,995,517 dropped 24% 702 screens 3rd week #1 over 4 weeks (24.33%)
Down 20.2% from 2022 (£14,423,033); Lightyear (£3,718,002); Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (£238,640); The Spy Who Loved Me (Re: 2022) (£12,844); #1 Jurassic World: Dominion £5,717,882 2nd week 713 screens 53% drop (39.6% of top 10)
Down 22% 2021 from (£6,842,018) The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (£1,636,128); In the Heights (£1,073,68); Monster Hunter (£150,078); In The Earth (£58,538); #1 The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard £1,636,128 1st week 522 screens (23.91% of top 10)
2020: Lockdown 1
Down 38.8% from 2019; (£18,378,720); Toy Story 4 £13,300,000); Bight Burn (£509,030); Childs Play £247,572; #1 Toy Story 4 £13,300,000 1st week (72.37% of top 10)
Up 11.8% from 2018: (£10,066,964); Ocean’s 8 (£4,347,070); In the Fade (£25,963); Overboard (£19,304); #1 Ocean’s 8 £4,347,070 1st week 641 screens (43.2% of the top 10)
Up 17.9% from 2017: (£9,547,804); Transformers: The Last Knight (£4,635,570); Hampstead (£453,522); The Book of Henry (£72,128); The Graduate: 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration (£28,946); #1 Transformers: The Last Knight £4,635,570 1st week 577 screens (48.5% of top 10)
Down 36.9% from 2016: (£17,839,552); The Secret Life of Pets (£9,580,039); Independence Day: Resurgence (£5,067,855); Elvis & Nixon (£56,790); The Meddler (£19,327); #1 The Secret Life of Pets £9,580,039 1st week 592 screens (53.7% of the top 10)
Down 29.9% from 2015; (£16,046,393); Take That Live 2015 (£965,000); Mr Holmes (£741,080); Entourage (£632,754); The Longest Ride (£419,047); #1 Jurassic World £11,133,912 614 screens 2nd week 34% drop (69.4% of top 10)
Up 35.9% from 2014: (£8,284,805); The Fault in Our Stars (£3,434,334); Jersey Boys (£415,608); 3 Days to Kill (£324,560); Chinese Puzzle (£22,617); The Art of the Steal (£7,867); #1 The Fault in Our Stars £3,434,334 1st week 511 screens (41.4% of top 10)
Down 4.7% from 2013: (£11,810,188); World War Z (£4,535,899); Snitch (£268,229); Before Midnight (£244,231); A Haunted House (£153,805); Spike Island (£55,961); #1 Man of Steel £5,073,356 2nd week 575 screens 55% drop (42.9% of top 10)
Up 66.4% from 2012 (£6,765,529); Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (£1,119,117); The Five-Year Engagement (£1,058,897); Chernobyl Diaries (£495,875); Lay the Favourite (£112,706); Think Like a Man (£81,516); #1 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter £1,119,117 1st week 460 screens (16.5% of top 10)
Up 15.8% from 2011; (£9,716,933) Bridesmaids (£3,445,395); Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon (£82,464); #1 Bridesmaids £3,445,395 1st week 482 screens (21.8% of top 10)
Up 257.9% from 2010: (£3,145,120); Get Him to the Greek (£1,569,556); The Collector (£109,519); Whatever Works (£72,678); When in Rome (£61,512); #1 Get Him to the Greek £1,569,556 1st week 389 screens (49.9% of top 10)
Up 15.1% from 2009; (£9,778,033); Year One (£978,008); My Sister’s Keeper (£922,947); Blood: The Last Vampire (£232,190); #1 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen £4,368,024 2nd week 521 screens 48% drop (44.6% of top 10)
Up 44% from 2008; (£7,818,976); Adulthood (£1,203,319); Teeth (£235,658); The Edge of Love (£180,837); The Ruins (£123,507); The Escapist (£79,579); #1 The Incredible Hulk £1,870,800 2nd week 483 screens 43% drop (23.9% of top 10)
Up 87.4% from 2007: (£6,006,969); Captivity (£329,193); La Vie En Rose (£205,659); Lucky You (£56,346); #1 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer £2,254,179 2nd week 481 screens 46% drop (37.5% of top 10)
Up 160.4% from 2006; (£4,322,278); Lakehouse (£761,465); The Wind that Shakes the Barley (£390,720); Fearless (£369,947); Ultraviolet (£147,337); Aquamarine (£109,232); Half Light (£23,930); #1 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift £1,019,854 2nd week 415 screens 44% drop (23.6% of top 10)
