Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Mar 1-3) Total gross to date Week 1. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros) £9.3m £9.3m 1 2. Bob Marley: One Love (Paramount) £1.4m £13.7m 3 3. Wicked Little Letters (Studiocanal) £1.2m £4.3m 2 4. Migration (Universal) £961,524 £17.8m 5 5. Madame Web (Sony) £246,538 £3.9m 3
Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two opened to a chunky £9.3m to rejuvenate the UK-Ireland box office.
Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel was up 94.4% on the £4.8m start of the 2021 first film. Playing in 721 locations, Part Two took a £12,850 location average, which was also up on the £7,210 average of Dune.
It is the biggest opening for a film since the Barbenheimer phenomenon...
Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two opened to a chunky £9.3m to rejuvenate the UK-Ireland box office.
Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel was up 94.4% on the £4.8m start of the 2021 first film. Playing in 721 locations, Part Two took a £12,850 location average, which was also up on the £7,210 average of Dune.
It is the biggest opening for a film since the Barbenheimer phenomenon...
- 3/4/2024
- ScreenDaily
Sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two opens in 721 venues this weekend, carrying the hopes of many UK-Ireland cinemas after a slow start to 2024.
Denis Villeneuve’s sequel is Warner Bros’ fourth-widest opening of all time in the territory, after last year’s Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (749) and Barbie (724), and 2022’s Elvis (746).
It is opening on 62 sites more than Dune, which started in 659 venues in October 2021. That film began with a £4.8m weekend at a £7,210 average, dethroning James Bond title No Time To Die. It went on to a £22.1m total – a decent result in a market still feeling the effects of the pandemic.
Denis Villeneuve’s sequel is Warner Bros’ fourth-widest opening of all time in the territory, after last year’s Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (749) and Barbie (724), and 2022’s Elvis (746).
It is opening on 62 sites more than Dune, which started in 659 venues in October 2021. That film began with a £4.8m weekend at a £7,210 average, dethroning James Bond title No Time To Die. It went on to a £22.1m total – a decent result in a market still feeling the effects of the pandemic.
- 3/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” topped the U.K. and Ireland box office for the second consecutive weekend with £2.3 million ($3 million), according to numbers from Comscore.
The biopic now has a total of £11.3 million after its second weekend on release. Studiocanal’s “Wicked Little Letters” debuted in second place with £1.6 million. Universal’s “Migration” slid down a place to third with £1.4 million in its fourth weekend for a total of £16.4 million.
Sony’s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashira Training” bowed in fourth position with £641,878. Rounding off the top five was another Sony title, “Madame Web,” which earned £602,018 in its second weekend for a total of £3.4 million.
The National Theatre Live release of filmed play “Vanya” with Andrew Scott premiered in 737 venues across U.K. and Ireland on Feb. 22, its widest release since the initiative began in 2009. National Theatre Live screenings play in a variety of venues which include cinemas,...
The biopic now has a total of £11.3 million after its second weekend on release. Studiocanal’s “Wicked Little Letters” debuted in second place with £1.6 million. Universal’s “Migration” slid down a place to third with £1.4 million in its fourth weekend for a total of £16.4 million.
Sony’s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashira Training” bowed in fourth position with £641,878. Rounding off the top five was another Sony title, “Madame Web,” which earned £602,018 in its second weekend for a total of £3.4 million.
The National Theatre Live release of filmed play “Vanya” with Andrew Scott premiered in 737 venues across U.K. and Ireland on Feb. 22, its widest release since the initiative began in 2009. National Theatre Live screenings play in a variety of venues which include cinemas,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
An overly fast animation about a chameleon taking over the world with computer wizardry feels bizarrely inappropriate for children under five
‘By analysing the digital behaviour of our users we’ve generated a profile as unique as a fingerprint,” says Lenny the chameleon, with a sinister mwah-ha ha in his voice, blue eyes intensifying into lasers. Lenny is a smirkingly evil tech genius dressed in a Steve Jobs polo neck and is the villain of this U certificate animation; it’s a movie aimed at really small kids, but with a wildly inappropriate plot. Like Black Mirror for preschoolers, it’s a tech dystopia involving the invention of a new virtual reality system that threatens chaos on a massive scale.
The movie is a sequel to 2020’s Combat Wombat, and there’s an unintelligible sequence at the start to introduce superhero wombat Maggie (voiced by Deborah Mailman) and her perky...
‘By analysing the digital behaviour of our users we’ve generated a profile as unique as a fingerprint,” says Lenny the chameleon, with a sinister mwah-ha ha in his voice, blue eyes intensifying into lasers. Lenny is a smirkingly evil tech genius dressed in a Steve Jobs polo neck and is the villain of this U certificate animation; it’s a movie aimed at really small kids, but with a wildly inappropriate plot. Like Black Mirror for preschoolers, it’s a tech dystopia involving the invention of a new virtual reality system that threatens chaos on a massive scale.
