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| Author | Tom Linay |
- After a sensational start last weekend, Captain Marvel posted a strong second weekend, falling 48% to £6.6m. That takes the Brie Larson-starring blockbuster to £23.7m and after just 10 days in cinemas it has overtaken Mary Poppins Returns to be the highest grossing film of 2019. It is currently tracking 20% behind Black Panther at the same stage of its run, and that film finished on £50.5m, so a final total close to £40m looks likely for Captain Marvel.
- Cornwall-set musical comedy, Fisherman’s Friends opened in second with £1.2m. Last February, another British comedy with a musical theme, Finding Your Feet opened with £923k on its way to a final total of £5.9m, a multiplier of 6.4 on its opening weekend, so if Fisherman’s Friends experiences a similar multiplier it will gross over £7m.
- Taraji P. Henson comedy What Men Want opened in third with £837k, which includes £20k in previews. The original version of this concept saw Mel Gibson hear women’s thoughts in 2001’s What Women Want. That film was a huge hit, finishing its run with £17.3m, so the opening weekend for What Men Want is a little disappointing.
- The LEGO Movie 2 had a decent weekend, falling just 22% to £644k to take fourth spot. That takes its total to £17.5m and it looks like it won’t have the legs to catch How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, which is now on £18.7m in sixth. The two are likely to the two biggest animated films of 2019 until the release of The Secret Life Of Pets 2 on May 24.
- Fighting With My Family completed the top five, adding £633k, which takes its total to £4.5m.
- Outside of the top five, Polish comedy Misz Masz Czyli Kogel Mogel 3 cracked the top 10 in ninth. It’s the third part in the Kogel-Mogel series, released 30 years after the second instalment, Galimatias, czyli kogel-mogel II.
Overall the box office is down 33% from last weekend and down 28% from the same weekend last year when the top films were Peter Rabbit, Tomb Raider, Black Panther and The Greatest Showman.
Next Weekend
- Us is a horror from Get Out director, Jordan Peele. A family's serenity turns to chaos when a group of doppelgängers begins to terrorize them.
- Five Feet Apart is a romantic drama about a pair of teenagers with life-threatening illnesses who meet in a hospital and fall in love.
- The White Crow sees Ralph Fiennes turn his hand to directing once again. It’s the story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
The Buzz
Booksmart is the directorial debut of actor, Olivia Wilde, and is the story of two over-achieving high school girls who on the eve of their high school graduation, they realise they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night. It premiered at SXSW last week and is the best reviewed film to come out of the festival. The Hollywood Reporter called it ‘a hilarious, blazingly paced teen comedy’ and Variety were similarly enthusiastic saying ‘not since Superbad has a high school comedy so perfectly nailed how exhilarating it feels to act out at that age’. Indiewire called it ‘The best comedy of its kind since Superbad’ and The Wrap’s critic went even further, calling it ‘by far, one of the most perfect coming-of-age comedies I have ever seen’. It’s in UK cinemas on 27 May.
Across The Pond
Captain Marvel topped the box office in the US for a second weekend, adding $69.3m, a drop of 55% from last weekend. That takes its total to $266.2m after 10 days in cinemas. Family animation Wonder Park, opened in second with $16m and romantic weepie, Five Feet Apart opened in third with $13.2m. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World fell 36% in fourth to £9.3m, which takes its total to $135.6m. Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral completed the top five, falling 36% to $8m and a new total of $59.1m.