Cinemas This Friday: Street Fighter and Whalefall Open After Other Mommy's £2m Weekend

Other Mommy led the UK-Ireland box office last weekend, opening at £2m from 526 sites, an average of £3,770, Screen Daily reported on 12 October. Verity, in its second weekend, took £1.9m for a £7.3m total, down 44%. Heart Of The Beast took £815,000 and Resident Evil £780,000. The Social Reckoning, the Social Network follow-up from Sony, opened fifth at £621,000 from 610 sites, an average of £1,020. The top five together took £6.1m, down 23% on the previous weekend and up 25% on the same weekend last year.

Further down, The Uprising took £542,000 from 482 sites, an average of £1,120, and The Odyssey, in its 13th weekend, took £268,000, up 76%, to reach £87.5m. Spider-Man: Brand New Day added £127,000 in its 11th weekend for a total just over £100m.

Friday 16 October

Screen Daily's release calendar, updated on 14 October, includes these UK-Ireland openings for Friday:

• Forgotten Island (Universal), Street Fighter (Paramount) and Whalefall (Disney).
• Case 137 (Conic), Winter Of The Crow (Signature) and The Others (Park Circus).
• Dracula (Hammer), Arrietty (Anime) and NAZA (Dogwoof).

Flicks also lists Whalefall for 16 October.

The following week

These Violent Delights (Tull) opens on Wednesday 21 October. On Friday 23 October the list includes Clayface (Warner Bros), Ali G: Who Iz I? (Sony), Wildwood (Black Bear), Klara And The Sun (Sony), Making Marie Antoinette and Fatherland (both Mubi), and Scream (Park Circus).

Every one of those films began as a schedule, a budget and a room. If you are working on the small end of that chain, shooting a short film in a studio is where most of the decisions are made.