Up 68.3% from 2005: (£6,688,816); Kung Fu Hustle (£469,211); A Lot Like Love (£417,904); #1 Batman Begins £2,926,042 2nd week 34% drop 516 screens (43.75% of top 10)
Up 46.6% from 2004 (£7,678,849); Mean Girls (£1,393,494); Jersey Girl (£226,970); The Whole Ten Yards (£61,405); #1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban £3,374,330 3rd week 534 screens 23% drop (43.9% of top 10)
Up 111.4% from 2003 (£5,325,585); 2 Fast 2 Furious (£2,747,875); Basic (£248,088); I’ll Be There (£14,829); #1 2 Fast 2 Furious £2,747,875 1st week 424 screens (51.6% of top 10)
Up 63.4% from 2002 (£6,888,015); The Musketeer (£131,338); Kissing Jessica Stein (£102,234); Hardball (£79,864); Before You Go (£58,387); #1 Spider-Man: The Movie £4,255,920 2nd week 509 screens 55% drop (61.8% of top 10)
2023 Next week: (£13,307,283); Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (£7,144,441); Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (£885,056); #1 Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny £7,144,441 743 screens 1st week (53.69%)
UK Box Office News
May 2024 admissions were 8.1m 15.8% down from 2023 when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and down 28.5% from 2019 opened. Admissions for the year to date are 45.82m down 2.6% from 2023 and 34.5% down from 2019. Expected 2024 admissions are 122.4m similar to last year’s 123.61m admissions.
Box office continues to be down a third since cinemas reopened after COVID. The positive is with Inside Out 2 opening with £11,321,387 it was the first time in 6 months (since Wonka) many had been to the cinema) and 87% were infrequent cinemagoers and they will likely return to the cinema in a couple of weeks for Despicable Me 4 and Deadpool and Wolverine, and them Paddington In Peru later in the year.
Biggest May 2024 films
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes £12.6m
The Fall Guy £10.78m
If £8.72m
The Garfield Movie £5.49m
Challengers £3.98m
Furiosa: A Mad max Saga £3.88m
Back to Black £2.79m
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (2024) £1.57m
The Strangers: Part 1 £1.51m
UKCA blamed a lack of films again after two Picturehouse cinemas announced they would close. There are plenty of films being released, which will be 900+ this year but most won’t see beyond Dune 2, Inside Out 2, Despicable Me 4, Deadpool 3, Joker 2, Paddington 3, Wicked and Mufasa, these will take about £500m half of 2024 total BO, with dozens of others do not find the audiences they would have done 20+ years ago (as Twisters and Gladiator 2 coming short to originals BO despite opening 28 and 24 years later) as have now become wait to see on streaming films. This weekend will be the latest wait to stream film.
US Box Office
- Inside Out 2 – Disney
Down 34% in the second weekend taking $101.21m and $356.39m
7th biggest second weekend between The Avengers and Barbie (close to Black Panther, Jurassic World, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Top Gun: Maverick).
16th biggest animated film between Inside Out and Zootopia; 65th biggest between Inside Out and Aladdin (2019); 227th biggest inflated between The Bourne Ultimatum and Monsters University; 30th biggest Disney between Inside Out and Aladdin (2019).
It’s not rocket science Inside Out 2 has performed as Finding Dory, Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4 and beat Barbie’s second weekend as had all IMAX/PLF/3D screens Barbie never had, also played younger and wider across all demographics as Pixar films done since Toy Story.
The question is why industry tracking failed to predict how Inside Out 2 would open if Finding Dory, Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4 were used as comparison titles wouldn’t have been a surprise, with all the data and AI analysis available it shouldn’t have been a surprise.
As it won’t be a surprise if Despicable Me 4 opens $150m+ over 4 days and Deadpool Vs Wolverine $250m+.
Inside Out 2 has a 100-day window despite this it will take about 75% of BO within 21 days and 85%+ after 45 days as Despicable Me 4 opens in less than a month.
