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The Weekend Round-up
The big winner this weekend was the sunshine but Tom Cruise still managed to return to the top of the box office. American Made opened in the top spot with £1.1m from Friday to Sunday, and added a further £284k on Monday for a four day total of £1.3m. The Friday to Sunday total is the lowest weekend total for a film to top the box office this year.
Dunkirk came in second and for the first time since release it failed to gross over £1m on the weekend. It fell short by less than £2k as it added £999k from Friday to Sunday and a further £289k on Monday. It was the biggest film on Monday and it has now grossed a huge £52m.
Last week’s number one The Hitman’s Bodyguard fell to third, adding £883k over the weekend and then a further £243k on bank holiday Monday. It has now grossed a healthy £4.4m.
Steven Soderbergh’s return to big screen film-making, Logan Lucky, opened in fourth with £705k across the weekend and a further £214k on Monday. That was enough for a four day total of £919k. Soderbergh’s last film, Behind The Candelabra opened with £513k in 2013 and finished on £3.5m.
The Emoji Movie rounded out the top five, adding £683k from Friday to Sunday and £196k on Monday for a four day total of £879k. It has now grossed over £10.7m, which is enough to take it past Pixar’s Cars 3 (£10.7m) to be the second biggest family film of the summer.
Outside of the top five, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit opened in seventh with £658k, including £99k from previews. On Monday it added £155k and has now banked £813k. Bigelow’s last film, Zero Dark Thirty, opened with £1.1m in 2013 on its way to £3.8m.
It looked like one of the stand-out comedies at the start of the summer, but Rough Night could only open in 11th with £244k. It added a further £67k on Monday for a four day total of £311k.
Overall the box office was down 30% from last weekend and down 29% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
The Limehouse Golem is a period horror set in Victorian London. A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times - the mythical so-called Golem - must be responsible. The classy cast includes Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke and Eddie Marsan.
Patti Cake$ was one of the hits from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It’s centred on aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, who is fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in New Jersey.
God’s Own Country is a highly rated British drama that has so far won prizes at the Berlin and Edinburgh film festivals. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
The Buzz
We previewed It in this section last week, and now the first online responses to the film are in and they’re all unanimously positive. Eric Eisenberg from CinemaBlend said ‘It is spectacular. Totally terrifying, but also amazing fun (the Losers are PERFECT). Top 10 candidate for me’. Jim Vejvoda from IGN said ‘It was great. Cast is excellent. And, yes, Pennywise is scary! This will be a, ahem, monster at the box office.’ Perri Nemiroff from Collider said ‘It is everything I hoped for & more. Has heart, laughs & TONS of incredible scares. Fell in love w/ The Losers. Didn't want it to end.’ It’s in cinemas on September 8.
Across The Pond
The Hitman's Bodyguard held on to the top spot a second weekend with $10.3m, which was enough to take its total to $39.8m. Annabelle: Creation took second, adding $7.7m and it has now banked $78.2m. Leap! Was the highest new entry, opening with $4.7m. This film was released in the UK in December 2016 under the name Ballerina. Wind River added another $4.6m, which takes its total to $10m. Logan Lucky completed the top five, adding $4.4m for a new cume of $14.9m.