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Rank Film (origin) Distributor Jan 31-Feb 2 gross Total Week 1 A Complete Unknown (US) Disney £1.2m £8.3m 3 2 Mufasa: The Lion King (US) Disney £1.1m £29.3m 7 3 Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (US) Paramount £708,000 £24.1m 6 4 Companion (US) Warner Bros £670,512 £737,840 1 5 The Brutalist (US-uk) Universal £607,434 £1.8m 2

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.23

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown topped the UK-Ireland box office for an impressive third weekend for Disney; as Warner Bros’ Companion led the new titles with a fourth-place opening.

James Mangold’sA Complete Unknown fell 28% with £1.2m taking it to £8.3m total, now likely to overtake the £10.4m of Mangold’s 2006 Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line...

Warner Bros horror Companion leads new releases at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend in 561 cinemas.

Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star in the dark comedy about a weekend away that goes wrong when a human android, built for companionship, reveals itself. It marks the feature debut of Drew Hancock while further cast include Rupert Friend, Lukas Gage and Jaboukie Young-White.

Thatcher most recently starred in fellow horror title Heretic which surpassed £6m late last year and Quaid had a role in 2023’s Oppenheimer (£60m). Companionis produced by Zach Cregger who wrote and directed Barbarian which cracked £1m...

Screenis listing the 2024 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.

For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch withScreenhere.Screenis also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2025here.

January

Wednesday, January 1

Nosferatu(Universal),2073(Altitude),Vanangaan(DJ Tech),Game Changer(Dreamz),We Live In Time(Studiocanal)

Friday, January 3

Nickel Boys(Curzon),Rocco And His Brothers(BFI),Diabel(Magnetes)

Wednesday, January 8

A Real Pain(Disney)

Friday, January 10

Babygirl(Efd),The Girl With The Needle(Mubi),Maria(Studiocanal),The Damned(Vertical/Miracle),It’s Raining Men...

Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow’s Grammy win for best musical theater album for “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” marks the first award from the Recording Academy to go to a project that originated on TikTok.

Bear and Barlow beat out Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella,” the cast recording of “Girl from the North Country,” “Les Misérables: The Staged Concert” and “Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots.”

With the Covid-19 pandemic leaving Broadway shuttered for much of the past 18 months, Bear and Barlow’s “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” went viral thanks to TikTok.

Inspired by the poetic dialogue and fantastical world of the Netflix series “Bridgerton,” Barlow says she began writing songs from the main character’s perspective. The first tease, “Daphne’s Song,” was posted to TikTok after the series debuted. A simple piano ballad, the song explores Daphne’s emotions when she begins to fall for Simon amid their faux romance.

According to the combined predictions of Gold Derby’s users as of this writing, “Les Misérables: The Staged Concert” is the front-runner to win Best Musical Theater Album at this year’s Grammy Awards with 11/2 odds. Recordings of the classic musical have previously received two Grammy nominations in this category, winning on both bids: first in 1988 for the original Broadway cast recording, and then in 1991 for the complete symphonic recording. However, I think we might be underestimating “Girl From the North Country.”

In 2015 most of our users were predicting the original Broadway cast recording of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” to prevail, yet “Beautiful” managed to beat it. The latter musical centered on the early career of legendary singer/songwriter Carole King, who has earned nine competitive Grammy nominations with four wins in her career. So its cast album was filled with songs voters had been familiar with for decades.

The Grammy Award nominations released today won’t do much for Broadway’s bottom line: Of the six nominees for Best Musical Theater Album, only one – Girl From The North Country, with music by Bob Dylan – is from a show currently on a Broadway stage.

Other nominees announced today are:

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, a London cast recording; Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater’s Some Lovers, a concept album featuring a Who’s Who of stage and screen stars performing new Bacharach songs; Les Misérables: The Staged Concert, from a 2019 staging at London’s Gielgud Theatre; Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook, another world premiere all-star concept recording of an original musical incorporating songs from such Schwartz productions as Wicked, Pippin, Godspell, The Baker’s Wife, Rags, Working, Children of Eden, and Enchanted; The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, the digital concept album from Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear’s TikTok...

As most theatres around the world still remain closed, folks are hungry for any new content they can get their hands on and have turned to streaming and on demand to fulfill their needs. Thankfully, both platforms have really been stepping up and with the latter, in particular, this weekend brings a lot to get excited about.

For one thing, several big stars have new movies debuting digitally today, while a number of more under the radar films are also making their premieres on demand. In total, you’ve got a whopping total of 25 new titles available to rent/buy as of today, Friday, August 7th, and below, you can see the full list of options.

To Buy:

Weathering With You

The Tax Collector

Love Under the Rainbow

Lucky Grandma

Fantastic Fungi

She Dies Tomorrow

Waiting For the Barbarians

Spinster

To Rent:

Around the Sun

Alice

Star Light

The Stand:...

‘The Invisible Man.’

Leigh Whannell’s Sydney-shot The Invisible Man easily won the box office derby in Australia last weekend, matching its top-ranked Us debut.

Meanwhile Tony Tilse’s Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears had a mid-range opening although exhibitors are expecting a leggy run thanks to word-of-mouth.

Among the alternate content releases, Universal’s Les Misérables: The Staged Concert did Ok while Australian animated adventure The Wishmas Tree struggled against the third weekend of Paramount’s hit Sonic the Hedgehog.

The top 20 titles generated almost $10 million, 11 per cent down on the previous frame but 3 per cent ahead of the same weekend last year, according to Numero. Exhibitors say there is no discernible impact yet from the coronavirus.

Produced by Blumhouse Productions’ Jason Blum and Goalpost Pictures’ Kylie du Fresne, Whannell’s psychological thriller raked in $2.5 million on 322 screens for Universal, the best opening for an Oz title...

‘Knives Out’, ‘Last Christmas’ held well.

Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Dec 6-Dec 8) Total gross to date Week 1 Frozen II (Disney) £4.4m £33.6m 3 2 Knives Out (Lionsgate) £1.6m £6m 2 3 Last Christmas (Universal) £1.3m £12.5m 4 4 Les Misérables: The Staged Concert (Universal) £942,107 £3.2m 1 5 Blue Story (Paramount) £385,000 £3.7m 3 Disney

Frozen II held the number one spot at the UK box office for a third successive week, falling 50% on its previous session with £4.4m.

This takes the film to £33.6m total, making it the eighth-highest-grossing title of 2019 so far.

The first film grossed £43.1m in 2013; with the school holidays still to come, Frozen II has...