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Tafty³³³ View member profile	21st December 2023, 02:23 AM Post #41
I found the love, I found the love in me Pronouns: He/Him Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 87,457 User: 5,042	I'm gonna predict Wonka to out perform Aquaman this weekend, with an increase in weekend numbers too! I also think 'Godzilla' will hold relatively strong too! It seems to be gaining traction at my cinema and I don't think it's slowing down anytime soon!


dandy* View member profile	26th December 2023, 07:44 PM Post #42
Mansonette Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 35,316 User: 54	Just back from watching Wonka and it’s the most enjoyable thing I’ve seen in ages - very much deserving of its success


LewisGT View member profile	27th December 2023, 08:48 PM Post #43
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	22nd December 2023 - 24th December 2023 1. (01) Wonka - £7,234,062 (+14%) Weeks: 3 (£37,149,971) 2. (NE) Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom - £2,484,442 Weeks: 1 (£4,250,904) 3. (NE) Dunki - £707,495 Weeks: 1 (£1,090,816) 4. (04) Wish - £658,176 (+12%) Weeks: 5 (£8,667,529) 5. (NE) Salaar - £394,578 Weeks: 1 (£514,638) 6. (09) Elf (20th Anniversary) - £393,577 (+119%) Weeks: 4 (£1,480,615) 7. (03) The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes - £309,585 (-49%) Weeks: 6 (£17,069,149) 8. (10) Home Alone - £304,366 (+72%) Weeks: 265 (£2,921,304) 9. (RE) It's A Wonderful Life - £269,149 (+279%) Weeks: 108 (£1,280,209) 10. (RE) The Polar Express - £255,527 (+165%) Weeks: 473 (£1,324,706) Falling out: Godzilla Minus One (1 week) Napoleon (4 weeks) Saltburn (5 weeks) Animal (3 weeks) The Nutcracker: Royal Opera House 2023 (1 week) It's Christmas and the big winner is family favourites and proving to be the cracker in particular is 'Wonka'. Up 14% week-on-week, 'Wonka' has now passed £30 million and is closing in on the £37.8 million that the Johnny Depp led 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' grossed in 2005. It's also up to #5 in the 2023 box office and looks sure to overtake 'Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (£36,718,384) over the holiday period. Then we will wait to see it can reach the £57,810,964 necessary to overtake 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' and enter the medals positions. 'Wish' also improved week-on-week (+12%) to show that an audience is there for the film even if the numbers have been appalling. Four classic Christmas films are in the top 10 too, holdovers 'Elf and 'Home Alone' are joined by the resurgent 'It's A Wonderful Life' (#9) and 'The Polar Express'. Those totals for all of those films are only since re-releases and not including their original runs. The big new release this week is 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' which enters at a distant #2. This is the final release in the inconsistent DCEU which will be rebooted as the DCU under the guardianship of James Gunn in 2025. In a franchise that has iconic characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, the original 'Aquaman', surprisingly, is and will remain, the biggest hit worldwide of the DCEU (as well as probably being my favourite of their films). 2023 has been bad for superhero movies in general but it's been particularly disastrous for DC who now have their 4th flop of the year. 'Aquaman 2' opens to £2,489,068. This is the 4th worst opening for the DCEU, with 2 of the bottom 3 also being this year ('Shazam! Fury of the Gods, £2,397,953 and Blue Beetle, £1,189,812) and the lowest being the Covid shutdown release of 'Wonder Woman 1984' (£846,435). 'Joker' and 'The Batman' have, of course, been big successes for DC over the past few years but neither of those we're released under the DCEU banner so I haven't included their openings in my table below. The other 2 new releases this week are both from India, 'Dunki' (#3) and 'Salaar' (#5). In a reversal to their fortunes in their native India, 'Dunki' has proved to be the bigger hit in the UK. It's debut of £707,408 means that it's not the biggest Indian crossover of the year but it's almost double Salaar's £394,548. 'Dunki' is largely set in London which might be a reason for this as it is a dramedy focusing on the 'donkey flight' type of illegal immigration. 'Salaar' is an action epic and is directed by Prashanth Neel who also directed the two 'K.F.G' films that have proven big hits over the past few years. To make way for the new entries and the Christmas invasion we lose 5 films from the top 10. 'Godzilla Minus One' might have had a strong opening weekend but drops all the way from #2-#11 in it's second week with a huge 74% drop, while we also lose 'Napoleon' and 'Saltburn' for the first time. There are a few more Christmas entries in the #11-15 section with 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' (#13), 'Die Hard' (#14) and 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (#15). Next week is the last week of 2023 and, in a packed schedule, sees the openings of 'Ferrari', 'Anyone But You', 'Next Goal Wins', 'The Boy and the Heron', 'Tchaikovsky’s Wife' and 'Raging Grace'. Can any of them top the charts? DCEU openings (RIP): Man Of Steel (11,198,786, #1, 2013) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (£14,621,007, #1, 2016) Suicide Squad (£11,252,225, #1, 2016) Wonder Woman (£6,179,616, #1, 2017) Justice League (£7,264,784, #1, 2017) Aquaman (£5,230,285, #1, 2018) Shazam! (£4,067,068, #1, 2019) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (£2,833,297, #2, 2020) Wonder Woman 1984 (£846,435, #1, 2020) *Debut effected by Covid The Suicide Squad (£3,252,028, #1, 2021) Black Adam (£5,655,003, #1, 2022) Shazam! Fury of the Gods (£2,397,953, #1, 2023) The Flash (£4,252,532, #1, 2023) Blue Beetle (£1,189,812, #3, 2023) Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom (£2,489,068, #2, 2023)


One_For_Sorrow View member profile	31st December 2023, 06:39 AM Post #44
--- Joined: 29 July 2012 Posts: 12,952 User: 17,418	I saw Wonka today and it was fantastic. Quite possibly the movie if the year for me. Though I only saw 5 or 6 movies in the cinema.


