A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, has opened at the top of the UK box office.
The Bob Dylan biopic, directed by James Mangold, opened with £2.6 million. Screen Daily reports that this is less than some 2024 releases such as Back to Black and Bob Marley: One Love. It is, however, double the opening gross recorded by the Robbie Williams musical biopic Better Man.
A Complete Unknown stars Chalamet as the ten-time Grammy award-winning musician in 1961, right at the start of his career, and charts his rise to fame. The film also stars Elle Fanning as Dylan's girlfriend Sylvie Russo, and Edward Norton as the folk singer and activist Pete Seeger.
Mufasa: The Lion King moves down to second place. The Disney prequel made £1.6 million across its fifth weekend in cinemas, for a total of £26.1 million.
Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Universal's Nosferatu are third and fourth respectively, both with £1.1 million. They are ahead of the romance comedy-drama We Live in Time with £860,881, and the erotic thriller Babygirl with £742,030.
Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man debuted with £654,276 for Universal. It is a reboot of The Wolf Man (1941) starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Rains. The film focuses on a father trying to protect his family from a werewolf. However, he becomes infected and begins transforming into one himself. Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, and Sam Jaeger. Whannell's previous film, The Invisible Man (2020), opened to £2.2 million.
Moana 2 took £589,364 in its eighth weekend in cinemas. It is ahead of Wicked with £542,407. This takes the Broadway musical adaptation's box office total to £59.6 million, meaning it has now overtaken Inside Out 2 as the highest-grossing 2024 release in the UK.
Watch the trailer for A Complete Unknown below.