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Box Office Round-up
Bob Marley: One Love continued its terrific box office run, staying in the top spot with £2.4m. That takes its total after 12 days in cinemas to £11.3m and in the next few days it will overtake Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, which finished on £11.7m. Hopefully Back To Black, the Amy Winehouse biopic, can perform similarly when it hits cinemas on 12 April.
Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley comedy-drama Wicked Little Letters opened in second with £1.6m, which includes £106k from previews. Last year, Olivia Colman starred in the prestige British drama Empire of Light, which opened with a Friday to Sunday total of £966k, so Wicked Little Letters has improved on that considerably. Around this time last year, British comedy-drama Allelujah opened with £717k on its way to £3.7m, so Wicked Little Letters will be aiming for a total significantly greater than that.
On its fourth weekend, Migration fell to third adding £1.5m, a drop of 46% from last weekend. It’s now up to £16.4m and has overtaken Trolls Band Together (£15.7m). With Kung Fu Panda 4 not in cinemas until 28 March, Migration should have a good few weekends yet.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashima Training opened in fifth with £642k. This is the third Demon Slayer film to hit cinemas with Demon Slayer: Mugen Train grossing £1.2m in 2021 and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Swordsmith Village grossing £651k last year. To The Hashima Training looks like giving Mugen Train a run for its money.
Sony’s comic book film, Madame Web rounded out the top five adding £602k, a drop of 55% from last weekend. That takes its total to £3.4m after 12 days in cinemas, and while it is not pulling up any trees, this second weekend drop of 55% is significantly better than Morbius’ second weekend drop of 70%.
Outside of the top five, both The Iron Claw and The Zone Of Interest, in ninth and 10th respectively, have crossed the £2m mark, with The Iron Claw up to £2.1m and The Zone Of Interest up to £2.3m.
Next Weekend
Dune: Part II is the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi hit which grossed £22.4m in 2021. Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler and Florence Pugh are in the cast.
Lisa Frankenstein is a horror-comedy starring Kathryn Newton as a teenager whose crush happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness - and a few missing body parts.
Combat Wombat is a family animation about Maggie Diggins, a wombat turned Wonder Woman, who unintentionally becomes the city's superhero after she begrudgingly saves a rookie superhero sugar glider from certain doom.
The Buzz
Twisters is an update to the 1996 film Twister, which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system. It starred Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt and was the second biggest film of 1996 worldwide, behind only Independence Day. This update has an exciting young cast, including Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos and Katy O’Brian. Director Lee Isaac Chung’s previous film was Minari, which was a wonderful drama that was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and winning one for Best Supporting Actress. Twisters is one of the summer’s most intriguing blockbusters and hits cinemas on 12 July.
Across The Pond
Bob Marley: One Love stayed in the top spot in North America too adding $13.5m, a drop of 53% from last weekend, which takes its total to $71.2m. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashira Training opened in second with $11.6m, while faith-based drama Ordinary Angels opened in third with $6.5m. Madame Web fell to fourth, adding $6m, a drop of 61% from last weekend, which takes its total to $35.4m. Migration completed the top five, adding $3m which takes its total to $120.4m.