LewisGT View member profile	2nd January 2024, 08:03 PM Post #45
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	29th December 2023 - 31st December 2023 1. (01) Wonka - £6,672,464 (-8%) Weeks: 4 (£43,822,435) 2. (NE) Ferrari - £1,981,677 Weeks: 1 (£1,981,677) 3. (02) Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom - £1,732,614 (-30%) Weeks: 2 (£5,983,518) 4. (NE) The Boy And The Heron - £1,640,667 Weeks: 1 (£1,640,667) 5. (NE) Anyone But You - £1,253,694 Weeks: 1 (£1,253,694) 6. (04) Wish - £1,019,728 (+55%) Weeks: 6 (£9,687,257) 7. (NE) Next Goal Wins - £844,604 Weeks: 1 (£844,604) 8. (07) The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes - £408,649 (+32%) Weeks: 7 (£17,477.797) 9. (12) Napoleon - £267,244 (+27%) Weeks: 6 (£13,670,408) 10. (11) Godzilla Minus One - £258,095 (+22%) Weeks: 3 (£1,942,860) Falling out: Dunki (1 week) Salaar (1 week) Elf (20th Anniversary) (4 weeks) Home Alone (3 weeks) In this run It's A Wonderful Life (1 week) In this run The Polar Express (1 week) In this run One final week to end 2023 and it's a busy one with four new entries to the top 10. However, it's all the same at the top with 'Wonka' getting 4th week at #1 and climbing up to #4 on the 2023 Chart. It's already overtaken the lifetime grosses of 'Paddington' (£38 million), 'Paddington 2' (£42.6 million) and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (£37.8 million), all while not vacating the #1 spot and dropping only 8% on it's 4th week. What else is left for 'Wonka' to achieve? One thing to note with the 4 new entries is that they were all released on Boxing Day which means that they all have an extra 3 days of grosses in their weekend totals compared to the holdovers. This means that the #2 film during the Friday-Sunday period was actually 'Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom' which drops a not-in-itself-disastrous 30% in it's second week. However, it's current total of ~£6 million is nowhere near the £22 million+ of Momoa's original adventure. Out of the new entries, the winner is Michael Mann's racing biopic 'Ferrari'. This is the iconic director of 'Heat's first movie since 2015's 'Blackhat'. 'Le Mans '66' (aka 'Ford v Ferrari') was a big hit in 2019 but that focused more on Ford while this is purely based on the Italian competitor. Adam Driver, under a tonne of prosthetics, stars as Enzo Ferrari and the film follows him in a particularly tumultuous period of this life where he was trying to balance his deteriorating relationship with his wife Laura (Penelope Cruz) after the death of their son, his mistress (Shailene Woodley) and secret child and the financial struggles of the company that shares his name. 'Ferrari' is being distributed by Sky Cinema here in the UK and is their biggest production yet with a budget of over £100 million. The film hasn't got off to a good start in American and I think they were hoping for more than a £1,981,677 debut here too. One film that has been a massive success though is 'The Boy And The Heron'. I'm sure that every film fan knows the name 'Studio Ghibli' and will be familiar with their classics such as 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Spirited Away'. Everyone thought that the co-founder of the company, Hayao Miyazaki, had retired with 2013's 'The Wind Rises'. Well it turned out that there was still stories he needed to tell as his comeback film 'The Boy And The Heron' became the first Ghibli film to reach #1 in the US Box Office and, with it's £1,640,667 debut here, has already become the biggest hit from the studio in the UK, beating Spirited Away's total of £1.18 million. In terms of anime openings, this is second only to the £2.8 million opening of 'Pokémon: The First Movie' all the way back in 2000. In it's native Japan, 'The Boy And The Heron' has broken all kinds of records despite it doing a Beyoncé. This film was released without any sort of promotional campaign in Japan. There was a single poster released for the film before it's release with no trailers and it become the biggest opening weekend for any film ever in the country. Rom-Coms (loosely or otherwise) based on Shakespeare's works have been a successful formula in the past (Romeo + Juliet, 10 Things I Hate About You), but the same cannot be said for 'Anyone But You'. Loosely based on 'Much Ado About Nothing', the film sees the paring of up-and-coming Hollywood stars Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell. In a classic Hollywood 'enemies to lovers' trope, they play two attractive young adults who hate each other but for some convoluted reason have to pretend to be in love. The film is directed by Will Gluck who, before adapting 'Annie' and 'Peter Rabbit, cut his teeth directing rom-coms such as 'Easy A' and 'Friends With Benefits'. One final new entry and it's the most disappointing debut of the lot. Kiwi director, Taika Waititi, has almost made himself a brand with a unique style of quirky filmmaking that he's applied to some eccentric topics. See below for a Taika Waititi chart history comparison. 'Next Goal Wins' is a remake of the 2014 documentary of the same name and focuses on the American Samoa national football team who suffered the worst defeat in World Cup Qualifying history, a 31-0 loss to Australia in 2001. The film is set during the 2014 World Cup Qualifying campaign where Dutch manager 'Thomas Rongen' (portrayed by Michael Fassbender) takes over the side in the hope of getting the team to score at least one goal. Lots of problems have hindered the production of this film. It was filmed in 2019 but has only been released now due to multiple factors including Taika focusing on his 'Thor' sequel and the fact that 'Armie Hammer' had to be replaced in re-shoots after his controversies. I'm yet to see the documentary but one fascinating thing that the promotion of this film has brought to light to me is that American Samoa had the first ever transgender player to feature in World Cup Qualification, a storyline that is explored in the film. 'Wish' continues to hold strong after an awful opening, rising 56% in it's 6th week and meaning it's nearly at £10 million. The film is following the same projection as 'Elemental' although I can't see it reaching the £16.2 million that Pixar's offering ended up legging out at. 'Napoleon' and 'Godzilla Minus One' re-enter the top 10 after the Christmas entries disappear. I don't currently have the figures to work out their holds but I will add it in when it comes available, probably tomorrow. Two further new entries in the #11-15 section, 'Cats In The Museum' (#12) and 'Neru' (#14). Next week sees the openings of 'Priscilla', 'One Life', 'Next Goal Wins', 'Night Swim', 'The Goldfinger', 'Scala!' and 'Bad Behaviour'. Can any of them top the charts? Taika Waititi openings: Eagle vs. Shark (£47,845, #15, 2007) Boy (£2,653, #48, 2017) Was released in 2010 in New Zealand but didn't get a release in the UK until a limited release in 2017 What We Do In The Shadows (£127,765, #12, 2014) Hunt For The Wilderpeople (£167,646, #15, 2016) Thor: Ragnarok (12,375,804, #1, 2017) Jojo Rabbit (£2,415,233, #5, 2020) Thor: Love And Thunder (£12,283,719, #1, 2022) Next Goal Wins (£844,604, #7, 2023)


Chez Wombat View member profile	2nd January 2024, 10:18 PM Post #46
The owls are not what they seem Pronouns: He/him Joined: 11 July 2009 Posts: 37,133 User: 9,232	That is shocking that The Boy and the Heron is already ahead of Spirited Away I guess that was one where it's reputation grew over the years and it was over twenty years ago, but still! It's a great film that I'd highly recommend, not quite the best of Ghibli, but beautiful, complex and creative as you could expect, felt like an appropriate swan song (given the film's characters x) if it is indeed his final film.


