| Rank | Film (origin) | Distributor | May 2-4 gross | Total | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thunderbolts* (US) | Disney | £5m | £7.8m | 1 |
| 2 | Sinners (US) |
Warner Bros | £2.5m | £11.3m | 3 |
| 3 | A Minecraft Movie (US) |
Warner Bros | £2.1m | £54.1m | 5 |
| 4 | The Accountant 2 (US) |
Warner Bros | £636,852 | £1.9m | 2 |
| 5 | Until Dawn (US) |
Sony | £331,788 | £1.3m | 2 |
GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.33
Disney’s Thunderbolts* struck top spot at the UK-Ireland Bank Holiday weekend box office, with a £5m Friday-to-Sunday opening, as Ryan Coogler’s Sinners continued to soar.
Playing in 668 locations, Thunderbolts* took a £7,446 average. Including previews and Monday 5 screenings, the film – which was ‘retitled’ The New Avengers this weekend in a marketing stunt – has £7.8m.
Its three-day start is the 31st -highest of 36 Marvel Cinematic Universe titles to date, ahead of 2015’s Ant-Man (£4m) and behind 2011’s Thor (£5.4m).
Warner Bros’ Sinners scored an outstanding 4% increase across its previous weekend, with £2.5m enough to keep it in second place for a third session. The vampire horror starring Michael B. Jordan is now up to £11.3m total, overtaking Creed II (£10.1m) which Coogler wrote, and nearing Creed III (£14.3m) which he wrote and produced.
Despite coming out two weeks later, Sinners topped the weekend takings of A Minecraft Movie. The Warner Bros stablemate added £2.1m on its fifth session – a slim drop of 17% that takes it to £54.1m total. It will pass the £54.9m of 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie this week to become the highest-grossing videogame adaptation ever.
Warner Bros made it three titles in the top five, with Ben Affleck-Jon Bernthal action title The Accountant 2 adding £636,852 – a 30% drop that brought it to £1.9m total.
Sony horror Until Dawn added £331,788 on its second weekend – a 41% drop that brought it to almost £1.3m total.
Takings for the top five increased a strong 29% to £10.5m, and are up 58% on the equivalent weekend from last year – further good news for cinemas after a strong April.
Parthenope paints a Picture
Lionsgate’s The Penguin Lessons added £206,948 on its third weekend, and is up to almost £2.8m.
Bluey At The Cinema: Let’s Play Chef Collection, the first acquisition since the creation Vue’s Vue Lumiere distribution arm, started with £179,186 this weekend. It has a £309,995 running total, in line with the performance of the previous Bluey release.
Alex Garland’s Warfare added £141,097 on its third weekend for A24, and has almost £2m in total.
The Amateur starring Rami Malek added £121,784 on its fourth weekend – a 58% drop that brings it to £4.2m for Disney.
Disney’s Snow White starring Rachel Zegler added £86,085 on its seventh session – a 61% drop that brings it to £11.4m total.
Park Circus’s re-release of Pride & Prejudice starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen added £72,309 on its second session, and is up to £359,429, in addition to the £14.6m from the film’s 2005 run.
CinemaLive’s event cinema title Bonnie & Clyde The Musical started with £71,163, and had a £137,548 full opening.
Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes 2024 Competition title Parthenope started with a strong £51,298 at the weekend for Picturehouse Entertainment, from 58 sites at an £884 average. Including previews and Monday 5, it has £84,463 – the biggest full opening for a Sorrentino film since 2016’s Youth (£266,336).
Six The Musical leads Universal’s slate, now through its fifth weekend in cinemas with a £44,748 session and £5.6m total.
Latvian animation Flow added £37,743 on an impressive seventh weekend in cinemas for Curzon, having now outlasted many of its fellow Oscar nominees and winners. It has crossed the £2m mark with almost £2.1m – an outstanding performance for an independent, non-UK, animated title with no dialogue.
Indian biographical drama Kesari Chapter 2 put on a further £17,341 on its third weekend for Moviegoers Entertainment. It has £287,376 in total, making it the highest-grossing of lead actor Akshay Kumar’s last eight films in the territory.
BFI Distribution’s re-release of Richard Loncraine’s 1975 musical drama Slade In Flame took £15,027 at the weekend, and has £32,273 including previews.
Event cinema release Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII added a further £14,913 on its second weekend through Trafalgar Releasing, and is up to £737,218.
Universal’s Blumhouse thriller Drop added £11,406 on its fourth weekend, and has £1.2m total.
Toronto 2024 title The Friend added £9,294 on its second session for Universal, and is up to £54,036 total.
Religious animation The King Of Kings put on £7,622 on its fourth weekend for Kova Releasing, and is up to £723,493 total.
Documentary Where Dragons Live, that sees a family confronting its past while sifting through the items left in their former home, made a £1,514 full opening through Verve Pictures.
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