World Movie News: The Last 24 Hours
Wicker’s UK number one, Clayface’s quiet global win, Jailer 2 breaks ₹800 crore, Marrakech’s line-up, the AFM, Iceman casting & Carrie turns 50.
Morning, all. Yesterday I promised you the UK-Ireland chart and the Jailer 2 numbers, and they’ve both landed. Tuesday also means our weekly lap of the world’s other film industries, plus there’s a very special anniversary.
UK and Ireland box office: Black Bear’s Wicker had the first number one film in its distributor’s history, opening to £1.7 million from 676 cinemas, a £2,515 average, which rises to £1.8 million including previews. A24’s Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator‘s paedo-hunting host Chris Hansen, opened in third place with £1.3 million from 560 cinemas, a £2,321 average, and £1.7 million with previews. Clayface dropped 37% in its second weekend to £1.2 million, taking it to £4.7 million. It’s a Halloween weekend for the re-releases, too, with Pan’s Labyrinth in 384 cinemas, Donnie Darko in 202 and Ken Russell’s The Devils in 73 in a new 4K restoration from BFI Distribution.
The weekend box office, worldwide: Clayface topped the worldwide chart for a second weekend with an estimated $22.8 million, which is dismally low for a chart-topping film, as a lack of significant new releases over Halloween weekend left the market becalmed. The UK and Ireland is its biggest international market, with $6.1 million to date. Laika’s astounding Wildwood moved up to second place after international expansion, and Wicker was seventh with a $7 million start, made up of $4.1 million from North America and $2.6 million from nine international markets. In the UK, Wicker‘s opening beat those of Poor Things and The Shape of Water, according to Deadline. Elsewhere, Resident Evil has now passed $400 million worldwide. In North America, yesterday’s estimates have been confirmed, and You Can See Everything came out on top with $11.4 million in its third weekend, a little higher than expected, ahead of Clayface with $11 million. Clayface now has $44.6 million in North America and $83 million worldwide, while the whole weekend came in at roughly $60 million, one of the slowest of the year.
Tamil cinema: Jailer 2 breaks ₹800 crore: Rajinikanth’s Jailer 2 passed ₹800 crore worldwide on its 18th day, finishing its third weekend with a worldwide gross of ₹807.25 crore (about $84 million), according to Sacnilk. It’s the first Tamil film to pass both ₹700 crore and ₹800 crore, and it now stands as the highest-grossing Tamil film ever and reportedly the second-highest-grossing Indian film of 2026. It has earned ₹456.3 crore net in India (about $48 million) and ₹273.5 crore (about $28 million) overseas, and it added ₹26.4 crore net in India over its third weekend.
The Far East: Resident Evil’s China hold: In mainland China, Resident Evil was number one for a fourth consecutive weekend with RMB 28.5 million ($4.3 million), taking it to $71.3 million since its 5 October opening. The crime drama Traces of Justice remains ahead overall with $98.5 million since 1 October. The wider market had a quiet weekend with $18.2 million, and the year-to-date total of $4.73 billion is down 29.0% on 2025. A 2014 re-release of John Wick opened in third place.
Marrakech’s line-up: The 23rd Marrakech International Film Festival, which runs from 20 to 28 November, has unveiled a line-up of 76 films from 39 countries, including 10 world premieres. As I mentioned when it closed the London Film Festival, Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut opens the festival, and Marion Cotillard presides over the competition jury. Gala screenings include Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial and James Gray’s Paper Tiger, and 14 films compete for the Étoile d’Or, including Yoon Dan-bi’s The World Before and Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s Ben’imana.
The American Film Market gets going: Hockey’s Hollywood moment, largely driven by the success of Heated Rivalry, has reached the AFM, with Liam Neeson set to play a legendary coach in Believe 13, about his bond with an injured high school star. Closer to home, Guy Pearce, Sabrina Impacciatore, Rachael Stirling and Selena Tan have joined Jeff Daniels in Trudie Styler’s The Reception, a chaotic wedding-party comedy that’s currently shooting on location in Scotland.
Iceman casting: Ben Wang, the star of Karate Kid: Legends, who also plays District 12 tribute Wyatt Callow in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping on 20 November, is in talks to play Iceman in Marvel’s X-Men reboot, which Jake Schreier is directing for 2028. The deal isn’t done, and Gabriel LaBelle, Jackson Kelly and Rhenzy Feliz all reportedly tested for the part. It would leave Beast as the only member of the original team without an actor, and the casting news arrives just days after Patrick Stewart’s farewell as Professor X was confirmed.
Fifty years of Carrie: Cheering things up, Brian De Palma’s Stephen King adaptation opened in the US 50 years ago today, on 3 November 1976, in 17 cinemas. Sissy Spacek, who was 26 when she played the bullied teenager, and Piper Laurie, as her fanatically religious mother, were both nominated for Oscars, and it was Laurie’s second nomination after The Hustler. It was the first film adapted from a King novel, made on a budget of $1.8 million, and it grossed $33.8 million. Prom night has never been the same since.
Birthdays: Dolph Lundgren, star of Rocky IV, turns 69 today, and Kate Capshaw of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom turns 73.
That’s all for today.
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