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The Weekend Round-up – Bridget Jones is still on top
Bridget Jones’s Baby made it three weeks in the top spot, adding £4.8m which brings its total to a hugely impressive £31.4m. That’s the best third weekend of any film this year and that makes it the ninth biggest film of 2016 so far. It will climb at least a few more place up that list before it’s done. Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason finished its run on £36m, and Bridget Jones’s Baby looks all set to beat that.
Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is the highest new entry, kicking off its run with £3.5m, which included £117k from Thursday previews. That’s director Tim Burton’s best opening since Alice In Wonderland in 2010.
Deepwater Horizon opened in third with £2m, which included £220k from previews. That’s a big improvement on the £752k that the last Mark Wahlberg and director, Peter Berg film, Lone Survivor opened with in January 2014.
The Magnificent Seven fell to fourth, and had a steep drop, falling 53% to £1m. After 10 days in cinemas the all-star western remake has banked £4.4m.
After one night in cinemas last night, Oasis documentary Supersonic came in fifth. It had showings across the country on Sunday evening, with a live Q&A beamed by satellite into cinemas featuring a very inebriated Liam Gallagher, and it was enough to gross £542k.
Outside of the top five, the McConnaissance is definitely over as The Free State Of Jones could only open in 15th with £119k.
Overall the box office was up 11% from last weekend and up 15% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were The Martian, Legend, Everest and The Intern.
Next Weekend
The Girl With The Train opens on Wednesday and is one of the year’s hottest literary adaptations. Emily Blunt plays a divorcee who becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. The book has sold over 2m copies in the UK, so there is potential for this to be a big hit.
War On Everyone is a comedy from Calvary and The Guard director, John Michael McDonagh. Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård play two corrupt cops in New Mexico who set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, however, when they try to intimidate someone who is potentially more dangerous than they are. It’s in cinemas on Friday.
The Buzz
Nocturnal Animals has been one of the big successes of the festival season to date. Amy Adams plays an art gallery owner who is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale. It premiered at Venice, where it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize and has been warmly received by the critics. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian gave it the full five stars calling it ’a terrifically absorbing thriller with that vodka-kick of pure malice’. It’s out in the UK on 4 November.
Across The Pond
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children opened in the top spot in the US, delivering $28.5m, which was enough to beat Deepwater Horizon into second. The Mark Wahlberg true life disaster film, managed a solid $20.6m. Last week’s number one, The Magnificent Seven, fell to third, adding $15.7m for a 10-day total of $61.6m. Storks had a better hold in fourth, falling 35% to $13.8m, bringing its total to $38.8m. Sully completed the top five, adding $8.4m and crossing the $100m mark in the process. It now sits on $105.3m.