Tafty³³³ View member profile	3rd January 2024, 12:02 AM Post #47
I found the love, I found the love in me Pronouns: He/Him Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 87,457 User: 5,042	'Wish' really did turn out to become a bit of a hit here! It is so over hated! I do think once it hits Disney+ it could become more popular. Not 'Encanto' levels, but still see a significant rise in popularity. I saw 'Ferrari', 'Next Goal Wins', 'The Boy & The Heron' & 'Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom' (the latter today) and NGW was definitely my favourite. I do love a fun, underdog sports movie. I can't say I love TB&TH though. Which is a shame. I didn't hate it by any means, but I wanted to like it a whole lot more than I actually did. I hated both 'Ferrari' and 'Aquaman'... so NO THANKS to those.


LewisGT View member profile	8th January 2024, 09:58 PM Post #48
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	5th January 2024 - 7th January 2024 1. (01) Wonka - £3,779,635 (-43%) Weeks: 5 (£53,074,026) 2. (NE) One Life - £3,324,502 Weeks: 1 (£3,324,502) 3. (NE) Priscilla - £1,326,326 Weeks: 1 (£1,326,326) 4. (05) Anyone But You - £1,094,951 (-13%) Weeks: 2 (£3,391,223) 5. (03) Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom - £938,303 (-46%) Weeks: 3 (£8,252,663) 6. (04) The Boy And The Heron - £795,265 (-52%) Weeks: 2 (£3,019,532) 7. (06) Wish - £627,978 (-38%) Weeks: 7 (£11,444,652) 8. (02) Ferrari - £599,427 (-70%) Weeks: 2 (£3,278,831) 9. (NE) Night Swim - £590,691 Weeks: 1 (£590,691) 10. (08) The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes - £183,098 (-55%) Weeks: 8 (£17,924,848) Falling out: Next Goal Wins (1 week) Napoleon (1 week) In this run Godzilla Minus One (1 week) In this run 2024 begins where 2023 left off with 'Wonka' bagging a 5th week at #1. I'm running out of things to say about Paul King's film. It now looks sure to gross the extra £5.5 million it would need to climb above 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' and 'Oppenheimer' to become the 2nd biggest release of 2023 in the UK. Expect to see much more of Timothée Chalamet in the purple suit. It was the New Year bank holiday last week so the two big new entries both opened on Monday last week and have a full week's gross included in their gross. And this was nearly enough to give 'One Life' the box-office crown. Opening at #2 with £3,324,502, the film sees both Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins star as real-life figure, Nicholas Winton, who helped hundreds of children flee Czechoslovakia upon the dawn of WWII. It's hard to spoil a real-life story but I'll still stay away from saying too much but Hopkin's part of the film focuses on a particular, famous TV appearance in Winton's life that is sure to make you weep. It is directed by James Hawes in his feature debut. Opening up in bronze position is 'Priscilla'. Based purely on the weekend data, without the Monday-Thursday figures, this would have debuted outside the top 5 but with the full data it is the highest-grossing opening weekend of director Sofia Coppola's career. This is, of course, a biopic of Priscilla Presley and is adapted from her biography 'Elvis and Me'. The star of the show is Cailee Spaeny who has the unenviable task of portraying Priscilla from ages 15-27. She was nominated at last night's Golden Globes but did not win. Man of the moment, Jacob Elordi plays the King in this one. Not an easy role to take on, after Austin Butler was Oscar nominated last year for playing the same man. It would unfair to compare to the summer blockbuster full of excess that was Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' but that film opened up with £4,023,573 in June 2022 on it's way to a £22 million+ total. There is one last new entry to talk about in the top 10, 'Night Swim' at #9. This is the latest release from Blumhouse after 'Five Nights At Freddy's' broke all sorts of records for them in October. Blumhouse found great early year success last year when they opened 'M3GAN' to a great £2,356,357. So what went wrong for 'Night Swim'? For one thing, the critical reception has been a lot more tepid (it has a score of 25% on Rotten Tomatoes compared to 93% for M3GAN) and it doesn't have the virality factor of M3GAN's dancing from the trailor. However, it's actually not all bad news for the movie. It is a Blumhouse film after all so it was budgeted very smartly. It's already opened worldwide to $17 million which compares favourably to its $15 million budget. It may not end up as a huge money-maker for the studio but it's certainly not going to lose them much. It's directed by Bryce McGuir and is adapted from his own 2024 short of the same name about a haunted swimming pool. The film stars (false) Captain America, Wyatt Russell and bizarrely, Kerry Condon, who decided this to follow her brilliant Oscar nominated performance in 'The Banshees of Inisherin'. Looking back at the 4 films that opened last week, they can clearly be separated into winners and losers. Let's start on a positive note with the winners; the biggest of which is 'Anyone But You'. The film climbs up a place to #4 with a 13% drop. This is a particularly good hold when you consider that the first week total included a 6-day total after it's Boxing Day release. Purely based on weekend totals, it's up 49%. It's really seemed to connect with audiences, already grossing $58 million worldwide on a (crazily small) $25 million budget. The other winner is 'The Boy And The Heron'. Just like 'Anyone But You', while the official numbers say it's dropped (52%), based purely on weekend grosses it's actually increased 16%. With a Golden Globe win last night and a great chance for plenty more awards to come, just how much can the film make? And now for the losers. They're not just losers but BIG losers. 'Ferrari' had the biggest opener of the four last week but a painful 70% drop (41% without previews) has seen it drop between the two I've already discussed. With a massive budget and a poor start in America, this is a huge flop in Michael Mann's career. But even worse is 'Next Goal Wins'. Taika Waititi's film has dropped out of the top 10 after a solitary week (7-12). The numbers are almost unbelivable (officially a 81% drop or 63% without previews). Disney had a disastrous 2023 and 2024 has started no better for them. One final new entry in the #11-15 section, 'Nabucco: Met Opera 2024' (#14). Next week sees the openings of 'Poor Things', 'The Boys In The Boat', 'The Beekeeper', 'Guntur Karam', 'Goldbeak' and Self Reliance'. Can any of them top the charts? Sofia Coppula (post 2000) openings: Lost In Translation (£797,071, #5, 2004) Marie Antoinette (283,883, #12, 2006) Somewhere (£125,581, #8, 2010) The Bling Ring (£141,425, #7, 2013) The Beguiled (£414,924, #6, 2017) On The Rocks (£93,821, #7, 2020) *Debut effected by Covid Priscilla (£1,326,326, #3, 2024)