Recent Pixar sequel’s second weekends
2019’s Toy Story 4 dropped 50.6% $59.7m #1 and $238.69m of $434.03m and $1.073bn worldwide
2013’s Monsters University dropped 44.7% $45.6m #1 and $170.43m of $268.49m and $743.55m WW
2016’s Finding Dory dropped 46% $72.95m #1 and $286.27m of $486.29m and $1.029bn WW
2018’s Incredibles 2 dropped 56% $80.34m #2 and $349.79m of $608.58m and $1.243bn WW
2015’s Inside Out dropped 42.1% $52.32m #2 and $185.14m of $356.92m and $858.85m WW
Took $164.4m in 44 territories $369.2m total and $724.4m worldwide; Mexico $63.9m; UK $29.2m; Korea $29m; Germany $17.9m; Brazil $17.3m; Italy $16.2m; Argentina $15.3m; Spain $13.1m; Australia $12.8m; France $12.8m.
Taken $32.2m worldwide from 762 IMAX cinemas in 62 territories; $23.7m US and $8.5m internationally.
27th biggest animated worldwide between Up and Moana; 130th biggest worldwide between Up and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; 80th biggest sequel between The Matrix Reloaded and F9: The Fast Saga; Biggest 2024 worldwide ahead of Dune: Part Two $711.2m; 43rd biggest Disney between Up and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die – Sony Pictures
Dropped 44% in the third weekend $18.88m #2 and $147m.
193rd biggest third weekend between Taken and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (close to The Lego Batman Movie, Rush Hour 2, Quantum of Solace and Tron: Legacy).
Took $12.7m from IMAX worldwide; US $7.4m and International $5.3m
433rd biggest between Lethal Weapon 2 and War for the Planet of the Apes; 1,048th inflated between The Thomas Crown Affair and Hop; 6th biggest 2024 between Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire; 260th biggest action film between Lethal Weapon 2 and X-Men: First Class; 44th biggest Sony Pictures between Talladega Nights and Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
Third weekends
2020’s Bad Boys for Life dropped 48% $17.68m #1 and $148.05m of $206.3m and $426.5m worldwide
2003’s Bad Boys II dropped 42.3% $12.73m #5 and $111.34m of $138.6m ($165m inflated) and $273.34m worldwide
1995’s Bad Boys dropped 36.3% $7.01m #2 and $44.09m of $65.8m ($250m inflated) and $141.4m worldwide
Jerry Bruckheimer’s 38 films have taken $5.5bn in the US, $7.8bn internationally and $13.5bn worldwide; most of his biggest hits were released in the 80s and 90s including Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Bad Boys, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Coyote Ugly and Remember the Titans.
Will Smith’s 29 films have taken $4.1bn in the US; $5.8bn internationally and $9.9bn worldwide.
Bad Boy’s four films have taken $556m in the US and $1.15bn worldwide.
Took $24.1m from 62 territories $142.2m total and $289.1m worldwide; Saudi Arabia $9.6m; Mexico $9m; UK $11.5m; Germany $6.4m. U.A.E $6m; France $5.8m; Australia $6.8m; Brazil $4.2m.
587th biggest worldwide between Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Coming to America; 6th biggest 2024 between Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and The Garfield Movie; 197th biggest action film between Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Oblivion; 57th biggest Sony Pictures between Salt and Elysium.
- The Bikeriders – Focus Features
Opened $9.69m; received positive reviews (87% Rotten Tomatoes) and B CinemaScore.
Took $1.45m from Thursday midnights and previews; similar to Angel Has Fallen, Ad Astra, Doctor Sleep and Lone Survivor.
Directed by Jeff Nichols; all of his previous films apart from Mud had limited platform openings.
2011’s Take Shelter had a limited release and played at its widest in 91 screens taking $1.73m and $3.71m worldwide; 2016’s Loving also had a limited platform released playing to 572 screens at its widest taking $7.75m and $12.95m worldwide; 2016’s Midnight Special opened $190k 5 screens played in 521 screens at its widest taking $3.71m and $7.11m worldwide.
The Bikeriders was made by New Regency originally set to be released by 20th Century Studios having premiered at 2023’s Telluride Film Festival and is set for release in December 2023. It was taken off release after the SAG strike and Regency took back ownership selling distribution tights to Focus Features
Opened similar to Tom Hardy’s 2012’s Lawless $10m taking $37.4m and $55.4m and 2004’s biker film Torque $9.97m taking $21.21m and $46.54m worldwide.
