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Box Office Round-up
After posting the biggest weekend total of the year last weekend, Wicked: For Good held on to the top spot at the UK box office once again, adding £7.7m, which is down 57% from last weekend. That takes its total to £32.1m, and it’s already the fifth biggest film of the year. After two weekends, Wicked Part One was on £28.5m, so this sequel looks in a good place to match, or get very close, to the £61.3m that film finished on.
Zootropolis 2 opened in second with a strong £6m, the biggest opening weekend for an animated film this year. The first Zootropolis opened with a Friday to Sunday total of £3.5m and finished its run with £24.1m, so this sequel looks set for a total comfortably north of that. The biggest animated film released this year is The Bad Guys 2 with £14.6m, so it’s not been a banner year for animated films and Zootropolis 2 looks like setting comfortably the best total.
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t came in third but posted a solid hold in the face of the two big films, adding £606k, down 46% from last weekend. That takes its total to £5.5m and the previous instalment, Now You See Me 2, finished on £6.4m so that is still the target for this third film.
Irish pop-band Westlife’s 25th Anniversary Concert at The Royal Albert Hall came in fourth with £528k. At present this concert is not due to be shown again, so this is likely to be the final total and it has topped 2022’s Westlife: Live From Wembley Stadium which banked £439k.
BIFA-winning Pillion opened in fifth with £348k, which includes £225k from previews. This picked up the biggest award for Best British Film and it’s expected to expand to more screens next weekend, so this should be the start of a successful run for the Alexander Skarsgard-starring comedy.
Next Weekend
Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 is the sequel to the hit 2023 horror. Set a year after the first film, it follows Abby Schmidt (Piper Rubio) as she reconnects with her animatronic friends, leading to events that reveal the origins of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
Eternity is the latest A24 film. In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive. Miles Teller and Callum Turner co-star.
It Was Just An Accident is the Palme d’Or winning drama from Jafar Panahi. A small mishap triggers a chain reaction of ever-growing problems.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is the first time Quentin Tarantino’s two Kill Bill films can be watched in a cinema in one sitting.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (25th Anniversary) is a re-release of the much-loved Jim Carrey comedy.
The Buzz
The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping is the sixth film in the hugely popular post-apocalyptic sci-fi series. It explores Panem 24 years before Katniss' saga, starting on the morning of the reaping for the 50th Hunger Games, where a young Haymitch Abernathy participates. The casting has been generating a huge amount of buzz online and they’ve assembled a pretty stellar team, including Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons, Glenn Close, and Maya Hawke. The book upon which it’s based is the highest rated of any Hunger Games books on Good Reads, which bodes well for this film when it hits cinemas on 20 November 2026.
Across The Pond
On a huge Thanksgiving weekend, Zootropolis 2 opened in the top spot with a massive $156m five-day total after opening on Wednesday. Wicked: For Good fell to second but added $62.8m across the three-day weekend for a new total of $270.4m. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t fell to third, adding $7m from Friday to Sunday for a new total of $49.7m. Predator: Badlands came in fourth, adding $4.8m for a new total of $85m. The Running Man added $3.7m in fifth for a new total of $34.2m.