By rule of thumb, you might expect £1.7m and £1.5m in UK and Ireland for those films, but so far The Fabelmans has reached £3.1m and Babylon is at £3.8m.įor Tár, starring leading actress Bafta winner Cate Blanchett, it’s the same story.
By rule of thumb, you take the North America box office number (measured in dollars), divide by 10, and flip the $ sign to a £ sign – and that gives you a fair equivalent outcome.īoth The Fabelmans and Babylon are box office disappointments in North America, with $17.1m and $15.4m respectively, after at least two months of play in both cases. Having said all that, these films are doing better in UK and Ireland, relative to the size of the markets. And the word from the US is all about how none of the awards contenders released late 2022 (timed for the attention of Oscar voters, and in the hope of nominations) have really caught fire with audiences. Since the release of Banshees, which has grossed a very healthy £9.6m in UK and Ireland, there have not been any awards-season titles with significantly strong commercial appeal – certainly nothing to match last year’s Belfast, which grossed £15.6m. Those outcomes are not especially helpful to cinemas, since All Quiet is a Netflix film, Elvis was released last June, and Banshees has been playing for 18 weeks now. Sunday saw the Bafta Film Awards, with seven wins for All Quiet On The Western Front, and four apiece for Elvis and The Banshees of Inisherin. But box office numbers have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, and 2023 is not forecast to get there. January was better: 17 per cent up on 2022, largely thanks to the sustained success of Avatar: The Way of Water. The uptick is needed: the first half of February saw box office dwindle, with takings lagging behind 2022. The success of Quantumania and The Last Wish helped UK and Ireland cinemas to a weekend total of £16.5m – which is 66 per cent up on the previous weekend, and also 31 per cent up on the equivalent session from last year, when the box office chart was led by Uncharted and Sing 2. Total after 17 days is £17.2m – already ahead of Puss in Boots’ lifetime UK and Ireland total of £15.6m. The February half-term school holiday has provided this belated sequel to Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots a fantastic opportunity to connect with audiences, and the film grossed nearly £8m over the ten days from Friday February 10 to Sunday February 19. Sitting in second place in the UK and Ireland box office chart is Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, with £3.17m for the latest weekend period. But even pessimistic forecasts would give the film £25m lifetime in UK and Ireland – a healthy uptick on the first two Ant-Man adventures. There are already signs that Quantumania might not be in for an exceptionally sustained performance – box office reportedly dipped Friday to Saturday, and again Saturday to Sunday. Working in the film’s favour for Marvel fans: Quantumania launches Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as introducing Jonathan Majors as complex villain Kang the Conqueror. In other words, on a like for like comparison, Quantumania opened with box office earnings more than double the earlier films in UK and Ireland, albeit not adjusted for inflation. Those appearances have helped push Ant-Man from the Marvel B-team into the comic-book giant’s main squad of costumed heroes.Īnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has opened at the UK and Ireland box office with a handy £8.83m – which compares with a £4.01m debut for the first film, and then a £3.76m opening weekend (and £4.99m including previews) for Ant-Man and the Wasp. In between the two Ant-Man films, the character featured in Captain America: Civil War, and he subsequently helped save the world in Avengers: Endgame – the second biggest film of all time at the global box office, behind only Avatar. That’s not as bad as the films with the word Hulk in the title, but they both fell short even of mid-tier Marvel efforts such as Doctor Strange (£23.2m) and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (£21.4m).īut that was then, and this is now. The first two films featuring his name in the title – 2015’s Ant-Man and 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp – grossed £16.3m and £17.8m respectively. In the league table of Marvel characters, Ant-Man has never exactly posed a major box office threat, at least as far UK and Ireland cinemas are concerned.
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