Opened $4m internationally including $1.4m UK.
- The Garfield Movie – Sony Pictures
Dropped 21% in the fifth weekend taking $3.77m #5 and $85.31m
927th biggest fifth weekend between The Tourist and Along Came a Spider (close to The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, The Good Dinosaur, Scooby-Doo and Gnomeo & Juliet)
139th biggest animation between Brother Bear and Open Season; 985th biggest between Brother Bear and Stripes; 1,995th biggest inflated between Nell and Sphere; 158th biggest children’s film between Brother Bear and Open Season; 130th biggest Sony Pictures between Fury and Open Season.
Fifth weekends
2004’s Garfield: The Movie dropped 37.8% $1.88m #12 and $67.96m of $75.36m and $203.17m WW
2006’s Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties dropped 40.5% $610,802 #17 and $26.28m of $28.42m and $143.32m WW
All the product placements have more in common with
2015’s Pixels dropped 36.3% $2.14m #14 and $68.55m of $78.74m and $244.87m WW
2015’s The Peanuts Movie dropped 63.4% $3.57m #7 and $121.48m of $130.17m and $246.23m WW63m
2016’s The Angry Birds Movie dropped 74.2% $1.63 #11 and $103.18m of $107.5m and $352.3m WW
2017’s The Emoji Movie dropped 43.5% $2.5m #10 and $76.59m of $86.08m and $217.77m WW
Took $3.7m from 61 territories $145.5m total and $230.7m worldwide; Mexico $20.3m; UK $10.3m; Germany $8.1m; Brazil $6.4m; Spain $6.3m.
133rd biggest animated worldwide between Encanto and Chicken Run; 771st biggest between Encanto and Annabelle Comes Home; 87th biggest Sony Pictures between The Mask of Zorro and Ghost Rider.
- Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes – Disney
Dropped 31% in its seventh weekend $3.81m #4 and $164.6m.
317th biggest seventh weekend between Sweet Home Alabama and Enchanted (close to Speed, Air Force One, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Back to the Future Part II); Rise of the Planet of the Apes #536 $2.65m
355th biggest between Eternals and Catch Me if You Can; 910th biggest inflated between Predator and Rising Sun; 5th biggest 2024 between Kung Fu Panda 4 and Bad Boys: Ride or Die; 63rd biggest sci-fi film between 2012 and A Quiet Place: Part II.
Seventh weekends
2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes dropped 54.6% $913,199 #20 and $142.78m of $146.88m and $490.71m WW
2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes dropped 45.8% $1.07m #14 and $203.93m of $208.54m and $710.64m WW
2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes dropped 31.6% $2.65m #9 and $171.65m of $176.76m and $481.8m WW
2001’s Planet of the Apes dropped 52.6% $1.39m #14 and $174.98m of $180.01m and $362.21m WW
The 10 films have taken $960m in the US and $2.5bn worldwide.
Took $3.4m from 52 territories $214.63m total and $374.83m worldwide; China $29m; France $23m; Mexico $20m; UK $19.6m; Brazil $11m.
388th biggest worldwide between Black Widow and Hotel Transylvania; 5th biggest 2024 between Kung Fu Panda 4 and Bad Boys: Ride or Die; 83rd biggest Sci-Fi worldwide between Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla (1998).
Also opened.
Despite receiving positive reviews comedy Thelma struggled to find an audience opening far too wide on 1,290 screens taking $2.3m #8. Would have expected to build word of mouth it would have opened more limited as Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness opened in 5 screens taking $377,289 #13.
The problem of course it’s a massive gamble to open original films as Magnolia Films could have opened Thelma on far fewer screens and it might have never played on over 1,000 screens, but now it’s likely to lose many of those screens before it gets a chance to find its audience.
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things opened in December at $661,230 from 9 screens taking $34.55m and $117.62m worldwide. His previous film 2018’s The Favourite opened $422,410 from 4 screens; took 10 weeks to expand into over 1,500 screens; taking $34.36m and $95.91m worldwide.
2017’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer opened in $115,120 from 4 screens (expanded into 238 screens after 4 weeks); taking $2.29m and $6.93m worldwide.
