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Andre Rieu vanquishes safari action adventure Beast to top the UK and Ireland box office. The Dutch violinist and conductor has been releasing his summer concert into UK cinemas every year since 2011, gradually building up box office to a pre-pandemic peak in 2019 with £1.

8m for the event. The new concert (subtitled Happy Days Are Here Again) grossed an OK £799,000 on Saturday and Sunday, and so will need a heroic amount of encore play to match the event’s earlier box office heights.

Beast, starring Idris Elba, opened with a ho-hum £600,000. In box office terms, late August has long been viewed as the dog days of summer, with studios clearing out some of their less-appealing titles, hoping to take advantage of a not-so-competitive landscape in cinemas.

But even by the standard of late summer, the box office in the UK, North America and around the world looks notably feeble right now.