The movie is a sequel to 2020’s Combat Wombat, and there’s an unintelligible sequence at the start to introduce superhero wombat Maggie (voiced by Deborah Mailman) and her perky...
- 2/26/2024
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Chantelle Murray’s The Lost Tiger, the first animated feature from Australia to be written and directed by an Indigenous woman, has been acquired by Sola Media which is introducing it to buyer at the EFM this week.
It has begun production in Queensland and is being produced by Australia’s female-owned Like a Photon Creative. The voice cast incudes Thomas Weatherall, Rhys Darby, Celeste Barber, Jimi Bani and Nakkiah Lui.
The Lost Tiger follows the story of Teo who unbeknownst to him is one of the last Thylacines. Found abandoned and wearing a mysterious crystal necklace, he is adopted into a family of boisterous,...
It has begun production in Queensland and is being produced by Australia’s female-owned Like a Photon Creative. The voice cast incudes Thomas Weatherall, Rhys Darby, Celeste Barber, Jimi Bani and Nakkiah Lui.
The Lost Tiger follows the story of Teo who unbeknownst to him is one of the last Thylacines. Found abandoned and wearing a mysterious crystal necklace, he is adopted into a family of boisterous,...
- 2/15/2024
- ScreenDaily
’200% Wolf’, ’Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back’ and ’Richard The Stork 2’ have all been picked up for the UK and Ireland.
Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Ireland rights to a trio of family animations – 200% Wolf, Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back and Richard The Stork 2 from Studio 100, Sola Media and Indie Sales respectively.
Theatrical releases are planned from the summer onwards.
200% Wolf is directed by Alexs Stadermann and produced by Barbara Stephen, Alexia Gates-Foale and Carmen Pérez-Marsá. It is the sequel to 2020’s 100% Wolf and follows a heroic poodle who is struggling to maintain the respect of his werewolf pack.
Signature Entertainment has picked up UK and Ireland rights to a trio of family animations – 200% Wolf, Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back and Richard The Stork 2 from Studio 100, Sola Media and Indie Sales respectively.
Theatrical releases are planned from the summer onwards.
200% Wolf is directed by Alexs Stadermann and produced by Barbara Stephen, Alexia Gates-Foale and Carmen Pérez-Marsá. It is the sequel to 2020’s 100% Wolf and follows a heroic poodle who is struggling to maintain the respect of his werewolf pack.
- 5/20/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Sola Media has acquired international distribution rights for the next three animated features in the “Sanctuary City” franchise, produced by Australian production house Like a Photon Creative.
First up will be “Combat Wombat – Back 2 Back,” which will be released theatrically by Universal Pictures in Australia in spring 2024. Sola Media will be selling worldwide rights, excluding Australia/New Zealand and Latin America. First footage will be shown at next week’s European Film Market in Berlin.
“Combat Wombat – Back 2 Back” follows caped crusader Maggie Diggins (Deborah Mailman) and trusty side-kick Sweetie (Ed Oxenbould), who face dastardly tech genius Lenny Glick, played by David Wenham.
Lead animator, Rebecca O’Brien, previously worked on Disney’s “Monsters at Work,” “Elena of Avalor” and “Alice’s Wonderland Bakery.” The film will be directed by Ricard Cussó and Tania Vincent, and is produced by Ryan Greaves, Kristen Souvlis and Nadine Bates. The film will be ready for...
First up will be “Combat Wombat – Back 2 Back,” which will be released theatrically by Universal Pictures in Australia in spring 2024. Sola Media will be selling worldwide rights, excluding Australia/New Zealand and Latin America. First footage will be shown at next week’s European Film Market in Berlin.
“Combat Wombat – Back 2 Back” follows caped crusader Maggie Diggins (Deborah Mailman) and trusty side-kick Sweetie (Ed Oxenbould), who face dastardly tech genius Lenny Glick, played by David Wenham.
Lead animator, Rebecca O’Brien, previously worked on Disney’s “Monsters at Work,” “Elena of Avalor” and “Alice’s Wonderland Bakery.” The film will be directed by Ricard Cussó and Tania Vincent, and is produced by Ryan Greaves, Kristen Souvlis and Nadine Bates. The film will be ready for...
- 2/8/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Naomi Wenck will join Screen Queensland in the newly-created role of production attraction and investment director.
In the position, she will oversee the delivery of the Queensland Government’s Production Attraction Strategy to secure international and interstate production, as well as production investment into content from the state’s creatives.
Wenck has worked in the industry for two decades. As an independent producer, she brought to screen projects such as Strangerland, Newcastle and Ten Empty. She has also held senior executive roles spanning development, financing, production, sales and distribution.
Most recently, Wenck was head of production at Brisbane’s Like A Photon Creative, overseeing the production and delivery of children’s feature films The Wishmas Tree and Combat Wombat within the studio’s animation franchise Tales From Sanctuary City.
Wenck has also been an investment manager at Screen Australia; head of marketing, partnerships and events at Screen Producers Australia (Spa...
In the position, she will oversee the delivery of the Queensland Government’s Production Attraction Strategy to secure international and interstate production, as well as production investment into content from the state’s creatives.