LewisGT View member profile	15th January 2024, 09:34 PM Post #49
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	12th January 2024 - 14th January 2024 1. (01) Wonka - £2,227,606 (-41%) Weeks: 6 (£56,192,556) 2. (NE) Poor Things - £1,819,563 Weeks: 1 (£1,819,563) 3. (04) Anyone But You - £1,246,921 (+14%) Weeks: 3 (£5,369,706) 4. (02) One Life - £1,246,292 (-63%) Weeks: 2 (£5,857,289) 5. (NE) The Beekeeper - £956,380 Weeks: 1 (£956,380) 6. (03) Priscilla - £493,384 (-63%) Weeks: 2 (£2,192,459) 7. (06) The Boy And The Heron - £490,409 (-38%) Weeks: 3 (£3,916,108) 8. (05) Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom - £455,039 (-51%) Weeks: 4 (£8,998,109) 9. (07) Wish - £373,442 (-41%) Weeks: 8 (£11,904,402) 10. (NE) The Boys In The Boat - £270,297 - Weeks: 1 (£270,297) Falling out: Ferrari (2 weeks) Night Swim (1 week) The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes (8 weeks) 'Wonka' continues it's unbelievable success by bagging it's 6th week at #1, equalling the run of Barbie in the summer. That film was down to £1,944,777 on it's last week at #1 so Wonka is currently making more at this stage of their runs. However, I think it's current grosses is low enough now that this will be it's final week at the top. Debuting at #2 with a brilliant £1,819,563 (£1.6 million without previews) is 'Poor Things'. This is an amazing result for an 18 rated film with an incredibly odd-premise. This is the latest team up for Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and his muse Emma Stone after Oscar favourite 'The Favourite' in 2019. Lanthimos's breakthrough was 'The Lobster' and this film has already overtaken that film's final total of £1.5 million. This is a big favourite to win many awards over this season, especially for Stone who, in a Frankenstein-esque premise plays an infant in an adults body. See below for Yorgos Lanthimos's openings history. The Stath is back and this time with an ill-advised American accent in 'The Beekeeper'. Coming from gritty director David Ayer ('End Of Watch', 'Fury' and writer of 'Training Day'), the premise is incredibly ridiculous. A retired agent of the secret, mysterious 'spy' agency, 'The Beekeepers', Jason Statham has become a real-beekeeper but is brought back into the killing-loads-of-henchmen game after the owner of the house he is a tenant of falls for a phishing scam. The only other new entry in the top 10 is George Clooney's 'The Boys In The Boat'. Starring Joel Edgerton and Dua Lipa's apparent beau Callum Turner, the film is adapted from the book of the same name and focuses on the real-life story of the rowing team that represented the United States at the infamous 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. £270,297 feels like a really poor opening for such a film. It feels like a release that was aiming for a £1 million+ opening weekend. See below for George Clooney's directing openings history. I called it the big winner last week and now it's an even bigger winner as 'Anyone But You' completes the incredibly rare achievement of increasing in business in it's third week (+14%). It seems the reporting on the death of the rom-com has been greatly exaggerated. 'One Life' is incredibly unlucky not to hold in the top 3 as it lands just £629 behind 'Anyone But You'. This drop is 63% which is the exact same as 'Priscilla'. These holds both seem quite big but remember that both films opened with extensive previews. Their drops without previews are actually incredibly strong: 27.8% for 'One Life' and 23.2% for 'Priscilla'. This is enough for 'Priscilla' to already be Sofia Coppola's 2nd biggest film in the UK behind 'Lost In Translation (£10.1 million). Three new entries in the #11-15 section, 'Guntur Karam' (#13), 'Hanuman' (#14) and 'Captain Miller' (#15). Next week sees the openings of 'Mean Girls', 'The Holdovers', 'The End We Start From', 'Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer', 'In Broad Daylight' and 'Blue'. Can any of them top the charts? Yorgos Lanthimos openings: Dogtooth (£26,013, #25, 2010) Alps (£6,749, #34, 2012) The Lobster (£229,619, #9. 2015) The Killing Of A Secret Deer (£286,448, #10, 2017) The Favourite (£3,973,975, #2, 2019) Poor Things (£1,819,563, #2, 2024) George Clooney openings: Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (356,623, #6, 2003) Good Night, And Good Luck (405,200, #8, 2006) Leatherheads (£474,780, #6, 2008) The Idles Of March (£665,387, #8, 2011) The Monuments Men (£1,616,625, #2, 2014) Subunicorn (£231,412, #10, 2017) The Boys In The Boat (£270,297, #10, 2024


