Total: £4,437,675 (four weeks)ġ0.It saw Vikander take the lead role once held by Angelina Jolie, in a story that more closely resembled the survival-focussed reboot games than the swashbuckling 32-bit originals. Finding Your Feet, £285,202 from 406 sites. The Shape of Water, £289,641 from 311 sites. The Greatest Showman, £1,059,983 from 514 sites. Titles arriving this weekend include A Wrinkle in Time, Pacific Rim: Uprising and Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane. Box office has been down on the year-ago equivalents for every week of March so far, and it looks highly unlikely that the month can catch up. However, it’s exactly a year since the arrival of Disney’s massively successful Beauty and the Beast, so UK and Ireland box office is down a troubling 42% on that weekend.
Largely thanks to the arrival of Peter Rabbit, the market is 54% up on the previous session. The weekend number is a more humble £9,400. It took £260,000 from 17 sites, but £251,000 of that was earned from last Wednesday’s premiere event, relayed to hundreds of cinemas nationwide. The chart appears to show a fantastic debut for documentary My Generation, in which Michael Caine reflects on the cultural and social upheavals of the 1960s. Loveless has so far reached £307,000, and A Fantastic Woman, which won the Oscar, is at £239,000.
Recent comparisons are fellow foreign language Oscar nominees Loveless (debut of £74,000 from 39 sites, and £126,000 including previews) and A Fantastic Woman (debut of £64,000 from 38 sites, and £98,000 including previews). The arthouse challenger: The Squareĭelivering the biggest debut for a foreign language arthouse film so far this year, Ruben Östlund’s The Square begins with a robust £155,000 from 56 cinemas, and £221,000 including previews. In 2004, The Passion of the Christ grossed £2.02m on its first weekend of national wide release, from 323 cinemas. The answer, so far, is that it’s succeeding at being neither, based on its debut of £239,000 from 423 cinemas, yielding a weak £565 average.
Is Mary Magdalene a prestige drama, targeting audiences attracted by Lion director Garth Davis and a cast including Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tahar Rahim? Or is it aiming for the faith crowd, who propelled Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ to £11.1m at UK cinemas?
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