UK Box Office Top 10
UK Box Office Preview
Dropped about 30% in its third weekend Inside Out 2 will remain #1 for a third weekend despite A Quiet Place: Day One having a four-day opening.
A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel to the other two films but doesn’t feature either Emily Blunt or John Krasinski, so unlikely to open similarly to 2018’s A Quiet Place opened £2,696,892 (£704,378 previews) #2 from 526 screens and £11,801,912 or 2021’s A Quiet Place Part II opened £3,567,048 (£1,316,513 previews) #1 561 screens and £11,547,774. As seen recently with Furiosa prequels that don’t feature the cast of previous films don’t perform as strongly.
A Quiet Place: Day One social media reactions have been positive (as they always are) but the embargo doesn’t end until Thursday, the day it has previews.
A Quiet Place: Day One will open with about £2.5m including £500k from previews).
Inside Out 2 will drop about 30% taking between £4.5m-£5.5m and will cross £30m over its third weekend.
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter One is the first of a planned four films, but the Western genre has struggled with the biggest over the last 15 years True Grit. Django Unchained, The Lone Ranger, The Magnificent Seven, The Hateful Eight. While Kevin Costner hasn’t had a big box office hit for almost 30 years.
Kevin Costner started developing Horizon in 1988 and it was originally based at Disney in 2003 when he made the film 2004’s Open Range (opened £424,954/£749,585 inflated) taking £872,843/£1,539,625 inflated) in February 2022 it was announced Warner Bros were attached to distribute all of the instalments; has an 181-running time with the four films having 12 hour running time.
Kevin Costner previously directed 1990’s Dances With Wolves (opened £353,490 79 screens (£923,974 inflated) taking £10,598,273 (£27,702,417 inflated); 1997’s The Postman and 2003’s Open Range and has had huge success from acting roles in the ’90s including Dances With Wolves, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, JFK and The Bodyguard but over the last 30 years has had mixed success and his fanbase will be 45+ those who grew up with his films.
The question is who the audience for these films the home is sadly now on streaming as they are unlikely to find the wide audiences, they need to be profitable. As seen by the recent Strangers Part 1, the first of three films planned for release this year if the first film comes short of expectations, what kind of release will the sequels have?
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter One will open with about £600k.
Kinds Of Kindness is the second film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos released this year; Poor Things opened in January £1,819,563 (Including £254,972 previews) taking £7,566,251. Kinds Of Kindness has received more polarised reviews some have been very positive, but others have been poor so will only play to the biggest fans of Yorgos Lanthimos films more like 2017’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer opened £286,448 #10 from 100 screens taking £862,085 and 2015’s The Lobster opened £229,619 #9 from 75 screens taking £1,521,066 rather than Poor Things and The Favourite.
Surprisingly, it’s being released in crowded mid-June rather than the autumn when these films would have more luck finding an audience. Disney knew it wasn’t going to be an award contender so there was no point in waiting for it to be released during film festival season.
Kalki 2898 AD is the big Indian film having a 5 day opening weekend
Opening in two weeks
- Twisters – Warner Bros (Wednesday)
Action disaster sequel starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos and Maura Tierney and directed by Lee Isaac Chung.
Glen Powell’s breakthrough role was in the 2018 Netflix romcom Set It Up and another in Top Gun: Maverick before starring in the rom-com Anyone But You at Christmas and most recently Netflix action-comedy Hit Man. In those films, he played the good guy but in Twisters he leads the opposing team of storm experts against Daisy Edgar-Jones similar to Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in the original film.
It was originally planned for 2020 as a remake of the 1996 film instead it’s a sequel that from the trailers looks remarkably similar to the original film. Featuring Jo and Bill’s daughter Kate.
1996’s Twister opened £3,044,033 (including £681,365 previews) (£6,515,876 inflated) taking £15,004,691 (£32,118,149 inflated); Twister was the 6th biggest film of 1996 after Independence Day £36.86; Toy Story £22.16m; Babe £20.29m; Seven £19.51m; Mission Impossible £18.61m; the top 10 featured only one sequel Goldeneye.
Twisters opened $41.05m in the US taking $241.83m and $495.58m worldwide.
- Thelma – Universal Pictures
Comedy starring June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, and Malcolm McDowell and directed by Josh Margolin.
Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival receiving positive reviews (99% Rotten Tomatoes)
cigarette burns and missed changeovers 