LewisGT View member profile	22nd January 2024, 08:17 PM Post #50
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	19th January 2024 - 21st January 2024 1. (NE) Mean Girls - £3,251,159 Weeks: 1 (£3,251,159) 2. (01) Wonka - £1,691,563 (-24%) Weeks: 7 (£58,392,205) 3. (02) Poor Things - £1,093,076 (-39%) Weeks: 2 (£3,746,997) 4. (03) Anyone But You - £1,079,651 (-14%) Weeks: 4 (£7,035,226) 5. (04) One Life - £858,245 (-31%) Weeks: 3 (£7,474,825) 6. (NE) The Holdovers - £689,771 Weeks: 1 (£689,771) 7. (05) The Beekeeper - £682,307 (-29%) Weeks: 2 (£2,097,937) 8. (09) Wish - £362,074 (-3%) Weeks: 9 (£12,302,381) 9. (NE) Queen Rock Montreal - £285,110 Weeks: 1 (£285,110) 10. (07) The Boy And The Heron - £266,130 (-46%) Weeks: 4 (£4,412,633) Falling out: Priscilla (2 weeks) Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (4 weeks) The Boys In The Boat (1 week) It may not be 3rd October, but it's still a big day at the box office because 'Wonka' has finally been dethroned after a 6 week spell at #1. Musicals are in at the moment as it's 2024's remake of 'Mean Girls' that tops the chart, 20 years after the Lindsay Lohan/Rachel McAdams teen-classic was first released. This is adapted from the stage musical that started in 2017 and sees Reneé Rapp reprise her role of Regina George that she played in the show's run between 2019-2020. All three versions have been written by Tina Fey and she also reprises her role of Ms. Norbury from the 2004 original alongside Tim Meadows as Principal Duvall. 2024's 'Mean Girls' has opened very favourably compared to the original. That 'Mean Girls' opened in 3rd place with £1,393,494 in June 2004 with 2024's opening with £3,251,159 this weekend. There are definitely external factors that need to be considered, inflation means that cinema tickets cost a lot more now and the film actually opened last Wednesday. Without the extra days. 'Mean Girls' opened with £2.5 million over the weekend. It's promotional campaign might have tried to link it to 'Barbie' and while it not be a complete runaway success like that film, this has still been a very successful release. It's already completed it's 2nd week at #1 in the US and has grossed $66 million worldwide, already over it's $36 million budget. Not bad for a film that was originally made for streaming. Up until September last year, this was destined to skip cinemas for Paramount+. I bet their glad that they changed their mind on that one. Angourie Rice takes the role of Cady in this one (you might know her from 'The Nice Guys' the MCU Spider-Man trilogy or her 'Black Mirror' episode) while Moana herself, Auliʻi Cravalho, plays Janis. I went to to see it this weekend and left feeling pretty mixed. I'll spare you all the details, but the main takeaway is Reneé Rapp = With 'The Color Purple' out next week, can we make it 8 weeks in a row with a musical at #1? The other big release this week is the awards-bothering 'The Holdovers'. We might be in January now but let's take it back a month as this film is set at Christmas. The headlines have been stolen by the fact that this is the first re-team up of director Alexander Payne and star Paul Giamatti after their legendary work together 20 years ago in 'Sideaways', a film that had such a large impact that it tanked the 'Merlot' industry while single-handedly making 'Pinot Noir' a thing in America. 'The Holdovers' of the title refer to pupils at a boarding school who have to remain at school over the Christmas holidays as no-one came to pick them up. Giamatti plays the teacher left behind to look after them while newcomer Dominic Sessa plays a child left behind as has bagged himself a BAFTA nomination for what is his first acting role. However, the largest awards buzz comes for Da'Vine Joy Randolph who plays a cook and looks like a shoo-in for the 'Best Supporting Actress' Oscar. The opening of £689,771 represents a very solid start. This is up on the £349,642 opening for 'Sideways'. That film ended up with £3.9 million. If 'The Holdovers' could reach that, it would be an outstanding performance but who knows what the awards effect might do for the film. The final new entry in the top 10 brings us back to the world of event cinema with 'Queen Rock Montreal' at #9. Recorded in November 1981, this is a recording of two live shows that Queen performed at Montreal Forum in Quebec. Released exclusively in IMAX cinemas, it's being reported as the 'biggest IMAX exclusive Event opening ever', with an estimated $4.1 million worldwide. He might not be #1 anymore, but it's not all bad news for 'Wonka'. It's had another insanely good hold (-24%) and shows no sign of slowing down. It's now less than £100,000 away from overtaking the gross of 'Oppenheimer' to become the 2nd biggest release of 2023 in the UK. Another £3 million would put it firmly within the top 25 films of all-time in the UK. Talking about films that are holding well, 'Anyone But You' has it's first weekend-to-weekend drop after 2 weeks of increasing in box office. However, a 14% drop is still brilliant and makes it a whole month grossing £1 million+ every weekend. Last week's big opening was 'The Poor Things' and this weekend, it drops 39% (29% minus previews) which puts it over £3.5 million in total so far. This is a great result for an 18-rated release with such an odd premise and it's sure to continue to make waves with the Oscar nominations out tomorrow. The highest grossing 18-rated release of 2023 was 'Scream VI' with £7.3 million. It will be interesting to see if 'Poor Things' can get anywhere near that. 'The Beekeeper' might not have had an amazing opening last week but it's held well with a 29% drop (26% without previews). I've mentioned previously that 'Wish' was a box-office disappointment, and while it hasn't done enough to make that statement false, it has continued to rack up some brilliant holds. It dropped a measly 3% this weekend and now has a respectable total of £12,302,381. It is slowly sneaking it's way towards the top 20 films of 2023. It has followed the exact same pattern that 'Elemental' did with a disastrous opening followed by strong word-of-mouth leading to a long run. This shows that it's not the films that have been the problem for Disney recently, it has to be the promotion. As soon as people actually see the films. the audience excitement is there. One final new entry in the #11-15 section: 'The End We Start From' (#14). Next week sees the openings of 'The Color Purple', 'NT Live: Dear England', 'All Of Us Strangers', 'Baghead', Jackdaw', 'The Outrun' and 'Fighter'. Can any of them top the charts? Alexander Payne 21st Century openings: About Schmidt (£757,325, #7, 2003) Sideways (£349,642, #8, 2005) The Descendants (£1,797,939, #2, 2012) Nebraska (£151,332, #10, 2013) Downsizing (£1,131,687, #9, 2018) The Holdovers (£689,771, #6, 2024)


