For such a wide release, £7 million does seem a bit underwhelming. What was its screen average like compared to other films released this week, and some of the other big tentpole films recently?

29 minutes ago, Brett-Butler said:

For such a wide release, £7 million does seem a bit underwhelming. What was its screen average like compared to other films released this week, and some of the other big tentpole films recently?

Pretty decent really. It had a £10,030 screen average which is a lot stronger than the other big releases this week. 'Goat' had £3,296 and 'Crime 101' had £2,419. The second biggest opening weekend so far this year is 'Hamnet' and that had a £4,635 average.

As this opening would have only been the 10th biggest opening of 2025 but the release is wider than any film released last year, it obviously lower than last year's biggest films. But with more cinemas, that's to be expected.

If we go back to the same weekend last year, 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy' did £16,917 in 727 cinemas and 'Captain America: Brave New World' did £10,397 in 616 cinemas. So its a lot less popular than Bridget Jones but its a similar number to Captain America despite that film going all out on premium formats (IMAX etc) that would have boosted the average ticket price.

Margot's openings are INSANE!! Wow. A genuine movie star for this generation! I still need to see 'Wuthering Heights' myself, but I loved both 'Promising Young Woman' and 'Saltburn', so I'm excited to see it. I'm really not familiar with the story of it though and I'm not a Charli fan really... so we'll see I guess!

I hope 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' can do something decent next week. I went to the Secret Screening of it tonight and it's SO good! Nice to see quite a bold and interesting original movie idea.

Shame If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is not being shown in many cinemas despite it being nominated for Oscars and Cineworld aren’t even showing it next month as part of its Oscar nominations season

Impressed with that opening for 'Wuthering Heights' as there was some online backlash from the trailer alone, and I'm happy for Emerald as hopefully she'll come up with another 'Saltburn' in the future (have heard great things about 'Promising Young Woman' too but haven't seen it), but it didn't live up to my expectations. Will be interested to see what the holds are like because I don't think word of mouth is going to be great...

This coming weekend is SO packed with new releases that I view as essential (I hope you've already caught some at Unlimited screenings @Josh! ) - 'The Moment', 'The Secret Agent', 'Wasteman' and 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' all interest me, and there are a couple more releases that haven't caught my attention personally. Maybe a crowded week is why 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' doesn't seem to be showing at any Cineworld in London, nor is it playing at my local Vue, which really I think is a travesty considering it picked up a Golden Globe win, is up for an Oscar in a major category etc. These cinemas have all shown the trailer too which is the frustrating thing. ( @LewisGT do you have any intel on whether it's planned to expand more widely the week after, or are the locations this weekend going to be the best of what we're getting? )

19 minutes ago, J❄️hq said:

( @LewisGT do you have any intel on whether it's planned to expand more widely the week after, or are the locations this weekend going to be the best of what we're getting? )

From what I've read, it looks like it's planning on going into its widest release straight away. But if it does well, I imagine they will try and re-push again towards the Oscars date.

It is being distributed by Picturehouse Entertainment, so it makes sense that they're focusing more on their own venues and other arthouse cinemas rather than the big chains.

2 hours ago, J❄️hq said:

Impressed with that opening for 'Wuthering Heights' as there was some online backlash from the trailer alone, and I'm happy for Emerald as hopefully she'll come up with another 'Saltburn' in the future (have heard great things about 'Promising Young Woman' too but haven't seen it), but it didn't live up to my expectations. Will be interested to see what the holds are like because I don't think word of mouth is going to be great...

This coming weekend is SO packed with new releases that I view as essential (I hope you've already caught some at Unlimited screenings @Josh! ) - 'The Moment', 'The Secret Agent', 'Wasteman' and 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' all interest me, and there are a couple more releases that haven't caught my attention personally. Maybe a crowded week is why 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' doesn't seem to be showing at any Cineworld in London, nor is it playing at my local Vue, which really I think is a travesty considering it picked up a Golden Globe win, is up for an Oscar in a major category etc. These cinemas have all shown the trailer too which is the frustrating thing. ( @LewisGT do you have any intel on whether it's planned to expand more widely the week after, or are the locations this weekend going to be the best of what we're getting? )

Managed to squeeze in ‘If I had Legs’ and ‘secret agent’ but were on holiday next week so having to go to cinema Friday/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday just to keep up!!!! Who’s making these release schedules!!!!

Most excited for The Moment this week. I hope you get chance to seee Rose Byrne, Jack, because it was my fave of all time 20 acting noms.

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