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The Weekend Round-up
- The Lego Movie 2 was handed a child-sized boost to its box office hopes, adding a few bricks to its box office tower over the half-term weekend, and dropping only 3% from last weekend. The film is on £14m, which is just over half the final total of the original instalment. This is just 12% behind How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (£15.8m).
- Instant Family made an instant impact in its second weekend, adding £1.7m to take its two-week total to £6m.
- How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World has flown past The Favourite to become the highest-grossing film released this year, with a new total of £15.8m.
- Alita Battle Angel is now on £7.7m in its third week.
- The Kid Who Would Be King managed to pull its box office sword from the box office stone this weekend, earning its seat at the top five round table for the first time and adding £652m.
- Outside of the top five, Cold Pursuit opened with 631k. Best Picture winner Green Book is now on £6.1m and should see a post-Oscars uplift. On The Basis of Sex opened with 459k in eighth place.
The overall box office is down 9% from last weekend and ranks 42nd out of the latest 52 weekends. It is down 35% versus the same weekend last year, at which point Black Panther remained at No.1 with £6.8m, dropping only -34% from its opening. The Greatest Showman also had a particularly strong weekend as Fox released its Sing-Along version.
Next Weekend
- Fighting With My Family is Stephen Merchant’s solo directorial debut. Wrestler Ricky and wife Julia make a living performing with their children Saraya and Zak. When brother and sister get the chance to audition for WWE, they all learn that becoming a WWE Superstar demands more than they ever imagined possible.
- Serenity stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. Baker Dill's quiet life is shattered when his ex-wife tracks him down with a desperate plea for help, ensnaring his life in a new reality that may not be all that it seems.
- The Aftermath s set in post-war Germany in 1946. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city.
The Buzz
Captain Marvel is the first female-fronted instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and stars Brie Larson as the eponymous heroine. The film was screened to critics last week meaning we have our first early reactions, with Yolanda Machado writing on Twitter ‘Its very different than most of the MCU films and so very 90s. It's funny and fun and super empowering. It made me feel proud to be a woman.’ Anna Klassen tweeted ‘There’s an earnestness to #CaptainMarvel that feels different than other MCU films. I got chills watching Carol Danvers get back up over & over & over again.’Captain Marvel is released in UK cinemas on 8 March,
Across The Pond
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World topped the box office with $55m in its opening weekend, with Alita: Battle Angel dropping down to second place with a new total of $57.5m. The LEGO Movie 2 slid down to third place over the weekend, adding $9.7m to take its total to $83m. Fighting with My Family opened with $8m in fourth place, with the top five completed by Isn’t It Romantic, which is now on $33m.