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The Weekend Round-up
- Aladdin's magical journey atop the UK box office continued over the weekend, adding £2.8m to take its running total to £30.4m. This is now the third film to fly past the £30m mark in 2019 after Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel. The blockbuster will need more than three wishes to beat Beauty and the Beast’s final total of £72m however.
- Men In Black: International opened with £2.8m in second place, which is just down from previous instalment Men in Black 3’s opening total of £2.9m, but is director F Gary Gray’s second highest opening after Fast & Furious 8 (£14m), despite being more realistic.
- Rocketman is still standing in the top three, adding £1.6m to take its total to £19m, with a drop of only 25%, showing Saturday (and Sunday) night’s alright for fighting your way to your local cinema to watch this Elton John biopic.
- The Secret Life Of Pets 2 kept a paw on fourth place over the weekend, adding £1.5m to take its total to £16.9m.
- The top five was completed by X-Men: Dark Phoenix, falling four places in its second week to take its total to £5.9m. X-Men: Apocalypse finished its run on £18m, which looks out of sight for Dark Phoenix at this stage.
- Outside of the top five, John Wick: Chapter 3- Parabellum is now on £9.5m and is already the highest grossing instalment of the trilogy, and Diego Maradona opened with £284.9m in 9th place.
The overall box office is down 25% from last weekend, ranking 36th out of the latest 52 weekends. It is down 11% versus the same weekend last year, where Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom held on to the top spot in the chart with £7.2m, just a 32% drop from its opening.
Next Weekend
- Toy Story 4 is the latest instalment in the greatest animated franchise of them all. When Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
- Child’s Play is a reboot of the Chucky franchise. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic, Child's Play follows Karen (Aubrey Plaza), a single mother who gifts her son Andy (Gabriel Bateman) a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature.
The Buzz
Toy Story 4 sees the iconic franchise return after a 10-year gap, and looks to deliver the same quality as the previous three instalments. Reviews of the film are now out, with Robbie Collin writing for The Telegraph "The last act of Toy Story 4 had me sobbing like a lawn sprinkler, but it juggles this stuff with some of the most purely delightful character animation I’ve ever seen and a script that made me shake with laughter at least once every five minutes.” Kevin Maher agrees with this in The Times, writing "Sweet Lord, this is good. You know that you’re in the presence of genius when the first five minutes of what is ostensibly the third sequel to a 24-year-old children’s cartoon about talking toys is revealed to contain more depth, more thought-provoking content and more soulful passion than any Hollywood movie released this year so far." Toy Story 4 is in UK cinemas from Friday.
Across The Pond
Men In Black International opened with $28.5m, knocking The Secret Life of Pets 2 down to second place, which has a new running total of $92m. Aladdin continued its impressive run in third place, adding $16.7m to take its total to $263. Dark Phoenix fell to fourth place in its second week, adding $9m to take its running total to $52m. The top five was completed by Rocketman, which added $8.8m to take its total to $66m.