Comscore figures show that Universal’s “The Fall Guy” opened with a £3.5 million ($4.5 million) opening weekend at the box office in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Disney’s 25th anniversary reissue of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” started in second place with £1.1 million, demonstrating the strength of the force. When combined with the £56.4 million it made during its first 1999 run, this puts the movie in a tie with “Joker” at No. 30 on the territory’s all-time box office chart.

Warner Bros.’ “Challengers,” starring Zendaya, dropped to third place with £986,885 for a total of £3.6 million after just two weekends. Studiocanal’s “Back to Black” gained £770,973 in its fourth weekend of release, placing it in fourth place with a total of £10.5 million.

Univeral’s “Kung Fu Panda 4” completed the top five with a total earnings of £20.4 million, earning £562,704 during its sixth weekend of release.

Two more were first to appear in the Top 10. With £509,181, Sony’s “Tarot” debuted in sixth position, and Lionsgate’s “Love Lies Bleeding” came in eighth with £309,613.

Disney is set to release “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” the tenth installment in the venerable franchise, on May 9.

There are several films releasing on the Friday. Picnik Entertainment is opening traumatic brain injury-focused “The Almond and the Seahorse,” starring Rebel Wilson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Celyn Jones, which won a top prize at Dinard. Journeyman Pictures is bowing documentary “The Trust Fall: Julian Assange.” Altitude is releasing “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger” and Peccadillo Pictures Cannes winner “Our Mothers.” And from Curzon comes Cannes title “La Chimera.”

This weekend’s rereleases include “Big Banana Feet,” the restored 1976 documentary on Billy Connolly’s 1975 live shows in Dublin and Belfast, Danny Boyle’s “Shallow Grave,” which marks its 30th anniversary, and the restored 1998 film “Drylongso” from the Tape Collective.