LewisGT View member profile	29th January 2024, 09:35 PM Post #51
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	26th January 2024 - 28th January 2024 1. (01) Mean Girls - £1,496,629 (-54%) Weeks: 2 (£5,524,957) 2. (NE) All Of Us Strangers - £1,176,972 Weeks: 1 (£1,176,972) 3. (02) Wonka - £1,047,752 (-38%) Weeks: 8 (£59,768,006) 4. (04) Anyone But You - £817,810 (-24%) Weeks: 5 (£8,358,865) 5. (03) Poor Things - £690,024 (-37%) Weeks: 3 (£5,068,533) 6. (06) The Holdovers - £655,556 (-5%) Weeks: 2 (£1,739,990) 7. (NE) Fighter - £590,146 Weeks: 1 (£590,146) 8. (NE) The Color Purple - £452,364 Weeks: 1 (£452,364) 9. (05) One Life - £451,852 (-47%) Weeks: 4 (£8,511,456) 10. (07) The Beekeeper - £417,112 (-39%) Weeks: 3 (£2,842,300) Falling out: Wish (9 weeks) Queen Rock Montreal (1 week) The Boy And The Heron (4 weeks) It is an 8th consecutive week of musicals dominating the box office with 'Mean Girls' bullying it's way to a 2nd week at the top. It's official drop is a steep 54% but remember, it opened on a Wednesday and it's weekend to weekend drop is only about 40%. After two weekends of play, 'Mean Girls' 2024 is sitting at and is less than £200k from overtaking the lifetime gross of the 2004 original. The Oscar nominations were released this week and the main discourse seemed to be about the snub of Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig. However, what's being talked about as the real snub among the 'true film' is 'All Of Us Strangers'. Adapted from the 1987 Japanese novel 'Strangers', the Andrew Haigh directed film simultaneously tells the story of a romance between two men played by Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott and also Scott's character who discovers that when he visits his old childhood home, he can communicate with his late parents who had died when he was 12. The film has been getting 5 stars all-around and had already caused a stir when 'Scott' missed out on a BAFTA nod. The film, shockingly, picked up no nominations at the Oscars but that hasn't stopped the film from exceeding expectations at the box-office, with it's previews helping it sneak above 'Wonka' into 2nd place. It has already grossed £1,176,972 which makes it likely to overtake Haigh's current highest-grossing film '45 Years' (£1.8 million). We have our first Indian top 10 release of 2024 with 'Fighter' opening at #7. This is directed by Siddharth Anand and acts as his follow-up to last year's 'Pathaan' which broke the record as the largest ever Indian opening with £1.4 million. This could crudely be dubbed as the Indian 'Top Gun' and is the first in a planned airborne franchise. However, opening up with less than £500k suggests that it's not going to be at the same level as his last film. The third and final new entry in the top 10 is 'The Color Purple' (#8). This was comfortably the widest new release this weekend, opening in 644 cinemas (compared to 490 for 'All Of Us Strangers') so it's opening of £452,364 proves ton be a dismal result. £500 less and it would have dropped to #9. The film actually opened on Christmas Day in the US and grossed £18.2 million making it the 2nd best Christmas opening. However, the film faded incredibly quickly over there and has not even managed the strong opening day here. The Color Purple' was first adapted for cinemas by Steven Spielberg in 1985 and ended up as the 4th biggest film of the year. This one is actually based on the 2005 stage musical and sees some of the cast reprise their roles. The lasting criticism of the 1985 film was that this personal Black story was directed by Spielberg and this one makes amends by having Ghanaian director Samuel Bazawule take the helm. An extraordinary cast includes Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Halle Bailey, Ciara and Corey Hawkins. The film picked up one Oscar nomination: 'Danielle Brooks' for 'Best Supporting Actress' for the same role that Oprah Winfrey also received a nom for in 1986. 'Wonka' drops to #3 but stays above £1 million for an 8th week and has finally passed 'Oppenheimer' to become the 2nd biggest cinema release of 2023. It's currently the 29th highest-grossing film ever in the UK and the only thing left to talk about with the film is seeing how high it can get on that list. 'Anyone But You' continues with it's incredible holds. It's 24% drop is it's steepest yet but still well above market average. Now for the Oscar section. 'The Holdovers' proves to be an apt title as the film holds at #6 in its 2nd week with a negligible of 5%. Without previous, the film actually improved by 9% weekend-to-weekend. 'Poor Things' was the 2nd most nominated film and continues to do well dropping 37% in its third week. My feeling is that it will be able to pass 'the gross of ‘Scream VI' which will mean it would be bigger than any 18 certificate films released in 2023. 'The Beekeeper' is down to #10 with £417,112 on it's 3rd week. In the US, it's fortunes are completely reversed where it's in a tight battle to climb to #1 after two weeks at #2 behind 'Mean Girls'. Three new entries in the #11-15 section: 'Baghead' (#11), 'NT Live: Dear England' (#13) and 'Malaikottai Vaaliban' (#15). It's important to note that 'NT Live: Dear England' opened on Thursday, earning £544,763 that is not being included in it's weekend gross. It this actually counted, the recording would have actually been at #5. Next week sees the openings of 'Migration', 'Argylle', 'The Zone Of Interest', 'American Fiction' 'Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live At The Royal Arena', 'Kinky Boots: The Musical' and 'Dalton's Dream'. Can any of them top the charts? Andrew Haigh openings: Weekend (£30,475, #23, 2011) 45 Years (£331,196, #10, 2015) Lean On Pete (£85,597, #12, 2018) All Of Us Strangers (£1,176,972, #2, 2024)


