Mufasa: The Lion King has remained at the top of the UK box office for a third consecutive week.
The Disney musical drama, a prequel to The Lion King (2019), dropped 23% with £3.3 million. This takes its total UK box office gross to £20.7 million. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins, the new film stars Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and John Kani.
Robert Eggers' vampire horror remake Nosferatu has opened in second with £3.1 million, for a running total of £5.3 million. The remake of F.W. Murnau's original 1922 silent film stars Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and Bill Skarsgård. Screen Daily reports that Nosferatu has surpassed the UK box office totals of The Substance and Trap. It is also already Eggers' highest-grossing film in the UK.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is in third place, with £2.7 million in its second week in cinemas. The sequel has now reached £18.7 million at the UK box office. It is set to overtake the £19.3 million gross of Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) in the coming week.
Moana 2 is in fourth with £1.8 million, taking its total to £38.2 million. It is currently the sixth highest-grossing 2024 release, marginally behind Dune: Part Two.
StudioCanal's romantic comedy-drama We Live in Time opened in fifth place with £1.7 million. Starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, John Crowley's film follows a couple's relationship over a decade in a non-linear format.
In its seventh weekend in cinemas, Wicked made an additional £1.7 million. This takes the musical's box office total to £57.3 million. It is 2024's third-highest-grossing release, behind the £59.2 million of Disney's Inside Out 2.
The Robbie Williams biopic Better Man brought in £925,006. This takes the film's UK box office total to £3.8 million.
Watch the trailer for Nosferatu below.
