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Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Jan 19-21) Total gross to date Week 1. Mean Girls (Paramount) £2.5m £3.2m 1 2. Wonka (Warner Bros) £1.7m £58.4m 7 3. Poor Things (Disney) £1.1m £3.7m 2 4. Anyone But You (Sony) £1.1m £7m 4 5. One Life (Warner Bros) £857,500 £7.5m 3

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.27

Paramount’s musical comedy Mean Girls has grossed £2.5m on its opening session, ending the six-week run of Wonka atop the UK-Ireland box office.

Playing in 647 sites, Mean Girls took a £3,864 location average. This is up on the £1.4m opening of the original Mean Girls from 2004, at a £3,829 average.

Directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.,...

‘Anyone But You’, ‘One Life’ have another £1m+ weekend; ‘The Boys In The Boat’ starts with £250k.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Jan 12-14)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Wonka (Warner Bros) £2.2m £56.2m 6 2. Poor Things (Disney) £1.6m £1.8m 1 3. Anyone But You (Sony) £1.2m £5.4m 3 4. One Life (Warner Bros) £1.2m £5.9m 2 5. The Beekeeper (Sky Cinema/Studiocanal) £920,844 £956,380 1

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.27

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things got off to an excellent start at second place in the UK-Ireland box office; as musical Wonka held top spot for a sixth consecutive weekend.

Warner Bros’ Wonka added £2.2m – a 40.7% drop – to reach a huge £56.2m.

‘The Boy And The Heron’ sets new record for Studio Ghibli; ‘Ferrari’ tops £1m.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 29-31)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Wonka (Warner Bros) £6.6m £45m 4 2. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (Warner Bros) £1.7m £6.3m 2 3. Wish (Disney) £1m £10m 6 4. Ferrari (Black Bear) £1m £2.2m 1 5. Anyone But You (Sony) £733,416 £1.4m 1

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.26

Wonka recorded an outstanding £6.6m weekend on the final session of the year at the UK-Ireland box office, topping the charts on its fourth session in cinemas and reaching a huge £45m total.

The £6.6m figure for Wonka was up 3.7% on the weekend...

‘The Boy And The Heron’ sets new record for Studio Ghibli; ‘Ferrari’ tops £1m.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 29-31)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Wonka (Warner Bros) £6.6m £45m 4 2. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (Warner Bros) £2m £6.3m 2 3. Wish (Disney) £1m £10m 6 4. Ferrari (Black Bear) £1m £2m 1 5. Anyone But You (Sony) £733,416 £1.4m 1

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.26

Wonka recorded an outstanding £6.6m weekend on the final session of the year at the UK-Ireland box office, topping the charts on its fourth session in cinemas and reaching a huge £45m total.

The £6.6m figure for Wonka was up 3.7% on the weekend...

‘The Boy And The Heron’ sets new record for Studio Ghibli; ‘Ferrari’ tops £1m.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Dec 29-31)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Wonka (Warner Bros) £7.9m £45m 4 2. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (Warner Bros) £2m £6.3m 2 3. Wish (Disney) £1m £10m 6 4. Ferrari (Black Bear) £1m £2m 1 5. Anyone But You (Sony) £733,416 £1.4m 1

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.26

Wonka recorded an outstanding £7.9m weekend on the final session of the year at the UK-Ireland box office, topping the charts on its fourth session in cinemas and reaching a huge £45m total.

The £7.9m figure for Wonka was up 24.2% on its pre-Christmas...

Warner Bros.’ “Wonka” enjoyed a barnstorming second weekend at the U.K. and Ireland box office with £6.3 million ($8.09 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.

After two weekends at the top, the Timothée Chalamet starrer now has a mighty total of £18.4 million. In the process, the film staved off the challenge of Anime Ltd’s “Godzilla Minus One,” which debuted in second place with £816,891. That total was enough to make “Godzilla Minus One” the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film in U.K. and Ireland box office history.

In third place, in its fifth weekend, Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes” collected £612,656 for a total of £15.8 million.

In fourth place, in its fourth weekend, Disney’s “Wish” earned £587,619 for a total of £6.6 million. Rounding off the top five was Sony’s “Napoleon” with £499,388 in its fourth weekend for a total of £12.4 million.

Warner Bros.’ “Saltburn” continued displaying...

A group of culturally concerned felines band together to protect precious artworks in the Hermitage Museum in this family-geared Russian animation

There may still be a soft ban on the importing cultural products from Russia into the UK while the war rages on in Ukraine, but someone has let this one in under the wire. Produced by a Moscow-based production company called Licensing Brands (a fabulously utilitarian name worthy of the Stalinist era), Cats in the Museum is an animated feature that delivers just what its own title suggests. There are some cats, and they are in a museum. Book your ticket now because what else is there to take small children to see in the holidays if you’re not sure they can cope with The Boy and the Heron or Godzilla Minus One?

The film’s feline-featured player is an orange tom (voiced in the English dub by...