EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet movie Lee has unseated Ferrari as Sky‘s biggest original movie at the UK box office.
Ellen Kuras’ biopic of American photographer Lee Miller has taken £4.3M ($5.6M) since opening in theaters on September 13 in more than 600 locations across the UK and Ireland, according to Sky, which launches the movie on the small screen tomorrow.
The movie has attracted positive reviews and been paired with a splashy Sky marketing campaign. It stars Winslet as Miller alongside the likes of Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough and Andy Samberg, following the protagonist from her career as a model to enlisting as a photographer to chronicle the events of World War II for Vogue magazine as told to an interviewer in 1977. The movie also generated headlines after Winslet revealed how a crew member suggested she sit up straighter to hide her “belly rolls” during filming. “Not on your life! It was deliberate, you know?” she told Harper’s Bazaar UK over the summer.
Sky, which has been doubling down on original movies of late, counted Ferrari as its previous box office topper with £4.2M, with Jason Statham-starrer The Beekeeper in third. Lee is distributed by Sky Original Film in the UK with local distribution partner Studiocanal, while Rocket Science handles the film globally.
The movie will be an awards priority for Sky next year and triple-BAFTA winner Winslet will likely be championed. She has already won BAFTAs for Sense and Sensibility, The Reader and Steve Jobs, along with securing an Oscar for The Reader.