LewisGT View member profile	6th February 2024, 08:41 PM Post #52
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	2nd February 2024 - 4th February 2024 1. (NE) Migration - £3,577,675 Weeks: 1 (£3,577,675) 2. (NE) Argylle - £2,014,521 Weeks: 1 (£2,014,521) 3. (01) Mean Girls - £843,601 (-44%) Weeks: 3 (£6,831,950) 4. (02) All Of Us Strangers - £797,004 (-32%) Weeks: 2 (£2,756,602) 5. (NE) The Zone Of Interest - £585,855 Weeks: 1 (£585,855) 6. (04) Anyone But You - £572,885 (-30%) Weeks: 6 (£9,276,529) 7. (03) Wonka - £567,825 (-46%) Weeks: 9 (£60,535,781) 8. (05) Poor Things - £429,715 (-38%) Weeks: 4 (£5,912,340) 9. (06) The Holdovers - £394,566 (-40%) Weeks: 3 (£2,542,747) 10. (NE) American Fiction - £389,375 Weeks: 1 (£389,375) Falling out: The Fighter (1 week) The Color Purple (1 week) One Life (4 weeks) The Beekeeper (3 weeks) Universal were in a battle with themselves this week with the winner being Illumination's latest flick 'Migration'. The film was released in America in December and, after a low start, continued to stick around and passed $100 million in the region. It's took a while to reach these shores and it's finally opened with £3,577,675. This constitutes the biggest opening of the year but is well-down on Illuminations franchise hits ('Despicable Me') or last-year's 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie'. In fact, this is the studio's lowest debut since 'The Secret Life Of Pets 2 in 2019. However, Illumination have become franchise kings of late and this marks their first 'original-concept' film for 8 years (2016's 'Sing'). In classic animated kids film fare, the plot surrounds a family of geese with an overbearing Dad who learns to become less strict as they escape a chef on their way to holiday in Jamaica. Inexplicably, this was scripted by Mike White, the creator of 'The White Lotus' and sees Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Keegan-Michael Key, Awkwafina, and Danny DeVito all provide their voices. See below for a comparison of all the Illumination openings. Now we've covered this week's winner, let's focus on the big loser. Coming from writer/director Matthew Vaughn, best known for 'Kick-Ass' and the 'Kingsman' franchise, 'Argylle' is a spy comedy in the same vein and has a packed A-List cast of Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Dua Lipa, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cena, Ariana DeBose and, playing the titular role, Henry Cavill. The film has had an interesting promotion campaign, with the Vaughn's family cat taking centre stage in most of it. The film was being promoted as being adapted from an unreleased book by author Elly Conway and, in a meta twist, she appears in the film, played by Bryce Dallas Howard. However, this always seemed like a dubious claim as there was no prior information about Conway online. After rumours started flying around that it was actually written by Taylor Swift, it has recently been confirmed that the tie-in novel has actually been written by Terry Hayes and Tammy Cohen. This felt like the first big blockbuster release of 2024 and missing #1 has to be seen as a massive disappointment. The film has been co-financed by Apple Studios and is expected to appear on Apple+ within the next couple of months. The opening of £2,014,521 marks the lowest opening for Vaughn since his 2004 debut 'Layer Cake'. See below for a comparison of all of Vaughn's openings. It is Oscar season and the last two new entries are both multiple nominees for this year. 'The Zone Of Interest' is the fourth film from acclaimed British director Jonathan Glazer and his first in 11 years. £585,855 represents a great opening and show's that the long gap between releases hasn't meant the audience has lost appetite for his films. Despite opening on half the screens of another awards favourite, 'Past Lives', it's has opened with almost double what that did. The film is set at a house that is attached to Auschwitz and focuses on the Nazi family that live there while ignoring the tragedy that's happening on their doorstep. I've been lucky enough to watch two of Glazer's films ('Sexy Beast' and 'Under The Skin') in the cinema for free recently but have not had the chance to sett this one yet but I know that it's a timely and difficult watch. If there was to be a shock winner at the Oscars this year, my money would be on this one. The final new entry is another Oscar favourite and one that I've already seen, 'American Fiction' at #10. A satire about how African-Americans are portrayed in fictional media, Jeffrey Wright gets a rare lead role and puts in a brilliant performance as a struggling author who pens an awful, cliched book about the black experience in protest of the poor representation in novels only to see it become a huge hit. £389,375 is a solid opening for a low-key release and I would highly recommend everyone to go and check it out. After two weeks at #1, 'Mean Girls' drops to #3 to end the dominance of musicals at the box office. A 44% drop is pretty middling but is enough for the teen comedy to pass the total of the 2004 original (£5.7 million) and move closer to catching 'One Life' to be the biggest release of the year so far. Despite missing out on the expected nominations, 'All Of Us Strangers' has a good second week hold (32% or 23% without previews) and is already director, Andrew Haigh's biggest ever release. 'Anyone But You' and 'Wonka' are starting to finally fade away, both having their biggest percentage drops yet. 'Anyone But You' drops 30% as it creeps towards £10 million overall while 'Wonka' drops 46% to #7 but does pass the £60 million barrier. No further new entries in the #11-15 section as 4/5 of the spots are taken by films dropping out the top #10. The other film is last week's #11 'Baghead' that holds pretty well at #13. Next week sees the openings of 'The Iron Claw', 'The Jungle Bunch: World Tour', 'Gassed Up', 'Occupied City' 'Origin', 'Peppa's Cinema Party' and 'Table For Six 2'. Also stay peeled for 'Turning Red' that is getting it's first ever showings in the cinemas and re-releases of 'Dune' and 'It Happened One Night'. Can any of them top the charts? Illumination openings: Despicable Me (£3,664,376, #1, 2010) Hop (£1,392,740, #1, 2011) The Lorax (£1,853,294, #2, 2012) Despicable Me 2 (£14,822,427, #1, 2013) Minions (£11,558,946, #1, 2015) The Secret Life Of Pets (£9,580,039, #1, 2016) Sing (£10,487,380, #1, 2017) Despicable Me 3 (£11,154,904, #1, 2017) The Grinch (£5,019,677, #1, 2018) The Secret Life Of Pets 2 (£3,490,598, #1, 2019) Sing 2 (£6,867,533, #1, 2022) Minions: The Rise Of Gru (£10,424,758, #1, 2022) The Super Mario Bros. Movie (£15,691,810, #1, 2023) Migration (£3,577,675, #1, 2024) Matthew Vaughn's openings: Layer Cake (£1,090,561, #3, 2004) Stardust (£2,245,143, #2, 2007) Kick-Ass (£3,881,704, #3, 2010) X-Men: First Class (£5,438,386, #2, 2011) Kingsman: The Secret Service (£4,241,292, #2, 2015) Kingsman: The Golden Circle (£8,525,664, #1, 2017) The King's Man (£3,496,627, #2, 2021) Argylle (£2,014,521, #2, 2024)


