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The Weekend Round-up
- On the sunniest August bank holiday weekend in years, Gerard Butler defied the sunshine and sent Angel Has Fallen to the top spot, opening with £2.1m. Butler, while abandoned by his colleagues in the film, found help from previews totalling £718k as Angel Has Fallen’s Friday to Sunday total was not the biggest of the weekend. Compared to the last film in the series, London Has Fallen opened with £3.2m, which included £511k from previews, but that film obviously had the added draw of being set in the UK. Including bank holiday Monday, Angel Has Fallen is now up to £2.5m.
- Once Upon A Time In Hollywood fell to second but posted a Friday to Sunday total of £2.1m, comfortably the biggest total of the weekend. That’s a hefty drop of 59% but every film in the top 10 this week suffered a similar fate. It also added another £522k on Monday, which takes its total to £13.2m and it’s still on track to top the £15.7m that Django Unchained finished with and would make it Tarantino’s biggest ever hit in the UK.
- The Lion King fell to third and also took a bit of a hit in the sun, falling 56% to £1.1m. It also added £338k on Monday for a new total of £69.4m. It will have surpassed £70m by the end of this week.
- Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw fell to fourth and was another film to fall 56%. The high-octane blockbuster added £634k across the weekend and another £190k on bank holiday Monday for a new total of £18m. It’s closing in on the fourth biggest film in the series, Fast & Furious 5, which finished on £18.6m.
- Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark completed the top five, opening with £611k, which included £44k from previews. Including Monday it has grossed £761k.
- Outside of the top five, Crawl opened in seventh with £459k, which included £106k from previews. Including Monday, it’s now on £558k. Considering this film has so far grossed $38.8m in the US, this looks like a title that was particularly badly hit by the weather.
Overall the box office is down 23% from last weekend and down 35% from the same weekend last year when the top films were Disney’s Christopher Robin, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, The Meg and Incredibles 2.
Next Weekend
- The Informer is a crime drama starring Joel Kinnaman as an ex-convict working undercover who intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison. Rosamund Pike and Ana de Armas co-star.
- The Souvenir is a drama from British filmmaker Joanna Hogg. Honor Swinton-Byrne plays a young film student in the early '80s who becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man, played by Tom Burke. It’s one of the best reviewed films of the year.
The Buzz
Hustlers is a thriller inspired by a New York Magazine article that went viral, It follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees, played by Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu and Lizzo, amongst others, who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. While it’s not a solid indicator of success in the UK, the film has been tracking strongly with box office forecasters in the US and is expected to open with around $25m in the US, which would be Jennifer Lopez’s biggest ever opening weekend. It premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival in the US before opening in the UK on 13 September. Full details of US tracking can be found here: https://deadline.com/2019/08/jennifer-lopez-hustlers-cardi-b-lili-reinhart-constance-wu-box-office-projection-1202704574/
Across The Pond
Angel Has Fallen topped the box office in the US too, opening with $21.4m, which is a fraction off the $21.6m opening of London Has Fallen. Good Boys fell to second, adding $11.6m, a drop of 46% on last weekend, which takes its total to $41.9m. Faith-based drama Overcomer opened in third with $8.2m and Hobbs & Shaw fell to fourth, adding $8.1m for a new total of $147.6m. The Lion King completed the top five, falling 35% to $8.1m for a new total of $510.5m