Oasis documentary Don’t Look Back In Anger will headline this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, opening in just under 670 cinemas for Disney.
The film opened for previews yesterday (Wednesday, September 9), and topped the chart for the day with £675,000. That bodes well for a strong weekend showing; while hardcore fans may have caught first-day screenings, the weekend will open up audiences who will have been at work during the week.
The film will be playing on a flexible basis, not consistently in all 670 cinemas across the three days.
Don’t Look Back In Anger was welcomed with a rapturous reception at its world premiere at Venice film festival this weekend, followed by a UK premiere in London on Monday. The film depicts the reunion of rock star brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher for Oasis’s sold-out 2025 stadium tour.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour set a high watermark for a concert film at the UK-Ireland box office, opening to £5.7m and ending on £12.3m in 2023. It dethroned previous recordholder Michael Jackson: This Is It, which kicked off with £4.9m and finished on £9.8m in 2009, just months after Jackson’s death.
Among Oasis comparisons, Shane Meadows’ The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone made £512,000 in 2013.
Concert documentary Oasis Knebworth 1996 took £689,000 for Trafalgar Releasing in 2021; while Supersonic, Mat Whitecross’s documentary about the band produced by Asif Kapadia, took £764,000 in 2016. Don’t Look Back In Anger will pass both with its takings today, and look to challenge the top of the charts across the full weekend.
Studiocanal’s Pressure plays in 702 cinemas this weekend – a third-widest opening for the distributor after Paddington In Peru (728) and Back To Black (720). It also started previews in midweek, with £287,000 on Wednesday and £331,000 in total.
Anthony Maras’ film depicts the 72 hours before D-Day, when US general Dwight D. Eisenhower and UK meteorologist James Stagg face an impossible choice over the seaborn invasion.
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk showed the enduring interest in UK-centric Second World War films, taking £56.9m in 2017 as the highest-grossing film on the subject. Darkest Hour, for which Gary Oldman won the best actor Oscar for playing Winston Churchill, made £24.1m the following year; while The Imitation Game did £16.4m in 2014.
Climbing
Signature Entertainment also gave an early start to thriller sequel Fall 2, ahead of opening in 400 locations at the weekend. The film, about two climbers who become trapped on a plank at a height of 4,000 feet, took £56,300 on Wednesday for sixth place in the chart.
First film Fall started with £195,000 from 442 sites in 2022, ending on £607,000.
Warner Bros is starting Susanne Bier’s Practical Magic 2 in 670. The film sees a family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempt to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing for each other.
Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest reprise their roles from the 1998 first film, and are joined by Joey King, Maisie Williams, Lee Pace, Xolo Mariduena and 2022 Screen Star of Tomorrow Solly McLeod. Practical Magic opened to £997,000, ending on £3.3m
UK documentary Eddie Cochran: Don’t Forget Me, about the US rock and roll musician, starts on 57 screens across its first week through Miracle. The film closed this year’s Raindance Film Festival in June.
Further new titles include London-set thriller Runner starring Alan Ritchison and Owen Wilson, through Entertainment Film Distributors; Karlovy Vary 2025 Crystal Globe-winning documentary Better Go Mad In The Wild through Tributary; and queer indie drama Blue Film through Peccadillo Pictures.
International cinema is represented by Hong Kong crime comedy Unidentified Murder in 30 sites through Central City Media; French comedy Just An Illusion in 22 cinemas through MetFilm Distribution; and Indian action sequel Sardar 2 through Dreamz Entertainment.
A selection of re-releases this weekend includes Raiders Of The Lost Ark in 507 cinemas through Paramount; The Passion Of The Christ in 216 sites through Lionsgate; Claude Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife in eight sites through BFI Distribution; and Matilda in 50 sites across its first week for Park Circus.
The six-week run of Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey in first and second position at the box office could well come to an end this weekend. However, both titles will likely rise up the all-time chart; while further key holdovers include Sony horror Insidious: Out Of The Further and Disney’s long-running Toy Story 5.
