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The Weekend Round-up
Last week’s number one film stayed in the top spot on a weekend where every film held up strongly and some even increased significantly on last week. American Made fell just 9% to £968k, which is enough to take the film over the £3m mark. Its weekend total was the lowest to top the box office since The House Bunny came first with £894k in 2008.
Dunkirk stayed in second, also having a terrific hold. The blockbuster war epic fell just 7% to £936k, which takes its total to £53.7m and its now the 21st biggest film in UK history, in front of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and behind Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which it should have overtaken by this time next week.
Ensuring the top three was exactly the same as last weekend, The Hitman’s Bodyguard came in third, adding £718k, which is a drop of just 19%. That takes its total to £5.6m.
The Emoji Movie cemented its position as the summer’s top family film that’s not Despicable Me 3, by increasing on last weekend’s total by 4% to £716k. That takes its total to a healthy £12.3m.
Logan Lucky rounded out the top five, falling just 10% to £633k, which gives it a 10 day total of £2.1m.
Outside of the top five, on its 10th week of release Despicable Me 3 increased its weekend take by 30% from last weekend, adding £515k. It’s also crossed the £45m mark now and sits on £45.6m, making it comfortably the third biggest film of 2017.
This week’s new entries all came in at the lower reaches of the top 15, with The Limehouse Golem opening in ninth with £371k, Punjab Nahi Jaungi coming in 11th with £253k and God’s Own Country in 15th with £168k (including £32k from previews).
Overall the box office was down 30% from last weekend and down 29% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
It is an adaptation of Stephen King’s epic novel. A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown called Pennywise, begins hunting children. In a year packed with big horror hits, this one could be the biggest.
Wind River is a thriller from Hell Or High Water and Sicario writer Taylor Sheridan. Elizabeth Olsen plays an FBI agent who teams with a town's veteran game tracker (Jeremy Renner) to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
The Buzz
Battle of the Sexes is the true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs. Little Miss Sunshine directors, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are in charge and Emma Stone plays King, while Steve Carell plays Riggs. The film had its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend and has had some terrific reviews. The Hollywood Reporter said ‘just about everything about this film is winning and gratifying’, also calling it ‘massively entertaining’. Variety were equally effusive calling it a ‘perfectly cast crowd-pleaser’. It’s out in the UK on 24 November but plays at the London Film Festival as the American Express Gala.
Across The Pond
On the quietest Labor Day weekend in 17 years, The Hitman's Bodyguard held on to the top spot for the third straight weekend, adding $10.3m which takes its total to $54.9m. Annabelle: Creation stayed in second, adding 7.3m for an impressive total of $89m. Wind River came in third after adding a further 507 theatres. It added $5.9m for a new cume of $18.3m. Leap! Improved 3% on last weekend, adding $4.9m, which takes its total to $11.4m. Logan Lucky completed the top five, adding $4.4m for a new total of $21.5m.