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The Weekend Round-up
Ant-Man opened in the top spot with £4m, the eighth highest opening of the year.
Minions fell to second but another £2.7m takes it to a huge £32.3m. With the school holidays starting for most of the country this week, it will inevitably see an uplift during the week too.
Ted 2 fell to third, with £1.4m and has now grossed £7m.
Jurassic World added £1.1m in fourth and has now banked £59.5m, making it the tenth highest grossing film of all time.
Event cinema made a dent in the top five this weekend, with Andre Rieu’s 2015 Maastricht Concert earning an impressive £1.1m from its showings on Saturday.
Outside of the top five, Bollywood title, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, opened in seventh with £758k. Horror film, The Gallows opened in ninth with £304k, Ryan Reynolds thriller Self/Less opened in twelfth with £215k and Jonah Hill, James Franco thriller, True Story opened in fifteenth with £137k.
Overall, the box office was up 2% from last weekend and down 17% from the same weekend last year, when the top three films were Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, How To Train Your Dragon 2 and Transformers: Age Of Extinction.
Next Weekend
Inside Out finally hits UK cinemas, which is cause for much celebration! It’s Pixar’s best reviewed film for years and is set to be one of the year’s biggest films.
Southpaw sees Jake Gyllenhaal further cement his reputation as one of the best actors currently working in Hollywood. He plays a boxer who hopes to get his life back on track after a tragic accident.
Maggie is the latest attempt by Arnold Schwarzenegger to prove he’s still a draw outside of his well known franchises. He plays a loving father whose teenage daughter is infected by a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies.
The Legend Of Barney Thompson is the directorial debut of Scottish actor, Robert Carlyle. Carlyle plays Barney, an awkward Glasgow barber who enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
The Buzz
No Escape is a thriller starring Owen Wilson and Lake Bell as an American family who in their new overseas home find themselves caught in the middle of a coup, where foreigners are being immediately executed. It's in cinemas 4 September.
Across The Pond
Ant-Man opened in first place with $57.2m, becoming the 12th film in Marvel's Cinematic Universe to open in the top spot. Minions fell to second with $49.3m, and to date has earned a huge $215.8m. Trainwreck opened strongly in third with $30.1m and 66% of the audience was female. Inside Out added another $11.5m in fourth and crossed the $300m mark in the process. Jurassic World completed the top five with $11.5m for a quite frankly, ridiculous cume of $611.2m, becoming only the fourth film in history to cross the $600m mark.
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