It was a hugely positive first weekend back in business for UK cinemas, with Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway leading the market to north of £7M ($10M) in total.
That’s the best Fri-Sun since cinemas were first forced to close by the pandemic in March 2020.The UK government’s initial lockdown was announced on March 16, 2020, and the last time the market topped this weekend’s takings was March 6-8 2020, when the box office notched $12M, with Pixar’s Onward as the top grosser.Since then, despite cinemas being open for a decent stretch between summer and November 2020 prior to the second nationwide lockdown, no weekend has come close to that total, with a high watermark of $8.6M in late August when Tenet was released.As per our international box
Read more on deadline.com