LewisGT View member profile	13th February 2024, 07:48 PM Post #53
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	9th February 2024 - 11th February 2024 1. (01) Migration - £2,468,390 (-31%) Weeks: 2 (£6,664,960) 2. (02) Argylle - £994,542 (-50%) Weeks: 2 (£3,705,840) 3. (NE) The Iron Claw - £754,152 Weeks: 1 (£754,152) 4. (04) All Of Us Strangers - £510,035 (-36%) Weeks: 3 (£3,791,038) 5. (NE) Peppa's Cinema Party - £490,693 Weeks: 1 (£490,693) 6. (03) Mean Girls - £482,291 (-43%) Weeks: 4 (£7,577,630) 7. (06) Anyone But You - £439,312 (-23%) Weeks: 7 (£9,966,152) 8. (07) Wonka - £410,729 (-28%) Weeks: 10 (£61,097,420) 9. (05) The Zone Of Interest - £388,890 (-34%) Weeks: 2 (£1,268,103) 10. (RE) Dune - £335,657 Weeks: 121 (£22,424,573) Falling out: Poor Things (4 weeks) The Holdovers (3 weeks) American Fiction (1 week) In one of the poorest box-office weeks in a a fair while, 'Migration' gets a 2nd week at #1 with 'Argylle' sticking at #2. Illumination's latest drops a fairly decent 31% to ~£2.5 million and is the only film to pass the million mark this weekend. It's still miles behind their big franchises but the film has managed to keep a foothold in the American box office and looks like it might do the same here. It's not good news for 'Argylle' though. After a bad opening, the film has dropped 50% (43% without previews) and it looks set to lose a lot of money with the planned sequels and spin-offs unlikely to see the light. It might be the last straw for Apple Films, who, despite their Best Picture win for CODA a couple of years back, are yet to release a film that has hit at the box office. The big new release this week was real-life wrestling drama, 'The Iron Claw' which opens at #3. A debut of £754,152 means that it is already director Sean Durkin's biggest hit ahead of 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' that had a final gross of £472,904. Just like the film it's one place ahead of ('All Of Us Strangers'), this film has received universally positive reviews and was tipped to be a big awards botherer. However, it's another film that has been shut out of all the nominations. The film is based upon the lives of a real-life wrestling family, the Von Erichs whose story is almost unbelievably dramatic and tragic. If you can, go into the film blind and don't read about their history before you see it. A buzzy cast of Zac Efron, The Bear's Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson portray the wrestling brothers Kevin, Kerry and David. I've heard that Zac Efron is outstanding in his role and has been robbed of an Oscar nomination. The only other new entry in the top 10 is 'Peppa's Cinema Party' (£490,693, #5). This is the 3rd cinematic release from the ever-popular British kids animation Peppa Pig after 'Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots' (£687,417, 2015) and 'Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience' (£1,050,962, 2017). This is a big drop-off from the last time they tried this trick but, to be fair, I didn't see any promotion for this one. It's tagline on IMBd does sound quite wild "Peppa celebrates 20 years with 10 new episodes, a 3-part wedding special, a mix of animation and live action where Peppa enters the real world, a party bus bonus episode, and 5 sing-along songs". Why does Peppa Pig need a 3 episode wedding arc and LIVE ACTION??? A lot of people are pinning all their hopes on 'Dune: Part Two' being the saviour of the Q1 of the 2024 box office and to build up a bit of hype, Warner Bros. have re-released 2021's original and it just about makes the top 10 at #10. £335,657 is a pretty decent number for a re-release and takes it's total up to £22,424,573. For comparison, this number would have made it the 10th biggest release of 2023 had it been released last year. A similar total would be a great result for Villeneuve's epic. 'Mean Girls' has a steeper than expected 43% drop for a total of £7,577,630. It's starting to drop harder than I expected and now I'm thinking it won't be able to out-gross 'One Life' to become the biggest release of 2024 so far. 'Anyone But You' has another great hold (23%) but I'll leave it to next week to discuss the big milestone it will have already passed by now (Tuesday). In this week's Oscar watch, 'The Zone Of Interest' has a decent 38% drop. Without previews, it would actually be a climb of 10%. With this being a German language release, it could have easily been a hard sell. However, it has already passed the £1.2 million total of 'Under The Skin' to become Jonathan Glazer's biggest hit. 'Poor Things', 'The Holdovers' and 'American Fiction' all fall out of the top 10 but are all just outside at #11, #12 and #13 respectively. The week-to-week drops are 38%, 40% and 46%. One further new entry in the #11-15 section: 'Teri Meri Kahaniyaan' at #15. Next week sees the openings of 'Bob Marley: One Love', 'Madame Web', 'The Taste Of Things', 'The Promised Land' and 'Eureka'. Can any of them top the charts?


No Sleeep View member profile	14th February 2024, 03:48 AM Post #54
BuzzJack Gold Member Joined: 22 June 2015 Posts: 2,435 User: 22,008	I saw The Color Purple today and I really wish it did better. Great cast, and I can’t think of a movie that’s made me that emotional in a loooong time.


Tafty³³³ View member profile	14th February 2024, 01:58 PM Post #55
I found the love, I found the love in me Pronouns: He/Him Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 87,457 User: 5,042	'One Love' is going to smash it this weekend. However, beyond that will need to depend how word of mouth goes about it. The reviews are not good but music biopics tend to be immune from critically bad reviews as long as the music transports its audience to times they are most fond of listening to it. 'Madame Web' is DOA. I can't see that doing over $2m opening weekend (maybe JUST with previews?) but that is absolutely fading away completely and probably a huge fall next week.


Long Dong Silver View member profile	14th February 2024, 06:03 PM Post #56
Buffy/Charmed Joined: 18 April 2013 Posts: 44,116 User: 18,639	61 million for Wonka!!! Biggest UK film total of all time??


LewisGT View member profile	14th February 2024, 07:46 PM Post #57
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	QUOTE(Anita Hanjaab @ Feb 14 2024, 06:03 PM) 61 million for Wonka!!! Biggest UK film total of all time?? Wonka is now the 26th biggest film of all-time in the UK. The highest grossing film is 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' with £123.3 million which was a British co-production and 'Skyfall' is the biggest British-led production and is the only other film to pass £100 million with a final total of £102.8 million.


LewisGT View member profile	19th February 2024, 09:31 PM Post #58
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 February 2013 Posts: 11,975 User: 18,293	The source I use for this data seems like it's decided to stop updating on Mondays and I'm going to be too busy tomorrow so the full post for this week won't be up until Wednesday. The main story though is that 'Bob Marley: One Love' opens up comfortably at #1 while 'Madame Web' can only make #3.


JackTheeStallion View member profile	19th February 2024, 09:52 PM Post #59
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 15 March 2006 Posts: 48,139 User: 223	In all honesty I was expecting worse for Madame Web given the amount of negativity surrounding it!


Herbs View member profile	19th February 2024, 10:26 PM Post #60
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 14 March 2006 Posts: 5,729 User: 214	Good to see All Of Us Strangers with some staying power