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Box Office Roundup
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opened in the top spot with £1.3m, which includes £78k from previews. In terms of recent music biopics, that is on a par with Better Man, which opened with £1.3m in December last year. That film finished on £7m but had the benefit of the Christmas holiday period. Hopefully Deliver Me From Nowhere can get close to that figure.
Regretting You is the second major Colleen Hoover adaptation to hit cinemas, and while it couldn’t hit the heights of It Ends With Us, which opened with £4.5m in August 2024, it still opened with a solid £1.3m, which includes £83k from previews. With two more Colleen Hoover adaptations hitting cinemas next year (Reminders Of Him in March, and Verity tbc) it bodes well.
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc continued a terrific year for anime, opening with £1.1m. This comes just a month after Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle opened with £3.5m. With Jujutsu Kaisen – Execution hitting cinemas in a few weeks, anime’s terrific year is set to continue.
Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie was the top film last weekend, and this weekend it added £1.1m, which is down 50% from last weekend. That takes its total to £3.2m and in terms of family tv shows that have made the leap to the big screen, Peppa Meets The Baby Cinema Experience opened with £1.1m in May this year, but it had a very short run, finishing with £2.4m. Gabby has flown past that total.
Black Phone 2 is a sequel to the 2021 horror hit that opened with £1.4m and finished its run with £4.7m. This sequel added £629k this weekend, a healthy drop of 43%, which takes its total to £2.3m. With Halloween coming this weekend, it should have a good third weekend too.
Outside of the top five, I Swear continues its strong run and has crossed the £4m mark on £4.1m, while One Battle After Another has crossed the £10m mark and is on £10.6m. Taking advantage of a quiet half-term week for animation, Pets On A Train opened in eighth with £443k.
Next Weekend
Bugonia is the latest collaboration between Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite). Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Jesse Plemons co-stars.
Shelby Oaks is a new horror from Chris Stuckman that was originally financed via Kickstarter. A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realising that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.
Relay is the latest film from David Mackenzie (Hell Or High Water, Starred Up). A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive. Riz Ahmed, Lily James and Sam Worthington star.
Back To The Future gets a 40th anniversary re-release. Marty McFly lives out his oedipal fantasies in 1955 Hill Valley.
The Buzz
Reminders Of Him is the next film to be adapted from a novel by Colleen Hoover (It Ends With Us, Regretting You). Maika Monroe stars as Kenna, who after a prison sentence, attempts to reconnect with her young daughter but faces resistance from everyone except a bar owner with ties to her child. As they grow closer, Kenna must confront her past mistakes to build a hopeful future. On Good Reads this has the best average rating of any Colleen Hoover novel with 4.34 (out of 5). For context, It Ends With Us has an average rating of 4.09. It should be one of the best films for 16-34 women in Q1 and here’s the first trailer:
Across The Pond
Chainsaw Man Black Phone 2 opened in the top spot with an impressive $17.3m, continuing an excellent year for anime. Black Phone 2 fell to second, adding $13m for a new total of $49.1m. Regretting You opened in third with $12.9m, while Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opened in fourth with $9.1m. Tron: Ares rounded out the top five, adding $4.9m for a new total of $63.4m.