{"id":715301,"date":"2026-01-13T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/715301\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:45:13","slug":"the-housemaid-climbs-to-no-1-as-hamnet-debuts-strongly-at-u-k-ireland-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/715301\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Housemaid\u2019 Climbs to No. 1 as \u2018Hamnet\u2019 Debuts Strongly at U.K.-Ireland Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0006881\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionsgate<\/a> U.K.\u2019s \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27543632\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Housemaid<\/a>\u201d climbed to the No. 1 position at the U.K. and Ireland box office in its third weekend, grossing \u00a33.5 million ($4.7 million) and lifting its cumulative total to \u00a317.8 million ($24.1 million), according to <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0637125\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comscore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a standout performance in the January awards corridor, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0291326\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Universal<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14905854\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamnet<\/a>\u201d delivered a $4.2 million opening across the U.K. and Ireland in second place, marking the strongest debut of the year so far among awards contenders. The launch topped openings for recent prestige titles including \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11563598\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Complete Unknown<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30144839\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Battle After Another<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinners<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32916440\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marty Supreme<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result also places the film ahead of the initial U.K.-Ireland runs of acclaimed dramas such as \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3281548\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Women<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5083738\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Favourite<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12789558\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belfast<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14230458\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poor Things<\/a>,\u201d while coming in at more than twice the opening of \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20215234\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conclave<\/a>.\u201d The bow makes \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14905854\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamnet<\/a>\u201d the highest post-pandemic January opening for a drama, the fifth-biggest January drama debut of the past decade,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionsgate U.K.\u2019s \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d climbed to the No. 1 position at the U.K. and Ireland box office in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3976],"tags":[331,332,441,11548,13,683,14,15,1802,67338,935,42085,12,2708,684,3992,3993,3994,3995,3996,3997],"class_list":["post-715301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vereinigtes-koenigreich","tag-aktuelle-nachrichten","tag-aktuelle-news","tag-fernsehen","tag-filme","tag-headlines","tag-hollywood","tag-nachrichten","tag-news","tag-prominente","tag-regisseure","tag-schauspieler","tag-schauspielerinnen","tag-schlagzeilen","tag-stars","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland","tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich","tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich-grossbritannien-und-nordirland","tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich-von-grossbritannien-und-nordirland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@de\/115888332812855996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}