Concert documentary Oasis Knebworth 1996 has become the highest-grossing documentary in 2021 at the UK-Ireland box office to date, and has broken into the top five on its first weekend.


Distributed by event cinema specialists Trafalgar Releasing, the film screened in 450 locations on both Thursday September 23 and Friday 24, taking £289,446 and £314,610 on the two days respectively.


This worked out at an average of £643 on Thursday, rising to £699 for Friday.


This £604,056 from its first two days took it beyond the £454,602 total gross of Disney’s Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised).


With encore screenings on Saturday and Sunday, the film’s Friday to Sunday figure of £344,833 was enough to push it up to fourth spot for the weekend.


Directed by UK filmmaker Jake Scott, who has previously made music videos for the band themselves as well as Radiohead, R.E.M. and U2, Oasis Knebworth 1996 uses concert footage from two seminal gigs Oasis played at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, alongside interviews with both the band and audience members.


Disney’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings held the top spot for a fourth consecutive week, adding £1.6m – a drop of 33%. Still pulling in well over £2,000 per location, the film now has £18.3m total, and is coming up on Black Widow with £18.8m as the second highest-grossing film of the year.


It has also become the 19th out of 25 Marvel Cinematic Universe titles by total gross, with Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s £19.4m well within its sights.


The highest new opener this weekend was The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints Of Newark for Warner Bros, taking £615,850 on Friday to Sunday at an average of £981, with £945,063 since its Wednesday September 22 opening.


Free Guy moved to third but held well with £550,931 for Disney – a fall of just 19%. It now has £16.1m after seven weekends in the top three spots, and is the fifth highest-grossing film of 2021 to date.


Universal’s Aretha Franklin biopic Respect dropped 28%, with £249,872 bringing it to £1.7m from three weekends.


The studio also has horror Candyman, which fell 26% on its fifth weekend, with £232,599 taking it to £4.7m total.


Paramount’s The PAW Patrol Movie held well again, dropping just 18% with £213,000 taking it to £7.86m from seven weekends.