Warner Bros.’ “Black Adam” made a powerful debut atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £5.6 million ($6.4 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
Disney’s Venice winner “The Banshees Of Inisherin,” starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, had a strong second place debut with £1.6 million.
In third position, Sony’s “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” collected £1.4 million in its second weekend for a total of £4.9 million. In fourth position and in its fourth weekend, Paramount’s “Smile” scared up £996,477 and now has a total of £9.01 million.
Rounding off the top five was Universal’s “Halloween Ends,” which took £703,338 in its second weekend for a total of £3.6 million.
MUBI’s “Decision to Leave,” which won best director at Cannes for Park Chan-wook, debuted in sixth place with £410,107.
This upcoming weekend, Lionsgate is opening another Cannes winner, Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” which won the Palme d’Or.
Lionsgate has opened a horror store with an eye on Halloween “Prey for the Devil”More than 300 locations are covered. Another wide Halloween release is Disney’s horror “Barbarian,”This also opens on 300 other sites. Signature Entertainment’s “Hounded” and Park Circus’ 40th anniversary 4K rerelease of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”Round out the Halloween horror film collection.
Universal’s LGBTQ comedy “Bros,”It arrives in the U.K. with a large release and hopes for a better reception at the box office than it did in the U.S.
Netflix is releasing a limited theatrical release “Enola Holmes 2,”It stars Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill, with Helena Bonham Carter as the lead.
Other releases include Guerilla Films’s “Hilma,” Lasse Hallström’s biopic of abstract artist Hilma af Klint; Tull Stories’ The Hippies documentary “Sound for the Future”; and CMC Pictures’ action thriller “Home Coming,”China’s box office success is a big win
Rereleases include Warner Bros.’ “Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets” for its 20th anniversary and Park Circus’ “ParaNorman”For its 10th Anniversary.