Wenck has worked in the industry for two decades. As an independent producer, she brought to screen projects such as Strangerland, Newcastle and Ten Empty. She has also held senior executive roles spanning development, financing, production, sales and distribution.
Most recently, Wenck was head of production at Brisbane’s Like A Photon Creative, overseeing the production and delivery of children’s feature films The Wishmas Tree and Combat Wombat within the studio’s animation franchise Tales From Sanctuary City.
Wenck has also been an investment manager at Screen Australia; head of marketing, partnerships and events at Screen Producers Australia (Spa...
- 3/24/2021
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Further sales include Canada, Russia, France and Taiwan.
Australian outfit Odin’s Eye Entertainment has closed a raft of deals on animation franchise Tales From Sanctuary City.
Vertical Entertainment has snapped up US rights for all three titles in the series: The Wishmas Tree, Combat Wombat and Daisy Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal.
UK distributor Signature has acquired Daisy Quokka, having previously picked up the other two films in the series and has set a theatrical date for May, which follows an announcement by the UK government that cinemas could reopen from May 17.
Further sales include Canada (Equinoxe) for The Wishmas...
Australian outfit Odin’s Eye Entertainment has closed a raft of deals on animation franchise Tales From Sanctuary City.
Vertical Entertainment has snapped up US rights for all three titles in the series: The Wishmas Tree, Combat Wombat and Daisy Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal.
UK distributor Signature has acquired Daisy Quokka, having previously picked up the other two films in the series and has set a theatrical date for May, which follows an announcement by the UK government that cinemas could reopen from May 17.
Further sales include Canada (Equinoxe) for The Wishmas...
- 2/24/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The selective appeal of theatrical and the emergence of Queensland as a production hotspot was on the agenda as children’s content creatives came together on Monday for an Aacta Screenfest 2020 Spotlight event.
A panel comprising Emmy-winning Bluey team Charlie Aspinwall and Daley Pearson from Ludo Studio; Like A Photon Creative co-fonder and CEO, Nadine Bates; and fellow children’s TV creatives Dena Curtis (Grace Beside Me) and Steve Jaggi (Swimming for Gold) joined film critic Sarah Ward for a discussion on Creating Screen for Kids.
It has been a big year for Aspinwall and Pearson, with the third season of Joe Brumm-created series, which won an Aacta Award yesterday, set to commence production in Brisbane later this year.
While the show has enjoyed extensive success overseas – Disney snared the global rights – Pearson credited the Australian production environment for allowing the show to stay true to its roots.
“We...
A panel comprising Emmy-winning Bluey team Charlie Aspinwall and Daley Pearson from Ludo Studio; Like A Photon Creative co-fonder and CEO, Nadine Bates; and fellow children’s TV creatives Dena Curtis (Grace Beside Me) and Steve Jaggi (Swimming for Gold) joined film critic Sarah Ward for a discussion on Creating Screen for Kids.
It has been a big year for Aspinwall and Pearson, with the third season of Joe Brumm-created series, which won an Aacta Award yesterday, set to commence production in Brisbane later this year.
While the show has enjoyed extensive success overseas – Disney snared the global rights – Pearson credited the Australian production environment for allowing the show to stay true to its roots.
“We...
- 12/1/2020
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
‘Combat Wombat’.
Like a Photon Creative’s animated family franchise The Tales From Sanctuary City continues to rack up overseas sales, ranking as one of Australia’s most successful exports.
The second film in the trilogy, Combat Wombat, which opened in Australian cinemas last weekend as an alternate content release, has been pre-sold to more than 100 countries by Odin’s Eye Entertainment, with more deals in negotiation.
Directed by Ricard Cussó and produced by Like a Photon’s Nadine Bates and Kristen Souvlis, the Screen Queensland-supported franchise kicked off with The Wishmas Tree. The third title, Daisy Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal, is in post.
“The Tales From Sanctuary City franchise has been amongst our top selling titles over the past 18 months,” Odin’s Eye’s Michael Favelle tells If.
“The confidence that our distribution partners have shown has been phenomenal with several distributors snapping up the complete franchise as...
Like a Photon Creative’s animated family franchise The Tales From Sanctuary City continues to rack up overseas sales, ranking as one of Australia’s most successful exports.
The second film in the trilogy, Combat Wombat, which opened in Australian cinemas last weekend as an alternate content release, has been pre-sold to more than 100 countries by Odin’s Eye Entertainment, with more deals in negotiation.
Directed by Ricard Cussó and produced by Like a Photon’s Nadine Bates and Kristen Souvlis, the Screen Queensland-supported franchise kicked off with The Wishmas Tree. The third title, Daisy Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal, is in post.
“The Tales From Sanctuary City franchise has been amongst our top selling titles over the past 18 months,” Odin’s Eye’s Michael Favelle tells If.
“The confidence that our distribution partners have shown has been phenomenal with several distributors snapping up the complete franchise as...
- 10/18/2020
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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