Box Office: Button House Haunt Tops U.K. Debut

Lionsgate U.K. holds the top spot in the region.

Ghosts: The Possession of Button House collected £2.4 million, which equals $3.2 million, across its opening three days. This performance places the horror-comedy ahead of other major releases currently in theaters.

Warner Bros. placed DC horror thriller Clayface in second position. That film generated $2.6 million in its debut session. Amazon MGM Studios secured the third rank with its comedy feature Ali G: Who Iz I?. The title earned $1.7 million during its first weekend run.

Black Bear's animated fantasy Wildwood took the fourth position. Directed by Travis Knight, the film opened with $1.36 million. Paramount's Street Fighter moved to fifth place in its second weekend. The title added $1.35 million to its total, bringing its cumulative gross to $5.6 million.

Universal's animated feature Forgotten Island sat in sixth place during its second frame. It collected $1.2 million, raising its cumulative total to $3.7 million. Sony's psychological thriller Verity followed in seventh position. The film is in its fourth week and added $857,067. Its running total now stands at $14.4 million.

Universal's supernatural horror Other Mommy took eighth place in its third session. It earned $576,822, bringing its gross to $6.2 million. Mubi's drama Fatherland debuted at No. 9. The film generated $264,083 from 86 locations over the three-day period. This equates to a screen average of $3,144. Including preview screenings, the drama's total opening reached $415,017. This figure surpasses Cold War to mark director Paweł Pawlikowski's biggest launch in the territory.

Studiocanal's animated holdover Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom rounded out the top 10. It is in its sixth frame and collected $408,089. Its cumulative total is now $6.1 million. Mubi's documentary Making Marie Antoinette opened across six sites. It took $1,737 over the weekend for a cume of $24,355. The limited platform bow starts a staggered rollout ahead of Park Circus' re-release of Sofia Coppola's 2006 feature Marie Antoinette on Nov. 13.

Mid-week event programming begins on Tuesday with Trafalgar Releasing's broadcast of the Royal Ballet's Manon. On Wednesday, music documentary Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning arrives across 100+ locations. Wide commercial rollouts hit 300+ locations on Friday. Disney's mountain survival documentary Everest: The Other Side leads the group. Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, it joins A24's dark comedy Primetime. Directed by Lance Oppenheim, it stars Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, and Phoebe Bridgers. Black Bear's comedy Wicker also arrives Friday. Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, it stars Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Dinklage, and Elizabeth Debicki. Kaleidoscope Entertainment's family comedy Arnie & Barney, directed by Sean Heuston, completes the wide slate.

Other Friday releases include Universal's comedy I Love Boosters. Directed by Boots Riley, it stars Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Demi Moore, and LaKeith Stanfield. Action Xtreme's Bad Day at the Office opens across 100+ screens. Munro Films' documentary Peter Asher: Everywhere Man, directed by Dayna Goldfine and Daniel Geller, appears across 100+ sites. A 4K restoration of Pan's Labyrinth also opens across 100+ locations. Specialized titles include BUFF Studios' City of Masks, directed by Andrea M. Catinella. Picturehouse Entertainment's Nightborn and Netflix's Gentle Monster, directed by Marie Kreutzer and starring Léa Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve, also debut. Studiocanal's Animol and Metis Films' In the Shadows round out the specialized list. BFI Distribution releases a 4K restoration of Ken Russell's The Devils across 25+ screens. It stars Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. Studiocanal bows the 25th anniversary 4K re-release of Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko across 25+ locations. The weekend ends on Saturday with Trafalgar Releasing's event cinema presentation of BTS World Tour 'Arirang' in Sao Paulo: Live Viewing.