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Weekend box office report: 12-14 January 2024

1. Wonka

With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
  • Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
  • Director(s): Paul King
  • Writer(s): Roald Dahl, Paul King, Simon Farnaby
  • Actors(s): Timothée Chalamet, Gustave Die, Murray McArthur
  • Runtime: 116 min
  • Total gross to date: $56,192,556.00
  • Weekend gross: $2,227,606.00
  • Number of cinemas: 703
  • Site average: $3,169.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -41
  • Weeks on release: 6
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 82%

2. Poor Things

An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • Director(s): Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Writer(s): Tony McNamara, Alasdair Gray
  • Actors(s): Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
  • Runtime: 141 min
  • Total gross to date: $1,819,563.00
  • Weekend gross: $1,819,563.00
  • Number of cinemas: 587
  • Site average: $3,100.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA/Irl
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 8.0/10

3. Anyone But You

After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben's fiery attraction turns ice-cold--until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Director(s): Will Gluck
  • Writer(s): Ilana Wolpert, Will Gluck
  • Actors(s): Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp
  • Runtime: 103 min
  • Total gross to date: $5,369,706.00
  • Weekend gross: $1,246,921.00
  • Number of cinemas: 473
  • Site average: $2,636.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: 13
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 56%

4. One Life

Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, History
  • Director(s): James Hawes
  • Writer(s): Lucinda Coxon, Nick Drake, Barbara Winton
  • Actors(s): Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn
  • Runtime: 109 min
  • Total gross to date: $5,857,289.00
  • Weekend gross: $1,246,292.00
  • Number of cinemas: 716
  • Site average: $1,741.00
  • Country of origin: UK
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -62
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10

5. The Beekeeper

One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as "Beekeepers."
  • Genre: Action, Thriller
  • Director(s): David Ayer
  • Writer(s): Kurt Wimmer
  • Actors(s): Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi
  • Runtime: 105 min
  • Total gross to date: $956,380.00
  • Weekend gross: $956,380.00
  • Number of cinemas: 478
  • Site average: $2,001.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: StudioCanal
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 71%

6. Priscilla

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best fri...
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
  • Director(s): Sofia Coppola
  • Writer(s): Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Sofia Coppola
  • Actors(s): Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen
  • Runtime: 113 min
  • Total gross to date: $2,192,459.00
  • Weekend gross: $493,384.00
  • Number of cinemas: 475
  • Site average: $1,039.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Ita
  • Distributor: MUBI
  • Change from last week: -62
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 84%

7. The Boy And The Heron

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
  • Director(s): Hayao Miyazaki
  • Writer(s): Hayao Miyazaki
  • Actors(s): Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki
  • Runtime: 124 min
  • Total gross to date: $3,916,108.00
  • Weekend gross: $490,409.00
  • Number of cinemas: 350
  • Site average: $1,401.00
  • Country of origin: Jpn
  • Distributor: Elysian Film Group Distribution
  • Change from last week: -38
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 97%

8. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom

Plot unknown. Sequel to the 2018 film 'Aquaman.'
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
  • Director(s): James Wan
  • Writer(s): David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, James Wan, Jason Momoa
  • Actors(s): Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
  • Runtime: 124 min
  • Total gross to date: $8,998,109.00
  • Weekend gross: $455,039.00
  • Number of cinemas: 461
  • Site average: $987.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -51
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 34%

9. Wish

A young girl named Asha wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from the sky to join her.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
  • Writer(s): Jennifer Lee, Allison Moore, Chris Buck
  • Actors(s): Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk
  • Runtime: 95 min
  • Total gross to date: $11,904,402.00
  • Weekend gross: $373,442.00
  • Number of cinemas: 553
  • Site average: $675.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -40
  • Weeks on release: 8
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 48%

10. The Boys In The Boat

A 1930s-set story centered on the University of Washington's rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings to winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
  • Director(s): George Clooney
  • Writer(s): Daniel James Brown, Mark L. Smith
  • Actors(s): Joel Edgerton, Callum Turner, Peter Guinness
  • Runtime: 123 min
  • Total gross to date: $270,297.00
  • Weekend gross: $270,297.00
  • Number of cinemas: 418
  • Site average: $647.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.9/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 58%

11. Night Swim

A family moves into a new home, unaware that a dark secret from the house's past will unleash a malevolent force in the backyard pool.
  • Genre: Horror, Thriller
  • Director(s): Bryce McGuire
  • Writer(s): Bryce McGuire, Rod Blackhurst
  • Actors(s): Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Total gross to date: $1,090,639.00
  • Weekend gross: $249,691.00
  • Number of cinemas: 372
  • Site average: $671.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -57
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 4.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 21%

12. Ferrari

Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari's auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, History
  • Director(s): Michael Mann
  • Writer(s): Troy Kennedy Martin, Brock Yates
  • Actors(s): Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Giuseppe Festinese
  • Runtime: 130 min
  • Total gross to date: $3,850,021.00
  • Weekend gross: $242,776.00
  • Number of cinemas: 385
  • Site average: $631.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Black Bear
  • Change from last week: -59
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 72%

13. Guntur Karam

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  • Runtime:
  • Total gross to date: $167,262.00
  • Weekend gross: $167,262.00
  • Number of cinemas: 83
  • Site average: $2,015.00
  • Country of origin: Ind
  • Distributor: DG Tech
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:

14. Hanuman

When Hanuman was born to Anjani a female Apsara and Kesari, by the blessings of Vayu-Dev, the Wind God. Hanuman, who is the 11th rudra avatar of supreme being GOD Shiva himself. He was blessed with supreme intelligence, strength and divine powers. As a baby, Hanuman was quite naughty and used his powers to pester the saints living in the nearby forest. On the insistence of Vayu, Indra and the other Gods came together to bless baby Hanuman of immortal life. Amongst the other blessing a few are: no fear/harm from the Brahmastra, no harm could befall him from any weapons, fire and water. He could overcome death and he could transform his body to take the smallest form or attain the biggest form of life. Blessed with divine powers Hanuman grew up to be powerful and mighty.
  • Genre: Animation
  • Director(s): V.G. Samant, Milind Ukey
  • Writer(s): Sulekha Bajpai, Shantanu Ganesh Rode, Bhring Tupkari
  • Actors(s): Mukesh Khanna, Viraj, Mona Shetty
  • Runtime: 89 min
  • Total gross to date: $146,843.00
  • Weekend gross: $146,843.00
  • Number of cinemas: 62
  • Site average: $2,368.00
  • Country of origin: Ind
  • Distributor: Dreamz Entertainment
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.9/10

15. Captain Miller

Set in 1930s-1940s in British India and follows an outlaw called miller who engages in bloody loots, heists and assaults.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
  • Director(s): Arun Matheswaran
  • Writer(s): Arunraja Kamaraj, Madhan Karky, Arun Matheswaran
  • Actors(s): Dhanush, John Kokken, Antony
  • Runtime: 157 min
  • Total gross to date: $120,049.00
  • Weekend gross: $120,049.00
  • Number of cinemas: 126
  • Site average: $953.00
  • Country of origin: Ind
  • Distributor: DG Tech
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 89%

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