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HomeBox office‘Wicked’ shines with biggest opening weekend of 2024 at UK-Ireland box office

‘Wicked’ shines with biggest opening weekend of 2024 at UK-Ireland box office

Rank Movie (distributor) Three-day gross (Nov 22-24) Complete gross thus far Week
 1. Depraved (Common) £13.7m £13.7m 1
 2. Gladiator II (Paramount) £4.7m £18.4m  2
 3. Paddington In Peru (Studiocanal) £4.2m  £24.4m 3
 4. Pink One (Warner Bros) £822,000  £5.8m  3
 5. Heretic (EFD)  £205,457 £205,457  4

GBP to USD conversion charge: 1.26

Depraved forged its spell on UK-Eire audiences this weekend, bringing in £13.7m in its debut – the best-performing opening weekend for a stage-to-screen adaptation within the territory, and the largest opening weekend of 2024.

The musical was launched at 701 websites, for a web site common of £19,543 for Common. It beat earlier stage-to-screen document holder Les Misérables, with £8.1m in 2013. Depraved additionally knocked Deadpool & Wolverine off its 2024 opening weekend high spot, bringing in £12.6m for Disney in July.

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It is usually the third-highest opening for a musical ever within the UK and Eire, behind Magnificence And The Beast (£19.7m, March 2017) and Frozen 2 (£15.1m, November 2019) and the third-highest opening weekend for a PG certificates movie, behind Magnificence And The Beast and The Lion King (£16.7m, July 2019). It is usually Common’s third-highest opening weekend of all time.

Depraved is the primary of a two-part adaptation of the stage musical of the identical title, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum, with Jon M Chu directing. Elphaba (Erivo), misunderstood due to her inexperienced pores and skin, and Glinda (Grande), a extra typical and fashionable lady, develop into mates at Shiz College within the Land of Oz. Their friendship is examined after crossing paths with the Fantastic Wizard of Oz.

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Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, starring Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, dropped 46% in its second weekend, taking £4.7m, for an total determine of £18.4m for Paramount.

Paddington In Peru added £4.2m in its third weekend. Its whole after three weekends on launch for Studiocanal is £24.4m.

Warner Bros Christmas motion comedy Pink One cheered up £822,000 for Warner Bros, for a £5.8m whole after three periods. 

Leisure Movie Distributors horror Heretic, starring Hugh Grant, scared up £205,457 in its fourth weekend in launch, for a complete to-date of £5.4m.

On its sixth session, animation The Wild Robotic introduced in £181,573 for Common, down 53% on its earlier session, for a cumulative whole of £13.5m.

Small Issues Like These, starring Cillian Murphy, continues to carry admirably with £161,813 in its fourth weekend for Lionsgate, for a complete of £3.5m.

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Venom: The Final Dance added £122,166 for a complete of £12.2m after 5 weekends for Sony.

In occasion releases, Tosca – Met Opera 2024 took in £120,544 from 95 venues throughout the UK solely, for a web site common of £1,269, with extra nonetheless to report for Trafalgar Releasing. CinemaLive’s screenings of Lady From The North Nation, recorded on the Belasco Theatre in New York, introduced in £52,677 from 134 websites on Sunday solely, for a web site common of £393.

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Sean Baker’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anora added £89,698 for Common, on its fourth weekend, for a complete of £1.6m.

Trinity CineAsia’s Hong Kong household drama The Final Dance introduced in £66,010 in its second weekend, for an total determine of £388,334. It’s at the moment the fifth greatest performing Hong Kong movie within the UK-Eire, behind Stephen Chow’s Kung FuHustle, which took £1.3m in 2005, and John Woo’s Pink Cliff, which took £395,619 in June 2009. 

Fashionable Movies’ CBeebies Panto 2024: Magnificence And The Beast conjured up £37,115 in its debut weekend from 143 websites, for a web site common of £256. With £1,970 from previews, its whole thus far is £39,085.

Smile 2 drummed up £28,000 for Paramount, for a complete of £6.5m after six weekends.

Indian horror comedy Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3’s fourth weekend added £20,619, for a cumulative determine of £855,914, launched by AA Movies UK.

The debut characteristic of Display screen Star of Tomorrow Amrou Al-Kadhi, Layla, a couple of British-Palestinian drag queen, opened to £17,424 for Curzon from 21 cinemas, for a web site common of £830. With previews of £18,449, the cume is £35,873.

Andrea Arnold’s Mubi-released Chook added £8,200 on its fourth weekend, bringing its whole as much as £237,000. Mubi additionally took £8,900 on its tenth weekend for The Substance, which now stands at £3.9m.

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Documentary The Flight Of Bryan introduced in £617 from one web site for Altitude in its debut weekend. James Erskine directs the story of an unemployed beginner bike owner, closely in-debt father and staff of neuro-diverse outliers, who set out on a quest to untangle the thriller of human-powered flight.

Indian Hindi-language motion movie Singham Once more crossed the £700,000 mark, including £8,689 in its fourth weekend, for a £707,010 whole.

Additionally new on launch this weekend: The Magic Reindeer: Saving Santa’s Sleigh for Kaleidoscope; Spellbound for Netflix; Bread And Roses for Apple; Liverpool Story for Shut Out The Mild; and Snow Leopard for Day For Night time; Hey Siri Ve Siri for Zee Studios; Letters To Santa 6 for Magnetes Photos; Mediha for Collectively Movies; Silent Males for Cosmic Cat and The Man With A Thousand Faces for Sovereign Movie Distribution.

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